**Aman Delhi**
A hotel that’s completely divided the itchy-scratchy hordes waiting all year for the doors to open. The humbugs think Aman’s first city hotel is dark and gloomy, whereas it is in fact a raj-rejecting, angular, metallic, new-blood stealth bomber. It feels rather like a futuristic government agency, complete with doors that whoosh. The location – in Lutyens’ Delhi – is certainly unbeatable, and staff will mobilise you swiftly through inevitable flight delays. The lobby whirr of other city hotels in India might be lacking, but this is a slick marble retreat away from the ravenous hubbub. Nab a room on the top floor, with a black-tiled pool out on the balcony, for a cool urban frisson in your proper ivory tower. The spa, run by an energetic American, is very impressive.
- eat at Varq (Taj Mahal hotel) Hemant Oberoi's restaurant decor merges Indian artifacts
- Agni, Olive Beach (hotel diplomat 9) or Wasabi, Dakshin (s. indian food at the Sheraton $47) , Sandar Patel Marq, Chanakyapuri, Smoke house grill (VIPPS center) $117/2, 360 @ Oberoi $85/2
hotel:
75 min flight chartered +4 hr car ride + 1 hr hike
http://www.shaktihimalaya.com/360leti.htm
- http://www.imperialindia.com/ $532
- http://www.oberoidelhi.com/ $426
- http://www.theparkhotels.com/ $377
- http://www.tajhotels.com/ tajmahal $512
aman delhi (see Humayun's tomb, red fort, nizamuddin complex)
from WSJ: walking tour map
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123557526942872281.html#mod=article-outset-box
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