Recently on my trip to Agra in Feb, I stayed for a night at this hotel. I was with a foreign client of mine and we booked 2 rooms. The person behind the reception seemed pretty cold with me and was more than happy to entertain my foreign client rather than me. I paid 11, 000 for single occupancy for my room and my friend paid for his room. When I asked for discount I was given a cold look. I was shocked to see the price for the same room on travelguru.com at Rs.6000 later when I came back home.
Once I reached my room I was pretty happy to see my room. A large LCD screen, great flooring, and the thing I liked most was the glass partition between the room and bathroom. You can see inside the bathroom from the bedroom and vice versa.
I stepped into the bath and found foreign brand shampoo, shower gel and conditioner but was too disappointed that there was no loofah.
Came out and thought of shaving. Found a cheap 10rs Gillette disposable razor and a cheap shaving cream but whoa there’s no shaving brush. How do the hotel guys one can apply the shaving cream.
Went to their restaurant and was greeted with the same ugly chairs which you can find at Bukhara restaurant, New delhi. They are damn uncomfortable. Food was fine and went down fine.
Then we thought of sitting by the pool side and having some coffee but after waiting for more than 20 mins found no person to attend to us so we simply left back to our rooms and had a nice sleep.
The breakfast at the restaurant was really pathetic. The buffet was one of the worst I ever had in terms of the dishes and also the taste.
Finally had to hit te road so just checked out and called for my car.
But wait there’s still some aweful news left. My driver was given a bed in hotel dormitory and when I asked him how was it. He simply said that he couldnt sleep all night and it would have been much better if he slept in the car rather than the dorm. Too many mosquitoes, no pillows an no blankets. Jut imagine a 5 star hotel giving these privileges.