Coronation Durbar Park, Delhi

Advantages: A landmark hotel
Disadvantages: It's a long way from home

...- the architect between the creation of New Delhi. The architectural style is described as a blend of Victorian, Old Colonial and a dash of Art Deco. SBS Ranjit Singh's motor car is still parked outside the hotel and, if my photos upload properly, it should be included in the pictures at the end of the review. What did it cost and how did we book? ******************************** We paid $220 (approx £120) for one night at The Imperial. This rate was for an 'Imperial Room' (the smallest and least expensive option) and included breakfast for two as well as airport transfers on arrival and departure. As we weren't going back to the airport, they gave us a car to take us to our next hotel instead without any quibbling. Bearing in mind that most hotels will charge a minimum of 1000-2000 Rupees (about £12-£25) for airport pick up, this made... Read review

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Advantages: Great attractions; fabulous culture; fascinating history
Disadvantages: Very noisy and polluted in parts

...out of some beautiful gardens, where you will find some other family tombs of historical interest. The grounds themselves are extremely attractive, and evocative of an English park, complete with resplendent peacocks; it's really rather a pleasant place to be. The reason I recall this particulary landmark, quite apart from its undoubted splendour and the magnificent sunset we saw there (if you can bring a decent camera with the right filters, then definitely do so; you can get a fabulous view down the promenade), is for a rather extenuated reason. That lunchtime, we had just come from visiting the main mosque in Delhi (worth a trip, though be aware that the flagstones in the central courtyard will be baking hot in the sunshine - the Indians seem unpeturbed, but if your soles haven't been subjected to a lifetime of abuse... Read review

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Advantages: A nice little museum full of goodies
Disadvantages: A tad old-fashioned perhaps

...the exhibition, the materials were returned to India and put on display at the Durbar Hall in Rashtrapati Bhawan for a decade or so until the National Museum was specially built to hold them and was opened in 1960. So as I've said, it's not the biggest museum, but what's there is well worth seeing. It traces Indian history from all the way back in the third millenium BC through to quite modern times. My Delhi guide book suggests you need a day to see it all but you'd have to be exceptionally interested in absolutely everything - and all the exhibits would have to be open for that to be the case. I have a more than healthy interest in all things Indian (actually, it's bordering on obsessive) and it's still only taken me two hours each time I've been. One weird thing to report. I mentioned already that it's not really an established stop... Read review

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