Vashi2Panvel.Com : Navi Mumbai : April 13: The proposed international airport coming up in Navi Mumbai has already started attracting lifestyle and leisure spots here. With the new galleria of malls and restaurants, the city is surely getting quite a glamorous look. New luxurious hotels have started sprouting in Navi Mumbai. Two new joints, which are the talk of the town currently, are the Park Hotel in Belapur and the Tunga Regency Hotel in Vashi.
Park Hotels, promoted by Apeejay Surrendra Hotels, has launched the first boutique hotel "The Park" in Navi Mumbai's CBD Belapur, a thriving business district and a IT-manufacturing hub. The Rs 32 crore property - the sixth boutique hotel of the group - became operational on February 1.The hotel's General Manager Abhijit Bose said, "The hotel is aimed at the business travelers looking for a calm and rejuvenating experience. We bring a completely new experience to Navi Mumbai and to the entire region." Mr Bose also said that, "The land was acquired as back as 1980's by the Apeejay group who were clairvoyant enough to understand that this place would an ideal spot for a hotel, Navi Mumbai would be a booming place and services such as ours would be appreciated."
The hotel has a very comforting ambience. Entering the place, the first thing one notices are three pots filled with water and beautiful multi-colored flowers floating. The manager of Zest one of the restaurants in The Park, Mr Rajib was pleased to show the whole hotel and spend time explaining the services they offer. The Zest is a coffee shop cum restaurant. They serve buffet lunch everyday and are open all day. The lunch consisted of a variety of creatively created gourmet, it had duck-meat to pork-stew and comprised of cuisines from all over the world. The dessert table boasted of numerous puddings, pies and even sugar-free bites. The chef recommended a mocktail out of their wide list of drinks. According to a customer, Mrs Sumita " The lunch was an easy and pleasurable experience all for the price of Rs 650 per person."
After that the manager, ushered us to the Bar and lounge called Dusk and also the poolside restaurant Aqua. The seating arrangement and décor was cozy and the poolside atmosphere was nice. The gift shop, Box was a small interesting place to be in with a number of curios on display. The manager, Rajib Da then showed the waiting lounge called the "snug" and the name suited it perfectly. He also mentioned that another restaurant "Bamboo" would open shortly in about a month or so, and that it would be a Chinese-specialty place. The place looked simple and oriental.
Next he took us to the conference halls, meeting rooms and banquet halls, which were furnished in a simplistic yet elegant manner. The rooms had bamboo flooring and services like broadband internet, Wifi spots LCD televisions. Though the prices were slightly on the higher side starting from eight thousand five hundred per day, the manager said that around 75% of the rooms were occupied and that the response has been tremendous from Navi Mumbai itself.
Though the whole experience was good, the manager said that they had still a lot more in store, one should not miss the Sunday Brunch which consists of a much bigger buffet menu, a personal masseur, a dip in the pool, your own tarot card reader among many more things, for a fee of seven fifty per person!
We visited the Tunga Hotel, situated a two-minute walk from the Vashi station complex. The promotional manager of Tunga regency, Mr.Sameer Nilkandani says that the hotel strictly adheres to the taste and requirements of the business class people.
It has 99 rooms specially categorized into Executive business club lounge, business suits, deluxe rooms and standard rooms. The hotel apart from its great ambience also has come up with three different kinds of exclusive cuisines namely the Somthings Fishy an absolute treat for the seafood lovers, The Continental includes something as different as baked fish, and The Café Vihaar which is exclusively for the veggie lovers.
Along with all these, the hotel also plans to take charge of the health and fitness of the Navi Mumbaikars with its additional facilities of health spas, Kerala Ayurveda massage center, and beauty salons.
The hotel Tunga regency also has come up with a one of its kind state of the art business center which is an exclusive center for professional meetings has special facilities foe WifI internet connections, mini bar and club lounge. The tariff for the executive suite is Rs 10,000 per day.
With these hotels coming up in our township, we do not need to travel to South Bombay or Bandra side to experience a rich a pampered atmosphere. We can now indulge in some guilty pleasure right here.
Joy Chakravorty and Sanghamitra Sengupta
[Posted on : 14-4-2007, 04:02]
