Meanwhile, we thought Peshawari was terrific, and we're very picky about food:

It's a lovely hotel with a surprisingly fabulous restaurant. The latter is mentioned elsewhere as well, but as diehard foodies we really tend to avoid hotel restaurants. In this case, doing that means you'd miss out on a really good meal, albeit a very expensive (by local standards) one.

We did try the restaurant across the street from the hotel, Pinch of Spice, and were quite unimpressed. We found nothing else walkable nearby, but didn't try all that hard for our short stay.

Notwithstanding the ITC chain's continued insistence that plats don't actually get the highest speed Internet for free, it was a very nice stay and we did end up with fast Internet for all our devices. We were upgraded to a Mughal suite with a view of a courtyard, very comfortable bed and room, private check in area. The public areas of the hotel are gorgeous, the suite was a proper suite with a door that closed off the living room.

As elsewhere in Indian luxury hotels, be prepared for X-ray of your items and wanding of your person as you enter--which you can avoid as mentioned above.

There is no lounge, but as a platinum, we got free (full) breakfast in the restaurant, a coupon for two drinks a piece at the bar for happy hour each night of our stay and an Internet coupon good for three devices at the slowest speed available. We are two people with a laptop/ipad and a phone each, so needed four devices, which we got, gratis, after some negotiation. See my post here. Drinks at the bar were excellent--try the mojito!

Breakfast was good, but doesn't open as early as they say--they claim cold dishes at 6a and hot stuff is ready by '6.15 or 6.20,' but we came down at 6a one morning prior to a full tourist day and they weren't set up yet--and didn't seem at all happy to see us that early. We had to leave at 6.30 and they still weren't fully set up--even some of the cold dishes/juices weren't out yet.

Didn't try the gym or the pool.

Service in the hotel was terrific, a minor service issue resulted in the hotel's buying us lunch at the aforementioned Peshawari restaurant, and we enjoyed it so much we went back the following day on our own dime. We used hotel cars for all our jaunts, which is a rarity for us, but the drivers were good and didn't push unwanted services. The hotel is quite close to the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort.

I can't imagine why I'd ever come back to Agra, but if I did, I'd gladly stay here.