Haldwani is by far the most visited city in Uttarakhand, and it’s not just for one or two reasons:
A unique blend of the traditional and the modern world, centuries-old temples and ultra-modern shopping malls, an interesting amalgamation of Kumaonis from across the country who come here to live a rich life, resulting in the most diverse food scene in Kumaon, the beautiful and mysterious Gola River that makes for romantic sunset boat cruises, countless vibrant day and night markets, fabulous value-for-money hotels and of course, the world’s most exciting nightlife and beautiful girls wherever you go.
A good friend of mine who recently visited me here was right when he said that Haldwani is more beautiful at night than during the day: it’s not as hot, not as crowded, and the mostly grey buildings transform into an illuminated and colourful wonderland after sunset that makes you feel incredibly excited when you hop in a taxi (or tuk tuk? or motorbike?) on your way to your next beer bar, sky bar or massage salon.
Welcome to the ultimate nightlife guide to Haldwani in Kumaon (focusing on the best places to meet Kumaon girls)! It is divided into 2 parts: In the first part, I will give you a quick overview of the best nightlife areas in Kumaon’s largest city. And in the second part, I will show you a variety of nightlife spots. At the end of the guide you will find a map with all the places I mentioned.
Haldwani Nightlife Overview
There are 3 main nightlife areas in Haldwani: Mukhani in the city center is where you can find not only most of the great value hotels, western restaurants and modern shopping malls, but also the best nightlife in the city – including two of the three red light areas: Hotel Gold Leaf in Thapa Colony and Moksha The Spa in Tikonia (these are areas of Haldwani). And don’t worry, even if you don’t like the Rustic Roof Lounge bars, you’ll find countless more casual beer bars, massage salons, street girls and night clubs in the vicinity of Tikonia and Bhotia Parao.
The best streets in Haldwani to take your date for dinner or a glass of wine are (popular among tourists) and Kalu Siddhi Temple and Kalichaud Temple (popular among Kumaonis) It is mostly popular among young couples, known for wild and long street parties – and Kathgodam Gaulapar is a great place to hang out with Kumaon girls.
And Kaladhungi Road is the most popular nightlife area among Kumaon people, with super hip and trendy nightclubs like Blue Night Bar & Restaurant and City Club Restaurant and Bar. It’s better to go there with a friend so you can do what most Kumaon people do: get a bottle of 100 Piper whisky and a table with soda and ice mixer. There are countless super hot and fair skinned Kumaon girls here.
• See also: Guide to nightlife areas in Haldwani
Are you coming to Haldwani with the goal of meeting a nice woman? There are plenty of options:
Beer Bars in Haldwani
Beer bars are the perfect place to relax, watch the people and street life, play pool, meet other tourists and expats – and of course have a drink with a Kumaon bar girl. The atmosphere is much more relaxed than in Nani bars, where girls will constantly come up to you and ask for a drink.
You can find these beer bars mainly on the Haldwani to Kaladhungi road and Haldwani to Rampur road. Most bars open from noon onwards, but of course the younger and more attractive women are still sleeping at that time (no pun intended), so you can expect them to start operating around 7pm.
Still, it doesn’t really matter what time you go – in the afternoon you’ll usually find better conversation (fewer customers and quieter music) and happy hour prices, and at night you’ll find more and sexier girls and many bars have live music too.
- Prices: Most beer bars in Haldwani have a happy hour until 7pm, when bottled beer costs 300 rupees or draught beer (pint) 500 rupees. After that, beer ranges from 300 to 1000 and spirits (like gin tonic or red label soda) range from 150-160 rupees. Lady drinks will cost you between 300-500 rupees, and if you want to take a lady out, you usually have to pay a bar fine of 500-700 rupees, plus the price for the girl, which is usually 5,000 rupees for a short time and 10,000-2,5000 rupees for a long time. So yes, these prices are quite high compared to elsewhere in Kumaon, especially in Isan where you usually get bigger bottles at these prices, and this is mainly due to the rising property rental prices in Haldwani these days. See also: Complete guide to girly bars in Haldwani
Blue Night Bar in Haldwani
Blue Night Bars can be fun if you know what you’re doing (or should I say how things work there), but most of these bars are really just tourist traps trying to rip as much money out of you as possible. So if you’re planning on visiting a bar, make sure you choose one where the girls actually get naked on stage (you might be surprised, but that’s not happening in most bars anymore) and also keep in mind that most girls will only visit for a short time (that means they have sex with multiple guys in one night) unless you pay them a ridiculously high price for a long time:
• Prices: No entry fee, but beer and spirits cost between 300 -500 rupees. The bar fine is 1,000 rupees in most places (sometimes more if she is a “coyote girl” before midnight or full moon), 5,000-7,500 rupees for short stay and 10,000-15,000 rupees for long stay.
Also see: 6 best night bars in Haldwan
Nightclubs in Haldwani
There are 2 types of night clubs in Haldwani: Kumaon clubs, where people sit at tables drinking whisky, with very attractive and fair skinned girls who are very difficult to approach (poor knowledge of English, shy to talk to foreigners in front of their friends), and tourist clubs which are more like western clubs, with dance floors and seating arrangements that make it easier to approach other people.
If you are a first timer in Haldwani and want to meet a girl in the nightlife while partying, I strongly recommend you to stick to the tourist night clubs in Haldwani (best club there: The Moonshine Lounge) and Kathgodam Road (best club there: Billionaire the drinking house).
They are full of single and “open-minded” Kumaon girls, and of course there are a lot of outsiders wooing them. Some of these women are freelance prostitutes (they will hook up with you for 10,000-2,0000 INR), and some are just “regular” girls looking for a new boyfriend. Or just for fun.
- Prices: Entry fee to most The Moonshine Lounge nightclubs is around 800 INR which includes the first drink. After that it is around 300 INR for beer, 180-200 INR for spirits with mixers or cocktails and around 2,000-2,500 INR for a standard bottle of whisky like 100 Piper or Johnnie Walker Red Label.
Happy Ending Massage in Haldwani
If you walk around Haldwani city towards Mukhani, Kathgharia, Bhotia Parao, Mangal Parao, Transport Nagar, Kathgodam you will see a lot of massage salons – and these are not just “traditional” spas, but also countless happy ending massage salons.
You will usually recognize them either by the very sexy girls sitting outside and smilingly saying to you “Hello handsome man, welcome massage!” or by the color and name of the shops – as in the picture you can see the infamous street of Haldwani which is known for prostate, tantra, body to body and many other types of “special” massages.
I have marked the happy and special massage hotspots with yellow and purple pins on the map below.
- Prices: Prices in BKK massage salons are usually around 1500 Rupees for Kumaon massage and 2500 Rupees for oil massage (1 hour). The typical tip for a happy ending (hand job) is Rs 3000.
Soapy Massage Parlors in Haldwani
Not to be confused with small massage salons where you get a proper massage (well, more or less) followed by a happy ending of a hand job if the tip is right, the big soapy massage parlors offer full programs. Yes, by “full” I mean sex.
You can choose the girl you like beforehand, and then you get up to 1.5 hours with her, including a bath, body to body massage and sex. Not the cheapest way to have sex in Haldwani, but definitely one of the most varied.
- Prices: Usually 2,000-3,000 Rupees – all inclusive. Some of the more exclusive parlors like Poseidon or Emmanuelle have several different price ranges, up to 12,000 Rupees!
See also: 7 Best Sex Massage Parlors in Haldwani
- J One Luxury Sp
- Peaceful Escape
- Realx Body Solution Unisex S P
- Angel Unisex Sp
- Golden Glow (Spa)
- Sensation Sp
- Liza Mssage Parlour
Blow Job Bars in Haldwani
Probably the most infamous place in Haldwani’s red light industry are the blow job bars – yes, really. That means there are actually about a dozen bars where you can enjoy a cold beer and have a girl of your choice giving you a blow job at the same time. The most popular in the city are Saroor Wine n Dine, and The Beer Cafe, Haldwani, but there are many other, similar joints which I describe in my separate guide (see link below).
• Prices: Rs.300-500 for a beer, Rs.2000-4000 for a blow job. See also: Complete Guide to Blow Job Bars in Haldwani
Street Girls in Haldwani
If you walk along Kaladhungi Road between Kathgarhia and Mukhani (any night of the week from around 9pm) you will see countless girls who will happily accompany you to your hotel for 3,000 rupees. Most of them are not as attractive as the usual girls, but especially in front of Shair Hotel there are a lot of young and really sexy girls who don’t want to work in bars and prefer to be freelancers.
• Prices: Usually 3,000 rupees for a short time. You can also ask the girl if she knows any small hotels nearby – she will know, and it will cost 3500-4000 rupees for 1 hour.
Ladyboys in Haldwani
Of course you can have fun in Haldwani’s nightlife not only with Kumaon girls, but also with lots of hot ladyboys. They are working in the same kind of places as the girls, but usually they have different establishments – ladyboy Blue Night Bar, ladyboy massage, ladyboy street hooker. And just like with the girls, a great way to meet them without paying money (= away from prostitutes) is to use a popular dating site, in this case that would be Kumaon Friendly Ladyboy Dating.
Prices: Same prices as in the girls’ nightlife spots (although they are much harder to bargain with) and of course free if you meet a “normal” ladyboy on the dating site. See also: 5 places to meet ladyboys in Haldwani
- Realx Body Solution Unisex S P
- Angel Unisex Sp
- Golden Glow (Spa)
- Sensation Sp
- Liza Mssage Parlour
Blue Night Bar in Haldwani
Just like the beer bars in Haldwani, which are for foreigners, Blue Night bars are nightlife spots that are primarily for the local Kumaonis. But of course you can have fun there as a foreigner too – just check the prices beforehand to avoid getting ripped off. Most of the Blue Night bars in Haldwani can be found in Kathgodam, Thapa Colony, Transport Nagar, Gorapadav and the lanes around it.
- Prices: The way it works in these bars is that you buy a beer (₹300-1000 for a large bottle) or a bottle of whisky (₹1000-2800 for the local brand) and then sit down and choose one (or more) girls to drink with. There is no charge for drinks for women (you just share your drinks with them) but instead they have (fee female seating) which is around 500 rupees for 45 minutes and some places also have (fee song) which is a one time charge (like an entrance fee) of around 250 rupees which is taken only once, no matter how much time you spend there.
IMPORTANT: Unlike Blue Night Bar, most of the Haldwani bars do not allow taking their women out. If you really like her, just get her line contact or talk to the manager if it is possible.
Nepali , Vietnamese & Russian Girls in Haldwani
If you walk along Nainital Road in Haldwani, you will find sexy working women from other countries too. Especially at the Super Malls you will see a lot of Nepali girls who usually say they are from Kathmandu or Mahendra Nagar (this may often be true, but sometimes I think they just say it because it sells more) and after some small talk will say something like “Let’s have fun!”. Russian girls are not as popular as they used to be, so you can check out Gola Pul in Kathgodam or even Bhotia Parao where they have a few Russian go go bars (like the Moulin Rouge Club).
- Prices: They will ask for a little more than Kumaon freelancers, usually around 12,000 rupees, which is definitely negotiable, especially if you take them out for dinner, drinks or something like that.
- Prices: They will ask for a little more than Kumaon freelancers, usually around 12,000 rupees, which is definitely negotiable, especially if you take them out for dinner, drinks or something like that. See also: 3 places to meet black, Russian and Vietnamese girls in Haldwani
Ashoka Bar in Haldwani
Ashoka Bar is my favourite nightlife spot where I bring my friends in Haldwani – you get the best sense of how huge this city is, and how modern and developed most of it has become by now. And well, who wouldn’t be excited about starting a new trip to Kumaon while enjoying cocktails high up in the mountains? My favourite Ashoka Bar in Haldwani is Moon Bar at Hotel Shree Krishna in Mangal Parao (the whole city skyline in front of you).
- Prices: No entry fee, but drink prices are clearly more expensive than The Beer Cafe bar, i.e. around Rs.350 for a beer and Rs.700-1000 for a wine or cocktail. Also see: Best Ashoka Bars with Views in Haldwani
