Four Season Hotel Opens in Mumbai

Luxury hotel chain Four Seasons opens its first hotel in Mumbai following a two year delay. The 202 room hotel is located in Worli, and if you are hoping to stay in the gleaning 33 storey hotel be ready to shell out Rs 24,000 a night.

Travel blog View from the Wing mentions the reasons for the delay:

…Bureaucracy and a shortage of skilled workers make building hotels difficult – the opening of the Four Seasons was delayed by at least two years. The hotel needed 165 government permits – including a special licence for the vegetable weighing scale in the kitchen and one for each of the bathroom scales put in guest rooms. In the end, the hotel cost $100m (€64.5m, £51m), or about $500,000 per room, and prices – which start at $500 per night rising to more than $1,000 – reflect that.

Glad to hear the vegetable scales are legal.