We’ve slept in over one hundred different beds so far. Many of them have been apartments, some have been cramped quarters on ships, other have been sleeper bunks on overnight trains, and a few of the best have been guest rooms belonging to friends or acquaintances. We live our lives surfing airbnb.com and hotels.com, trying to figure out the next place to lay four weary heads. We’ve very serious about our accommodation budget (under $200 a night), so every time we show up somewhere it’s a bit of a crap shoot. We’ve paid far too much for some very scary rooms (Agua Caliente, Peru) and fallen madly in love with places we’d never heard of (see Franny’s love song to our loft in Fitzroy, Australia). So every time we turn the key in a lock, we’re never quite sure what’s on the other side. In Jaipur, India, we encountered a heavy brass lock unlike any we’d ever seen before. Open it with us.
Wow, that’s one of the premium boxes of chocolates….you know, the one’s with the double layer, and chocolates wrapped in gold foil, premium sprinkles and a guide that shows you what the flavours are….ahhh. Nice.
Wow! Gorgeous!!
Very nice ” digs”!
Yummm!!!!
We stayed there in 1998, it was absolutely beautiful. Jaipur was our favorite city in Rajastahan. Happy travels.
We’re familiar (unfortunately) with scary rooms in Aguas Caliente. We hope you don’t have to deal with scary hotels on the rest of your trip.
Best,
Kristen and Jimmy
oh wow! i’d catch the next flight over to crash with you if i didn’t know that you were already gone…….. 😉
I’m so glad you stayed there. It’s a beautiful and peaceful place. I have great memories of that place.
Wishing you a year of more happy surprises
I kept waiting for the floating white feather to come down from the ceiling. What an amazing room. Great luck or great travel agent?
So, how did you find that great room?
In this case, we had a wonderful travel agent from India who we found online — VP Singh of Legends & Palaces. We cannot say enough good things about him.
That hotel is like a box of chocolate because it’s sweet.