Hotels
The Dorchester, with its 50 suites, is a hot favourite with the billionaires’ club. The Dorchester Collection of luxury 5-star hotels includes the contemporary 45 Park Lane, often used by younger family members, and Coworth Park by Ascot, handy for doting parents escorting their children to and from Eton.
This September, socialite Bindiya Chanrai had her pre-wedding party in the Dorchester ballroom.
Recently, Waymade Healthcare co-founder Vijay Patel also organised a lavish sit-down event there. The hotel’s senior chef, Uday Shankar, shares a personal relationship with many Indian guests and ensures they have their hearts’ desires. China Tang at the Dorchester is the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town and is frequented by rich, fun-loving chaps such as Dr Rahul Nanda, the chairman of TOPS Security who’s also on a British newspaper’s rich list. Nanda makes sure he eats there at least “once every three weeks”.
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(This story appears in the 07 December, 2012 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Indeed London is an exciting and most amazing place not only for the riches of India but even for the middle income group person like me on their visit there as it offers every type of best possible opportunities in terms of all forms of entertainment, site seing,monuments,clubs,country side and eateries and other things in every budget and finally its fabulous climate around whole year.Rich Indians are living there as monarchs as they have in the back of mind that how the British lived in India when they ruled.Another important aspect which has emerged glaringly that all the riches of India are no more conventional rich keeping themselves to the confines of India with their surroundings or society as they have now exposure to International Business and accordingly to the living
on Jul 7, 2013London is sure benefiting from all the looting in all the trouble spots of the world. When Russian billionaires want to splurge their ill-gotten wealth, where do they go to? And when newly-minted Indian billionaires aspire to compete with the sheikhs and the others, where do they go to? Bingo.
on Nov 30, 2012