HotelChatter - Tag: India Hotels

Mobor, Cavelossim: This Week in Hotel Lust: The Leela Kempinski Goa

Heidi Atwal — 2009-11-13T15:24:13-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/leelagoa.jpg" class="top"> Goa, India is an attractive resort state associated with equal parts bohemianism and luxury frills. Spirituality seeking backpackers enjoy it just as much as their richer-than-rich counterparts, who have a good number of opulent hotels to choose from as the tourism industry has taken off over the years. The Leela operates a family of high-end hotels in some of the country's most popular destinations, among them Bangalore, Udiapur, and Goa, of course. It's the latter that we're focusing on in this installment of "This Week Hotel in Lust," with plenty of near-royal touches to qualify among the ranks of last week's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Villa+D+Este/ian/109341">Villa D'Este</a> in Italy. And we do mean "royal"they've had the audacity to include the

Hyderabad : The Park Hyderabad Takes Its Pool to Another Dimension

amandak — 2009-06-18T09:31:51-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/The_Park_Hotel_Hyderabad_Pool.jpg" class="top"> We keep hearing that The Park Hotels chain is doing the real, five-star luxury thing right in India. They've got a new 285-room property opening up sometime this fall in Hyderabad, which sounds like it fits the promise of being a "design hotel".But what intrigues us more than the main architecture of the hotel its unusual shape has been computer-modeled to maximize the natural light that gets in, for example is the pool. Although these renderings make it look like just a large, slightly-oddly shaped pool, there's apparently a lot more to it than that: in fact it's<blockquote>a three-dimensional horizon pool, with a stair tube connecting the hotel's night club to The Veranda through the

Kochi: Vikram Chatwal Wants Us Floating On a Cloud at Dream Cochin

amandak — 2009-04-07T09:38:36-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/dreamcohinbig.jpg" class="top"> While the opening of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/16/101453/910/hotels/Dream_Downtown_NYC_Delayed_to_2010_">Downtown Dream Hotel</a> in New York is, pardon the pun, still just a dream, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/vikram chatwal">Vikram Chatwal's</a> VCH group seems to have managed to get their act together with another Dream hotel at least: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Dream+Cochin/ian/308798">Dream Cochin</a> in Kerala is now up and running.Per <a href="http://www.luxist.com/photos/dream-cochin/1470961/">Luxist</a>, The Indian tourism ministry has apparently already awarded the Dream Cochin five stars, although the Dream gang seem to think their new hotel is even better than that; they promise it "offers a glimpse of the future of deluxe accommodations." The future is apparently going to be blue in color, which the Dream people think will give us the feeling of floating on

Agra: "Life-Changing Views" of the Oberoi Amarvilas

KatieK — 2008-11-12T10:05:56-05:00

Though our pockets might not be as deep as that of a Cond� Nast Traveler reader, we’re all for scouring the richie-rich preferences of the rag’s readers to round out our own hotel wish list. Because, duh, rich people have good taste! And CNT’s 2008 Reader’s Choice Awards Top 100 list does not disappoint.

No. 8 on the coveted list, with an impressive score of 97.3--the Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra, Indian--has us particularly giddy. Promising “life-changing views of the Taj Mahal,” the hotel is so close to the wowzer Wonder of the World that guests are shuttled to the monument via golf cart by hotel staffers.

Pune: Langham Place Now Headed for India (With Ice Caves)

amandak — 2008-09-26T13:10:34-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/Langham_Hotels_Logosmall.jpg" class="imgborder"> Here comes yet another <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Langham%20Hotels">Langham Hotel</a>: this one's going to be the Langham Place, Koregaon Park in the city of Pune in India. Well, here almost comes another Langham, since it's not actually due to open until sometime in 2010.Like other Langhams, this one will be a bit fancy. The big selling point at the moment is a huge atrium including (among other things) palm trees, a resident DJ and three-storey windows. There's also going to be a Portal, which unfortunately is not somewhere you can go to get whisked away to another dimension, but instead this Langham Place hotel plans to:<blockquote> combine its lobby lounge, cocktail bar and business centre in one area called