Oberoi Amarvilas: The cost? $743 p/n. The view? Priceless!
I came across a tripadvisor review for the Oberoi Amarvilas - which is an expensive 5 star hotel with spectacular views of the Taj Mahal, in India.
I like this review from “torontoharbour”…
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Downsides to this hotel:1) Every night there is a cacophony of sound coming from various temples etc. Some of this is bell ringing, chanting etc which would not be hard to put up with. However I am talking about extremely loud chanting/singing from many LOUDSPEAKERS that play up to about midnight every night. We would have stayed on our balcony longer each night but gave up due to the extreme noise.
2) There is a strip of “park” land between the back of the hotel and the Taj Mahal - an area consisting of barren soil, shrubs and dense trees to one side. Every morning while having our breakfast on our lovely balcony we were met with a view of about 25 men defecating on the ground immediately in front of us i.e., in order to see the Taj Mahal at sunrise you must look at 20 + men defecating on the ground right in front of you between the back of the hotel and the Taj Mahal. The hotel clearly does a lot to keep the hotel safe etc inc. posting a guard at the wall that separates this “park” from the manicured hotel grounds in order to ensure that no locals get over the wall onto the hotel grounds. Given this I don’t know why they cant do something with the city powers that be to get the defecating men to at least move over into the dense trees on the other side of the “park” (the women go into the dense trees to defecate). I mentioned this to the concierge. She said there is “nothing we can do.”
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Too fucking funny… seriously.
26.Oct.08 
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