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Top Hotels in Madras
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Trident Nariman Point Mumbai (Bombay)
421 reviews -
ITC Mughal, Agra
652 reviews -
Hyatt Regency Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
341 reviews
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The LaLiT Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
300 reviews
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Grand Hyatt Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
515 reviews
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The Lalit New Delhi
459 reviews
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Hyatt Regency Delhi New Delhi
416 reviews
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Oberoi New Delhi
463 reviews
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Taj Lands End Mumbai (Bombay)
572 reviews
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JW Marriott Hotel Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
480 reviews
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Vivanta by Taj - President, Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
409 reviews
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Taj Palace Hotel New Delhi
485 reviews
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Hotel The Royal Plaza New Delhi
291 reviews -
The Leela Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
601 reviews
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The Grand New Delhi
228 reviews
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Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai (Bombay)
987 reviews
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The LaLiT Golf & Spa Resort Goa Canacona
252 reviews
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Novotel Hyderabad Airport
250 reviews
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The Leela Kempinski Gurgaon Delhi Ncr
378 reviews
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Hyatt Regency Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
253 reviews
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The Leela Palace Bangalore
499 reviews
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ITC Maurya New Delhi
491 reviews
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Jaypee Palace Hotel & Convention Centre Agra
510 reviews
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ITC Maratha, Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
374 reviews
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Orchid Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
249 reviews
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Taj Krishna Hyderabad
339 reviews
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Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
391 reviews
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Hyderabad Marriott Hotel
247 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Hotel Gurgaon
178 reviews
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Centaur Hotel, IGI Airport New Delhi
93 reviews -
Taj Mahal Hotel New Delhi
508 reviews
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Novotel Hyderabad Convention Centre
260 reviews
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Oberoi Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
324 reviews
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Eros Hotel managed by Hilton New Delhi
76 reviews
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The Suryaa New Delhi
260 reviews
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Samrat Hotel New Delhi
33 reviews
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Trident, Gurgaon
245 reviews
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Hotel Royal Orchid Bangalore
205 reviews
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Taj Bengal Kolkata Kolkata (Calcutta)
383 reviews
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Ashok Hotel New Delhi
117 reviews
Madras
Travel Blogs from Madras, India
Test drive across Sri Lanka
This is a top pick! ... to change at the next opportunity. Adust the compass for the ride back to Colombo, and then the flight to Chennai, formerly Madras, capital of Tamil Nadu. There is a cricket Test match waiting for me, South Africa versus India. The little master, Sachin ...
Arrival in Chennai
This is a top pick! Very early (~2 am) Chennai Airport After our four hour connector, we are safely in Chennai (Madras) a metropolis about 3 hours north of Pondi. While getting off the plane we struck up a conversation with the American couple sitting behind us who ...
Up the East Coast, part I: Kerala to Rameshwaram
This is a top pick! ... it to go by in a blur, sometimes focusing on a field or tree or cloud. We rounded the southernmost corner of India, passing a landscape of denuded hills and palm plantations in the orange light of a partly cloudy sunset. These were the same rocky hills ...
Innovative India
This is a top pick! ... perhaps under your breath at airport security for confiscating your little plastic bottle of water before you board an airplane? India has a unique way of dealing with the thirsty. The security official simply removes the bottle cap, hands you back ...
Chennai-ny Happy People!
This is a top pick! Hello again! After the ordeal that was a couple of days in Bangalore, Chennai has more than made up for it. Whereas the people of Bangalore were rude, seedy and made us feel so unwelcome (while I was buying some food from a street stall outside ...
Mamallapuram and thoughts on India
This is a top pick! ... history have catastrophic consequences nowadays when population has increased to the limit of what the environment can suport and when India has adopted outside technologies which were not designed to work within its system. Since 1947, India has adopted ...
Our final India observations and travel tips
This is a top pick! ... is so bewilderingly varied that is would be easy to make the same simplistic assumption as Winston Churchill did when he said, "India is a geographical expression...no more a single country than the equator." In fact though, traveling there you will find ...
Home in Kerala
This is a top pick! ... beaches in the southern part of the state. After three weeks in Kerala with family, and about another week on our own in Mallupuram (about an hour south of Madras, on the eastern side of India), we're off to Singapore for the final week of our ...
Holiest of holies
This is a top pick! ... M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation- it helps poor communities by implementing eco-technology and sustainable agriculture throughout India’s various regions. They also support equality for women, who often endure tremendous abuses in impoverished ...
Touchdown, no bettter still, Meltdown
This is a top pick! Our arrival in India all got a little stressful, and by 3am we were still on the dark streets on Chennai, with our bags, groups of men watching us, nowhere to go and a rickshaw driver who kept telling us how good his driving is. We left Vietnam early the ...
Chennai - Quick 4 hour stop.....
This is a top pick! Loved this place as we flew into breath taking scenary and beautiful sunshine.... shame we weren't stopping!! Off we go for our connecting flight to ...
Music, films and...well... more temples
This is a top pick! ... , followed by some highly animated dancing. Food as always, has been a highlight, mainly for Kate this time round as southern India is quite possibly the vegetarian capital of the world - restaurants specify if they have non-veg dishes and all else is ...
Learn and burn
This is a top pick! ... less fun). Anyway- there’s a lot to catch up on… it’s Sunday morning and I’ve been in Chennai (India’s fourth-largest city) since Friday. Here are some highlights: We met with a panel of Indian teachers who had each taught ...
Bollywood here we come!!
This is a top pick! Arrived in Madras early morning checked our luggage into left luggage (as on a night flight) and made our way to some "Bollywood" studios out of the city centre, something we said we would have to do although it would have been fun to have been an extra ...
Uidapur onto Bombay (Madras)
This is a top pick! ... We discovered a wonderful Black and White Photographic Exhibition on at a local museum and indulged in some lovely representations of India throughout the western part of India, Rajhistan, Goa, Kernataka and Kerala.........We even got to speak to the man ...
Lap of luxury
This is a top pick! Just wanted to check in quickly to say we arrived safely in Chennai this morning. Our latest hotel is unbelievable!! I think I may have hit my saturation point for luxury. Anyway, we hit the streets tomorrow so I'll be getting a more realistic view soon ...
A Silent Revolution
This is a top pick! ... In the classrooms I visited I observed differentiated instruction and heart-warming interaction between teachers and students. One of our India Fulbright officers described this school's leap toward student-centered instruction as part of a “silent ...
Madras
This is a top pick! To be honest we found this city a bit lacking ! It is India's forth largest city but we found little in the way of the atmosphere we have experienced elsewhere ! Yes it is possible we just couldn't find it in this huge city ? We did visit the largest ...
Military power!
This is a top pick! ... this was a complimentary chai he was offering me on arrival. 5 rupees please. Stupid Ben, as my friends keep saying 'nothing in India is for free' . Then did the usual roam of the city, getting my bearings and first impressions. Now I'm not a big city ...
Madras ( Chennai )
This is a top pick! We had a very short visit here as we arived at 10pm and we flew out again at 7 the next morning to the Andaman Islands. We will have a look around later as we will have to fly back here from the islands. ...
Hashing in Chennai and Kollywood TV shoot
This is a top pick! ... ; The trail that day wound its way along a beach and through a fishing town before heading back. All hashes in India are family hashes which means no dirty songs, less binge drinking and normally less fun. Don't get me wrong, I had ...
OMG!
This is a top pick! Hello people's, The journey has begun, arrived at 1am India time and to say it was daunting would be an understatement, at that time in the morning we saw 1 man asleep on the back of a motor bike, someone urinating in the street and groups of people ...
Chennai traffic (video)
Short (50 sec) impression of the traffic in Chennai in front of the hotel. It was a constant flow of traffic, noisy and even more fun to be driven around in....Thank goodness Jeroen decided driving here wouldn't be in our best ...
Indian "Luxury"
First let me start out by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. I am sure you all had a very memorable and traditional day, I am really just thankful to be alive. For the first time in the last four months I was in fear of my life. To get out of Goa and ...
Orphanage and Hindu temple
... impoverished country a sense of order somehow takes hold in the form of the world's largest democracy fifty years and running. India is both stuck in the past and on the cutting edge of technology and progress. Juxtaposed amongst the staggering poverty ...
Colombo to Madras
... Bravely we at last wrote letters to our parents, telling them about my pregnancy. The flight back to India was very quick. We went by train into central Madras, then got a rickshaw to the Hotel Broadlands, a popular hippy hangout where Andy had stayed ...
The 1st connection
I was pretty much ko'd from the moment I got on the plane in Colombo, and woke up pretty disoriented in Chennai (arrival time was 440am). Fortunately, checking in, clearing immigration, claiming my bag, and switching terminals went fairly ...
Chennai
J'ai passé 2 semaines formidables chez Jacopo & Sheerja, à Chennai. Un couple adorable italo-indien (vous devinez qui est quoi...). J'avais déjà passé mes 2 derniers jours chez eux en 2009. Tommaso, un autre ami de Walter, mon prof de yoga, ...
a little better now
thank you guys so much for your concern and thoughts, those of you who have written, it means so much! i'm happy to say that kirsty is feeling a lot better now, although still in some pain, so it doesnt seem that surgery is imminent at the moment, ...