THE FAMOUS TAJ HOTEL MUMBAI

 




The Taj Mahal Palace is a heritage, five-star, luxury hotel in the Colaba area of ​​Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, situated next to the Gateway of India. Built in the Indo-Saracenic style, it opened in 1903 as the Taj Mahal Hotel, and has historically often been known simply as "The Taj". The hotel is named after the Taj Mahal, which is located in the city of Agra, approximately 1,050 kilometers (650 mi) from Mumbai. It has been considered one of the finest hotels in the East since the time of the British Raj. The hotel was one of the main targets in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.


Part of the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, the hotel has 560 or 600 rooms and 44 suites and is considered the flagship property of the group; it employs 1,500 staff. The hotel is made up of two different structures: the Taj Mahal Palace and the Tower, which are historically and architecturally distinct from each other (the Taj Mahal Palace was built in 1903; the Tower was opened in 1972).



The Taj Mahal Hotel was commissioned by Jamsetji Tata and opened its doors to guests on 16 December 1903.


An oft-repeated story concerning the reasoning behind the construction of the hotel was Tata being refused admission into Watson's Hotel, as it was reserved for Europeans. The validity of this has been challenged by writer Charles Allen, who wrote that Tata was unlikely to care about such a slight to the extent that he would construct a new hotel. Instead, Allen writes, the Taj was built at the urging of the editor of The Times of India, who felt a hotel "worthy of Bombay" was needed, and as a "gift to the city he loved" by Tata.[1]


Originally, the main entrance was on the land-facing side, where the pool now sits.[2]


By 1966, the Taj Mahal Hotel had become neglected and run-down, perhaps as a result of losing the British customers after Indian independence.[3] The Taj Mahal Hotel was home to legendary jazz musician Micky Correa, "The Sultan of Swing", from 1936 to 1960.[4] [5]


Management of the Taj Mahal Hotel was franchised to Pan Am's Inter-Continental Hotels division in 1972[6] and it was renamed The Taj Mahal Inter-Continental, with the new tower wing opening that same year.[7]


Known today as The Taj Mahal Tower,[8] it was designed jointly by Daraius Batliwala and Rustom Patell, with the latter having a greater focus later on.[9] The Tower was built on the site of the historic Green's Hotel, constructed as flats in 1890, and operated by Tata as a hotel from 1904 until its demolition to build the Tower.[10]

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