Grand Presidential Suite, Lake View

It is 161 square metres with water on 3 sides. The suite takes a corner of the island, so nothing else looks into it.

It is arranged as an apartment — a drawing room, a dining room you could seat a party in, a bedroom behind them — and the terrace steps down almost to the lake. You can eat outside at 9 at night with the City Palace lit across the water and nobody sees you, which on an island of 83 rooms takes some doing.

The bathroom has a window onto Pichola large enough to climb through, and that is the detail everyone remembers. If the reason for coming to Udaipur is to sit still and watch the light change on the water for a few days, this is the room the whole argument has been about.