We booked a non a/c room at Madeleine Inn based on reviews and inclusions listed on the booking site this sounded like a perfect wind down to a 3 month adventure around India. How sadly wrong we were. When you first walk in the door you are greeted by the toxic smell of mould and mildew. The owner is nice enough and showed us to our room, telling us about how it is a heritage house and things cannot be done to it. I suspect that you are allowed to clean and freshen up heritage houses! Our room it turns out is through a large storage room and the room itself is another smaller storage room with a bed and table in it. It is very dirty with some heritage age dust on the floor. The private bathroom is down some stairs away from the room.
There is no way of locking the room so carry all your valuables if you are going out. There is a stand up fan as our cooling device. There is no screens and mosquitoes are fierce! The inclusions in room on the booking sites are a flat screen TV with cable ( this is down stairs in the common area, which is too smelly to go and sit in) toiletries (nope) bottled water (nope) in room safe um nope not even a lockable room. Ceiling fan (nope) I looked on another booking site and it mentioned a fitness centre (a joke right?) This was a very disappointing stay with only a couple of pluses the location is fantastic, the room thankfully didn't have the mildew smell and the bed was comfortable and big.