Hotels in Mohali

Mohali (officially SAS Nagar) is where Chandigarh's overspill lives. The IT parks along Airport Road and the Aerocity zone host Infosys, Quark, and a dozen mid-size firms; the residential sectors (Phase 3B2, 7, 11) are grids of pastel bungalows on numbered roads. The PCA Stadium in Sector 63 has hosted every major Indian cricket team and every IPL franchise at some point — matchday transforms the whole sector into a slow-crawling car park.

As a tourist destination Mohali is honestly thin — go to Chandigarh's Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake instead, they’re 8km away. Where Mohali wins is airport hotels: the Aerocity strip is minutes from the runway, the rooms are new, and the airport (IXC) is where flights from Delhi, Mumbai, and international routes land. Business travelers stay here, catch the stadium if there's a match, and drive north to Anandpur or west to Amritsar.

Where to stay in Mohali

Aerocity and the sectors around the airport (Sector 66-91) have new business-chain hotels at $55-95 — Radisson, Fairfield, Lemon Tree. Phase 7 and 3B2 are older residential sectors with boutique guesthouses at $40-60, useful if you want restaurants within walking distance. Avoid anything advertised as 'Mohali near Chandigarh' that's actually in Zirakpur — different town, worse traffic, further from everything. The stadium-side hotels sell out and triple in price on match days.

Things to do in Mohali

Getting there & around Mohali

Chandigarh International Airport (IXC) is in Mohali — 15 minutes from Aerocity hotels, 25 minutes from central Chandigarh. Prepaid taxis from the airport counter are $4-8 for local, $12-15 to central Chandigarh. Mohali's own bus terminal in Phase 8 has services to Ludhiana, Amritsar, and Delhi. Inside the sectors, autos ($1-3) and Ola work well — Uber is patchy. Walking between numbered sectors takes longer than it looks on maps.

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