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The Lodhi

A Kerry Hill building on Lodhi Road, screened in carved stone. In 11 of its 14 rooms the swimming pool is indoors, set into the floor.

You come off Lodhi Road and it goes quiet at the gate. What is in front of you is long, low and pale: a wall of sandstone screened in carved jaali, a flat canopy over the drive, a stone lion alone on the forecourt. Nothing announces itself, and it holds one MICHELIN Key. Kerry Hill designed the building — the Australian architect who also built The Sukhothai in Bangkok and The Datai Langkawi — and he built it out of restraint: rough stone against smooth stone, high ceilings, and the screens doing the work ornament usually does. Walk through and the garden opens behind: a long lawn between two guest wings, a still black water channel down the middle of it, one old tree on a stone plinth. Past the lawn the courtyard narrows into a colonnade, and the 50-metre pool runs the length of it. Most of what you can see from the front door is green, water or stone, which in this city is the point.

The lap pool head-on: a colonnade of stone piers with yellow parasols and daybeds running away down both sides, a low fountain block at the far end and the tower behind it.

In 11 of the 14 rooms and suites the swimming pool is inside. Not a hot tub on a balcony — a plunge pool set into the floor, under a wall of glass 2 storeys high with carved screens above it, and a daybed on the stone at the water's edge. At 6 in the evening the water goes black and holds the light off the ceiling. From the upper floors what is beyond the glass is the dome of Humayun's Tomb over the trees, with Nizamuddin behind it. The rooms are quiet about all of this: dark leather panelling, jade and gold on the bed, a kilim across the timber floor, framed prints, a writing desk. They are also large. The entry room is 51 square metres and the rooms with pools are 125.

Nobody performs here. The building is long and low, so you are rarely in a crowd anywhere in it. Concierge and room service run around the clock, housekeeping comes twice a day, laundry is express, and the newspapers arrive if you ask for them. Every room has an air purifier, which in Delhi matters more than most of what a hotel puts in a room.

The house

The hotel from an upper floor at dusk, looking down its own axis: floodlit tennis courts on the left, the long green lap pool with daybeds down one side, a strip of lawn and clipped trees beside it, and the two guest wings and the tower lit against a deep blue evening sky.

The lawn by day: a still black water channel in the foreground, a single old tree on a stone plinth, clipped hedges down both sides and the jaali-screened wings closing the garden in.

The fifty-metre lap pool running the length of the courtyard between the two wings, yellow parasols and timber daybeds set out along both edges and the stone piers reflected end to end in flat water.

A couple sitting on a yellow daybed at the edge of a private plunge pool, between sandstone piers with carved jaali screens, looking out over treetops to the dome of Humayun's Tomb.

A tennis court at sunset with the hotel's stone wings standing over it, the light low and orange along the jaali screens.

Drink and Dine

5 restaurants and a bar

Global cooking, built around what the farms send
Élan
When
7am to 1am; the bar from 11am
Tables
Worth booking
The all-day room, and where you will eat most of your meals. The cooking is global and starts with the ingredient: the menus are built around what local farmers and producers have that week, and change with the season. There is a bar at one end, and outside a courtyard with tables under a timber pergola between the lit wings, which is where to be in November. Breakfast is here, and so is the Victorian high tea on Friday and Saturday afternoons.
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Italian, and a cellar of more than 100 labels
Perbacco
When
Dinner 7pm to 11.30pm, every day
Tables
Worth booking
Contemporary Italian, and the traditional flavours are still in it. The room is white cloths and pale teal chairs under a ceiling hung with a drift of coloured blown glass, with a long painted landscape running the length of one wall. There is a private dining room beside it, and the cellar runs across the Italian regions instead of concentrating on one.
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The late room, and where the cocktails are
Safari Lounge
When
5pm to 4am, every day
Tables
Worth booking
A long vaulted room hung floor to ceiling with framed wildlife photography — a collection the hotel put together itself — over buttoned leather sofas, green velvet armchairs and animal-print rugs. The bar works in the modern style and the kitchen sends out international food to go with it. It runs until 4 in the morning, with a happy hour on spirits from 5 until 7. It took the NDTV Food Awards' Best Premium Cocktail Bar (North) in 2025.
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Two 50 Best lists, one kitchen
Indian Accent
When
Noon to midnight, every day
Tables
By reservation
A glass pavilion standing in its own shallow reflecting pool in the middle of the hotel, lit from inside after dark. Modern Indian cooking; the restaurant has been on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list since 2013 and on the World's 50 Best list in 2024. It is run by EHV International rather than by the hotel, and the concierge will get you the table.
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A bistro at the edge of the swimming pool
The Pool Café
When
8am to 10pm; resident guests and club members only
Tables
Walk in
A small room off the swimming pool: fresh juices, smoothies, salads and sandwiches, cooked around whatever is in season and kept deliberately light. You can eat in the room or take it back to a daybed at the pool.
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A counter, not a table
The Lodhi Bakery
When
10am to 10pm
Tables
Walk in
Bread, puffs, pastries, cookies, macarons and artisanal chocolate, baked through the day and put out as they come, in a small white room with a black-and-white chequered floor and glass cases down both sides. There is a proper gluten-free list, and shelves of Millefiori honey, teas and oils if you want to take something home. You buy on the way past.
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What is here

The 50-Metre Pool
The lap pool is 50 metres long and runs down the middle of the courtyard between the two guest wings, with a colonnade of stone piers along both sides, yellow parasols, and timber daybeds on the paving at the edge. It is heated through the winter, so it is usable in January. Swim a length early in the morning and the only things above you are the carved screens and a long rectangle of sky.
The Lodhi Spa
Traditional Indian therapies on one side of the list and international treatments on the other: body treatments, Ayurvedic rituals, massage, scrubs, wraps and aromatic baths. The treatment rooms are dark timber with a wall of glass onto a lit bamboo court, and the couple's room has two marble beds side by side. Open from 8 in the morning until 10 at night. There is also a longer wellness programme — a consultation with the spa's own doctor, Ayurvedic treatments chosen against a Prakruthi reading, dietary advice, and the run of the hammam, steam room, sauna and the hot and cold plunge pools. It runs 60, 90 or 120 minutes, priced by the hour and billed to the room.
The Hammam
A Turkish hammam, with separate sections for men and women, and a sauna beside it. Warm marble under a low vault tiled in small pale mosaic, and folded towels on the ledge.
The Courts
There are 3 all-weather tennis courts, with markers and ball boys on hand, 2 indoor air-conditioned squash courts, pickleball courts, and table tennis with proper equipment on it. The tennis courts, the squash courts and the gym come with the room; ask about the rest.
The Gym and the Studios
Technogym equipment through the fitness centre, with floor space beside it for TRX and free work. Then 3 studios, each its own room: Pilates, on reformers or a mat, one to one or in an Allegro group; spinning, on its own bikes; and yoga, which runs indoors, out in the gardens, or in Lodi Gardens across the road.
The Lodhi Salon
There are 10 private treatment areas for hair and beauty, men and women, and the team will sit down and work out what you want before they start. Express services if you are going out in an hour; international skin and hair products if you are not.

The Art. The contemporary Indian art through the public rooms is curated with Apparao Galleries and the hang changes, so the building is never quite the same twice.

Dine Under the Stars. One table on the lawn, laid privately, candles, and a wine and champagne list chosen for the evening. The concierge arranges it.

Good to know

Alcohol is not served to anyone under 25.

The rooms

The plunge pool begins at the Lodhi Room

There are 3 grades here with a balcony and no pool; the other 11 have a plunge pool inside the room. That is the single decision to make — the biggest step in price on the list.

The Garden Terrace Room, at 70 square metres, is the last room without one.

The Lodhi Room, at 125, is the first room with one.

The Garden Terrace Suite is the third grade without a pool; it trades the pool for a terrace instead. What you get is not a hot tub. It is a pool set into the floor of the room, the length of one wall, under glass 2 storeys high with carved screens over it. A daybed sits on the stone beside the water. The plunge-pool grades nearly double in floor area for the same reason: the pool is inside the room, so the room has to be bigger.

3 room sizes, and only one is small here

The Executive Room is 51 square metres and the Garden Terrace Room is 70.

Every plunge-pool room — the Lodhi Room, the Lodhi Deluxe Room and the Lodhi Premier Room — is 125.

The Lodhi Room sits on floors 1 to 3 over the lawns.

The Lodhi Deluxe Room sits on floors 4 to 6, with a bigger dressing area.

The Lodhi Premier Room sits above that. Nothing between them changes but the floor and what is in the window.

Only the highest rooms see Humayun's Tomb

The courtyard at Élan after dark: tables laid under a timber pergola on a stone terrace, potted trees in a line down both sides and the lit windows of the wings rising on every side.

Breakfast floating on a private plunge pool: a wicker tray of pastries, eggs and juice on the water, with a hand reaching for a croissant.

Most of what you can see from the front door is green, water or stone, which in this city is the point.

The particulars

Arrive: From 2 PM
Depart: By noon

Where it is

The Lodhi
Lodhi Road
New Delhi, Delhi 110003
India

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The small print

A child is 12 or under.

Extra bed

Up to 12: Free
13 to 18: ≈ $105 a person a night
19 and over: Not available

Two children share the room. A bed goes in only where the grade takes one, and most here do not. The figure is before tax, and no room is sold at triple occupancy.

The neighbourhood: The Lodhi, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, on the southern edge of Lutyens' Delhi. Lodi Gardens is a walk. Khan Market, Humayun's Tomb and India Gate are a few minutes by car. For the airport, the concierge will time the car against your flight.
What the rate includes

Room	Size	Sleeps	View	Private pool	Bedrooms	Floor
Executive Room	51 m²	2 + 1 child	The hotel lawns	No		1st to 8th floor
Garden Terrace Room	70 m²	2 + 1 child	The courtyard and lawns	No		Garden level
Lodhi Room	125 m²	2 + 2 children	The hotel lawns	Yes		1st to 3rd floor
Lodhi Deluxe Room	125 m²	2 + 2 children	The courtyard and gardens	Yes		4th to 6th floor
Lodhi Premier Room	125 m²	2 + 2 children	Humayun's Tomb or the golf course	Yes		Higher floors
Garden Terrace Suite	181 m²	2 + 2 children	The lawns	No	1	Garden level
Lodhi One Bedroom Suite	172 m²	2 + 2 children	The hotel courtyard	Yes	1
Lodhi Signature Suite	251 m²	2 + 2 children	The hotel courtyard	Yes	1	Upper floors
Verandah Pool Suite	251 m²	2 + 2 children	The gardens	Yes	1	Garden level
Lodhi Suite	223 m²	2 + 2 children	The hotel courtyard	Yes	2
Lodhi Deluxe Suite	223 m²	2 + 2 children	The courtyard and gardens	Yes	2	4th to 6th floor
Lodhi Premier Suite	223 m²	2 + 2 children	Humayun's Tomb and the skyline	Yes	2	7th and 8th floors
Sultan Suite	409 m²	2 + 2 children	The gardens and the city	Yes
Belle Époque Suite	362 m²	2 + 2 children	The gardens	Yes	1	Garden level

The Lodhi

The house

Drink and Dine

Élan

Perbacco

Safari Lounge

Indian Accent

The Pool Café

The Lodhi Bakery

What is here

The 50-Metre Pool

The Lodhi Spa

The Hammam

The Courts

The Gym and the Studios

The Lodhi Salon

Good to know

The rooms

The particulars

Where it is

The small print

Extra bed

Side by side

The rooms themselves

Executive Room

Garden Terrace Room

Lodhi Room

Lodhi Deluxe Room

Lodhi Premier Room

Garden Terrace Suite

Lodhi One Bedroom Suite

Lodhi Signature Suite

Verandah Pool Suite

Lodhi Suite

Lodhi Deluxe Suite

Lodhi Premier Suite

Sultan Suite

Belle Époque Suite

The Lodhi

The Lodhi — the portrait

The house

Élan

Perbacco

Safari Lounge

Indian Accent

The Pool Café

The Lodhi Bakery

What is here

The 50-Metre Pool

The Lodhi Spa

The Hammam

The Courts

The Gym and the Studios

The Lodhi Salon

Good to know

The rooms

Understanding the room types

The particulars

Where it is

The small print

Extra bed

Side by side

The rooms themselves