Best Hotels in central-South Delhi

                                                          The Ashok Hotel:

The main highlight of The Ashok Hotel is that- at 110 suites it has one of the highest number of suites in Delhi.

Interestingly it is also one of the few hotels run and maintained by the government in good stead. This hotel has hosted some of the most important foreign dignitaries visiting the country on official purposes.

Massive glass chandeliers welcomes you to the lobby. Gold palliate above the chandelier reflects gold in the Lobby.

The Lobby

Deluxe Suite which are 2nd category rooms built in Indian contemporary style is a mix of old Indian charms with sprite of new Indian style. Furnitures and other decorative items used in the room may date back some years. The living room has a separate table made of hard red wood. It could ideally be mistaken for  the popular Dicken's desk. Executive rooms are more contemporary and are 3rd category suites.

The Ashok Deluxe Suite, Sitting Room

Corridors are of different theme on different floors. On one of the most impressive corridors is brightly lit and classically decorated with small plants and oval gold gilded mirrors and lamps.

A heavily decorated corridor at the Hotel

The Samavar Coffee shop not only serves coffee but lunch and dinner as well. It has 110 covers and 4 serving booths. The decor is done in Indian sensualities and Aesthetics. Some sits by the window look out to the swimming pool. Frontier restaurant is more western in decor. It is more dimly lit and and use restricted colors of black, blue and white. It serves North-West cuisines, even from Afghanistan and Pakistan and covers around 72 food items. Frontier has a mini bar by the side of the restaurant. Kumgang, a Korean Restaurant is one of the most popular restaurant in the hotel. It has won Best Korean restaurant for consecutive 7 years. Oudh is a typical Indian restaurant. It's decor will surprise you, event though you might have heard about it. Old portrait paintings of men and women which looks like Maharajas and Maharanis, greet you at the entrance. Then, you'll walk into a room glowing with tungsten light amidst the low drone of harmonica and tabla and someone humming a classical song. These people are performers, and they  are integral to the scheme of making the ambiance very Indian. kebabs and salads are served in a traditional gold gilded pots. At the table laid with white tablecloth you'll find many tiny triangular shaped rolls. These are nothing but Pan to chew after a heartfelt meal.

The Ashok has a huge Friendship lounge for hosting parties and events like Birthdays.
The Ground floor at The Ashok Hotel is rented out to many private entrepreneurs to set up different stores and restaurants. It meant to keep you inside the hotel by giving you everything you want at that small confine.

The Samavar coffee shop

The Frontier

The Gumgang korean restaurant

The Oudh, Indian restaurant

A Mini Bar at Frontier

                                                                   The Taj palace:

If you happen to walk into Taj Palace Hotel, chances are that the first thing you'll hear about the hotel from any staff is the stupendous view. Taj Palace Hotel boast a view quite enviable in a mega city like Delhi. The entire face of the 'V' shaped hotel faced the greenery of the largest ridge in Delhi. You wouldn't see a building in sight. What you'll see is endless sea of greenery and  fluffs of clouds and blue sky. It stirs your imagination and make you feel you are far away from civilization, even though you're just few minutes drive from CP.

The Taj Palace hotel has reinvented then and now to stay on top. Though it was set up in 1978, it has some of the most contemporary rooms and decor statement. The Lobby is quite spacious and has distinct style sensibilities of it's own.

There are altogether 407 rooms. Deluxe or base rooms and Luxury rooms are of the same size but the decor and room arrangements are different. You'll see that luxury rooms appear more spacious. Deluxe  rooms are brightly lit. the colors used in the room are colorful. It has a feel good ambiance about it. The window looks out to the swimming pool below and the greenery of the ridge. You can also see the small putting lawn by the pool specially designed for golf lovers. Luxury rooms are on the 4th and 5th floors. They are not as bright as the Deluxe rooms. They do have the same view, only better from higher ground.

The swimming and the green Putting lawn

The Club Room

A Deluxe Room

The Taj Palace Club rooms are the 3rd highest category rooms. The decor is quite contemporary and at the same time grand. Apart from the 'His' and 'her' bathroom toiletries, the room also has a closet. The theme in decor spills over to the living room.

The corridors are one remarkable beauty here. Each floor has different style statement and are lit differently. I'm always found admiring the colorful corridor, done with much precision. There are also the Executive suites and the presidential suites. There are altogether 41 suite rooms in the hotel.

The beautiful corridor

The Kafe Fontana is a 24 hours Mediterranean restaurant that serves food from regions such as Greece, Turkey, Spain, Lebanon, France, Italy etc. It is one of the most colorfully lit restaurant. Combined with live cooking and beautiful outdoor view of the pool and lush lawn, this restaurant is a lively place to be.

The Colorful Kafe Fontana restaurant

                                                            Claridges, Delhi:

Exterior View of Claridges, Delhi

There's nothing fancy about Claridges, Delhi from the outside. It's a humble, white, three storied building located very close to Race Course metro station. But once you step in you will get the feeling of being at  home with the comfort of a five star service.

 The signature white umbrellas and tables greet you outside the small lawn in front of the facade. The Lobby is not too large but it is extensively arranged even to accommodate some stores which are rented out to private businessmen.

Apart from ornament shop, book shop and garment shop, Claridges in collaboration with Yagini gallery also exhibits paintings on the small corridor between Pickwicks and Dhaba restaurants.

Pickwicks is a nice clean place on the ground floor. It is a multi cuisine restaurant that serves 24 hours and has 54 covers. Dhaba is a typical Indian restaurant. It is created to resemble the North Indian roadside dhaba. If you have driven across the plains of Haryana or Punjab, then you know exactly what Dhaba is. The wall is daubed with mud color and on it are paintings of peacock, trucks and no-honking sign. There is also a miniature of colorful truck that plies on the highway, in one corner. It is like creating a small India in the Heart of New york.

Jade is a Chinese restaurant, devoted to giving maximum privacy to the customers. It is small yet each table is separated by a wall. The room somehow has a healing touch. Glass panes connects the restaurant to the outside world. In spite of its bare minimum opening it is being creatively and sparsely utilized to infuse freshness. Aura is a Bar located on the ground floor. It start serving at 4 pm and goes till 1 pm.

Claridges has all together 137. It has 3 category of suites.

A swimming pool sits in the center of the square shaped hotel as if it's the center of all attraction. Fitness rooms and spas along with business center burrows in the basement.  

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Best Hotels in West Delhi

Best Hotels in West Delhi

Delhi attracts thousands of tourist each year.  New opportunities are one main reason apart from leisure. In spite of Indian hospitality industry doing splendid job, more and more hotels have sprouted up in recent times. This only goes on to show the demand in this sector. Many New hotels have come up in West Delhi, even within the last one year. And they have done considerably well to gain popularity and favor, which made up for everything in this sector.

  Signature Grand, Hari Nagar:


Signature Grand is the first among the three new hotels that have risen at Hari Nagar in close succession. It is a a beautiful blue-tinted-glass building, rising to some 9-10 storeys, overlooking a park. 

The Frontal View of the Hotel

Most of the spaces in the hotel are occupied by the banquet halls and Business rooms. The place is popular for weddings and other functions and has banquet halls for as reclusive as 20 people to as large as 500 people.

The Park Balluchi restaurant is popular with the locals and outsiders. The place is designed in a grand and traditional style of Indian sensualities  and aesthetics and popularly serves North-West Indian foods like Kebabs and tandoori.

Iris Hometel, Hari Nagar:

Iris Hometel is a small Hotel. What it lacks in size, it makes up in hospitality and services. A first glance at the lobby and the waiting room that opens to Chill and Flavors restaurant convince you about the homeliness of the place.

The decor and the colour is playful. It pulls you in casually. (The Chill Bar)

From bright yellow chairs to green bulbs, to bold colour like blue and red cushions, you can spot almost every colour in the Flavours Restaurant. It is complimented by bright paintings.

Rooms at Iris Hometel are small but bright with natural light and are lovely. They have a unique theme with the colors and elements in the room. It's a home away from home.

Park Plaza, Hari Nagar:


Park Plaza is a 2-3 months old hotel, with ambitious ventures. From a big lobby, slightly off white and grand, it opens to Mosaic restaurant and Big Shot bar, dominated by the brown colors and decorative items like marble vessels.

The trendy Big Shot Bar.

The enviable rooftop pool is very spacious and has certain level of privacy. The blue water pool faced the park across the road and for several thousand meters there are no buildings but green trees, which is soothing to the eyes and gives you a sense of space, which is prerequisite of leisure.

 Radisson Blu, Paschim Vihar:




Radisson Blu Hotel is an ambitious project. It in itself is a world of its own with shopping malls, multi restaurants, bar and  tea lounge. The decor of the house  has more or less, an Indian feel about them. The Lobby is spacious, adjoining with the tea lounge. Black and white colors are prominent here.

                                                                                                                                                       

Radisson Blu stands as a lone figure by the roadside and can be easily spotted. Started last winter, parts of the hotel like the saloon is still underway but it sure is a hotel you can never dismiss too easily.

One of the most impressive place is the Gold theme- Oro Bar. The place glitters as if the last of the golden sunset has sieved in through the roofs.

The roof pool and the green place somewhere in the 9th floor is quite refreshing and beautiful. There are pools for kids too called the 'baby pool'.

Jaypee Siddharth, Rajendra Place:

 Jaypee Siddharth recreates an old world charm, without sacrificing comfort and grandness. It is popular among foreigners. But the restaurant Eggspectation and  Tapas Lounge bar are popular to the locals as well, because they serve good foods and drinks. Moreover the decor makes you feel that you are in some special place.

At Tapas Bar Lines on the floors and roofs stands out as strong elements of design along with the warm, orange color.It's a blend of contemporary glamour with old world's grandness.   

A nice swimming pool in front of the building.

All the rooms have wooden floors, wooden chairs and wooden tables. At one of corners by the glass window is a chair and a stylish Dickens's wooden table, with a tall lamp by its side. Forget owning, sitting on such table drives your creativity to some extend.

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