Novotel New Delhi City Centre

Modern hotel, great infinity pool, but no shadow.

Great place, comfortable, safe, very helpful staff. I’d stay here again

Great staff, restaurants and amenities

Great hotel, restaurant and amenities

It feels like heresy for an inveterate transit rider like me to say this, but here goes: an excellent hotel, but a poor fit for risk-adverse tourists who intend to get around on Delhi's impressive metro. A map shows a walk of a mere nine hundred meters from the hotel to the Jhandewalan Blue Line station. Doable, certainly, but please look at the photos that show the intersections I crossed to get to that station. Yes, there are stoplights and crosswalks, but these seem to be observed in the breach. I never felt fully safe crossing any street, put myself in "remora" mode by scurrying after locals when they navigated intersections, on the assumption that they'd know what they could and couldn't get away with if they've survived in Delhi to adulthood. The room was on the small side, but this didn't bother me, and I felt entirely content with the booking in all other respects. Staff was ambassadorial. One supervisor in the lobby quietly approached to offer help if it even looked like I needed advice or assistance. A restaurant manager offered his business card. The morning buffet was terrific.