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| Worth Your Time |
A Royal Villa in Jaipur
Aline Sullivan
08/02/2004
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If we must work, the staff will facilitate our meetings and
small conferences. (There are three meeting rooms overlooking the gardens and a
full range of business services.) Every room has the usual accoutrements:
high-speed Internet access, satellite television, multiline phones and CD and
DVD players. Or we can settle down with an evening cocktail and check email at
the desk just outside the library bar.
The courtyards-within-courtyards
design of the hotel’s 32 acres is conducive to pleasant wanderings, which often
end with a stop at the lobby terrace to sip cocktails as the sun goes down and
the enormous stone torches are lit. Dinner is served both outdoors and in. While
the Asian fusion cuisine is not quite up to the standards of the hotel’s other
offerings—some dishes are quite heavy—it is enjoyable enough and beautifully
served. Breakfast is more appealing, whether you choose the simple buffet or the
à la carte options that include both Indian dosas stuffed with spicy potatoes
topped with tamarind sauce, and Western-style pancakes with maple syrup. A
simple international menu is offered at lunch.
Room service, thanks in large
part to the superb staff, is wonderful. This makes the Royal Villa’s private
dining room a very appealing alternative to the restaurant. Chances are,
however, that you will return to the restaurant at least once to enjoy the
traditional Rajasthani music and dance performance that starts each night around
8.
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