Located within 1.5 kms of Taj Mahal, Crystal Inn is a comfortable mid budget hotel which makes up for its resources and facilities through its intent and attitude to make your stay pleasant.
The rooms are mid sized and have the basic facilities that you would expect in the range. The beds are comfortable, washrooms clean, space utilised efficiently and over all it gives a hygienic and well maintained feel.
Our extended family booked 6 rooms for a night to celebrate our parents Golden Jubilee. The hotel has a no decoration policy but they willingly agreed to put balloons, bouquets, wedding cake to give the room a semblance of honeymoon suite.
Things went south during dinner where the service was painfully slow. Probably they weren't staffed for a large order and it took an hour for the snacks to be served and the dinner lasted more than two hours. We wouldn't have minded spending time at the dinner table only if the food was to our liking. May be the pressure to prepare a large order with guests waiting at the table contributed to the chicken dishes being under done. On the other hand fish, paneer and daal were excellent and I am willing to give benefit of doubt that the chicken dishes were an anomaly and I shouldn't be basis my judgement only on the basis of those.
My understanding of hospitality is everything will not be perfect everytime. It is what you do when things go wrong that defines hospitality for me. As soon as we pointed out the under prepared tikkas, they not only took that off the bill, but didn't charge us for the other chicken dishes which were almost ready by then.
Despite the sub optimal experience at dinner, I wouldn't mind calling our stay comfortable and being made to feel valued. I have no hesitation in recommending the hotel for tourists and families, who want a mid budget decent stay in the proximity of Taj.