If you are not an authentic middle class born, you will never know the kind of nervousness that creeps in when we walk in a 5 star hotel like most of which is inhabited by foreigners and NRIs which kind of applies to us too. So with that NRI confidence of a middle class soul, I put my step forward in checking in. We all know those stories where you have to act all formal and classy with a dress to go just because you are in that building. I would never do it, not even if its paid for.
On our first day, frankly we found them a little too sir madam a little too attentive but then next day they understood us, we got the hang of it and it was all perfection from there. Ever stayed in those city hotels like hyatt or silver cloud in US, they are super expensive and serve cheapest limited breakfast with even minimal customer service. In a few years, all these receptionists will be robots, I do have my doubts if they already are. Hello, what a wonderful day I know right its supposed to rain blah blah cyborg conversation hehe :P
Coming back to leela palace, its a luxury you step into. You are spoiled forever. Anything any hotel any reception area lesser is like an insult. That is what leela feels like. Their breakfast spread is amazing, you can ask for pancakes you can have dosa chutney by the backwaters with an indian music playing in background. Our mornings started with fucking awesome gym, gosh that gym has everything you need. Not that I wasn't working out before but 15 days of that training transformed me. The benefit of training is you can eat as much as you want. So breakfast followed with me gorging on all the south indian dishes I haven't had in an year. Lunch was burger some days other days it was tomato soup or something. You can try it all. Its amazing. Every time I stepped out of leela other than malgudi savera, it was awful.
Most of the credit goes to staff. Staff is super courteous and no matter what, they will help you out. I love love their swimming pool, its like you are in that palace era where you are the queen and this nice warm pool is yours all yours. They even have a dryer to dry out your swimsuit.
We wanted to try hilton but came running back to leela within a day, yeah thats how much we loved it. The room is like a king's room, the bed the furnishing the double vanity washroom the bathtub ohh life's amazing for billionaires. I wish I was one, where are those lottery tickets that actually work?
Some nights we would hit pub for our JB, its pretty cool there. Not a lot of youngsters come to this one which made it perfect for us oldies sipping on whiskey with peanuts. They managed to hit classy on pub too. Hilton on the other hand had such a non functional small gym with too much noisy pub. I feel like all these western ventures come in with a very minute idea of how india is. They don't want to please us, they just want to make us feel like we don't deserve more than their shitty hotels. But then our own indians are not interested in providing services too. All people want to do is make bucks off our ignorance to a lavish life's right.
It was all in july so this is just a under exaggerated version of experience, if I did write in july it would be like 10 posts on leela palace chennai.
Its a royal endeavor.
On our first day, frankly we found them a little too sir madam a little too attentive but then next day they understood us, we got the hang of it and it was all perfection from there. Ever stayed in those city hotels like hyatt or silver cloud in US, they are super expensive and serve cheapest limited breakfast with even minimal customer service. In a few years, all these receptionists will be robots, I do have my doubts if they already are. Hello, what a wonderful day I know right its supposed to rain blah blah cyborg conversation hehe :P
Coming back to leela palace, its a luxury you step into. You are spoiled forever. Anything any hotel any reception area lesser is like an insult. That is what leela feels like. Their breakfast spread is amazing, you can ask for pancakes you can have dosa chutney by the backwaters with an indian music playing in background. Our mornings started with fucking awesome gym, gosh that gym has everything you need. Not that I wasn't working out before but 15 days of that training transformed me. The benefit of training is you can eat as much as you want. So breakfast followed with me gorging on all the south indian dishes I haven't had in an year. Lunch was burger some days other days it was tomato soup or something. You can try it all. Its amazing. Every time I stepped out of leela other than malgudi savera, it was awful.
Most of the credit goes to staff. Staff is super courteous and no matter what, they will help you out. I love love their swimming pool, its like you are in that palace era where you are the queen and this nice warm pool is yours all yours. They even have a dryer to dry out your swimsuit.
We wanted to try hilton but came running back to leela within a day, yeah thats how much we loved it. The room is like a king's room, the bed the furnishing the double vanity washroom the bathtub ohh life's amazing for billionaires. I wish I was one, where are those lottery tickets that actually work?
Some nights we would hit pub for our JB, its pretty cool there. Not a lot of youngsters come to this one which made it perfect for us oldies sipping on whiskey with peanuts. They managed to hit classy on pub too. Hilton on the other hand had such a non functional small gym with too much noisy pub. I feel like all these western ventures come in with a very minute idea of how india is. They don't want to please us, they just want to make us feel like we don't deserve more than their shitty hotels. But then our own indians are not interested in providing services too. All people want to do is make bucks off our ignorance to a lavish life's right.
It was all in july so this is just a under exaggerated version of experience, if I did write in july it would be like 10 posts on leela palace chennai.
Its a royal endeavor.
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