A useful but unremarkable hotel just over the road from the domestic terminal of the Indira Gandhi Airport. They provide free airport transfers, which is good for the farther-away new Terminal 3. The restaurant food is tasty and the 24-hour room service helpful if you arrive late or are travelling early and can’t wait for an airline breakfast. Metro: the...
The Ajay is of average standard but popular, a little worn but good on services. They will plan your travels, send your packages home, pick you up from the airport and have a 24-hour check in. There’s a 24-hour café and a good rooftop restaurant. Metro: New Delhi Railway station on Line 2 and the Airport line, or RK Ashram...
Named after the Bajaj family owners, this boutique B&B (bed and breakfast) has ten individually decorated rooms and a rooftop terrace. Apart from the decorations and the usual furniture the rooms come equipped with safes and fridges. Room prices include breakfast, anytime tea and coffee plus, nicely, an free airport pick up. Metro: Jhandewalan on Line 3
Once rather a dingy hotel, the Broadway has been given the sort of total makeover that any ageing film star would be proud of. The hotel is on Asif Ali Road and straddles Old and New Delhi. Look out from the back rooms to see Old Delhi and from the front, New Delhi. The hotel is blessed with an interesting...
Two adjacent hotels run by the same company, the other is the Hotel Grand Godwin which is a little cheaper. Both are in an upmarket area of outer Paharganj. The quality here is even better and it has exactly the same services as its neighbour such as air[port pick up and drop off, wifi and breakfast is included. Both are...
Located just north of the Main Bazaar of Paharganj, the Hotel Grand Godwin is one of the better options in the area. The rooms are pleasant, clean and with shiny marble floors. There is a rooftop restaurant for breakfast or an evening beer. Services included in the room tariff are a free airport pickup, wifi, breakfast and a free nightly...
This unusually named hotel is a good quality and reasonable place to stay in the heart of Paharganj. Rooms are good with air-conditioning and attached bathrooms. The more expensive rooms come with built in fish tanks offering more excitement than some of the Indian TV channels. A good feature is the plant-shaded rooftop restaurant with good views. Metro: New Delhi...
As much an art gallery and museum as a hotel, The Imperial Hotel has been a New Delhi landmark since 1936. Royalty, politicians and pop stars have bunked down here and much of the deal that gave India its independence was thrashed out in its rooms. Lady Willingdon, wife of the Viceroy and a well-travelled woman, decided that Delhi needed a first...
When New Delhi was designed, a deliberate decision was made to provide suitable housing for those who would work in the new capital. A bungalow design was chosen but not the small cheap buildings that the modern version might suggest. They were quite palatial and set in extensive grounds. This guesthouse is one of them. Most rooms at the very...
This was Delhi’s top class hotel before New Delhi was built. It is set in large gardens in an area of North Delhi that was once known as the Civil Lines. Lutyens, the designer of New Delhi, stayed here in the 1930s when the new city was under construction. The building itself is a colonial relic with style, high ceilings...
The Master Guest House, run by Ushi and Avnish, is probably the finest place to stay in Delhi for hospitality. They provide expert advice on what to see and do and can help you with your onward travel arrangements. Avnish also runs specialist tours taking you into parts of Delhi that many locals and certainly visitors don’t know about. Meals...
In Sanskrit, Saket means a place close to heaven and for shopaholics this would be an apt name for this district that contains five shopping malls. Here you’ll find department stores, fashion shops, a multiplex cinema, a food court, restaurants, coffee shops and a Hard Rock cafe. The complex also includes the Hilton Garden Inn. Metro: Malviya Nagar on Line 2...
A very central location being just a few strides down Sansad Marg from Connaught Place. Extensive renovation in the last few years have transformed this once ordinary hotel in to something best described as understated luxury. Light airy rooms have Japanese style bath tubs and all the mod cons from safes to iPod docking stations. Hotel facilities include the Aura...
Quiet, green and spacious Sunder Nagar is one of Delhi’s nicest suburbs and is very central. Bordering on the Zoo and situated between the Purana Qila and Humayun’s tomb, it is also over the road from the extensive Delhi Golf Club. Sunder Nagar Market surrounds a small park and is the location for several antique shops, an art gallery, a...