This may not be the best place to stay while you go tiger sighting at Ranthambor. Even the approach road to the hotel is quite shoddy and filthy
Skeletal staff with no clue. The reception guy gives you his version of facts, the guy on the phone gives you another version, the fellow manning the kitchen as cook cum manager cum maitre ‘d cum chief red herring has his own take on things. Room service is theoretical. Housekeeping is country hick standards with one guy in a age old uniform holding the ‘fort’.
In our room, the intercom was broken. No one came to fix it leaving us at the mercy of non-existent service. Unwashed single glass in the room, which took two hours and many phone calls on mobile phones to replace. The food during lunch after check in tasted as if the dish washer had cooked it. Rice starch water in the lentils soup, carrots and and overdose of red chillies in the mix vegetable curry with no taste of other spices and herbs.
The rotis were Rajasthani sogras throwing their own weight around mimicking UFOs baked in fire and cheap vegetable oil. That was lunch. However, the dinner buffet was very well cooked. The cholay, the panneer, the daal, the chicken, the plain rice were very well cooked. The room was reasonably comfortable. The television remained unworkable with no one to guide us on it.
An Android TV with no internet connectivity. One server who worked there confided that there was no data connectivity so the TV wasn’t going to work. Air conditioning in our room was good. The hotel is in the middle of a junk yard. Therefore, it has no view. The lawns have a thick bed of grass which we trod barefeet on and felt good. The pool does not change its water in 10 days.
The filtering is questionable. The rooms have padlocks. The bathroom exhaust was set in the wrong direction, resulting in throwing back the foul air instead of throwing it out. The approach road is the foulest rough drive that you can experience. The morning breakfast was fresh idlis, poha with bhujia dumped over the poha, lots of butter, shallow fried bread, lots of jam, water in flimsy plastic cups, coffee with sugar in smallest paper cups, good quality tea without sugar and cornflakes. No eggs, no parathas. The coconut chutney during breakfast was out of this world. The best I have ever had. The sambhar was all right. The air is very clean the bathing water and the drinking water were excellent.
Would you like to stay here during your visit to Ranthambor. I don’t think so.
