After rejecting the awful Silver Sands hotel after just a couple of seconds I did the rounds of some other hotels that I’d read about in the various guides. First it was off to Soul Vacation, an upmarket place where they only had one room big enough, a suite at Rs4000 a night, that’s £58 … Read more
It’s a question anyone making a visit needs to find an answer to: would it be better to stay in Hospet or stay in Hampi? My solution was simple: do both. We were arriving on Independence Day and I didn’t fancy trying to find a hotel in Hampi just in case it was really busy … Read more
In some ways I didn’t want to stay at this place, a place my friends Madhu and Savita – of 10yearitch.com, but you know that, I’ve said that once or twice before right? – had recommended. I wanted to be responsible for finding somewhere for myself. Arriving in Hampi Bazaar went went here first, to … Read more
The Hotel Grand Plaza in Hyderabad sits opposite the public gardens to the north of Nampally railway station in Hyderabad and a short walk away from the shopping area of Abids Circle and its collection of shoe, sari and kurta shops, not forgetting the bizarre shopping experience that is Big Bazaar. Here’s a link to … Read more
We’ve stayed in a couple of Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation’s hotels in our time in the state. We had very nice experiences of both so I’d thought I’d put up a little info about them. It seems that MPTDC sets a stand tariff for their hotels and a standard A/C double room is Rs1990 … Read more