This is a great hotel. This is the second hotel I have stayed in whilst in Lahore. The other hotel (name I won't mention) looked like a good 4 star hotel when we arrived, but having been to look at the Avari because we knew other people that had stayed there, we decided to move hotels and stay at the Avari instead.
And it's worth the extra £20(GBP) per night we're paying!
The rooms are spacious, very nicely decorated. There's a mini bar, a safe to protect your valuables (very important).
The hotel staff are friendly and very helpful, they can't do enough for you.
Security at the hotel is good: there is security on the main gates inspecting the cars as they enter. There's are metal detector scanners on entry to the hotel entrance and your luggage is even X rayed.
The hotel has a small gymnasium - but has a good variety of equipment and an outdoors swimming pool.
There are several places to eat in the hotel, and food is excellent quality - but more expensive than eating out in the city, but cheap by European standards.
The hotel boasts the only Japanese restaurant in Lahore, and the food is excellent.
Food in the hotel is freshly cooked and not just cooked and left to be kept warm by placing on small flame burners. This is an important point to consider if you want to avoid any illnesses being contracted.
And a point to consider is the air conditioning. In the Avari you can leave the air-con on whilst you are out of the room, so when you return the room is at the perfect temperature for you.
Pakistan is a hot country and whilst many hotels claim to have air conditioning, in our former hotel it turned off when we left the room, and took 2 hours to cool the room down to a reasonable temperature for us westerners to survive in. This made sleeping difficult. In the Avari this is not a problem.
The only thing I can find wrong with the hotel is the frequency at which the staff come into the room to change the fruit bowel, to change the towels, to clean the room, to top up the items in the mini-bar. Had the towels changed one evening at 10pm!
I suppose it's time to use the "Do not disturb" label for the door.