Woodville Palace Hotel (Shimla, India)

When we were planning our trip to northern India and hunting for hotels, we decided to treat ourselves to one good hotel and decided it should be in Shimla. We couldn't afford to go expensive in Delhi, there was nothing interesting in the modern city of Chandigarh and Amritsar didn't have anything fancy anywhere in the part of town we wanted. So Shimla it was. I spent a lot of time researching hotels and our first thoughts had been to go for the Cecil - a swanky place with a spectacular spa - but the hotel was just too far out of town. Shimla's a city for walking and much of the centre is barred to vehicles so it doesn't make sense to be at such a distance that you can't ...  Read the complete review