Taj Coromandel

The Taj hotel group covers every major Indian city like a business-class safety net, and this Chennai outpost is where quite a lot of commerce quietly changes hands. A large-scale luxury hotel in Nungambakkam, it went through a major renovation that landed somewhere smart and crisp, colonial-luxe without tipping into design-hotel self-consciousness. Rooms run from generously large to genuinely vast, and the pool, 24-hour gym, and two restaurants keep visiting executives more or less indefinitely self-sufficient.