Hotel Index
Premium Hotels in Tamil Nadu
Real premium hotels and resorts in Tamil Nadu — every one visited and chosen in person, not picked off a ratings page.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
The Park Chennai
★★★★★
The Park Chennai is a design hotel on Anna Salai, the city's main road, built on the site of the old Gemini film studios. The interiors are by Conran and Partners, and film is the running theme, from the lobby to the rooftop. It is central and lively, with a poolside bar, the Leather Bar, and the Italian restaurant Aqua, and it is popular for its nightlife. The rooms are compact and sharply styled rather than large. It suits travellers who want a contemporary, well-placed base in the middle of the city rather than a garden retreat.
Madurai, Tamil Nadu
Gateway Pasumalai Madurai — IHCL SeleQtions
★★★★☆
The Gateway sits on Pasumalai hill, on a wooded estate of about sixty acres south of the city. The core is an 1890s British bungalow, and the grounds fall away in terraces with old trees, a pool, and clear views across Madurai to the Meenakshi temple towers, especially at night when they are lit. Rooms are in the bungalow and in newer garden blocks. It is a Taj-group hotel, calm and green, ten minutes from the noise of the old town but entirely apart from it.
Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu
Ideal Beach Resort, Mamallapuram
★★★★☆
Ideal Beach Resort is a family-run garden resort on the coast road, a few kilometres north of the town. It has been going since the 1970s, and it feels settled: low cottages among old trees, a lawn running down to a small private beach, two pools and a seafood restaurant. The rooms are simple and clean rather than grand. It is the sort of place people come back to, quieter and better value than the larger resorts, and still an easy drive to the monuments and to Chennai.
Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu
Le Dupleix, Pondicherry
★★★★☆
Le Dupleix is an 18th-century mansion in White Town, once the home of the town's mayor and named for the French governor Joseph Dupleix. It is built around a courtyard shaded by a large mango tree, with a small pool, wide teak staircases, and antique-furnished rooms above a colonnaded restaurant. The heritage detailing is kept: shuttered windows, tiled floors, high ceilings with fans. It is a few minutes' walk from the Promenade and the ashram, in the quietest part of the old town. It suits travellers who want the colonial setting with the antiques rather than a contemporary conversion.
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