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Mumbai (Bombay) Slideshow
Top Hotels in Mumbai (Bombay)
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Trident Nariman Point Mumbai (Bombay)
421 reviews -
Hyatt Regency Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
341 reviews -
The LaLiT Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
300 reviews
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Grand Hyatt Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
515 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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The Leela Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
601 reviews
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Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai (Bombay)
987 reviews
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ITC Maratha, Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
374 reviews
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Orchid Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
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Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
391 reviews
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Oberoi Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
324 reviews
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Sahara Star Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
368 reviews
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ITC Grand Central Mumbai (Bombay)
258 reviews
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Holiday Inn Mumbai International Airport Mumbai (Bombay)
203 reviews
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Hilton Mumbai International Airport Mumbai (Bombay)
218 reviews
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Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
244 reviews
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Trident, Bandra Kurla, Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
252 reviews
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Lakeside Chalet, Mumbai - Marriott Executive Apartments Mumbai (Bombay)
23 reviews
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Ramada Powai Mumbai (Bombay)
117 reviews
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Residence Hotel & Convention Centre Mumbai (Bombay)
52 reviews
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Vits Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
184 reviews
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Ramada Plaza Palm Grove Mumbai (Bombay)
103 reviews
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The Legend Mumbai (Bombay)
14 reviews
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Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach Mumbai (Bombay)
343 reviews
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Sun-n-Sand Hotel Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
159 reviews
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Hotel Kohinoor Continental Mumbai (Bombay)
104 reviews
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Hotel New Bengal Mumbai (Bombay)
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The Mirador Mumbai (Bombay)
94 reviews
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Hotel Sea Princess Mumbai (Bombay)
72 reviews
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Fariyas Hotel Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
108 reviews
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Holiday Inn Bombay Mumbai (Bombay)
340 reviews
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Fortune Select Exotica Navi Mumbai Mumbai (Bombay)
132 reviews
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The Waterstones Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
74 reviews
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West End Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
79 reviews
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The Emerald - Hotel & Executive Apartments Mumbai (Bombay)
125 reviews
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The Peninsula Grand Hotel Mumbai (Bombay)
64 reviews
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The Resort Mumbai (Bombay)
93 reviews
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Comfort Inn Heritage Mumbai (Bombay)
44 reviews
Mumbai (Bombay)
Travel Blogs from Mumbai (Bombay), India
The last cow
This is a top pick! ... their stalls along Colaba. Bicycles balanced precariously with single-stemmed roses careen past to some other vendor. I meet my first cow in Mumbai, a lovely cream-coloured two-year-old, haltered to a post. How could I have forgotten cows? And what is ...
Gimme gimme gimme... my shoes back!
This is a top pick! ... than a run! We were a little too late to take the trip over to Elephanta Island so instead we took a 'whirlwind tour of Mumbai', taking in the 'Indian Big Ben' (very cheesey!) before we stopped at a Jain temple. The temple inside was beautiful and very ...
from bangkok to bollywood
This is a top pick! ... were in a taxi with our backpacks hanging precariously out of the trunk, ready (or not) for our first driving experience in bombay. if we had thought the driving had been bad in bangkok and cambodia... we really had no idea about india. there might ...
Last day in India and first day on my own again
This is a top pick! ... I basically forced my way into. Here is an excerpt from an email my Mom sent about her impressions of India: Scrambled thoughts at 33,0000 feet Returning from the Indian subcontinent is a journey through time. I will be catapulted ...
Welcome to Bombay
This is a top pick! ... and pre and post dinner walks (apparently the walks are called constitutionals???), we got a decent sense as to what Mumbai (Mumbai, Bombay and Bumbai will all be used interchangeably) looked like. Generally it was run down. The streets were ...
Mumbai, Bombay, Bumbai, Mombay... all the same!
This is a top pick! ... of our previous guides and that helped a lot as well. She took us to the Gateway of India, which was built to commemorate the English reaching Bombay at that spot. Utterly unimpressive, but a landmark for some reason. From there, ...
Mumbai - Day 2
This is a top pick! ... India had a police force. It's now a sweet little park with great views of the city. Then my favorite place of the day, Gandhi's Mumbai residence, he lived here for 17 years, and it's now a museum to the great man. He lived in one simple room with a bed ...
Mumbai madness
This is a top pick! ... caste system. Side story: This is a true story an Aussie couple told us a few days ago highlighting the over population in Mumbai. The couple hired a driver in Mumbai and drove off to a quiet hill station. They were spending the night there and in ...
Shanti, Shanti
This is a top pick! ... hiatus from blogging I think I have finally found the strength to capture in writing some of the amazing experiences I've had here in India. Prior to arriving everyone had one thing to say about India, "you either love it or hate it." I tend to fall ...
A rite of passage
This is a top pick! · Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India · GMT +5:30hrs The most appalling city of either hemisphere" - Aldous Huxley A rite of passage It is true that travelers tend to regard time spent in Mumbai as a rite of passage to be survived rather ...
Train to the mountains
This is a top pick! ... unplanned. That makes travel a lot like life, doesn't it? One of the aspects that I left to fate was getting my bike from Mumbai to Ambala on the train. And since fate is a major part of what keeps the Indian Railways up and running, I did manage to ...
Sacred cows, cheeky monkeys, tasty fish, and beer!
This is a top pick! ... assumptions are made, there are no elephants on Elephanta island. It is a small island 11 km away from the city in Mumbai’s large harbour that is named for a large elephant statue that once stood guard over a series of caves. The caves ...
India's Reality and Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... the need for long distance commuting and increase the heavy traffic. As an example, 7 million people commute through Mumbai's train station day and night. The 20 million travelers' going through Pierre-Trudeau airport in Montreal yearly is no ...
How to leave Bombay
This is a top pick! ... - No, thanks. MM (following and tugging at your sleeve) - Sir, you stay at my guest house? Y - No, thanks, we are leaving Bombay today. MM - Mango? Y - No thanks. MM - Sir, my guest house? Y - No thanks. MM ...
Apprehensive, nervous & the odd excited giggle!
This is a top pick! ... the desk fan on the dashboard wasn't turned on. We then set off through the crowded, noisy and at times plain crazy roads of Mumbai (Dad, you thought the car park at Heathrow was bad - this would've scared the life out of you!). Ox-drawn carts, ...
First week in Mumbai (Bombay)
This is a top pick! In the middle of my first week in Mumbai and actually finally settling down. I guess I am just getting used to everything. I have to stop focusing on what I am doing wrong and start learning how to get used to being here. Hard for a New Yorker who knows ...
the karmic railroad
This is a top pick! ... stream of demands and requests, invitations and offers. after having read 'shantaram' i can't quite stop thinking about the bombay underworld that may (or may not...) have its hands in everything behind the scenes, turning all the small jarring street ...
Welcome to Bollywood...What's Your Dream?
This is a top pick! ... than worthy adversaries who wouldn't last a New York minute. That said I suddenly had 2 free days on my hands. To be honest, Mumbai or Bombay or whatever you want to call is not really a site seeing city. It is more a stopover on getting out into the ...
Made it to Mumbai (Bombay)
This is a top pick! Arrived in Mumbai (Bombay) today and headed for the hotel. Missed the sign for my hotel driver so I took my chances. Ha-ha. The car looked official (I booked it through Avis) but was off the hook. The driver was this young guy in a uniform but chose not ...
Mumbai - Day 3
This is a top pick! ... been fun and the start of a Bollywood career. Elephanta Island was a one hour journey from the gateway of India by boat. The temples are absolutely exquisite and carved straight into the rock like Petra in Jordan. The biggest temple measures ...
Mumbai with AC
This is a top pick! ... we piled into the AC taxi which Alan and Tricia had hired for the day. The funny little man certainly knew his way around Mumbai but he also undoubtedly had selective hearing. He took us places that he wanted to go at times but we saw so much ...
Oh, if all second chances were so worth it...
This is a top pick! Mumbai is a whole different story. I love it. It is cosmopolitan, it is multicultural, it is artistic, it has a hopping night scene and it is on an island. What more can you ask from a city. It is more of a place to live in than a tourist kind of ...
Cave Carvings on Elephanta and Late Night @ Leos
This is a top pick! ... . The boat back was very relaxing and as we returned to the city the sun was dropping fast. A red haze accentuated the Mumbai skyline and without noticing another day had slipped away. Pols and I hopped back in a taxi to meet Felix for a ...
Sunday Street Cricket In Mumbai
This is a top pick! ... the city, the 22 hour train journey which we were taking later in the day did not distract us from the wonderful laid backness of Mumbai on a Sunday. Pushed for time I had to ask the guys to stop working on the bike, three of them now were polishing ...
Business trip to India
This is a top pick! ... the Elephanta Island and toured the Elephanta Caves. To get there, we took a one hour, 10-km boat ride from the Gateway of India in Mumbai. This was an adventure in itself as the boat seemed quite old and struck me as the kind of boat that might not do ...
Mumbai - Day 1
This is a top pick! ... AC for a £10 a night. After I'd checked in, I went for a wonder, visited the gateway of India which is Mumbai's own honey coloured Arc de Triomphe. Then went to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum, try saying that after a ...
Welcome to Bollywood!
This is a top pick! ... we were finally reunited with our bags and about $50 compensation each which wasn't bad at all for a 24 hour delay. Mumbai itself is reasonably westernized but really intense. Everywhere there are people trying to attract your attention to sell you ...
Gicks Guide Us Through Gateway Of India
This is a top pick! ... bottom two tiny, but unmistakably white figures! Freewheeling down and meeting them was surreal, but so amazing. The 1400 miles in India have undoubtedly been the toughest yet, but so worth it to arrive and see family. After a reviving drink and crisps ...