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Hotel Windamare

About this Property
Set up in the 19th century as a cozy boarding house for bachelor English and Scottish tea planters, it was converted into a hotel just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Famous among the sophisticated travelers and the people world over, the Windamere Hotel is famous for its unique ambience and charm.

Location
Windamere is one of the original "Heritage Houses of the Himalayas". Situated on the Observatory Hill, the Windamere hotel in Darjeeling is believed to be the focus and repository of life-enhancing cosmic energies. It is 90 kms. from Bagdogra Airport; 1/2 km. from Railway Station, 90 kms from New Jalpaiguri (NJP) Railway Station; and 1/2 km. from Bus Stand.

Food
The dining options at the Windamere hotel include a restaurant and a bar providing an ideal combination of palatable food and wine assortments. The gourmets can enjoy their stay at the hotel in every way.

Best Features
The Windamere Conference Centre is an attractive location for meeting of up to 40 people. The Centre offers board room and conference facilities, in elegant surroundings. The Business Centre is well equipped with modem projection equipment, and computers for E-mail and Internet access. Windamere hotel has its own company of artistes, who perform "The Songs & Dances of the Hills", in an outdoor setting; and "Gazals", in the intimate setting of the hotel's Bearpark Parlour. "Christmas Week at Windamere" from December 18th to January 1st" every year, is celebrated at the hotel, as a tradition since 1939.

Room
The hotel has two wings: The Windamere and Little Windamere with 37 rooms in all. The Windamere wing appeals to guests fond of tradition and life style followed in the old Darjeeling city. There are no TVs and telephones in the main house called Ada Villa; and only telephones, by request, in the Annexe. The Little Windamere wing provides all the comforts of modern life in addition to their tradition. The residential houses in this wing, Annandale House, and Observatory House, are provided with TVs and telephones.

Booking Info.
Club Travels - Holidays & Adventures offers hotel booking and room reservation for Hotel Windamere Darjeeling.

About Travel in Darjeeling

Darjeeling - This is Northern part of West Bengal. Darjeeling is tiny Himalayan Region with an area of 663 sq. km.  Before Nepal was opened to the outside world, all expeditions to Everest used to start from here.  Darjeeling the name derives from "Dorje Ling', meaning the place of the Dorje' the Mystic.  It was the name given to what was one's the Buddhist Monastery atop Observatory Hill, around which the town has been built. Around Darjeeling are Ghoom Monastery, the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Zoological Park, Natural History Museum and Lloyd Botanical Gardens. M o r e   I n f o.