Let's face it, the Park Hotels have a way with design. That's perhaps why it seems even more incongruous in the hodgepodge development of CBD Belapur (Navi Mumbai). | |
| The Apeejay group's sixth property seems, at first, a strange location choice, but on examination, the opening is in sync with the region's hectic commercial real estate development. |
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| For the hotel's loyalists looking for threads of design continuity, there are a few to grab onto. The linear arrangements are still there, although there is a dash of the organic in the shape of furniture and fabric pattern. |
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| Priya Paul, chairperson, Apeejay Hotels, suggests there is no singular set of aesthetics that dictates all of the group's hotels. "That's why we call it a collection of boutique hotels, as opposed to a chain," says Vijay Dewan, managing director, The Park Hotel. |
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| The play with white light, however, is a continuing theme, with the brilliant white exterior, landscaped gardens with only white flowers and the mirrored pool at the base of the atrium that forms a well of light. The most uninspiring part of the hotel possibly is the facade, but to be fair it is a 20-year-old structure. |
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| Dewan indicates the hotel is seeing above-average occupancy in the first month, but he's far more excited about the potential of interface with the local population. |
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| Dusk, the bar, one imagines, will be the chief instigator for that. Or perhaps even Aqua, now a standard F&B property across all Park hotels. The Park, it seems, is all set to energise the borough. |
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