Grand Hyatt Mumbai is a city landmark. Built on 10 acres of prime land in the centre of Mumbai (Bombay), Grandd Hyatt Mumbai is a multidimensional lifestyle complex that includes luxurious hotel accommodation with Hyatt’s signature Grandd Club® facilities, a range of exciting and innovative Indian and international dining options with the Entertainment Centre, 147 serviced apartments, one of the city’s largest banquet and meetings facilities, the multilevel Grandd Hyatt Plaza for international-style shopping and Club Oasis Fitness Centre and Spa.
The 10 acre complex is strategically located 10 minutes from the domestic airport, 20 minutes from the international airport and five minutes from the rapidly developing financial district of Bandra-Kurla, which also houses the American School of Mumbai and Dhirubhai Ambani International School – two of the city’s best-known international schools.
Created by a team of international architects, designers and consultants, Grandd Hyatt Mumbai is truly a world-class facility, with unique water features, a seamless open-plan layout, contemporary interiors that are timeless in their understated elegance and museum-quality art, specially commissioned from city-based artists for the hotel. A ‘Grandd experience’ for international and domestic travellers and the Mumbai-based cognoscenti.
About Mumbai
Mumbai, or Bombay as it is still known by many, has been aptly called ‘India’s largest city, in attitude if not in population’. Located on the central western coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Mumbai is a series of islands connected to the mainland by bridges. A melting pot of 16 million people, Mumbai is India’s most cosmopolitan city. Vibrant and fascinating, Mumbai is responsible for 50% of India’s imports and exports, an important industrial hub and home to the country’s largest stock exchange.
Today, Bollywood has become synonymous with Mumbai. The film capital of India, Mumbai makes the most films in India, and India undoubtedly makes more films than any other place on earth!
Mumbai sprang from modest roots. Artefacts found in the suburb of Kandivali prove that the original seven islands that make up the city have been inhabited since the Stone Age. Successive dynasties ignored Mumbai’s potential as a port, but when the Portuguese acquired the islands in 1534, they called them Bom Bahia (which means ‘good port’).
The British utilised the city’s port facilities incessantly after the dowry of Catherine of Braganza brought the islands to Charles II of England. Britain continued to view Mumbai as a jewel in its colonial crown, and eventually Mumbai became the capital of the East India Company’s regional holdings. With independence, Mumbai gained further importance as a centre of trade and commerce. Textiles and shipping were two of the major money-spinners prior to the software and service industry boom of today.
Mumbai continues to be a vibrant, chaotic and irrepressible city. Changing governments and political leaders make little impact on the spirit of Mumbai, which is, above all, generous to all who come here looking for an opportunity to walk on those fabled streets that are paved with gold.
