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Hotel Rooms
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By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
Published 2005
Some hotels and guest houses are in beautiful locations. This was the view, looking across the lake, from our hotel in Pushkar, a town in the Rajasthan desert. In November the town is crowded with visitors to the annual camel fair.
The hotel I am in as I write this is in Chennai (formerly Madras) and costs 550 rupees a night, which is slightly more than twelve U.S. dollars at the current exchange. I have a big bright room with a double bed with a thick foam mattress and a color television with cable. There’s a telephone, a large bath towel, and even hot water in the shower, though it’s not really necessary in Chennai (the pipes can get so hot in the day that the water runs hot whether you want it to or not). I also have a big ceiling fan. I prefer fan rooms to AC rooms, which is handy, because they’re less expensive.