Though slightly overpriced if you want AC, Arunaalaya offers large, cool, clean-ish marble-floored rooms with colourful walls around two small garden patios, up a lane north off Chengam Rd. The non-AC rooms are good value. `
Arunaalaya Residency
Tiruvannamalai
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