Deluxe Suite Courtyard View

This is where the room stops being one space. A separate sitting area arrives — a gilt sofa and two armchairs on a patterned rug under a lakeside painting — with the bed through a cased opening beyond it, and the whole thing under a pale coffered ceiling picked out in gold. Mewari architecture with modern comforts inside it, and a room full of things the palace already owned.

It faces the courtyard, which is worth choosing rather than settling for: the palace's own court below the window, and the older carved stone of the complex over the roofline — the half of this building the day visitors queue for. Cushioned jharokha ledges to sit in, a 3-fixture marble bathroom, up to 3 guests. The size runs 33 to 69 square metres, because no two of these are the same room.