Oberoi Grand

Cooking show at the Oberoi and visit of ...

... couldn't see the link. The air is awful. My car left the filth and grime of Kolkata and entered the hallowed walls of the Oberoi Grand, which has a reputation for being the finest hotel in India. I would not doubt that. My guide left me after making the ...

... is not successful, because in India, medicine is among the most prestigious academic tracks, and scientific research is not.   Finally, the Oberoi Grand has us back to a 5-star hotel and we are all getting used to it.  It's Indian service at ...

... flight left on time, so we arrived in Calcutta about 09:00. We collected our bags and arranged a car to take us to the Oberoi Grand Hotel in the city center. On arrival we were able to check in right away. The room was very nicely decorated and ...

... me up promptly at 10am. There was no sign of the other guide, so my hopes of a stoush on the front steps of the Oberoi Grand were dashed. Calcutta does have some handsome park areas, but with a difference. It has Hyde Park, however unlike the Hyde Park ...

... of India under British rule. However, many of those stately buildings with plantation shutters are now in deep disrepair. The Oberoi Grand Hotel is one exception - and there are others. The height of elegance, this impeccably maintained Victorian ...

... and state of American politics and the protests in Tibet.  Set off in a taxi (40 INRs!) to the magnificent Oberoi Grand "The Grand" hotel to start my city explorations. The city is filled with a juxtaposition of narrow streets and alleyways lined ...

... price of R10 (about 25 cents) has something to do with the lack of upkeep.  We have seven staff members here at the Oberoi Grand Hotel at every turn, but there aren't enough workers (or pay? presumably) to get a decent zoo staff and repair the ...

... a challenge.) We walked to Zarang restaurant, which is on Sudder Street next to the Indian Museum and not far from the 5 star Oberoi Grand Hotel. Because this is a tourist area, numerous touts and beggars are about. They are just trying to make a ...

... put it all together in a rehearsal with his band.  We played an interesting gig at the Oil Refinery Technologist Convention at the Oberoi Grand Hotel here in Kolkata. It was a bit dull reading about a process I don't really support (oil refinery), ...

... who might be there.  We do have sleepers and we are first class, but this is quite a stretch from the magnificent Oberei Grand in Kolkata where we just spent five days.  Luxury, great food, magnificent rooms---to drive in after our  sweaty ...

... had to crouch on the way up to the Grand Gallery), it started to get hotter.  We were sweating before we got to the Grand Gallery.  It was a magnificent sight once the tunnel opened up to the Great Gallery.  We wanted to get to the Burial ...

Greetings from the dusky and dark pink capital of Rajasthan...Jaipur! We left our palatial surroundings of the Oberoi Amar Villas yesterday mid-morning and were quickly brought back into Indian reality as we were driven to the bus station (more or less ...

... blue blood. His mother was a Nepali princess, and his father was the Maharajah of Orissa in India. We arrived at the immensely grand Oberoi which seemed so out of place in a poor country like Nepal. There, we dined in the Indian restaurant, where we ...

... "Mumbai used to be like Boston," explained the wife of a billionaire over lunch at Tiffin, an airy power-lunch spot in the Oberoi Hotel where the wealthy dine on sushi. She spoke on the condition that I not use her name, because she is a member ...

... head north to Legian it gets a bit cleaner and tamer. Further north still and you're in  Seminyak - Four Seasons and Oberoi land. We divined the middle course and checked into the Grand Kumala Hotel in Legian.  The hotel was magnificent, quiet ...