The workers and craftsmen who sweat day and night to build a magnificent building are often overlooked. However, the Temple Bell Boutique Hotel and Spa, which has been operating on Lalupate Marg in Lakeside, Pokhara, has celebrated its first anniversary by paying special tribute to those heroes behind the scenes.

The hotel honored the woodcarvers, stone cutters and stonelayers, engineers and representatives of the construction company who put their lives into the beauty of the hotel on Monday.

The hotel honored the craftsmen Laxman Gadal, Krishna Gadal, Manjur Alam, Bishnu Bik and Jas Bahadur Bik, who were involved in the construction of this hotel, which uses local stone, Nepali woodwork, Dhaka, Thanka and Nepali art to reflect its originality. The hotel has honored the craftsmen Laxman Gadal, Krishna Gadal, Manjur Alam, Bishnu Bik and Jas Bahadur Bik with Rs 10,000 each. Supervisor Surya Bahadur Thapa, construction company Om Prasad Rijal, former resident manager Gupta Giri, engineer Ramesh Pokharel, Global IME provincial head Sushobhan Devkota, CA Laxman Adhikari, architect Suresh Shrestha, engineer Dilip Neupane, founding president of Kaski District Tennis Association Binod Kayastha and Bivas Kumal of Food and Beverage were also honored as the best employee, informed Corporate Manager Lekhnath Pahari.

Built with an investment of about Rs 1.25 billion, the foundation of this hotel is linked to the ancestral memories and intimacy of a family. Hotel chairman Bishwaraj Poudel said that it was very challenging and difficult to take the decision to demolish the ancestral house where he was born, raised and where his parents sweated and turned it into a commercial one. He said that although he had to bear a financial burden of about Rs 10 million in the beginning when converting his private land and house into a commercial company, the current returns have made him happy. He said that the cost of building a boutique hotel has increased by about 30 percent compared to a normal hotel, making the hotel a project worth about 1.25 billion rupees.

The journey of this hotel, spread over an area of ​​about 2.5 ropanis, began in December 2021. The hotel was completed after 3.5 years of continuous hard work, even during the difficult times of the Covid pandemic. The hotel has a total of 55 furnished rooms, including 47 deluxe boutiques, 5 super deluxes, 2 junior suites and 1 grand presidential suite. The hotel has facilities like an attractive lobby, swimming pool with jacuzzi, a conference hall called Buddha Sadan, a state-of-the-art spa, Yak & Yeti swimming pool bar, Aunty a la carte restaurant, bakery, coffee shop and yoga hall.