The room
Opening the door.
The room
Opening the door.
Suite
The smallest room in this suite is the reason to take it. The dining alcove is lacquered chrome yellow, floor to cornice, hard and glossy enough to throw the light back; a white jali screen fills one whole wall, a glass chandelier hangs over a round burr-walnut table, and 4 chairs stand round it. Bombay settles a great deal over breakfast, and this is a room to settle it in — with the bedroom door shut and the butler answering the telephone.
The bedroom behind that door is gold on cream: a dark carved headboard, a coverlet embroidered with butterflies, a gilt standard lamp and a wing chair with an ottoman pushed under it. The bathroom is Italian marble, with a tub, a separate shower and a dressing area. What it does not have is the sea, and it has 13 square metres less floor than the Luxury Suite below it. What it has instead is that alcove.