ITC Grand Chola Hotel
The ITC Grand Chola is a 5-star luxury hotel in Chennai, India. It is located in Guindy, opposite SPIC building and along the same row of buildings as Ashok Leyland Towers. The building, designed by Singapore-based SRSS Architects, is of mixed-use development with three separate wings and is themed after traditional Dravidian architecture of the Chola dynasty. The hotel is the ninth hotel in The Luxury Collection brand.
| ITC Grand Chola | |
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ITC Grand Chola Hotel is one of the prominent hotels in India. | |
| Hotel chain | ITC Welcomgroup Hotels, Palaces and Resorts |
| General information | |
| Location | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Address | 63, Anna Salai, Guindy Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 032 |
| Opening | 15 September 2012 |
| Owner | ITC Hotels |
| Management | ITC Welcomgroup |
| Height | 49 m (161 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 10 |
| Floor area | 1,624,000-square-foot (150,900 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | SRSS Architects (Singapore) |
| Developer | Larsen & Toubro |
| Structural engineer | Sterling Engineering Consultancy Services (Mumbai) |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 600 |
| Number of suites | 14 |
| Number of restaurants | 10 |
| Parking | 800 cars |
| Website | |
| itchotels.com/grandchola-chennai | |
The hotel, built on over 1,600,000 sq ft, is dubbed the largest stand-alone hotel in the country built with an investment of ₹ 12,000 million and has the largest convention centre in the country built on 100,000 sq ft with a 30,000-sq ft pillar-less ballroom. In terms of room inventory, it is the third largest hotel in India with 600 rooms after Renaissance Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel – now rebranded as The Westin Mumbai Powai Lake (759 rooms) and Grand Hyatt (694 rooms), both in Mumbai.