Premier City Palace View Room with Semi-Private Pool

"Semi-private" is doing real work in that name: the pool runs the length of 4 rooms, and you share it with 3 sets of neighbours. What that buys is the thing people come to Udaivilas for — water at the edge of your own terrace at 7 in the morning, reached without shoes, without a towel over the shoulder and without walking past anybody.

In a full week there will be somebody else in the water. Early morning is when there is least likely to be.

The room behind is the full 86 square metres — bay window seat, marble bathroom with its own courtyard, garden ahead and the City Palace across it — and it is ground floor throughout, so there are no stairs between the bed and the water.