REVIEW A mini-skyscraper of a place in the southern part of Lakeside, Hotel View Point has excellent mountain views, particularly from the 5th-floor terrace. The building is modern, facilities are good, rooms are spacious and the more expensive ones have air-con. Considering the effect on the Pokhara skyline, perhaps we shouldn't be encouraging this kind of development, but Hotel View Point does have excellent views and there's nowhere else in the immediate area that offers such a vantage point above the surrounding rooftops. Views get better (and prices higher) as you move up the building and all rooms have comfortable fittings, including sizzling hot showers or bathtubs. The building belongs firmly to the crazy paving school of architecture but it's smart, clean and welcoming and the carved wooden doorway shows a certain degree of imagination. There isn't much of a garden but you can take breakfast outside on a series of raised platforms on the lawn. The hotel also has a restaurant and a small parking area for guest cars.