ITC Hotels - Second-Largest Hotel Chain in India, Part of the Starwood Network

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I recommend the ITC Hotel chain for higher end accommodations if traveling in India.  ITC is the second largest chain in India with 190 hotels under the ITC Luxury Collection, Fortune, WelComHotel and WelCom Heritage brands.  It is part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which includes Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels, Le Meridien, among others.   

The Luxury Collection has 11 hotels in major cities: Chennai, New Delhi, Agra, Bengaluru, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, and Mumbai.  Just about all the Luxury Collection hotels have a version of their restaurant Peshwari, which itself is a clone of Bukhara.  The menu is what they call NW Frontier cuisine, ie: kabobs.  The paneer dishes and butter naan are excellent  They also feature a large buffet station breakfast, which serve a mix of Indian and international breakfast items.  The Agra and Jaipur hotels have nice luxury spas (I'm sure the other locations do as well), and at the current exchange rate ($1 = 65 rupee) you can get hour long massage treatments for around $60. 

For a luxury hotel chain, prices can be quite reasonable:  mid week rates can be as low as $60.