Room With a Killer View: Get the Taj Mahal in Your Sights

Where: Taj East Gate Road, Agra , India, 282001

4/24/2008 at 9:25 AM
Tags: Killer View, India Hotels, Hotels Near the Taj Mahal

We are suckers for a room with a killer view.  We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.

There's nothing quite like a hotel room with a view over one of the world's most famous monuments. And that's what you get at the Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra, India: being just 600 meters away, many of the rooms, like this one, come with a view of the Taj Mahal.

As well as having literally unbeatable views, the Oberoi Amarvillas come out on top at TripAdvisor too, with the #1 position of all hotels in Agra. Rates start at 29,500 Indian Rupee for the cheapest rooms, which is around US$740--which sounds expensive even before you remember that it's in India, where the cost of living is a lot cheaper. But come on--a view of the Taj Mahal from your window? That's not something you get every day.

[Photo: js42]