Luxury King Bed Room with Balcony

The balcony is the room. Two cane chairs and a table on tiles, a rail with palms coming up past it, and the pool in the courtyard below — and from the middle of October to the end of March that is where you will have breakfast, read the paper and take every call.

Inside is 30 square metres of a scheme nobody lost their nerve over: paper printed with birds, a chandelier a size too large for the room, a gold cover on the bed and a blue medallion carpet. None of it is quiet and none of it is wrong.

In May you will not sit on it. That is worth knowing before you pay for it.