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Kolkata (Calcutta) Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Hyatt Regency Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Taj Bengal Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
383 reviews
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ITC Sonar Kolkata (Calcutta)
323 reviews
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The Oberoi Grand Kolkata (Calcutta)
431 reviews
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The Park Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Peerless Inn Kolkata (Calcutta)
156 reviews -
Hotel Hindusthan International Kolkata (Calcutta)
184 reviews
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Kenilworth Hotel, Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
120 reviews
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Hotel Hindusthan International Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
184 reviews
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Lytton Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
62 reviews
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Floatel Kolkata (Calcutta)
42 reviews
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Fortune Park Panchwati Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
34 reviews
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Park Hotel Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
273 reviews
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The Golden Parkk Kolkata (Calcutta)
40 reviews
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Indi Smart Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Hotel Lindsay Kolkata (Calcutta)
35 reviews
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The Chrome Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
142 reviews
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Indismart Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
52 reviews
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Hotel Pan Asia Continental Kolkata (Calcutta)
22 reviews
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Hotel Dee Empresa Kolkata (Calcutta)
23 reviews
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Astor Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
44 reviews
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Hotel Victerrace Kolkata (Calcutta)
31 reviews
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Hotel Heera International Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Landmark Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
34 reviews
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Hotel Camac Plaza Kolkata (Calcutta)
8 reviews
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Hotel Swagath Kolkata (Calcutta)
2 reviews
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Hotel Heera Kolkata (Calcutta)
8 reviews
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Hotel Heritage Kolkata (Calcutta)
22 reviews
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Hotel Jaapon Kolkata (Calcutta)
4 reviews
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Hotel Oriental Kolkata (Calcutta)
37 reviews
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Hotel Hindusthan International Kolkata (Calcutta)
184 reviews
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Hotel Executive Tower Kolkata (Calcutta)
3 reviews
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Hotel Gardenia Kolkata (Calcutta)
9 reviews
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Hotel Venkateswara Kolkata (Calcutta)
1 review
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Hotel Majestic Kolkata (Calcutta)
4 reviews
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Eagle Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
2 reviews
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Sree Durga Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Plaza Hotel Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Green Inn Kolkata (Calcutta)
3 reviews
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Hotel Manish Kolkata (Calcutta)
3 reviews
Kolkata (Calcutta)
Travel Blogs from Kolkata (Calcutta), India
Culture Shock, India Style
This is a top pick! ... this mindset by another traveller on the plane, Greg, who we decided to share a cab with to the main travelers hub in Kolkata, Sudder Street. He was meeting woman at the airport who had arranged a train ticket for him to meet with his girlfriend in ...
Tea, politics and a step back in time...
This is a top pick! ... onto the back. We headed off to Siliguri then NJP train station where I was due to pick up my overnight train to Kolkata at 20:00. Arrived with minimal complication, and even though the weather had been slowly heating up as we headed down ...
Send in the clowns....
This is a top pick! ... the whole time but to her credit stayed for the whole meal - Fiona, you'd have loved this place!! So tonight we leave Calcutta and head for Varanasi. I'm afraid we can't upload any photos to go with this entry just yet (the internet here is very ...
Terrible trains & goodbye to India
This is a top pick! The last stop for me in India was Kolkata. It was more of a finishing point for the trip and didn't have that much to do, but I still had to get there. Lets put it this way: I left my hotel in Varanasi at 4pm and arrived at my hotel in Kolkata at 2:30pm ...
Bangladesh to India...On a cycle rickshaw
This is a top pick! ... days, a fellow volunteer and myself peddled a Bangladehi "vhan" across a third of southern Bangladesh, and into India to our final destination, Calcutta. We purchased a vhan which is a three wheeled cycle with a wooden flatbed commonly used in rural ...
Bangladesh to India...On a cycle rickshaw
This is a top pick! ... days, a fellow volunteer and myself peddled a Bangladeshi "vhan" across a third of southern Bangladesh, and into India to our final destination, Calcutta. We purchased a vhan which is a three wheeled cycle with a wooden flatbed commonly used in rural ...
Welcome to Kolkata!
This is a top pick! ... ) and wandered around a bit of the lobby and grounds before setting off into the rush and bustle of the streets of Kolkata. Was approached by multitudes of store owners, beggers and touts wanting my business...I was polite then firm and able to ...
Sights of Kolkata
This is a top pick! ... , Clive of India and the nawab Siraj-ud-Daula, the British East India Company, and the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’. Clive of India’s statue stands tall inside, and a portly Victoria sits slumped on her throne in front of the North entrance. ...
Being SICK in Kolkata
This is a top pick! Kolkata was AMAZING ... a must see for any India visitor. The city is quite congested ... and the situation of the poor is hard to witness especially amongst all the richie rich upper class (caste) persons being trucked around in their private cars. I ...
Jasmine!
This is a top pick! ... little English (probably owing to the more rural environment). This evening we toured Mother Theresa's Mission of Charity in downtown Kolkata. I felt extremely humbed, especially seeing the room where she lived and slept and wrote letters from '53 to ...
Welcome to India
This is a top pick! ... up to grab their goodies - quite a sight at 2 am. We were already apprehensive about what to expect in India after hearing so much. When we arrived in Kolkata at 2:30 am the sites and smells (stench) were beyond what we had ever imagined. Each ...
Kolkata me crazy
This is a top pick! So, we'd heard in the beginning of the program that Kolkata's 5-star offerings would be the best- it's all true! We arrived at the hotel this morning to the smell of jasmine everywhere- if I open my mouth when I breathe I can actually taste the ...
Taking it to the streets
This is a top pick! ... We rode the tram this morning to our first destination- the tram is a point of pride in Kolkata because it's the only functioning tram in India. Compared to the automobiles and even the rickshaws (men carting their passengers and cargo around by bicycle) ...
Kolkata...what a great City!
This is a top pick! After yet another night-train this time in AC 3-tier, we arrived in Kolkata. The capital of West Bengal was surprisingly clean and nice and we found it much more attractive than Delhi. A great city full of energy and charm. We recommend: - Sunflower ...
dropping anchor
This is a top pick! ... the taxi ride. on the subway platform i met an older indian man who is a professor of chemistry at a university in calcutta. after a brief but pleasant conversation while we waited for the subway he seemed to decide that getting me to sudder st. ...
Commie Kolkata
This is a top pick! ... is the longest running democratically elected communist state in the world !!! And now back to the story. Kolkata Yes we are both here, back in India for the fourth time. Actually, it was good to be back, this time without the after ...
Oh, Calcutta!
This is a top pick! ... India, so the monument was rather odd. I should have pointed out to him that without it and the surrounding gardens Calcutta (now renamed Kolkata) would be more of a dump than otherwise. As this place was the capital of British India until the 1930s ...
Night on the town
This is a top pick! I just enjoyed a remarkable evening- the Fulbright officer who led our Kolkata tour, Dr. Sunrit Mullick, invited our group to his home for musical entertainment and dinner with many of his neighbors. On our way to his apartment building, we visited a ...
An Indian Epilogue
This is a top pick! ... me he had bought a pair of Pepe jeans, a T-shirt, a Nike tracksuit top, and a Nike hat! We then visited the Kolkata Planetarium for their English showing at 1:30pm. Its worth doing at only 20 Rupees each, though the Indian chap spoke in broken English, ...
Kolkata - The Bakshi family - Part 2
This is a top pick! ... off via a private helicopter to his luxury hotel. One does ask the question of why Maradonna has visited India, let alone Kolkata, in a nation dominated by cricket and very few recognised football stadiums?!?! Still, it didn't stop the city ...
Mother Teresa and Rickshaws
This is a top pick! ... with some sort of live metal band. The best part of getting to the club was the rickshaw race. Calcutta is the last place in India in which you can be pulled by around in human powered rickshaw Some speculate if its morally acceptable ...
India baby!
This is a top pick! ... for the novelty. This turned into a more unique experience than we had expected as it was the 3rd day of the India Pakistan test here in Calcutta at Eden gardens and as the match had just finished the fans were all returning home. And how do they ...
Goodness gracious me!
This is a top pick! ... first glimpse of India. It was like going back in time with all the Morris Minor style cars around. Calcutta (or Kolkata as it now called to distance India from the British rule)was our biggest culture shock yet! There were so many cars, people, ...
Back to Calcutta
... and didn't fly right back to Calcutta but rather farther north to Imphal for an intermediate stop. We thought we'd arrive in Calcutta in early afternoon and have much of the afternoon to do some more sightseeing and videotaping. But by the time we ...
BBD Bagh
... a service seemed to be finishing, though it turned out to be a monthly meeting of all the heads of the Church of Northern India (united Protestant church organisation). As we passed, a cassocked man asked us where we were from and blah blah, and it turns ...
Gossip, Groping & (no) Grapes
... pavement, it was a certified grope, they also didn't stop at the chest area, any part of me was apparently fair game for a Calcutta stroke. Then there was the poverty and even more confusing the poverty scams, I spent a couple of hours at the Mother ...
India is great...
... ja noch, wenn ich mal fuer laengere Zeit an einem Ort bin. Auch ansonsten war mein Eindruck bisher sehr positiv. Kolkata ist eine vergleichsweise wohlhabende Stadt, die Armut ist also, speziell im Stadtzentrum, nicht so praesent wie in anderen ...
Kolkata
After a 15 and a half hour train journey yesterday we finally arrived in Kolkata! While in India we've been to Amritsar, Delhi, Agra and Varanasi. It is impossible to describe the amazing-ness of India! The Taj Mahal is just stunning, and the most ...
We just feel it in our toes: wet, wet, wet.
... amusing but admirable Asiatic Society, where bureaucracy and paper pushing pushed their limits. We have also sampled some of Kolkata's non-Colonial hangover sights: a crap Bollywood comedy - we made a wrong choice, but it proved a necessary ...