Traditional carved-wood Kashmiri houseboats moored on the calm water of Dal Lake, Srinagar, with distant mountains.

Srinagar, Kashmir · luxury

Butt's Clermont Houseboats

Name: Butt's Clermont Houseboats
Address: Naseem Bagh, Hazratbal, Dal Lake, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir 190006, Srinagar, IN

★★★★☆

Butt's Clermont is a small group of heritage houseboats, run by the same family since the 1940s. They are moored on the quiet western shore of Dal Lake, at Naseem Bagh, beside a Mughal-era garden of old chinar trees. This is the calm side of the lake, away from the busy boulevard, reached by the hotel's own boat. Each houseboat is panelled in carved cedar, with a drawing room, a dining room, a sundeck, and a handful of bedrooms. Meals are cooked on board and served by the family's staff. A lawn on the bank looks across the water to the mountains. George Harrison and Ravi Shankar stayed here in 1966, and the guest book runs through ambassadors, writers and photographers since. It is the classic way to sleep on Dal Lake, and the quietest.

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Around The Property

A green-and-brown wooden Kashmiri houseboat on Dal Lake below a snow-covered mountain.

A line of traditional wooden houseboats moored along the Dal Lake shoreline in Srinagar under a blue sky.

Rooms

2 Room Categories

Full Houseboat (Sole Use)

king · Sleeps 6 · 900 sq ft

A whole houseboat taken for one party — several bedrooms, the drawing room, the dining room and the sundeck, with the family's cook and staff. The pick for a family or a honeymoon that wants the boat to itself.

Sole-use houseboatMultiple bedroomsPrivate drawing and dining roomsSundeck

Houseboat Bedroom

queen · Sleeps 2 · 220 sq ft

A bedroom on one of the houseboats, panelled in carved walnut and cedar, with an ensuite bathroom and windows onto the lake. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included and eaten in the boat's own dining room.

Lake viewCarved wood panellingEnsuite bathroomHeater

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