By Friday afternoon (local time), Indian security forces said that they had control of the Oberoi.
For nearly three days Oberoi stayed put there, communicating by cell phone, watching helplessly from afar.
New York-based filmmaker Smriti Mundhra and her parents were staying in an apartment near the Oberoi.
Americans Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, of Virginia died at the Oberoi.
"When I saw images of the hotel on fire, I thought this is the end, " Oberoi recalls.
Meanwhile at the nearby Trident Oberoi, as many as 100 hostages were reported still to be held.
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As with all Oberoi properties, these were financed with earnings and bank loans.
"Our staff kept their nerve and didn't panic, " says Oberoi, a dapper 79-year-old.
The two hotels caught up in the attacks, the Trident-Oberoi and Taj Mahal Palace, reopened for business on Sunday.
Another luxury hotel in Mumbai a few blocks away, the Hotel Oberoi, had also been among the nine sites attacked.
Kia Scherr said she knew Thursday that her husband and daughter were dining in the Oberoi hotel restaurant when shots rang out.
"We'll do whatever it takes, spend whatever we have to, " says Oberoi.
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She learned on Friday that her husband, Alan Scherr, 58, and 13-year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in the assault on the Oberoi hotel.
They had travelled to Mumbai for a meditation retreat from the United States and were killed as they dined at the Oberoi Hotel.
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All she knows is that the pair was dining in the Oberoi hotel restaurant in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night when shots rang out.
Biswa Dash says he was on the phone with his wife while she was in her room at the Oberoi hotel during the attacks.
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Biswa Dash, an iReporter, says he was on the phone with his wife while she was in her room at the Oberoi during the attacks.
His ambitious goal: reopening the 550-room Trident on Dec. 21 and the 330-room Oberoi, which suffered the brunt of the attack, by May or June.
The Synchronicity Foundation, a meditation group near Charlottesville, Virginia, has posted a message on its Web site saying that the Scherrs were killed at the Oberoi.
The New Delhi region got a new contemporary luxury hotel when The Oberoi, Gurgaon opened on Tuesday, 30 minutes from the city and close to the airport.
The Oberoi, a high-visibility luxury standard-bearer, was among the targets.
But Biki Oberoi took extra steps after the September bombing of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan: No cars could be parked at the entrance of the hotel--no exceptions.
Mukesh is no less of an Oberoi fan- his new pad, the 27-story tower that he has still to move into with his family, is maintained by the Oberoi group.
Biki's dad, Mohan Singh Oberoi, grew up in a village in what is now Pakistan and started as a billing clerk in the Cecil, a luxury hotel in the Himalayas.
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.
Lynch, who advises about 300 high-net worth individuals, considers the Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra, just down the road from the Taj Mahal, a sweet spot in last year's expedition.
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