The hotel (West Inn) seems nice. Good guys and gals on the reception, and they were expecting me - which is always a bonus. Free wi-fi is very handy too of course and worth at least an extra star to the rating. The road it is on looks like you would expect a Delhi road to look - chaotic, messy and dangerous. This will be fun! At least I am right next to a Metro stop for getting into the old town, fort and Connaught Place et al.
Main difficulty it seems will be getting badgered to arrange visit stuff through the 'in house' travel people. I understand this happens at every hotel. Anyway, time for a quick nap. Or a long one.
Oh Free WiFi is well worth an extra star in my book. I was staying in a 5* hotel in Barcelona 2years ago, no wifi, when I asked they gave me a cable to plug into the phone line! Bathroom was amazing tho lol.
ReplyDeleteHope your Delhi Belly cleared up and stays away for the rest of the trip, or you have tons of loo roll with you. You can't even tear a page out of the kindle in an emergency.
I am in Udaipur, and finally after a week of travelling I have wi-fi, but off to Jodphur tomorrow so we will see - I suspect that I may have to wait until I get back to Delhi before I can get back on it and update this easily.
ReplyDeleteI have plenty of people reading this (well, three or four at any rate) but Val you are my first official 'Follower', so welcome to my humble trip musings! Not sure it is helping me creatively, but it keeps me busy in the cafes.
As for hotel bathrooms, the one here is fine, but even more cool I think this is only the second time I have slept in a four poster. I am in a lovely Haveli beside the Pichola Lake.... more of later (but if you are a James Bond fan the lake and the city was featured quite prominently in Octopussy (one of the poorer 007 movies by many accounts)). So there you go.
ha ha, I don't think I have ever been the first official anything b4. won an album for being the 1000th follower of a website of a band I like once.
ReplyDeleteKeeping a blog must be helping you creativly, if only for the simple reason of giving you a reason to write. Plus it makes you look busy typing away in cafes.
I've seen Octopussey of course, and that was when I fell in love with India, for the scenerey, not James Bond. Sean Connery is my ultimate Bond, not Roger Moore.
You are not missing much in dear old Liverpool luv. We got ice! oh and while I was in the doctors this morning it was snowing, but it had stopped by the time I got out. So perhaps 15 mins of snow, didn't stick. The rest of the Uk has it pretty bad, Airports have been closing further oop north. Hope you packed a jumper for landing this side in!