Hotel Arunachala

Right next to the Arunachaleshwar Temple's east entrance, Hotel Arunachala is clean and decent with pretensions to luxury in the marblesque floors, ugly furniture, keen management and lobby fish pond. Standard rooms feel halfway conceived; deluxe rooms are much better. Downstairs, pure-veg Hotel Sri Arul Jothi provides good South Indian dishes (thalis ₹80 to ₹120).