Annapurna Base Camp Teahouses and Food: Where You Sleep Each Night

On our 9-day Annapurna Base Camp trek you sleep in eight different beds: Pokhara (820 m), Ghandruk (1,940 m), Chomrong (2,170 m), Deurali (3,174 m), Annapurna Base Camp itself (4,130 m), Bamboo (2,310 m), Jhinu Danda (1,780 m) and Pokhara again. Only the four nights from Ghandruk to Base Camp, plus Bamboo and Jhinu Danda, are teahouse nights; the two Pokhara nights are in a hotel. What the beds and meals are like depends on your tier. On Standard and Luxury the trek meals are in the price, on Budget they are not. Rooms get simpler as you climb, and above Chomrong I have no dated list of prices, so I quote none.

This post is the night-by-night sleeping and eating guide, built from our live package rows. For the route itself read our Annapurna Base Camp trek guide and the amphitheatre story. For money, distance and difficulty, see the cost breakdown, the distance guide and the difficulty rating. I will not repeat them here.

Where do you sleep each night on our 9-day Annapurna Base Camp trek?

Heights and walking times are the figures in our itinerary rows. The change in sleeping height is my own arithmetic.

Night	Sleep at	Height	Change from the night before	The day, as our row puts it
1	Pokhara (hotel)	820 m	Start	Drive from Kathmandu, 7 to 8 hours, about 200 km
2	Ghandruk	1,940 m	+1,120 m	Drive to Nayapul, then a short jeep ride to Kimche, about 3 hours walking
3	Chomrong	2,170 m	+230 m	About 4 hours
4	Deurali	3,174 m	+1,004 m	About 7 hours, with lunch at Himalaya Hotel (2,890 m, from our day text); the Chomrong staircase is about 2,500 stone steps
5	Annapurna Base Camp	4,130 m	+956 m	2 to 3 hours in the row, with a tea stop at Machhapuchhre Base Camp (3,720 m)
6	Bamboo	2,310 m	1,820 m lower	About 6 hours; the row says 15 to 19 km
7	Jhinu Danda	1,780 m	530 m lower	About 4 hours; the natural hot springs are a short walk below the village
8	Pokhara (hotel)	820 m	960 m lower	About 4 hours to Nayapul, then drive to Pokhara
9	Drive to Kathmandu	1,400 m		7 to 8 hours, then the farewell dinner

Two notes. First, Machhapuchhre Base Camp (MBC) is a tea stop on our plan, not a night. Our MBC guide describes teahouses with beds there, so if you want it as a night, that is a variation I would quote separately. Second, the day 6 row shows 1,780 m in its elevation-change column, but the arithmetic from Base Camp (4,130 m) to Bamboo (2,310 m) is 1,820 m, so I used 1,820 m. Kathmandu hotels are not included in any trek tier, so we quote them separately.

For village-by-village detail, our own pages cover Ghandruk, Chomrong, Deurali, Himalaya, Bamboo and Jhinu Danda. The road end is in our Nayapul guide.

Is the sleeping height sensible, and what does the CDC say?

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in its Yellow Book (updated 23 April 2025), advises that once above 3,000 m you ascend no more than 500 m per night in sleeping altitude, and allow an extra night to acclimatise for every 1,000 m of sleeping altitude gained. Our two biggest nights are the Deurali night (+1,004 m) and the Base Camp night (+956 m). That is well over the guideline on both, and it is a fast schedule. My arithmetic, not a medical judgement.

The honest answer is that this is a short itinerary with big jumps. What we do about it: an oximeter is in the first aid kit on every tier, our guide checks you in the evening, and if you are getting worse you do not go up. If you want a gentler plan, ask before you book for an extra night at Deurali or MBC. I would quote it for your tier; it is not in the standard price. I deal with the cold and the short days of the winter months in our winter post, and with the day-by-day effort in the difficulty post. The general science is in our altitude sickness guide.

What are the rooms like, and what changes by tier?

This part I can state exactly, because it is in our package rows.

	Budget (USD 499)	Standard (USD 799)	Luxury (USD 1,400)
Rooms on the trek	Local teahouse or lodge, shared room	Standard teahouse or lodge, twin room as a private room, attached bathroom wherever possible	Luxury hotel and lodge, private deluxe room, attached bathroom whenever available
Meals on the trek	Not included. You order and pay at the teahouses	Breakfast, lunch and dinner. A cup of tea or coffee with each meal and 2 litres of warm water a day are included	All meals, plus fruit and dry fruit and nuts, and unlimited soft drinks. Only alcohol is excluded
Porter	None. You carry your own bag	One porter for every two trekkers (20 kg per porter). A solo trekker has no porter and the guide carries up to 10 kg	One dedicated porter per trekker
Kathmandu to Pokhara	Local transport	Shared tourist-standard vehicle	Private vehicle
SIM card	Not listed	Limited data	Unlimited data
Hot springs at Jhinu Danda	You pay at the gate, about 100 rupees (our day text)	Entrance included (our day text)	Entrance included (our day text)

"Whenever possible" and "whenever available" are in our rows, and they are honest. At Deurali and Base Camp there is a limit to what any lodge can offer. Budget guests share a room at every stop. All tiers have a licensed guide, the Annapurna Conservation Area permit and the TIMS card in the price, so nothing extra to buy at the checkpoints. Sleeping bags and down jackets are lent if you do not have your own, and Standard and Luxury also lend a duffle bag. Tell us at your online briefing or the arrival briefing in Kathmandu. Our sleeping bag post and staying warm at night cover the practical side, and the general teahouse guide covers rooms on every route.

The rest is what our own village guides say. They are our experience, not a published or dated survey of lodges, so I give them as that.

• Chomrong: our village guide says over a dozen lodges, twin rooms and a common room with a stove. Our itinerary text calls it the last place with reliable wifi, hot showers and phone charging.
• Deurali: two or three stone-walled, tin-roofed teahouses; basic rooms with two beds and thin mattresses, no heating, an outside bathroom. The menu is dal bhat, noodle soup and tea.
• Himalaya (lunch stop): electricity is limited, usually solar for a few evening hours, and no mobile network.
• Bamboo: three or four simple teahouses, no wifi, electricity from a micro-hydro system, mild nights.
• MBC: three or four teahouses, gas-stove common rooms, blankets provided with a sleeping bag recommended, shared bathroom, no hot showers.

I have no village guide for the lodges at Annapurna Base Camp itself and no dated list of lodge names, rooms or prices there, so I say nothing about them beyond the row: a teahouse at 4,130 m.

What do you eat, and what does each tier cover?

The food is the lodge menu, cooked by the lodge family. Wikipedia describes dal bhat as a legume and rice dish of thick lentil soup (dal) and cooked rice (bhat), and as one of the most common everyday meals in the region. Our village guides describe the menus on this route as dal bhat, noodle soup and tea at the high stops, with a wider Nepali and Western menu lower down at Chomrong. The meals for the day are in the teahouse menu guide, and the food poisoning guide has the hygiene side.

What is paid for depends on the tier, as in the table above. On Budget no food or drink is included, so you order and pay at the teahouses. I have no sourced daily food figure for this route, and our village guides' price ranges are not dated, so I quote none. Please ask us how to plan for it before you book Budget. On Standard all trek meals are included, with a cup of tea or coffee with each meal and 2 litres of warm water a day. Other drinks outside meals, such as bottled water, soft drinks, juice and alcohol, are extra. On Luxury soft drinks are unlimited and only alcohol is extra.

Three things apply to every tier:

• In Pokhara only breakfast is included at the hotel. Lunch and dinner there are your choice and cost.
• There are no meals included on the two long drives, Kathmandu to Pokhara on day 1 and back on day 9.
• The farewell meal in Kathmandu is complimentary, with a certificate.

The CDC Yellow Book also advises avoiding alcohol for the first 48 hours at high altitude. It is the one drinking rule I would pass on from them.

Where can you charge your phone, shower or get wifi?

The only dated statement I can give you comes from our own package: mobile data is not reliable above Chomrong. Our itinerary says Chomrong is the last place with reliable wifi, hot showers and phone charging. From there, facilities get simpler, and our village guides describe solar power for a few evening hours at Himalaya, no wifi at Bamboo, and no hot showers at MBC. For Deurali and Base Camp I have no source for charging, wifi or shower availability, so I would plan on none.

• Charge everything at Chomrong, and carry a fully charged power bank.
• Do not plan work calls or uploads above Chomrong, even with the SIM we arrange on arrival in Kathmandu.
• Our wifi and charging guide gives general ranges for Nepal as a whole. I have no dated figure for this trail and quote none.
• Our Luxury row for this trek does not list showers, charging or wifi as included. Do not assume them.

Is the water safe and what do you drink?

On Standard, 2 litres of warm water a day is included. Otherwise you buy water or treat your own. I would not drink untreated stream water; our safe drinking water guide covers boiled water, tablets and filters. I have no sourced price for boiled or bottled water on this route and quote none.

Do you need to book rooms, and what about the busiest nights?

You do not book the rooms; we arrange them on every tier. Our October post says the pressure in the peak month falls on the few lodges at MBC and ABC, not on the lower trail. I cannot give you a bed count or a trekker count, and I have no official figure. What I can say is that October is when it is tightest, so book early for those dates.

For winter, our winter post says I do not know which lodges in the sanctuary are open then and found no official list. Ask us before you book, and ask anyone else the same question in writing.

What if you feel unwell or the night is cold?

Tell the guide at once. The guide checks oxygen with the oximeter in the first aid kit, and you do not go higher if you are getting worse. Rescue is arranged by us and paid by your insurance, so buy cover at home before you travel, never in Nepal. For Annapurna Base Camp, cover should include helicopter rescue and evacuation to 5,000 m. Our insurance guide explains what to check. On a cold night, our sleeping bag and warmth pages above are the ones to read. A licensed guide and agency-issued TIMS card are required on most trekking routes under the Nepal Tourism Board rule from 31 March 2023; the Everest (Khumbu) region does not enforce it locally, but we always trek with a licensed guide.

Who is this style of sleeping not for?

• If you need a private heated room with your own bathroom every night, the upper nights will not give you that, on any tier.
• If you must be online, plan for no signal above Chomrong.
• If you cannot manage a jump of about 1,000 m in sleeping height on two nights running, ask us for the extra night before you book.
• If you are on Budget and do not want to carry your own bag, choose Standard or Luxury.

What does it cost, and how do you book?

Our live prices for the Annapurna Base Camp trek are USD 499 on Budget, USD 799 on Standard and USD 1,400 on Luxury, per person for one traveller. Larger groups pay less each. A porter of your own can be added at USD 25 per day, plus 13% VAT and a 3.5% bank charge. The deposit is 10%. You pay the balance in Kathmandu on arrival in USD or EUR, cash or by card. Card carries a 3.5% charge. We cannot take Nepali rupees from foreign clients. The deposit is non-refundable and there are no refunds when the client cancels. Rescheduling is free with at least 72 hours' notice, to any date within 1 year. If we cannot run the trip, we refund what was paid less taxes, bank and card charges and money already spent.

Message me on WhatsApp +977 9810351300 with your dates and tier and I will answer you myself.

Written by Shreejan Simkhada, CEO of The Everest Holiday, from a family of three generations of family guides. TAAN Member #1586.

Last updated 5 October 2026.