We’re staying at the small but lovely Sleeping Beauty hotel near Ooty, it lives up to its name. We slept well after a long days travel. We woke to the most amazing view from our balcony. The hotel is so-named after the Sleeping Beauty mountain – although we’re not sure which mountain it is (there are quite a few around).

The restaurant is in a separate block to where our room is so it’s just a few steps to breakfast. The room is cantilevered off the hill so it feels like we’re floating. A wall of floor-to ceiling glass adds to this feeling and provides a spectacular panorama of the valley and mountains. The glass wall makes it hard to distinguish where the room stops and the view begins. It’s definitely a room with a view, but could equally be described as a view for a room.