Rooms at our beach resort in Gorai

Three room types, each finished on its own terms. Every one is air conditioned with a geyser, a television, free WiFi and room service from the kitchen downstairs.

Nature's Vault, the room with a tree inside

The bathroom is a glass room tiled floor to ceiling in patterned cement tile, and a mature tree runs up through the middle of it. Nothing was felled to make space. The room was built around the trunk and the trunk stayed.

The rest follows the same hand. Ochre lime plaster on the walls, a blue relief mural worked directly into the plaster above the bed, and light thrown from alcoves cut into the wall. If you are looking for a room in Gorai you will not find anywhere else, this is it.

Semi Deluxe, the same hand without the tree

Ochre plaster walls, the blue mural above the bed, and a bathroom set behind a full sheet of glass. This one is lined in small blue mosaic that lights up like water when the shower light is on.

Warm, low lit and quiet. It is the room most couples choose for a weekend at Gorai Beach.

Deluxe, the family room at 225 square feet

A different register entirely. Cream padded headboard, teak panelling, white marble underfoot and a wide window with the curtains drawn back. It sleeps three.

There is a table and two chairs by the window, a full wardrobe and a mirror. Take this one if you are staying more than a night, travelling with children, or arriving with more than a bag.