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Maidens Hotel, Delhi
New Delhi, India · Oberoi · High Luxury
J. Maiden opened this hotel on its present site in 1903 to house dignitaries arriving for Lord Curzon's Coronation Durbar, when it was the most sought after and most expensive address in Delhi. Now run by the Oberoi Group, Maidens keeps 54 rooms in Civil Lines, the quarter where British officers lived, behind arched windows and classical columns, with high ceilings and polished wooden floors.
- 54 rooms
- Opened 1903
- Neighborhood: Civil Lines
About Maidens Hotel, Delhi
- Two English brothers named Maiden ran the original Metropolitan Hotel from 1894, and J. Maiden opened the present building in 1903.
- It opened to host guests of the 1903 Coronation Durbar, held by Lord Curzon to celebrate the coronation of Edward VII as Emperor of India.
- Civil Lines was the European quarter where railway officials and British officers built more than 110 large colonial houses.
- The building keeps its British colonial architecture: arched windows, classical columns, high ceilings and polished wooden floors.
The setting
4 km from 17th-century Red Fort. 14 km from National Zoological Park.
Restaurants and bars
- The Cavalry Bar — Bar · Bar
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