Lytton Hotel Kolkata

... smoking apparatus. X'Gen people are attracted by it more and so it is noisy and boisterous. Next on our list was Sunset Bar at Lytton Hotel. The ambience of the Sunset Bar is, like its name, very mellow. Our last stop was Dublin Bar of ITC Sonar Bangla ...

... (tourist area) and found a room for one night.  My Mom arrives tonight so I just went now and checked into that hotel, The Lytton, which is very nice.  It has A/C and a fridge!  It's strange to walk out of a nice hotel and ...

... they didn't privatize their railway system. EXPLORE's tailor-made folks have had us met at the station in Chennai, Hyderabad, and now Kolkata. When two seniors are travelling alone, one has fears of no one showing up. It's so reassuring when they are ...

Sick again now. Taking a 12 hour bus ride to Siliguri tonight then taking the train to ...

... It gives us the chance to look out of the window which, having travelled at night, we haven't been able to do. Taxi to the Hotel Lytton. Question. Who was Charles Lytton. Answer tomorrow. We are paying per night (5,500 rupees) what we paid for 4 nights in ...

... 's my philosophical hat off and I'll try not to put it back on. Charles Lytton or to call him by his correct name Sir Charles Lytton was as some of you will have known "The Pink Panther". Sunday 27th There's are hell of a racket this morning in the street ...

... large numbers of Muslims in Kolkata, we heard no wake-up call to prayer this morning. Tonight, at the lovely top-floor terrace restaurant oh the Lindsay Hotel nearby, we watched the sun set over Kolkata and heard the evening call to prayer. ...

... seat, it's accepted and I am stared at by the others (all men). Chivalry is alive and living in Kolkata. Back at Park Street I head back to the hotel through Chowringhee market. I spot a face I recognise and call John, Bristol John (see previous blog). ...

... every hotel room so far) he has to flick through from channel 1 upwards to whichever non Indian speaking chanell he fancies. By hotel 3 I devise a plan. It involves a piece of paper and a pen. We note all the channels that we might be interested in ...

Hello all..... spent yesterday at a planetarium whose greatest thing was providing us a respite from the heat and crowds... it 'looked' like a planetarium but was more like a slide show on one side of the wall. Still, it was a relief to get ...

Good flight... really good food on Air India....cramped but that's to be expected... India.... how to describe it? An assault on your senses. The noise is deafening... people honk constantly. There is NO space...little space to walk because of the masses ...

... is 320 rupees. We get a pre-paid taxi to our hotel. I have gone 'monster' on this one. If you thought the Lytton in Kolkata was nice you should see this. Go to the "Raintree hotel" website. You want the one in Anna Salai, Mount Road. We are ...