Oberoi Delhi

... luxury hotel chains I've stayed at aren't operating in the US at the scale they are in Asia.  The Taj hotel group, Leela, Oberoi, Oriental are all top notch hotels but they aren't that prevalent in the states...but I digress.  We get to the ...

... nbsp;                     Oberoi Udaillas Ugliest hotel:  Taj at Kujuraho--the walls, carpets, and upholstery were all the same peacodk feather ...

... a bodyguard.  Later he confirmed that he was keeping his eyes out for the thieves that frequent this part of Delhi.    Finally we are allowed to dismount this contraption and we walk a little distance to stretch out our ...

... place to stay).    We went out with our tour guide this morning and visited the Jama (sp?) mosque in Old Delhi.  The traffic entering Old Delhi was crazy (we had to pass about 500 goats and 1 elephant in addition to the thousands ...

Hello from New Delhi.   Our trip on Swiss Air was just fine. At that time only tuk-tuks (motorized rickshaws) taxis and trucks were on the road.  It is a law here that trucks can only drive and deliver during the night.  It ...

... ) was £35. The next day, Angela and I spent a lazy day in our hotel, soaking up the sun beside the pool. The Oberoi Maidens was like an oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of downtown Delhi. Apart from the occasional beep of an auto-rickshaw, ...

... to 3 times...i decided to head off early to Delhi to meet Ajay....and this is where the luxury begins....i arrive at The Oberoi Maidens that Ajay has booked for us....plush, 5-star,luxury hotel in a colonaded clonial mansion north of Old Delhi (Shah ...

... our bags, meet a new tour member who is joining us from Florence, Italy, and have lunch before commencing touring. The hotel (an Oberoi) has upgraded all the members of the tour to suites, with a sitting room and a bedroom. They are truly fantastic! Our ...

... upwards through beautiful scenery , and the line has over 100 tunnels from Kalka to Shimla .upon arrival at Shimla we transferred to the Oberoi Cecil Hotel another first class hotel for 3 nights . Its a nice  town and was one of the hill stations ...

... greeted by Uday, the Rajasthan 4 Wheel representative. From the airport we drove thru some very beautiful, park-like areas of Delhi before arriving at the Oberio Hotel.  This hotel is 5 star and so had the same stringent security procedures before ...

... words of wisdom: “You can never tell a green chili by its cover.” Very funny. We spent our first day in India touring Delhi and seeing many of the sights, but not as many as we could have seen. Never again will I complain about bad traffic in ...

... textile overload by this point.  We have seen so many gorgeous things for two weeks. We flew in the afternoon back to New Delhi.  When we started out trip, I referred to this city ae dirty and dusty.  Now that we have returned here after ...

... was making is that India revels in this diversity and is proud of it.   Christmas nears. We will spend Christmas Eve here at the Oberoi Hotel in Delhi and then fly out on Christmas Day to spend that evening with Angela and Murray in ...

... lives) and Agra. I have to admit that time flew by. Jean and Romano showed me the good life in India: cocktails at the Oberoi, French nouvelle cuisine at the Army Base, dinner and wine in the garden of Rambagh Palace, sushi at the Taj and clubbing in the ...

... with a bottle of bubbly! We had great plans of going to brunch with the two mammies (as Stan refers to them) at the Oberoi on Sunday. Unfortunately, thanks to the previous nights celebrations we woke up quite late and could not manage to get a table. ...

... one of the four restaurants the hotel provides. We chose Varq, a 'fine-dining Indian restaurant from Chef Herman Oberoi', according to the delightful welcome letter we had received upon arrival. Think Heston Blumenthal meets Madhur Jaffrey and ...