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Hotels
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Hotel Green |
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Th e
Chittaranjan Palace, built for Mysore's princesses, has been
lovingly restored as a small hotel. In extensive gardens, with
formal lawns and shaded pergolas, and fringed by majestic trees,
the hotel is an oasis of calm. It has been renovated and
furnished using traditional Indian crafts. It offers comfortable
surroundings, friendly staff, and a restful, creative
atmosphere. Guests have come for a night and stayed for a month!
The Green Hotel has been set up as a model of sustainable
tourism, by a UK charity. All profits are distributed to
charitable and environmental projects in India.
Mysore, the charming town immortalised by RK Narayan in his
Malgudi novels, provides an excellent base from which to tour
South India. The Western Ghats, the coffee plantations of Coorg,
the game reserves of the Nilgris and the Ooty hill station are
all within a few hours drive.
Accommodation
Guests have the use of the whole of the former palace,
including drawing rooms, a well-chosen library, and beautiful
verandas.
The gardens are large and provide peaceful relaxation. The
hotel has won the Mysore Horticultural Society first prize for
the best garden and for the Rose Garden, and for the display of
potted plants.
Because of the excellent
climate, guests spend most of the day in the garden, on the
lawns, or, for those in the Garden Block, on the terrace outside
their rooms.
We do not have air-conditioned rooms, TV or generators
because of our environmentally friendly policies. However the
hotel is very airy and well ventilated, all the rooms have fans,
and the temperatures in Mysore make air conditioning largely
unneccesary. We offer spacious, soothing lawns and shady trees
to recline under.
Guests can be collected from the station, and during their
stay have the use of the hotel's rickshaw.
"Check into a hotel, get a palace free! The Chittaranjan
Palace in Mysore, which has played host to the royal princesses
of the Wadeyar family, is today an exclusive hotel ... the
palace still retains the old world charm of the forgotten era
... the wooden stairs, the stained-glass windows, the
innumerable little rooms generate a cosy feeling of being at
home."
- Times of India, January 1997
There are 31 rooms, all with modern en-suite bathrooms, as
follows.
The Palace Rooms
The palace rooms are situated inside the palace and therefore
have have an ambience of their own. They are old rooms furnished
with a view to retaining the old world charm of the buildings.
The Princess's room (pictured), the Rose Room, and the
Marigold Suite provide elegant accommodation. The Honeymoon
suite (where the British High Commissioner and his wife stayed!)
has a bedroom with a four-poster bed, a sitting room with views
of the garden, and a nice bathroom. We even supply rose petals
on the bed! The Writer's Room has a unique ambience -it is a
small room with a view of the garden and a desk tucked in under
the stairs.
Downstairs the Bollywood deluxe and smaller Bollywood rooms
are decorated with panels featuring old movie stars. These two
rooms have a sitting room between them so are very suitable for
4 guests. The Bollywood deluxe has a particularly nice bathroom
with bath and shower.
In the Garden Block
All rooms have sitting out areas and views on the garden.
On the First Floor
Five suites, with sitting rooms, and bathrooms with baths and
showers.
Three deluxe rooms, with bathrooms with baths and showers.
Two deluxe travellers' rooms, with simple bathrooms with
showers.
On the Ground Floor
Twelve travellers' rooms, simply furnished but comfortable,
with new bathrooms with showers.
The suites have an additional sitting room and larger
bathrooms with bathtubs. All these rooms have a wonderful view
of the garden and lawns with comfortable cane chairs to sit on
the verandah and enjoy the view.
What room to choose?
Different guests have different favourite rooms. Of the
hotel's directors (who can choose anything!), one prefers the
Writer's Room, another the Honeymoon Suite. Other frequent
visitors specify the Princess Room or the Rose Room. And one
couple booked for a night in the Honeymoon Suite and stayed for
5 -so it must have pleased them
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