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About the ITC Grand Chola (facts and numbers whitethorn not beryllium accurate)
Inaugurated successful precocious 2012, the edifice was touted to beryllium the largest standalone edifice successful India then.
- 1 of the largest hotels successful India, built connected 15,000 sq.m of land
- built astatine an concern of INR 12,000 million
- 600 rooms
- World’s largest (TBC) Platinum rated Leadership successful Energy and Environmental Design (LEED?) Green hotel
- 1 of the largest pillar-less ballrooms successful the country
- vigor request met done renewable sources
- aggregate nutrient and beverage locations
- Rooms categorised arsenic - Executive Club, ITC One, Tower, Serviced Apartments, Suites
- Full country power connected Tabs
My timeline with ITC Grand Chola
Circa 2012: My visits to prima hotels successful Chennai was astir erstwhile a month, chiefly to big institution clients oregon visiting execs. The archetypal clip I acceptable ft astatine the ITC Grand Chola was successful precocious 2012, a fewer days aft their edifice was inaugurated. In fact, backmost then, galore wings of the edifice were inactive not ready. We, arsenic a group, person dined aggregate times astatine
- Madras Pavilion, wherever the offerings past were not commensurate with the wide grandeur that the edifice presented
- Peshawri, serving cuisine from the northwest was people (and conjecture what - to support the contented there, nary cutlery successful this edifice then. Not definite if it has changed now)
- Pan Asian - rather good
How did the accidental to enactment present arise?
We were six of america and did not privation to gatecrash astatine immoderate of our relatives' places successful Chennai. It was a speedy travel to Chennai to assistance our guests with immoderate shopping, with the champion and prime options being disposable successful Chennai. We were astir fixated with staying astatine GRT Grand oregon immoderate equivalent hotel, erstwhile I abruptly thought, "There is nary mode we are ever going to enactment successful a edifice successful Chennai since each our stays are astatine adjacent relatives' places. Why not up the ante and effort the Grand Chola? This would beryllium an acquisition some for america and for the guests".
Booking, options and confirmation
Surprisingly, the ITC Hotels website offered the champion rates, and erstwhile the enactment selected was 3 to a room, the Towers enactment was the best. Booking was seamless and each it asked for was a credit/debit paper fig for a pre-auth.
Travel to Chennai
Two cars, with 1 being my bully ol' Grand Vitara. We had a pugnacious clip navigating a immense clasp up abbreviated of Ratnagiri (near Vellore) connected a festive day, but finally, we were astatine Hotel Alankar for a good deserved lunch. Post that, we headed consecutive to Mylapore,Chennai to bash round#1 of purchases. No prizes for guessing what the buying was about. Those acquainted with Chennai cognize however atrocious Mylapore is with parking, and compounding the misery is the in-progress CMRL work, but being a Sunday helped and we parked astatine the authoritative parking astatine Thirumayilai MRTS. All shops were astatine walking region from here.
At the Thirumayilai MRTS parking
