Bir Road, Chaugan, with tea gardens on all sides · eleven rooms — dorms, boutique private rooms and rooftop spaces · 360-degree viewing gallery · in-house restaurant cooking to order · 4.8 on Google from under 200; listed under both Bir and Baijnath addresses (checked August 2026).
Moustache opened in Bir more recently than most of the village's big names, and it has done what a late entrant should do: looked at what the existing hostels were, and built something different. The architecture is earthy and bohemian rather than the standard concrete-and-paint, the private rooms lean boutique, and there is a rooftop that reviewers describe in language usually reserved for resorts.
Crucially, the property positions itself for solo travellers, couples <em>and</em> remote workers — that third group named explicitly rather than assumed. High-speed internet is one of its headline claims, and reviews back it up, with guests describing it as good for working with a view.
The setting
It sits on Bir Road in Chaugan, a few minutes from the paragliding site and easily walkable from the bus stand. What makes it distinctive is what surrounds it: tea gardens on every side. Kangra is tea country — the old Palampur estates are half an hour away — and having those low green rows outside your window changes the character of a morning entirely. Reviewers mention bird watching in them, which tells you how quiet it gets.
Chokling Monastery and the Bir Tibetan Colony are close, so you get the cafés and the monastery courtyards without staying inside the busiest part of the village. The property's own posts suggest walking the Colony slowly and sitting in the monastery courtyard rather than rushing between activities, which is unusually good advice from a hostel's marketing.
Rooms and food
Eleven rooms in total — dorms, boutique-style private rooms and rooftop spaces. Both get described as spacious and clean; the private rooms are the ones people call aesthetic, with the better views. Small properties either feel intimate or cramped, and the reviews land firmly on intimate.
There is an in-house restaurant, and one review contains a piece of information more useful than a hundred adjectives: order about thirty minutes ahead. This is a small kitchen cooking to order rather than a hotel line, and if you plan around it you eat well. Guests single out the tea, a butter chicken biryani, and a kitchen willing to make drinks the way you actually like them.
The work case
What Moustache offers a remote worker is high-speed wifi, a rooftop and outdoor spaces to work from, a 360-degree viewing gallery, a restaurant that will feed you without a trip into the village, and — perhaps most valuable — quiet. This is not a party hostel; the evening entertainment is a bonfire and a sky full of stars. If your job requires focus, that is worth more than a bank of monitors.
What it does not have is a dedicated coworking room or advertised desks in the rooms. As everywhere in the Kangra valley, the weak link is electricity rather than bandwidth — ask whether the router sits on an inverter before you commit to a month.
The honest caveat: it is new
Moustache Bir carries a strong Google average, but from under two hundred reviews — a fraction of what Whoopers, Zostel Plus or The Trippy Tribe have accumulated. Its Tripadvisor rating is excellent and drawn from about a dozen. The reviews it has are consistent and there are no significant complaints in the public record. But a small sample is a small sample, and new properties in Himachal sometimes have a first-winter learning curve around heating, hot water and staffing. If you are booking December to February, ask specific questions. If you are booking October or April, you are almost certainly fine.
One confusion to avoid: the property appears on booking platforms under both a Bir address and a Baijnath one, and there are separate listings for each. It is the same place. Check the map pin before you book a cab.
If it's booked out
Eleven rooms is not many, and the boutique privates go first. Zostel Plus is the closest match for design and calm, with a far bigger view and an adults-only, alcohol-free policy. If the tea-garden quiet is what you are after but you want a kitchen and a lower budget, The Hostel Stories is the unpretentious version.
Book Moustache for quiet and a view rather than for a coworking desk. The full picture — internet, power cuts, monthly costs and all twelve stays compared — is in our work-from-home guide to Bir Billing. For where to eat while you are here, see the best cafés in Bir. If you would rather we set the whole month up for you, that is our 30-day workation, and the Bir Billing workation guide covers the village itself.
← All blog postsQuestions, answered
Is Moustache Hostel Bir good for remote workers?+
Yes, for quiet focused work. The property markets itself to remote workers, high-speed wifi is a headline feature and guests describe it as suited to working with a view. There is no dedicated coworking room, so you work from the rooftop, the restaurant or your room.
Where is Moustache Hostel Bir?+
On Bir Road in Chaugan, surrounded by tea gardens, minutes from the paragliding site and walkable from the Bir bus stand. Some booking platforms list it under a Baijnath address with a separate listing — it is the same property.
Does Moustache Bir have a restaurant?+
Yes, an in-house restaurant cooking to order. Reviewers advise ordering around thirty minutes ahead of when you want to eat, because the kitchen is small and everything is made fresh.
How many reviews does Moustache Bir have?+
Under two hundred on Google and around a dozen on Tripadvisor, both at high averages. It is a newer property, so the sample is much smaller than Bir's long-established hostels — worth factoring in if you are booking a winter month.