泰姬廣場酒店 (Hotel Taj Plaza, VIP Road, Agra)

What can I say. An experience at the very least. Let’s start with our “upgraded” room, may I add, with “no extra charge”. Firstly, hygiene and cleanliness isn’t in their vocabulary. Let’s start with the negatives: 1. Stains and holes in the bedsheets 2. No sheet cover, just a blanket from my grandmas era, covered in 18th century dust. 3. AC-there was a machine but we were told it didn’t work, so maybe for show? They did upgrade us with a mini desk heater. 4. Mould on the ceiling had been painted over. 5. Disco lights surrounding the bed. 6. Taps hadn’t seen a cloth since the dinosaurs. 7. Toilet was a disgrace. 8. Mouldy toilet roll and bin that hadn’t been cleaned or emptied since the renaissance . 9. No hot water because everyone is out the whole day and nobody apparently comes back until 9pm. (They turn the boiler on at 7). 10. Served mouldy bread at breakfast. Sent it back and received a butter-less and jam-less slice of untoasted bread. The restaurant “manager” claimed the bread was fresh and dismissed the mould. 11. The coffee had an oily film floating on the top. 12. Hair and grease in my food. 13. Glimpsed at the kitchen and it looked like WW2. Now the positives. 1. Great location 👍🏾 2. Great view of the Taj from the mess of a rooftop bar 👍🏾 Should you stay here? You decide. If you do, take an exterminator with you. Oh and a duvet and pretty much everything else.