$200 Luxury Hotel In India (Taj Palace) 🇮🇳

Good afternoon guys and welcome back to another video here in Mumbai, India. As you can see, I'm right behind the Gateway of India but we're not going there today. Today we're going to Taj Mahal Palace. As you can see over here, we've got this absolutely beautiful hotel which is the most iconic hotel in all of India and also one of the most luxurious, if not the most luxurious, and we're going to be staying there today. I'm so excited to stay there and it's in such an amazing location. This hotel was built in 1903 and it was the first ever luxury hotel in India and also it was, a lot of people will know, it was subject to the terrorist attack in 2008. So it's been through a lot and so security is extremely tight so that's why we're going to probably not film as we're going in because I've already seen the security and it's extremely, extremely tight so I won't be filming as I'm going in but I'll be filming in the hotel and around the hotel. Yeah, so I'm really excited to show you guys. I've got one night to stay here. It's quite expensive but I've booked one night and yeah, we're going to go in and show you guys now. This is the reception and it's absolutely beautiful. You've also got an outside area, marble floors. It's just absolutely divine, I have to say. I've already checked in so we'll head to the room now. Oh, there we go. That's a little bit deceiving. Oh wow, this is elegant. So yeah guys, before I just show you the room, I'll just explain that obviously they have a no filming policy in some of the areas but I still will be filming where I can. I paid a lot of money for this room so I'm going to make the most of it. First of all, we've got the shower. Very nice, very clean, very slick. I'm very excited to have a warm shower because at my last hotel, the water wasn't even warm but we'll let that slide. Then we've got a nice little cloak. Bathrobes would be delivered on request. Well, I don't think I need one, thank you. Nice, very posh soap and shampoo in there. Oh nice, we've got toothbrushes, they've got everything. Body lotion, oh this is just the dream. Towels in here, more towels. Towels, nice bog. That's the word we use in England, bog. Pillows, safe. Your standard stuff. I wonder if there's an iron. An iron would be nice. Yes, there is an iron. Wow, secret box with teas and coffees. Oh yeah, baby. Sorry about that. Then we've got water. Nice, I could probably damn that right now to be honest and this is the main attraction. Perfect, like perfect bed, perfect size of the room. Doesn't need to be too big. We've got water, two waters, moody lighting, nice carpet, very elegant TV. Wow, very cool lights. Nice desk for me to do some work in. I'll get set up and views of the Taj Mahal. Oh no, not the Taj Mahal, views of Mumbai. Let's see if we can get out there. That door was very hard to open but oh my god, we're on the 17th floor guys. Oh, we're just out of view. So, the gateway of India is just right there. You can see all the people but you can't see it. Guys, that's so unfortunate. I tried to ask for an upgrade but with these kind of hotels, it's very hit and miss. Sometimes, they give you the best service in the world. If you're a YouTuber and they're like, we'll give you the best room ever. Sometimes, they literally don't even look at you twice and that was one of those times but they were very nice. They weren't willing to give me any upgrade or anything like that but that's absolutely fine. This for me is a perfect room. I just wanted to get a better room for you guys. Anyway, so what we've got here is that's the entrance to the gateway of India and you guys may have seen the gateway of India in one of my past vlogs. First impressions of India vlog and it was a really, really cool thing. Lovely to go there and this is Colaba, I believe. We've got the imperial station over there. Really nice and yeah, you can see it's probably. Another thing is this. This is actually not very good for you guys but the views are incredible and it's nice to be above the city because you can still hear the beeps but you're kind of just a little bit away from it. Yeah, this is a really cool, really cool place and I'm loving it here. I have to say Taj Palace was on my list of places to stay and I'm actually, I think, I'm not 100% sure but I think I'm actually staying in the Taj Tower wing which is the wing next to it which is built slightly after the Taj Palace. But yeah, most iconic hotel in all of India and the first ever luxury hotel. People like Prince Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth who stayed here, Barack Obama and many other famous people. I think John Lennon stayed here for a couple of days and he didn't even leave the hotel. So yeah, just goes to show this is like the best of the best. This is the best Mumbai has to offer and boy, it's living up to it. I did not expect to have this kind of luxury in Mumbai but boy, this is luxury. Last thing to do, chug competition. Let's see how much I can do with this. How big is it? Litre? 750ml. I feel sick. That's straight vodka guys. Also guys, I will show you a little quick speed test because speed test is really important and it'll be interesting to see whether the wi-fi in a luxurious hotel such as the Taj has a good wi-fi because if it doesn't, that is gonna annoy me but I'm sure it will. And also, it's important to note that security here was extremely tight. Probably the tightest I've ever seen even to the fact where they actually didn't allow my taxi to come into the entrance. They said you had to get outside, get out of the taxi outside the entrance and that is because of the terrorist attack that happened. I'm not sure what year it was but apparently, my friend told me it's the largest terrorist attack in the world and one of the main attacks was on this hotel. And also, it explains why they felt so strongly about me filming. So, I'm not going to blame them but I'm still going to make a video about this place because I believe it's the best hotel in Mumbai if not in India so I want to make a video about it. Speed test of dreams, let's see. I did actually see there's a standard plan and a premium plan that you can upgrade to which is a tiny bit annoying because if you're paying all this money, the last thing you want to do is upgrade again but that is still quite good. Download 27, I'm happy with that. I'm definitely happy with that. Could be a lot worse and upload. Okay, I can deal with it. It's not the best but for a huge hotel like this, I guess it's okay. Okay, so we got to 13 in the end. That's not bad, that's not bad. I'm sure if I upgraded, it would be very good and I'll see how much it is to upgrade because maybe it will be worth it. These are my business cards that I got printed today so I'll be giving them out to people because I get asked a lot what my channel name is but it's annoying for me to, it's long for me to type it out on their phone so I have business cards. Okay guys, so basically I do have breakfast free with my booking. I paid actually a little bit more so I could have breakfast but I just had to go down, had a look and see and it's extremely busy and I think they're going to be funny about me filming. So, I'm going to order room service. It's going to cost me more but I'm doing this for you guys so let's go and call them now. Let's see what's on the menu first. I think I know what I want. Come in, come in. Thank you. Okay, perfect. Well, it was on dnd but I'm sorry. Oh, my fault. I put it on dnd. Sorry, yeah. Oh, nice to meet you. King Cobra. King Cobra? Oh, really? It means. Oh, so you're dangerous. Okay, good. Oh, here we go. Oh, this looks divine. Thank you very much. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Alright, guys. Oh, baby. Okay, I'm glad we got it in the room now. We've got peace and quiet. I saw when there was a queue for the breakfast and that was even like at like 8.30, 9 o'clock. So, it wasn't even that late. I just thought, you know what? Let's just get it to the room. It cost a thousand for this. So, it wasn't cheap. That's like $13. So, it's like a proper meal but inshallah, it'll be worth it. Oh, wow. Comes in a little bowl. We've got a hash brown and a tomato. Oh, very unique but I like it. We'll put that there. Also, I decided instead of ordering coffee, I thought I'll cut the rules a little bit and make my own coffee and the good news is I made it like 10 minutes ago. So, it's now perfect temperature. So, we'll try that first. Caffeine, baby. Some toast. Okay, some brown bread because I'm a brown bread kind of guy. Guys, comment down below brown bread or white bread. Be interesting to know and then we got some marmalade, butter and jam. Oh, ketchup. Don't want to put that on the toast. Also, this is whilst I'm here, this has reminded me. I don't know why this has reminded me but the owner of this hotel, the founder is also the owner of Tata. If you guys don't know what Tata is, one of the largest vehicle companies in the world. They own Jaguar Land Rover which is a UK company. I'm very familiar with them and yeah, they're just absolutely huge country and he's one of the biggest businessmen in India, I believe. So, yeah, he made Taj hotels and they're now a chain all around India. So, it'd be nice to maybe check out some of the other Taj hotels but they are rather expensive, I'll tell you that. Okay, first step, get a little butter, buttski, I always call it. I'm just making up names right now. A little bit of the buttski on the toastski and then we add the omelette to the toastski. That's an absolutely atrocious effort but I'm interested to open this bad boy up and see what's inside. I asked for everything, all the flavours, all the toppings, all the ingredients and yeah. Oh, it's spilling a little bit. We got a bit of cheese, we got a bit of omelette, we got a bit of tomato, onion, mushroom. Okay, looks good to me. It would have been nice to have a little bit more toast but then again, I'm going to the gym after this so I need to be eating healthy. Okay, without further ado, let's try this bad boy. Last thing I will do, add a little tad, a little bit of pepper, a little bit of salt. Ah, that lives up to expectations. You can't go wrong with omelette but they have cooked this very well. I like the presentation as well, really good presentation, nice toast and nice that we've got some other things with it. All in all, a good meal. Would have been better for me to go down for buffet but I hope you guys appreciate that I just was struggling to film in there and so I thought this would be a better option and plus I didn't even get to move a muscle to order it. I just ordered it on the phone and then they came up. So, you know, that's sometimes the life you've got to live. It's the luxury life and every time I go to a luxury hotel, I'm like, wow, I'm slowly becoming more accustomed to it and then I'm going to only stay in luxury hotels. I'm never going to only stay in luxury hotels, never, never, never. I always love to do hostels because you meet new people. I'm not going to meet many people staying in this hostel, in this hotel but at the same time, it's a real luxury for me. I'm absolutely loving my time here. I don't get to experience things like this very often and, you know, this is the best India has to offer and it really is luxury on luxury. It's five star easily. It's probably one of the, I'm trying to think, is it one of the best hotels? It's top five best hotels I've ever stayed in probably but it's, it's the point, it's to the point where it's so luxurious that they obviously have like famous people staying here so they have very strict rules, dress code. There's none of this like if I jumped in the pool like kind of business which I usually, I usually jump in the pool fully clothed in every hotel I do but this is one of the hotels where you just can't do that and the pool is closed anyway for Covid anyway but it's the stuff like that. It's just, it's a little bit, a cut above the rest but that is a good thing Try the hash brown. Oh my god, I haven't had a hash brown in so long. That was the best hash brown I've ever had in my life. Again, you can't really get hash browns wrong but compliments to the chef. I'm gonna finish breakfast and now we're gonna head to the gym and also guys so I'm just walking to the gym here and you can see they've actually got like mini designer shops. They've got Dior, I saw they got Louis Vuitton over here. This is, I've never seen these kind of shops like Dior in the middle of the hotel and look at this. It's absolutely unreal and it goes all the way down here. Louis Vuitton. Should we get anything guys? Oh it's closed. Couldn't think of anything worse but not, not, I'm saying it's not bad I just like can't imagine spending that kind of money. They've got art, such beautiful things here. Hey guys, we're in the gym now. We've got cardio through there, some free weights, most modern gym I've ever been in. We've got free weights in here, TV's playing, some women's cricket and more free weights in here and then another section in there. Like everything's so clean, like really posh, elegant and like I love the mirrors. I love that, I just love the design of this place. This is probably my favourite part of the hotel. There's also a sauna, steam room and a pool. Obviously I'll show you guys the pool and yeah I'm gonna just get on with a little workout, a very quick workout and then I'll show you the rest of the hotel. There's still so much to see. Okay guys, the pool is actually closed. They're doing some maintenance work but you can kind of get an idea as to how beautiful it is. You can see the old building in the background there. The video doesn't really do it justice but it's absolutely incredible. Maybe I'll take a video on my phone. Yeah, such like grand features, everything's so sleek, wooden. Look at this over here where you can have some afternoon tea. It's absolutely incredible. Yeah, they're just doing some maintenance work but you can see the pool behind there. Hey guys, so I've checked out of the hotel and now I'm just on my way to the next hotel I'm staying at and the last thing that I wanted to mention was they gave me this on checkout. It's like a little lucky charm which is very nice and a couple of other things was I tried out the business lounge. I didn't film because it was actually really busy in there, really small but it was a nice little view of the Gateway of India and then yeah, really nice checkout process. I have to say like all in all it was a really, really good hotel. You could kind of tell it was a luxury hotel because they had so many rules and stuff and just the whole experience was very, very good, very smooth in terms of like even the small things like them taking your bags up to the room and just you know how nice the staff were and how they always wanted to go above and beyond the call of duty to help you. So yeah, I had a really nice experience there. I would definitely stay there again. Maybe I'll stay there again in a different city because they've got different, it's a chain, they've got different hotels all around India. So yeah, I had a really good time and yeah, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video don't forget to like and subscribe. I'm making daily videos all the way through India and so I'll see you guys in tomorrow's video.