With only 6 standard rooms and 1 penthouse, B-Nineteen retains a homely feel, yet the rooms themselves are larger than your average accommodation of this kind and tastefully furnished with simple touches and colours and plenty of light flooding in through the large windows.

There’s a huge amount of storage space in each one too: large wardrobes, sliding box drawers in the beds and side-tables with shelves inside make you feel as if a longer stay would be very comfortable indeed.

Comfort also comes from the excellent mattresses, AC units, huge flat-screen TVs with Tata Sky, and super-fast Internet connections, with individual wireless routers in-room (Rs 200 per day). Along with the indoor and balcony/terrace seating there’s the sense that this would be the perfect place to work from and get things done, or simply to retreat to after a long day in the city.

Within each room there’s a folder with travel advice, restaurant and shopping details, along with hotel information, staff member’s names and some simple Hindi phrases for the many foreign guests to get by with.

Guests should note that nearby Nizamuddin station provides a constant background hum of train traffic and the occasional blaring of horns. For us this gave the area an old-world romantic feeling, but to others it could become something of an annoyance.