Paharganj starts at the exit of New Delhi Railway Station, and that one fact shapes everything about it. Trains land here at every hour, so the area is as awake at three in the morning as it is at three in the afternoon. Most men who call us from Paharganj are passing through Delhi for a night or two, between one train and the next, and they call at times the rest of the city cannot serve. We keep girls on call for this side of town well past midnight, because the demand here is genuinely round the clock.
Main Bazaar is the one long lane running west from the station, packed with luggage shops, money changers, silver stalls and rooftop cafes. It is too tight for a car once the evening crowd is out, so a girl coming to you is dropped at either end of the lane and walks the rest of the way in. Ramakrishna Ashram Marg on the Blue Line sits at the far end and is often the quicker way in. Give us your hotel name and the nearest cross lane when you book, because half the buildings here carry no number you can read from the street.
The rooms above the bazaar run from plain backpacker beds to the small mid-range hotels around Ramdwara Road. Their front desks are used to guests arriving at odd hours, but the ID rules are not the same in every building. Some ask nothing at all, while others log every visitor who goes up, and a few on the station side will not send a guest to your floor. Tell us which hotel you are in and we will already know how it works there, or we will put you in a room of ours instead. Our price page sets out the difference between the two and what each one costs.
If your room is nearer the market than the railway station, Karol Bagh is three kilometres west and that page covers it.
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