My room was perfectly unexceptional: a decent size, brown fake wood, beige striped wallpaper and red curtains with a thin gold arabesque.

Indeed, there are hints of desert dust in the hand-made striped wallpaper, and of military khaki in the cushion covers for the two custom-made sofas.

Suites (for two, three or four people) are fresh, modern yet homely; think rattan headboards and duck-egg blue and white striped wallpaper.

In the tent room both ceiling and walls are decorated with blue and white striped wallpaper and the window treatments and bed tent and coverings continue that design.