A swimming pool on the second floor is not what travellers expect at the foot of the Aravalli hills, yet that is the first surprise of Hotel Candlewood. The hotel stands on Mount Abu Road near Talheti, at the point where the plains of southern Rajasthan end and the winding ghat road begins its climb to Mount Abu, about twenty five kilometres above.
Most visitors who stay here are on their way somewhere: up to the Dilwara temples and Nakki Lake, to the Brahma Kumaris campuses, or across the Gujarat border to the Ambaji temple. For them the hotel offers air conditioned rooms with desks and flat screen televisions, an air conditioned restaurant with a bar, a garden, room service, a reception open day and night and free parking.
Rates are low, often below thirty dollars.