It's Taj Mahal palace hotel day!! I can check in from 2pm. I wake, pack and say goodbye to Nina. I jump in a taxi at midday hoping for an early check in and ask for ‘Taj Palace Hotel’, triple checking that he understood me after the debacle I'd had before, we head off. As we get closer to the hotel, the taxi driver calls back to ask where I want to go. I explain the hotel. I think he'd looked at my ruffian state and assumed I meant ‘near’ the hotel, not the actual hotel. When he understands I mean the actual hotel, he tries to mask his surprise with a smile. To be honest, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had parked up around to the corner to see me walk back out. I get out of the taxi and a doorman approaches me to ask if I'm staying. I beam. YES. I AM!! He takes my bag, puts it through the scanner and sends me off to check in. The service is unparalleled. 

The receptionist checks me in and accompanies me to my room. I'm on the 18th floor in the tower building with spectacular views. She shows me where everything is in the room, how everything works and refuses my tip. She leaves and I flop onto the soft, king size bed. Unfortunately I have to call a few times for bag to reach my room, but each time I do call they answer ‘yes Ms Harrison’. My bag reaches me. I order room service (hello Ms Harrison); club sandwich with an additional helping of fries, and scour the TV channels. My room service arrives WITH POTS OF KETCHUP AND MAYONNAISE. I lock the bedroom door and get into the dressing gown that hung on the back of the bathroom door. There's only an X-Men marathon on TV isn't there!! Two X-Men films later, I run a bubble bath and soak. When I get out of the bath I watch another film, the door knocks twice that evening ‘Ms Harrison, please may I take your room service trolley… Ms Harrison, I hope your room service was adequate, we have come to turn down your bed’. I let them take the trolley but the maid for turn down service was sent away- I'd been in bed all day anyway! I sleep like a star fish in my bed surrounded by pillows in total darkness provided by the black out curtains.