Delhi: Best Western Resort Country Club Gurgaon (February 2008)

An evening turndown does not a 5-star hotel make! This was not a planned stop for us. We missed a domestic to international connection (definitely allow more than 2 hours between flights), and all other hotels in the Delhi area were sold out (unbelievably, even the ones that I had been tracking during my planning at $700+ per night were booked). This hotel is about 1.5 hours from the airport, and we had to use an official taxi (although not a pre-paid one due to the distance). Fortunately, there are signs as you approach the vicinity of the hotel, or it would have been difficult to find (and while our taxi driver understood spoken English, he only read Hindi, so he could not read the address on the paper we provided). The main building in the hotel was sold out due to business conferences, so we were in a satellite location near the golf course (quite removed from the main property, very deserted, needed shuttle service to get to the restaurant). The best I can say is that they had a room for us, which was clean and safe. I can only hope that the rooms in the main building were a bit better. There is a restaurant and bar/disco, the latter of which was reserved for one of the conferences, however. Decent/attractive lobby, and much maintenance work (e.g., painting, tiling) going on during the night to keep up the hotel. I couldn't really see the pool, but I believe there was one. We used the business center to send some e-mails. A bit pricey at $300 per night (which included two buffet dinners), but we had no choice. The hotel arranged for a transfer back to the international airport, which was greatly appreciated (but not included in our rate).