Eleven rooms in a restored townhouse
Balchand Para, below the palace · Rajasthan
The house
Ninety is the number on the door, and for most of the last century it was a family home rather than anywhere you could stay. The rooms are the rooms; we did not knock them together. That means no two are the same size, the stairs are steep, and the best light in the building arrives on the top floor at about four in the afternoon.
Rooms
₹4,200 per night, before GST
Opens straight onto the arcade, so you hear the courtyard. Coolest room in the house in May, and the easiest if stairs are a problem. Shower, no tub.
₹5,600 per night, before GST
The indigo is original lime plaster, not paint, which is why it is uneven and why we left it. Deep window seat over the lane. One flight up, no lift.
₹7,400 per night, before GST
The only room with its own outside space, and the reason people come back. Two flights of steep stairs. Breakfast can be sent up if you ask the night before.
Around the house
The table
There is no restaurant, only a table on the terrace and whatever came back from the market that morning. Vegetarian by default, Rajasthani more often than not. Dinner is at eight and has to be asked for by four, because otherwise nothing has been bought for it.
Breakfast is included when you book direct, and is served from seven until whenever the last person appears.
Finding us
The lane is too narrow for a car. Drivers stop at the Chogan Gate and it is a two-minute walk from there. Tell us your train and someone will meet you with a hand cart for the bags.
Check in from 2pm, out by 11am. Free cancellation up to 48 hours. Children of any age welcome; the stairs are the only thing to think about. No pets. Passport needed at check-in for foreign guests, because we file Form C the same day.
Guests
These three are invented, like everything else on this page. On a real property this section would pull verified reviews from Google or the booking engine, and would never be written by us.
The stairs are as steep as they warn you and the terrace is worth every one of them.Meera S., Bengaluru
Booked direct on the phone, got the room we had actually looked at. That is rarer than it should be.Tom H., Bristol
Small, honest, no pretending to be a resort. The dinner was the best meal of the trip.Anjali R., Pune
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