Le Royal Méridien Chennai is a
five-star luxury
hotel
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located at the
Guindy
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Kathipara Junction on
Anna Salai
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,
Chennai
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,
India
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. Initially built as ''Madras Hilton'' at an investment of 1,650 million, the hotel was, however, opened as Le Royal Meridien Chennai in 2000.
History
The hotel was developed by the PGP Group with a management contract with
Hilton Hotels & Resorts
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The original company was founded by Conrad Hi ...
. However, the contract ended in March 2000 and the group signed a contract with
Le Méridien
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and the hotel came under the brand "Le Royal Meridien Chennai". The hotel was soft launched on 12 April 2000,
with commercial opening on 30 December 2000 when it was formally inaugurated by the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu,
M. Karunanidhi.
In May 2005, ''Ask,'' the poolside barbecue at the hotel, was launched. In 2006, the hotel became part of
Starwood, when the latter acquired the Le Royal Meridien brand.
The hotel
The hotel is built on a 3.44 acres land with about one third of the area being a landscaped one. The hotel has 240 rooms, of which 112 are standard rooms, 57 deluxe and 41 Royal Club bedrooms, 22 deluxe suites, seven executive suites, three Royal suites and one presidential suite.
The hotel's banquet halls can accommodate up to 1,500 people and the hotel has about 12 meeting spaces.
It has three restaurants, namely, Navaratna (serving royal Indian cuisine), Cilantro (a 24-hour international dining restaurant serving Indian, Continental, Chinese, and South-East Asian cuisine) and Kayal (Mediterranean specialty seafood restaurant)
and bars such as The Dome Bar, Flame Le Club and Le Gourmandise. The hotel has a 9,200 sq ft ballroom known as the Grand Madras Ballroom, which was claimed to be the largest pillar-less ballroom in the city when it was built.
In 2009, the hotel planned to renovate and add 15 more rooms at an investment of 750 million.
Awards
The hotel was awarded the "Best Business Hotel in Asia Pacific" for the year 2002 by the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA), at the International Travel Bourse (ITB),
Berlin
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. It has also won the best "Innovative HR Practices 2003" by Deccan Herald Avenue.
See also
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Hotels in Chennai
The article below lists top hotels in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Background
Chennai is the third most visited city in India by foreigners, after New Delhi and Mumbai. In 2013, Chennai attracted 3,581,200 foreign tourists. The city was visited b ...
References
External links
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