The Lodhi

Character and identity

Set on seven landscaped acres beside the Delhi Golf Club, The Lodhi feels nothing like a city hotel despite sitting a ten-minute walk from Nizamuddin and eight minutes by car from Humayun's Tomb. The architecture reads as a contemporary Indian palace fortress: monumental in scale yet intimate at 40 keys, with two restaurants, a spa and a pool. Rooms start at 1,350 square feet and run up to two-bedroom suites; eight of the eleven categories come with a private terrace and a jade-green Khareda stone plunge pool flanked by a daybed.

Who's it for

Bottom line

The case for The Lodhi rests on the rooms themselves: oversized, terraced and, in most categories, fitted with a private plunge pool that genuinely changes how you experience Delhi. Book one of the eight terrace categories with the Khareda stone pool, or don't bother; a standard deluxe, however generous at 1,350 square feet, misses the point of the property.