Jyoti Mahal - Top Selling - Award Winning Royal Heritage Hotel - Close to Connaught Place

I am from New Zealand and stayed there. Its my best experience of staying in any hotel so far in my lifetime. Best staff and the hospitality is so great. The interior and the artitect is so amazing gives a real India experience and flavour. I am staying and recommend everyone to stay here and get the best value of money and real Indian Experience.

Located just off Main Bazar, behind the Imperial Cinema (tell that to the tuktuk drivers) in crazy Pahar Ganj (older part of Delhi) lies this beautiful Haveli style guest house. I was referred to them sometime last year by a fellow French business traveler. Since, I think I have stayed three times. The rooms a clean, spacious and neat. Ask for a room on the backside, cool and quiet. The rooftop restaurant is beautiful - great boutique/Indian style - with funny wait staff and many cats (that behave). Try ordering off the western menu, very good. I usually only go Indian when in India, but, they suggested a few dishes off the western menu, and I was hooked. Everyone from the cleaning staff to the front desk are super helpful and trustworthy. Give them a try. You'll be glad you did...

Jyoti Mahal is not a place I would go back to. We wanted a place near everything in Delhi, but this place is actually in the new city, which is probably 30 min from Chandi Chowk and other popular areas. Also, the hotel is in a neighborhood which is quite chaotic. If you want to get a real feel for Delhi, then maybe you’ll like this, but be warned this’s also means huge piles of trash, dirty baby diapers underneath your feet and not a working ATM for miles. Also the hotel staff is very apathetic and don’t really want to be bothered with helping you. The rooms were so-so from a cleanliness standpoint, not too bad except for stains on the sheets - no rats or anything, which is an accomplishment in this area of Delhi. All-in-all, I would stay somewhere else on my next trip.