The Best Hotels Near Taj Falaknuma Palace, by the Record
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Perched on a hilltop above Hyderabad, this 60-room palace hotel still belongs to the city's royal family, which makes the Taj group's stewardship feel less like hospitality and more like custodianship. English architecture, French tapestries, and Venetian chandeliers fill the common rooms with an extravagance the guest quarters wisely dial back. Afternoon tea in the Jade Room alone justifies the dress code you'll instinctively impose on yourself. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.
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Pastries and champagne are treated as casual lounge fare here, which tells you a fair amount about the register. A polished high-end business hotel in upscale Banjara Hills, it puts king beds, walnut parquet floors, and oversized desks in even the entry-level rooms. Outside them: a spa, salon, shoeshine, a doctor on call, and four restaurants ranging from Northern Italian to Southeast Asian. The kind of place that takes comprehensiveness seriously.