Quality facilities, new properties

TAJ MAHAL PALACE AND TOWER
This classy business hotel, which has been open since 1903, sits right next to the Gateway of India in the south of the city. Delegates looking for a piece of colonial history would be wise to stay at this property.
The grand staircase leads up to the first floor’s 12 banquet rooms, which can comfortably seat 25 to 500 people auditorium style or 18 to 2,000 people for cocktails. A more unusual venue is the chef studio where up to ten people can watch their meal being cooked in front of them by the hotel’s chef.
The exclusive Chambers Club is on the hotel’s top floor, but is reserved for the Indian elite. HSBC, Belvedere Vodka and Microsoft have all recently held events here.
www.tajhotels.com

GRAND HYATT MUMBAI
This Santa Cruz property is located very close to the domestic airport. The hotel offers ten
meeting spaces for eight to 2,000 people.
Nearly 60 per cent of the hotel’s 547 rooms are the same category which allows meeting
organisers to give delegates the same standard of accommodation. There are five restaurants
including the popular China House and M Bar, with Mumbai’s most extensive martini list with a choice of more than 40 different kinds of martinis. The hotel recently organised an event for IBM and the Intel Global CEO’s summit.
www.mumbai.grand.hyatt.com

RENAISSANCE MUMBAI HOTEL & CONVENTION CENTRE
Situated on the north side of the city, Renaissance Mumbai Hotel and Convention Centre offers 21,400 sqm of indoor and outdoor banqueting space. The 286 rooms and suites provide views of Powai Lake. The hotel offers an excellent choice of food and beverage offerings with its eclectic
mix of restaurants and bars such as Lake View Café, Emperor’s Court (Chinese), Nawab
Saheb (Indian) and Bombay Express (Deli).
www.marriott.com

TAJ LANDS END
This hotel may be away from the busy tourist hub of Colaba but it is located in Bandra, one of the most fashionable areas of Mumbai and its neighbours include several Bollywood stars. Taj Group took over the property – which was formerly the Regent – in 2002 and have transformed it into a slick business hotel. The hotel has views of the Arabian Sea with 368 rooms, which will be increased to 487 by September. The banqueting floor has its own entrance and the emerald lawns can fit up to 600 people theatre style and up to 1,200 people for receptions, which are frequently Bollywood themed because of the hotel’s elite location.
www.tajhotels.com

COMING UP…
Four Seasons Hotel Mumbai opened last month. The 202-room hotel is in the emerging Worli district. As well as the more usual city tours, the hotel will offer mountain-bike tours of the Worli
neighbourhood and nearby fishing village. The hotel is being constructed in two phases with its ballroom for 600 opening next year.
www.fourseasons.com