Hotels

A cheap unclassified guesthouse in Ohadi Alley off Amirkabir Street, in the hardware and car-parts bazaar east of Imam Khomeini Square. Know this before booking: every one of its four rooms shares the bathroom and toilet, singles through triples. The price reflects it.

Single · Double · Twin

An unclassified hotel on South Kargar at Railway Square, a few minutes from the central station on its western side. Six room types running from a single all the way to a five-bed, a wider spread than most budget places here offer.

Single · Double · Twin

An unclassified hotel in Moattar Alley off 15 Khordad Street, the main artery of the Grand Bazaar, so the market is genuinely at the door and the area empties at night. Five room types, from a single to a five-bed.

An unclassified budget house in Parto Alley off Naser Khosrow, beside Imam Khomeini Square and the bazaar. All four of its rooms, from the single to the four-bed, share a bathroom and toilet. It is the cheapest kind of bed in central Tehran and it does not pretend otherwise.

Single · Twin · Double

Four rooms at Sarcheshmeh crossroads by Baharestan Square, sleeping one to three. Small and plain, in the historic parliament quarter.

Six rooms between Baharestan Square and Sarcheshmeh, sleeping one to three, and not one of them has a private bathroom or toilet: every room shares. Old Tehran, with the parliament at one end of the street and the bazaar quarter at the other.

Twin · Triple · Double

Imam Khomeini St, New South Saadi St

An unclassified hotel where New South Saadi meets Imam Khomeini Street, in the budget quarter a short walk from Golestan Palace and the bazaar. Five room types, from a single to a quadruple.

Double · Twin · Single

A one-star directly opposite Mellat metro station, which is the whole argument for it: you are on the network and can reach the centre without dealing with the traffic. Five room types from singles to quadruples, at the basic end.

Double Economy · Double Standard

Six rooms in a heritage house in the Mostofi ol-Mamalek lanes, with separate women's and men's rooms; some have their own bathroom and some share. Sleeps one or two. A small old house rather than a hotel, in the historic centre.

Single · Twin · Double

Eight rooms off Karim Khan Street near Valiasr Square, sleeping one to four. No star classification: a plain central guesthouse on one of the city's main east-west streets.

Twin · Double · Triple

A one-star in Masjed Seraj Alley off Amirkabir Street, a minute from Imam Khomeini Square and the top of the bazaar. Eight room types, and three of them, the single, the twin and the triple at the cheapest grade, share a bathroom and toilet rather than having their own.

Double · Triple

A one-star on South Saadi Street in the budget strip below Imam Khomeini Square. Five room types, of which three, a single, a double and a triple, have no private bathroom or toilet; the other two do. Worth choosing deliberately rather than by price alone.

Double

Two rooms only, in the Bastan lanes off Alavi Street in the old quarter. One is a capsule single, a sleeping berth rather than a room, and it has no private bathroom or toilet; the other is an ordinary double. Priced and built for someone passing through on their own.

Nine rooms in Boostani alley off Molla Habibollah Sharif Street, each with its own bathroom, sleeping one to six. A family of six fits in a single room, which is unusual here.

Quadruple

A house in the alley beside the Agha Bozorg mosque and madrasa, one of the finest eighteenth-century buildings in the city. Ten room types split between the ground floor and the basement, and three of them, two singles and a double, have no private bathroom or toilet. The basement rooms are the cool ones in summer.

Kamal-ol-Molk Square, Darvazeh Isfahan St

Five rooms at Kamal-ol-Molk Square, on the road out towards Isfahan. Read the room names carefully before booking: three of the five have no window at all, and two others have no private bathroom or toilet. It is among the cheapest beds in the city and the trade-offs are real.

A house opposite the Talebian clinic on Mohtasham Street, keeping both a shah-neshin alcove and a howz-khaneh, the old pool room, with a shabestan sleeping six. Seven rooms in all, sleeping one to six; two of them, the shah-neshin and the second howz-khaneh, have no private bathroom or toilet.

Double · Twin · Quadruple

Five rooms off 12 Aban Street by 15 Khordad Square, sleeping one to five. Central, between the bazaar and the historic quarter.

Single · Twin · Double

Nine rooms off Alavi Street with a shah-neshin alcove and rooms on the sardab level, sleeping one to five. In the historic-house quarter, minutes from the Sultan Amir Ahmad bathhouse.

Triple · Twin · Single

Five rooms in Farhang 8 alley off Fazel Naraqi Street, sleeping one to four. Its name is the shah-neshin, the raised alcove where a Kashani household received its guests.

Double · Twin · Suite Twin

Eight rooms including a suite in the Agha Bozorg mosque alley off Fazel Naraqi Street, three-star, sleeping one to four. The mosque's sunken courtyard and twin minarets stand at the end of the lane.

Single · Double · Twin

Alavi Street, Bastan 5 Alley, No. 6

Five rooms in the Bastan 5 alley off Alavi Street, in the historic quarter where most of Kashan's merchant houses stand. Room types run from a single up to a quadruple. A plain, small address in a walkable part of the old town.

Single · Double · Twin

On Ayatollah Kashani Street at Chaharsoogh Square, in the dense commercial old town. Ten room types, and six of them, from the single up to the four-bed, have no private bathroom or toilet; the other four do. Read the room name before booking, because the difference in comfort is larger than the difference in price.

Single · Twin · Triple

Ten rooms on Masjed Seyed Street by the mosque of the same name, sleeping one to six; six have a private bathroom and four do not. Two of the ten have no window, so ask when booking. A larger guesthouse in the northern old town.

Triple · Double Standard

A hostel rather than a hotel, in a courtyard house on Neshat Street. Alongside private rooms there are dormitories sleeping eight, ten and twelve, with separate women's and men's rooms; some share bathrooms and some have their own. The cheapest way to sleep in the old quarter, and the most sociable.

Quadruple · Triple · Double

Double · Twin · Triple

A one-star between the Hakim Mosque and Darvazeh Dolat, in the old streets north of the bazaar. Six room types up to a quadruple; the singles are sold separately as upper floor and lower floor, and each also comes in a cheaper grade.

Connecting Quadruple · Triple · Twin

Ayatollah Kashani Street, between Sheikh Bahaei and Taleghani Streets, Alley 31

A one-star inn in Alley 31 off Ayatollah Kashani, between Sheikh Bahaei and Taleghani. Seven room types including connecting rooms for four and five; two of them, a single and a twin, have no private bathroom or toilet.

Quadruple

Four rooms in an alley off Bid Abadi Street, in the quarter named after the Ali Qoli Aqa mosque and its eighteenth-century bathhouse. Two of the four, one in the basement and one at ground level, share a bathroom and toilet; the other two do not. Small and plain, and genuinely in the old town.

Single · Double · Twin

Nine rooms between Shohada Square and Takhti intersection, including suites sleeping up to seven. Three of the nine have no window. One star and priced accordingly, on a busy central stretch.

Twin · Double · Triple

A six-room guesthouse on Bid Abadi Street, near the Masjed-e Seyed in the northern old town. One of the six rooms has no window, which is worth asking about when you book. Rooms sleep one to four.

Apartment One-bedroom Double

Nine rooms on Sepah Street at the Hakim Street corner, apartment units among them. One star, in the thick of the old commercial centre between the bazaar and Naqsh-e Jahan.

Triple

Part guesthouse and part hostel, on Parvin Etesami Street: private doubles and triples alongside eight-bed rooms, kept separate for women and men, some with their own bathroom and some sharing. There are balcony rooms and a cheaper economy grade. Sociable and inexpensive.

Opposite the Hazrat Zeynab shrine, in a cul-de-sac off the shrine street and well away from the tourist axis. Four room types, all of them for three or four people and sold in numbered grades from one to four, with a VIP one-bedroom suite at the top. There are no singles or doubles here at all.

A hostel as much as a hotel, in the Ershad alley off Enghelab Street. Alongside private rooms named for poets, Hafez, Attar, Molana, Shahriar, there are shared dormitories, a women's room and a six-bed men's room, which makes it one of the cheapest and most sociable beds in the city.

Single · Double · Twin

Ten rooms in Keyvan alley off Seyed Gol Sorkh Street, with an economy grade, sleeping one to four. Its name is the four qanats, the underground channels that made a city possible in this desert.

Suite One-bedroom Quintuple · Suite Double · Suite One-bedroom Quadruple

Jomhouri Boulevard, beginning of Yazd Baft Boulevard, next to Melika Hotel

On Jomhouri Boulevard at the start of Yazd Baft, with nine room types and an unusually wide spread of trade-offs: some suites are in the basement, two have no window, and several have no private bathroom or toilet. Sleeps two to five. Read the room name closely before you book this one.

Double · Triple · Twin

Sixteen room types in the Seyed Rokneddin alley off Jame Mosque Street, in the old city beneath the tiled minarets of the Friday Mosque. Nearly every room is offered in both an ordinary and an economy grade, sleeping one to five, which makes it one of the most flexible budget addresses in Yazd.

Five rooms in the clinic alley off Enghelab Street, every one of them sold in the economy grade, from a single up to a triple. This is a budget address without pretence, and the room names say so.

Twin · Double · Triple

Nine rooms in Seyed Roknoddin alley off Jameh Mosque Street, with an economy grade, sleeping one to four. Two rooms have no window. Beside the blue-domed Seyed Roknoddin tomb.

In the Roshan alley off Dahom Farvardin Street, with rooms named for Persian poets, Hafez, Saadi, Khayyam, Attar, Molana, Shams, Ferdowsi. Nine room types sleeping one to three; three of them, including the Parvin twin and the Saadi triple, have no private bathroom or toilet.

Single · Double · Triple

Imam Khomeini Street, opposite Kohneh Castle, Orfa Dead End

Eleven rooms on Imam Khomeini Street opposite the Kohneh castle, sleeping one to five. A larger inn on the edge of the historic core.

Twin · Double · Triple

Eleven rooms in the Fahadan quarter off Imam Street, with a cheaper economy grade, sleeping one to five. Three rooms have no window. Mud-brick lanes, with the Jameh Mosque minarets above the roofline.

Single · Double · Twin

In the Zendan-e Eskandar alley off Fahadan Street, in the oldest quarter of Yazd and beside the domed building that local tradition calls Alexander's Prison. Five room types, single through quadruple, in the middle of the mud-brick lanes.

Double · Twin · Quadruple

Five room types on Basij Boulevard opposite the regional water company, from a single to a quadruple. A plain, central address on a main road rather than in the historic lanes.

Double · Triple · Quadruple

At the Namazi junction opposite the Melli bank, and one of the cheapest beds in the city for a reason: five of its eight room types, from the single up to the four-bed, have no private bathroom or toilet. Three do. Worth choosing with your eyes open rather than by price.

Twin · Quadruple · Triple

In the alley beside the Nasir-ol-Molk mosque, the one whose stained glass fills with colour early on a winter morning, so you can be at the door before the crowd. Be careful choosing a room: several have no private bathroom or toilet, and the two cheapest singles have no window either.

Quintuple · Quadruple · Triple

Seven room types in Alley 38 off Lotfali Khan Zand Street, in the historic lanes near the Vakil complex. Rooms run from a single-occupancy double up to a five-bed, with a cheaper grade of the smallest room.

Quadruple · Double

Three rooms only, in Alley 36 off Lotfali Khan Zand Street, in the old quarter close to the Vakil bazaar. A double, a quadruple and a compact double sold in a cheaper grade. Very small, and central enough to walk everywhere.

Suite One-bedroom Quadruple · Single · Double

Five rooms on Neshat Street by Namazi Square, sleeping one to four. A plain central guesthouse, walkable to the shrine and the bazaar.

Single · Double · Twin

Six rooms off Lotfali Khan Zand Street, two-star, sleeping one to four. The old quarter, within walking distance of the Nasir al-Mulk mosque and the Vakil bazaar.

Twin VIP · Double VIP · Suite One-bedroom Quadruple

On Karim Khan Zand Boulevard between Khayyam and Anvari, on the main axis of the modern city. Four room types only, mostly in a VIP grade, including a double sold with an extra bed and a one-bedroom suite for four.

Double · Suite Two-bedroom Quintuple · Suite Triple

A one-star in the Afrasiabi alley off Ferdowsi Street, central without being on the main road. Six room types up to a two-bedroom suite for five, so it stretches further than most one-star addresses.

Suite Double Economy · Suite Triple Economy · Twin Economy

On Hejrat Boulevard in Alley 12, with eleven room types across ordinary, economy and VIP grades, sleeping one to four. The grade changes the price more than the room size does here, and several rooms are also offered in a cheaper version.

A traditional house in a sub-alley off Karim Khan Zand Street, where the rooms are the architecture: a five-bed shah-neshin, a panj-dari four-door room, a se-dari, an iwan, and singles named toranj and naranj for the bitter-orange trees of a Shiraz courtyard. Seven rooms, sleeping one to five.

Triple VIP · Double VIP

Apartment Single · Apartment Double

Municipality Sq, Piroozi St

A three-star of apartments at Municipality Square on Piroozi Street, sleeping one to five. Everything here is an apartment rather than a hotel room, which suits a family staying several nights better than a one-night stop.