The Intercontinental Hotel

(200 rooms, standard, executive and suites) On the outskirts of the city heading into West Kabul; sat phone: +873 761 469690 or local tel: 020 2201320.

Probably the best known Hotel in Kabul, this is the place for all the international conferences, and a temporary home to many journalists, diplomats and Afghan government ministers (many of them chose to live here when they returned to Kabul after the fall of the Taliban).