Le Royal Meridien, Chennai

History

The hotel was developed by the PGP Group with a management contract with Hilton Hotels & Resorts. However, the contract ended in March 2000 and the group signed a contract with Le Méridien and the hotel came under the brand "Le Royal Meridien Chennai". The hotel was soft launched on 12 April 2000,{{cite news | access-date = 5 Aug 2012 | archive-date = 25 January 2013 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130125163108/http://hindu.com/businessline/2000/04/13/stories/14136078.htm | url-status = dead | access-date = 5 Aug 2012}}

In May 2005, Ask, the poolside barbecue at the hotel, was launched.{{cite news | access-date = 5 Aug 2012}} In 2006, the hotel became part of Starwood, when the latter acquired the Le Royal Meridien brand.{{cite news | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060427223349/http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/06/stories/2006010601781800.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 27 April 2006 | access-date = 5 Aug 2012}}

The hotel

The hotel is built on a 3.44 acres land with about one third of the area being a landscaped one. The hotel has 240 rooms, of which 112 are standard rooms, 57 deluxe and 41 Royal Club bedrooms, 22 deluxe suites, seven executive suites, three Royal suites and one presidential suite. The hotel's banquet halls can accommodate up to 1,500 people and the hotel has about 12 meeting spaces.{{cite news | access-date = 22 December 2024}} It has three restaurants, namely, Navaratna (serving royal Indian cuisine), Cilantro (a 24-hour international dining restaurant serving Indian, Continental, Chinese, and South-East Asian cuisine) and Kayal (Mediterranean specialty seafood restaurant) and bars such as The Dome Bar, Flame Le Club and Le Gourmandise. The hotel has a 9,200 sq ft ballroom known as the Grand Madras Ballroom, which was claimed to be the largest pillar-less ballroom in the city when it was built.

In 2009, the hotel planned to renovate and add 15 more rooms at an investment of 750 million.{{cite news | access-date = 1 Dec 2011 | archive-date = 25 April 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120425120326/http://business-standard.net.in/india/news/appu-hotels-linesrs-1000-cr-expansion/348595/ | url-status = dead

Awards

The hotel was awarded the "Best Business Hotel in Asia Pacific" for the year 2002 by the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA), at the International Travel Bourse (ITB), Berlin.{{cite news | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130126200356/http://www.hindu.com/2003/04/15/stories/2003041501901906.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 26 January 2013 | access-date = 5 Aug 2012}} It has also won the best "Innovative HR Practices 2003" by Deccan Herald Avenue.{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080424053608/http://www.hotelsinchennai.org/hotel-leroyal-meridien-chennai.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 24 April 2008 | access-date = 15 Nov 2011}}

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