BEST Hotel in PAKISTAN ($200/night)🇵🇰

Arriving in Lahore off the overnight train and checking into a large luxury hotel for the next few days, with Mac. It is the sister property to the one in Karachi, and the video is largely a tour of what that money buys.

The useful contrast is the food. Everything Harry has eaten in Pakistan so far has come off a street or out of a kettle; this is the first time he eats the expensive version, and he says so explicitly. Three courses for two came to about $40 — good value by his standards and, as he adds himself, still expensive for most Pakistanis.

Obs: the hotel is not named on this page. Harry is given access to the executive lounge that his room grade doesn’t include, and a member of staff offers viewers a 10% discount on camera in exchange for subscribing — a plug, which under this bundle’s rule means the provider goes unnamed and only the travel content is recorded. Auto-generated subtitles; ambiguous amounts carry the unverified marker.

Itinerary

Lahore station → minibus through rush hour → check-in → the room → the executive lounge → pool, gym, sauna and spa → dinner at the hotel’s Pakistani restaurant → breakfast the next morning.

Key moments

• [01:35] Three lanes of security to get in, with armed guards and dogs working the vehicles — heavier again than Karachi, and the same explanation.
• [03:49] The hotel is full because of conferences, which is what a big hotel in Lahore is actually for. They got the last room.
• [05:22] What counts as fast internet in Pakistan in 2021: 9.3 Mbps in the room, which sounds poor until Harry checks it against a Lahore co-working space quoted at 6–8.
• [07:28] Independent shops inside the hotel — carpets among them, at prices he says are beyond him and probably fair for what they are.
• [08:58] The executive lounge, which his room grade doesn’t normally include: coffee, snacks and vegetable samosas that he rates the best pastry of the trip so far.
• [11:34] Pool, gym, sauna and a spa with a rainfall “experience” shower. The outside air is around 10–15°C — Lahore in December is much cooler than Karachi.
• [15:41] The first expensive Pakistani meal of the trip, at the hotel’s local-food restaurant, and Harry’s own framing: everything before this has been street food. Kebabs and lamb cooked to a caramelised crust, and a lamb-and-rice dish baked inside a pastry crust.
• [19:55] Edible silver leaf, which he has never eaten before — laid over the dessert, and by his own account tasteless and there for the look. The dessert itself is yoghurt-like, set, with saffron through it.
• [22:43] $40 for three courses for two. His note is that it is cheap relative to the UK or US and still a lot of money in Pakistan.
• [24:15] The breakfast buffet: parathas, chicken, sausage, French toast, omelettes cooked to order, doughnuts, and pressed juices including cucumber, carrot and an apple one thick enough that he compares it to apple sauce.

Extracted pages

• Lahore
• Pakistan
• Mac