We were allotted Room#21 on the ground floor for a planned overnight stay at Mysuru. The sight of the room was disappointing, the woodwork is old, doors are falling apart in some cases, the bathrooms don't have any supplies and the furnishings are average/archaic. The TV was a box tv not a flat-screen - I felt like I had entered a hotel that had seen investments perhaps only 20 years back.
The hotel is set up in a beautiful location and has wide open spaces with nice landscaping and some ducks walking around - we also saw monkeys outside our room which are frankly a menace. I saw guests trying to shoo them away from their balconies. All this, within the first two hours and then, to top it all, we saw a giant rat inside our room, under the cupboard. The staff was apologetic - not their fault. There's been no investment in upkeep or making the rooms contemporary.
Apart from an emergency, all these factors were enough to convince us to drive back to Bangalore the same evening.
Last point, the staff was very polite but poor on communicating other than in the local language. In-room dining for the one meal we had during our 3 hours in the property was quite nice.
Not for the discerning traveler. A tragedy considering the lovely location of the proeprty.