I love Delhi. You have to love Delhi to stay here. This is a commercial business traveler type of hotel district, with occasional foreigners. Typical business is extruded aluminum. No room heat but that’s typical of North Indian hotels. No hot water or at best tepid. the first night — after asking, they said Oh just call us and give a few minutes notice if you want to take a shower and we will turn the heat on. My windows don’t open or don’t open fully. I guess that’s okay because my room directly overlooked a main road with not just all-night traffic and the usual honking and beeping but also booming repetitive commercial advertising over loudspeakers from more or less right by my window. “Wanh wanh wanh wanh Dilli ke dil, Dilli ke dil wanh wanh wanh wanh” Over and over on a 30 second cycle; not stopping or reducing in volume not even 3-5am. Well, next guy I mentioned this to, said, well Paharganj will always be Paharganj. So go there, stay there, if you have work there, but if you want good sleep get a rear-facing window, check in for one night to see if you can sleep and only then stay for longer, or choose a hotel near a park. A room HEPA air filter would be a great addition to quality of life for hotel visitors, since a Delhi air this season has about a half mile visibility. I’m home now coughing up tan colors from my lungs.
Look this is not criticism of the hotel or its staff; everyone and the facilities were great. I am the one who picked this location randomly.
