Savoy Hotel Ootacamund
77, Sylks Road, Ooty Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, 643001, India
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelSavoy Hotel Ootacamund
Riding the Toy Train
We left Cochin and prepared for our longest drive of the trip. We were leaving Kerala and going back to Tamil Nadu for one night. After that, the next destination would be in Karnataka, the final state of our South Indian vacation. As we started the six hour drive, we began to hit morning traffic, and it soon began to start raining, meaning the …
Overnight Train to Coinbatore
We were delighted to leave the Ilapuram Hotel behind us. It was expensive, charmless, and avariciously run. We felt much the same about the city of Vijawada. Despite being home to more than a million, it seemed to have no soul. Plenty of shops but no heart. We had time to kill before our train and decided to visit the only attraction mentioned in …
Up to the hills of Ooty
The Savoy in Ooty is much too smart for us and will definitely be the only Taj that we stay in but it was lovely having a fire in our room in the evening. We were picked up at about 5am by Shindo who is a great driver and he speaks a bit of English so it is a lot easier. Patch still managed to get requests for photos on the platform at that time in …
Take me to the Savoy
Winding our way up the Kerala coast, we find ourself in Kannur. Pile off the train, me and Rich have a wee scout about to get a hotel. Near the station, fairly central and cheap (about 1.50gbp each per night)job is a good 'un. After about 30 minutes Dan comes racing in to the room - "There's a big f*ck off cockroach in our room" We went and had a …
OOty & Nilgiri Hills
So we've travelled some mountain roads in our time but wow. Two things - I didn't realise you got 'mountains' in S India - we're 2200 metres up here and those mottos all over Indian roads 'Do Not overtake on curves ' do not work. That 2000 metres go almost spectacularly straight up and if you catch a local bus or a lorry you pass it wherever; the …



