आनंदपुर साहिब

The ₹6,000–8,000/night gap between Hotel Temple View Inn (₹2,500 with breakfast) and Anand @ The Satluj (₹6–10k) buys you 10 acres of Satluj riverfront farmland, a private organic garden, and bhangra/gidda sessions on the ancestral estate of the Sodhi family—none of which the temple-belt hotels offer. The trade-off is a 20-minute drive back to Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib each morning and a near-zero independent review trail post-2021, so we'd only make that call for travellers who want the Satluj setting as the primary experience, not the pilgrimage. If Hola Mohalla (late March–April) is your reason for coming, stay inside Anandpur town—Hotel Temple View Inn's temple-facing rooms put you 200 metres from the procession route without needing transport. For the Chandigarh base option, the ₹4,000–6,000 more per night at Taj Chandigarh over The Kikar Lodge (Nurpur Bedi, ₹5–8k) buys a verified chain with 149 rooms and a functioning spa; The Kikar Lodge is 20 km out with no Tripadvisor footprint, so we can't confirm what you're paying for. Neither Chandigarh property is under 90 minutes from Anandpur Sahib by road—budget that travel time into your first and last day.