This guest house was recommended to me by a professional visitor from Japan, who had an excellent experience. I was looking for a possibly extended stay for a few nights to attend to some work in South Delhi. One day before my stay, I received a call from the management inquiring if I had a Delhi-NCR ID. Apparently, there is government rule that guest houses can only have guests with non-local ID. While the information is useful, and I told the host that I do have a non-local DL from my home state. I expressed a bit of irritation at the rule and the host went on to justify it by saying that there is no reason why someone with a house in NCR may want to stay in a guest house. I can probably think of a thousand reasons- reduce commute time, repair works in one's house, attending late night meetings, but the reason really is none of the host's business unless its an illegal activity (even then the host may not be liable as far as the law goes). The next question was if I was planning to stay alone or with someone. By this time I could guage that I was getting a differential treatment based on some parameters- I don't think I need to elucidate these further. Altogether it reminded me of standard Delhi horror stories about pesky landlords. So Indian women, please book a standard five star hotel instead of trying out this quaint looking boutique "stay".
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