Here are some ideas, as recommended by India resort hotel chain Taj, owned by The Tata Group, and by boutique Brazil-based travel planners at Dehouche.
Taj Lands End, a branch of the famous Taj hotel chain -- its lobby is great for people watching.
The 2-year-old was taken to Israel on Monday and will live with the nanny who carried him to safety at the Taj Hotel last week.
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In contrast to these one may sometimes find, at high tea at the Delhi Polo Club or in the lounge of the Taj hotel, the genuine article.
To build the Oberoi Sheraton (now known as the Trident) in 1972, the first rival to the opulent Taj hotel, he reclaimed land under water in the Bay of Bombay.
Cigen, its Hong Kong-registered hospitality arm, is a partner in Taj Asia, part of India's Taj hotel chain, a Tata affiliate that runs luxury resorts in the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
At age 65 he's far from through. (After the Mumbai bombings in late 2008, Milchan founded Blue Sky International, a security company, to help protect friends like Ratan Tata, owner of the Taj Hotel, from terrorist acts.) Milchan is very well connected in Hollywood and Israel, and exploits those ties to further his social and political interests, as well as his business goals.
Bullet holes and scars of grenade blasts marred the restaurant walls in the Taj Mahal hotel, Tata said.
Indian officials said the Taj Mahal hotel had nearly been cleared of gunmen and trapped guests were being freed.
The England squad stayed at the Taj Mahal hotel two weeks ago and was due to return there ahead of the second test.
The 22-year-old Mumbai resident saw the Taj Mahal hotel burning and noticed there was no traffic on the road, he said.
Their assault on the Taj Mahal Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel and a Jewish centre went on for more than two days.
In other assignments, Chance reported from Mumbai, India, where he covered the 2008 militant attacks on the city and the siege of the landmark Taj Majal Hotel.
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British tourist Morwenna Grills, who sought shelter in a shop when the Taj Mahal hotel came under attack, said the atmosphere in the city was "very eerie".
Andreas Liveras visited the Taj Palace Hotel for a curry on Wednesday evening, having heard that the hotel served the best food in Mumbai.
As the two girls fell near the cafe, he saw the two men quickening their steps towards the Taj Mahal hotel further up the road.
In the early hours of Saturday, soldiers launched a renewed assault on the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
Having started with the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 1903, the company now runs or manages 59 properties in India and another 17 elsewhere on the globe.
Bangalore is also mourning the loss of a leading commando - National Security Guard (NSG) Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan - who was killed during operations to flush out gunmen from the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
Beyond the 58 properties across India that have been added since the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opened in Bombay in 1903, the operation owns or manages 17 hotels and resorts in the Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Australia, plus the U.K., Africa and the Middle East.
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The grandest palace open to guests in India may be the Umaid Bhawan in Jodhpur, a monumental 347-room golden sandstone edifice that is still the home of the maharaja of Jodhpur and his family. (They have retreated to one enormous wing.) After attempting to run it as a hotel himself, the maharaja also turned it over to Taj to manage.
The Taj Arabia complex will include a 300-room hotel, shops and commercial buildings.
And the newly restored Taj Falaknuma Palace is now perhaps the most opulent palace hotel of all.
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At nearly 100 years old, the Taj Mahal Palace is the grandest dame in town -- a hotel that is deeply woven into the history and social fabric of the city.
Why does the front desk manager in my New York hotel get huffy when I ask for a late checkout while the servers in a Taj restaurant in Mumbai made a protective ring around patrons during a terrorist attack?
There is a hostage situation in the Taj -- we're also being told there are gunmen on the roof of that hotel lobbing hand grenades at anti-terror operatives on the ground.
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