Luxury Hotels

This is no longer the age of ‘make do with what you have’. It rather states that you should strive for the best, be it in everyday life or on a particular tour. Touring to a certain place calls for a certain degree of assuredness, a sense of comfort and security and an unsurpassed level of luxury. The Bangalore hotels, on your tour to this gorgeous city in Karnataka go beyond the ordinary to not only live up to your expectations, but surpass them.

Housing some of the excellent hotels in India, Bangalore has been a favorite touring destination and it features strong in the minds of big investors. Statistics reveal a major upward trend in the number of rooms in the luxury hotels in Bangalore. A Crisil research report states that in Bangalore, the demand will rise up to 20 per cent, as against the supply of 27 per cent.

The anticipated rise in the supply of occupancy levels owes largely to the corresponding rise in the active participation of the big players in hospitality industry. Studies show that with 39 hotels currently under various stages of expansion, Bangalore hotels will get 3,000 rooms by 2008-09, in comparison to the present 2,300, a sharp increase of 30 per cent. The luxury hotels in Bangalore are likely to have the most favorable effects. Top hotel chains like the ITC, Hilton, Taj and Park Hyatt are expected to add no less than 15 properties by 2012. You can hope to treat yourself with indulging experiences of spas, Jacuzzis, Ayurveda treatments, et al at the luxury hotels in Bangalore in the near future.

The mentioned scenario of an impending surplus situation will expectedly lead to tight competition and by and large a decline of 6-10 per cent in the average room rates (ARRs) of the
Bangalore hotels.

However, although there are discrepancies, reliable sources report that JHM Hotels, a leading US-based developer and franchise-management company, is contemplating a whopping investment of Rs 1,000 crore to expand five properties in India which is going to affect the Luxury hotels in Bangalore in a large way. Overall, more or less, there is likely that there is going to be a dip in these rates in the posh Bangalore hotels in years to come. In fact, materialization of the operational activities of 25 hotels over the next five years is under way, thanks to the JHM Hotels which franchises brands like Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt in the US hospitality sector.

Having partnered with Duet India Hotels Limited (DIHL), the UK-based real estate investment fund, JHM Hotels aims at developing 20 properties in India and plans to add an inventory of 2,000 rooms. The fund is expected to target the three and four star Bangalore hotels and other hotels in India to develop around 25 hotels here. However, according the senior vice president of one of the finest heritage hotels in Bangalore, there will be hardly any major impact due to the changes in the demand and supply scene and that the ARRs might show changes in the short run but not in the longer run.

All things said and one, you will not regret your stay at any of the luxury or heritage hotels in Bangalore the present day as well.

By: Rohan Arora

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More than forty years after the building of a skyscraper hotel in one of the world’s capitals comes a novel about hotel living: “The Dream of the Decade – The London Novels” by Afshin Rattansi, former BBC Today Programme Producer.

The location of novel is the London Hilton skyscraper in Park Lane, finished in 1963 and designed by William B. Tabler Architects. The protagonist, a 1980s working-class-man made-good is a millionaire – but what about others who have chosen to live in hotels instead of buying property?

In New York: The Carlyle – “Though hotel residents come in varied shapes, sizes and ages, the population tends to skew older and toward a high tax bracket, said Marcie Lieberman, hotel manager at The Carlyle. “It’s usually an upper-echelon person. People who have gotten used to a certain convenience and who like living in an environment where those things are available,” she said.

Combine that with the right amount of pampering, and you’ve got the answer to a hotel dweller’s prayers – all ending in amenity. The Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South, for example, offers inclusive and a la carte services for any situation from wanting a massage to needing diamonds at a moment’s notice.” (Daniel Bubbeo, Newsday)

In London: “John Petch, sales director of boutique hotel group, GLA Hotels (owners of the Lancaster in Paris and the Cadogan Hotel in London) began his career with the Savoy group in the early 1980s. Back then, the fifth floor at Claridges was reserved for long-term guests. But by the early 1990s, he says, hotel residency was dying out. Even the wealthy regarded long stays as uneconomical and turned their attention to affordable second-home investment opportunities.

But the tide is turning; both the Lancaster and Cadogan have three long-stay residents who use the hotels as their city bases. “People are moving back into hotels because of the security and service,” says Petch. Boutique hotels also excel at providing a home- from-home atmosphere backed up with personalised service. “If you have a flat, you might have one person to look after you,” he says. “Here you have all of our staff on call.”” (Tracy Hoffman, Financial Times)

Hotel-living Names: Geri Halliwell – The Lanesborough, London Bobby Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic – Claridge’s, London Ruud Gullit – Malmaison, London Chris Evans – Langham Hilton, London Richard Harris – Savoy, London Rupert Murdoch’s courtship with Wendi Deng – The Mercer Hotel, New York Ken Hom – The Dorchester, London Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland; Richard Burton and Liz Taylor – The
Dorchester, London. Coco Chanel – Ritz, Paris Marlene Dietrich – Hotel Lancaster, Paris Greta Garbo, – Fairmont Miramar, Los Angeles Howard Hughes – Desert Inn, Las Vegas Salvador Dali – Hotel Meurice, Paris Peter Bogdanovich – Stanhope Hotel, New York Claude Monet – Savoy, London Cate Blanchett – Covent Garden Hotel, London Christina Ricci – Covent Garden Hotel, London Diane Von Furstenberg – Carlyle, New York Frank Sinatra – The Waldorf Towers, New York Cole Porter – The Waldorf Towers, New York Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald – Lowell Hotel, New York Madonna – Carlyle, New York Madonna – Home House, London William Burroughs – Beat Hotel, Paris William Burroughs – Chelsea Hotel, New York Sid Vicious – Chelsea Hotel, New York Dylan Thomas – Chelsea Hotel, New York Arthur C Clarke – Chelsea Hotel, New York Bob Dylan – Chelsea Hotel, New York Tim Burton – Portobello Hotel, London Francis Ford Coppola – Portobello Hotel, London John Lennon – Hilton, Amsterdam

The title novel in the quartet, The Dream of the Decade, may end in disquieting circumstances but one only has to look at the tragedies of the famous who have died in hotels to know it isn’t uncommon. ends

By: Edward Victor

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