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Sant Chatwal to open 7-star hotel chain in India
New Delhi, Mar 11: Sant Singh Chatwal, a Sikh Indian-American businessman, will invest Rs 4,500 crore by 2009 for setting up a chain of hotels, including 7-star, in India.
All hotels would be state-of-the-art with different food restaurants, discotheques and conference rooms. "We want to create convention centres with a capacity for 2,000-3,000 people in every hotel," Chatwal, president and CEO of Hampshire Hotels And Resorts (HHR), told reporters.
"We are doing the master planning for phase-I, which includes high-end 7-star hotels in major cities like Delhi/Noida, Mumbai and Bangalore and dream hotels in Kochi, Hyderabad and Chennai," he said.
"India is a virgin country in the hospitality sector... I would like to explore the potential here," said Chatwal.
Elaborating on the business plans, he said he has already acquired land in Bangalore, Noida, Kochi and Hyderabad while negotiations are on in Mumbai and Chennai.
HHR owns hotels in the US, UK and Thailand with over 2,500 rooms in Manhattan. Along with this, the 1.5 billion dollar group has set up Bombay palace locations around the world including Montreal, Toronto, New York, Washington, Houston, Budapest and Kuala Lumpur.
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The details regarding the dreams hotel project is on the ajit assoc website.I am posting an excerpt of that.
M/s. Back Waters Hotels and Resorts Pvt. Ltd, has signed an agreement with
Ajit Associates and Veritas to design the 200-room, five-star Resort Hotel, Cochin opening in 2009. The first luxury hotel its own kind to open in the city for more than a decade.
The hotel is strategically positioned in the ethnic Silver Sand Islands, near Vyittila Junction and is 30 minutes by car from Nedumbassery(cochin) International Airport.
200 luxurious guest rooms and suites offer guests the ultimate in deluxe service and hospitality. Guests can choose between the Themed Café, Cocktail Lounge and Lobby Lounge, with restaurants all offering lush garden views. Additional food and beverage options include Themed Café, Pool Bar, Thai and ill Forno offering Thai and Italian cuisine respectively.
The hotel will occupy 17 floors of the building complex. Its guestrooms will be among the most spacious in the city and be decorated in a contemporary style with Asian highlights. Luxury condominium suites will be located on the upper levels of the tower.
Guests entering the hotel through an elegant vaulted forecourt will be welcomed into a spacious three-storey glass atrium lobby offering waterscape views. The heart of the hotel will be its lobby lounge – an “urban living room” with a sidewalk café nestled in the shadow of the boulevard trees overlooking the back waters. Breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea will be followed by evening entertainment in the relaxed, yet refined lounge.
The street-level columnade walk way, cocktail deck will lead to a mezzanine level themed restaurant overlooking the encircled natural creeks and backwaters. It will be open for lunch and dinner, pre- and post-theatre.
The Thai Spa signature spa brand – will offer treatments to in-house guests, condominium owners and local residents. Inspired by the origins of the Shangri-La legend, the CHI concept is based on Chinese and Himalayan healing therapies. Each of the 10 private CHI treatment rooms and one double treatment suite will provide a “spa within a spa” atmosphere, offering guests the luxury of time and space.
The hotel’s speciality restaurant, on the ground floor, will open onto a landscaped terrace, as well as overlook the back waters.
The ballroom will seat 400 and three smaller rooms will seat 50 to 100 people. All function rooms will offer floor-to-ceiling windows and an elegant pre-function foyer. An audio visual room will provide a venue for screenings or executive presentations that require dramatic special effects.
Equipped with the most modern systems of Air Conditioning, Fire Protection & Safety, security systems, Dreams ensures the effectiveness of the state of art services at its peek. Maintaining the serene balance of the nature, the whole system is eco friendly, pollution free and leaves no damage to the ethnic atmosphere.
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