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Hotel Description
The 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.

Luxury Hotel 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. 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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