Luxury Ooty Tours

A colonial-era hill station in the Nilgiris, cool and green year-round.

Nilgiri Mountain Railway train traveling through green hills near Ooty, Tamil Nadu

Overview

Ooty At A Glance

Ooty sits high in the Nilgiri hills, cool and green year-round. British planters built the town as a summer retreat in the 1800s. Its tea estates still cover the surrounding slopes. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage line, climbs up through the hills toward town. A private guide slows the pace here, from tea estate to colonial bungalow.

Where To Stay: Savoy Ooty — IHCL SeleQtions
Continue To: Chennai, Chettinad, Madurai

What To See

What To See In Ooty

Ooty's real highlights are what a private guide builds each day around.

Fort / Palace / Heritage

Nilgiri Mountain Railway

The metre-gauge rack railway from the plains up to Ooty, opened in 1908 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Culture / Heritage Experience · Half day

Nilgiri Mountain Railway Ride

A one-leg ride on the UNESCO-listed rack railway, usually the scenic Ooty–Coonoor–Ooty stretch, through the tea and the tunnels.

Passengers ride the blue-and-cream Nilgiri toy train as its steam engine crosses a stone-arch viaduct through green Nilgiri forest.

Culinary · Half day

Coonoor Tea Estate Walk & Tasting

A walk through a working tea estate near Coonoor, with a look at the factory and a guided tasting of Nilgiri leaf.

Rolling tea plantations with a house on the hillside in the Nilgiris near Coonoor.

How To Travel

Journeys Through Ooty

Every journey comes with a private guide and driver for each day on the road. Full details live on each journey's own page.

A towering tiered Dravidian gopuram of a South Indian temple rises against the sky at Tiruchendur.

13 Nights

Slow Tamil Nadu

Chennai · Chettinad · Madurai · Mahabalipuram · Ooty · Pondicherry · Thanjavur

Misty tea gardens roll across the hillsides around Coonoor in the Nilgiris.

11 Nights

Tamil Nadu in Depth

Chennai · Chettinad · Madurai · Mahabalipuram · Ooty · Pondicherry · Thanjavur

Neatly trimmed tea plantation rows under a blue sky in Munnar, Kerala

10 Nights

Kerala & Tamil Nadu — the Complete South

Kochi · Munnar · Thekkady · Madurai · Ooty

Where To Stay

Where To Stay In Ooty

Stays are chosen for the setting and the service, then matched to the pace of your route.

hotel · luxury

Savoy Ooty — IHCL SeleQtions

★★★★

The Savoy is among the oldest hotels in South India, open since 1829, on a rise above the racecourse in the middle of Ooty. The rooms are in single-storey tiled cottages around a long lawn, each with a sitting room and a working fireplace that the staff light in the evening. There is a croquet lawn, an old bar, and a garden that has been kept for nearly two centuries. It is a short walk to the lake and the botanical garden. It is run by the Taj group now, and it holds its Raj-era character without trying too hard. It is the place to stay in Ooty for the sense of the hill station.

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