The Taj Mahal Palace
Mumbai, India
The Oberoi Cecil
Shimla, India. Located at Chaura Maidan at about 7,000 feet in the Himalayan foothills, overlooking mountains and valleys.
- Opened
- 1884
- Rooms
- 75rooms and suites
- City
- ShimlaIndia
- Setting
- Mountains & natureAsia
Practical information
- Address
- The Oberoi Cecil
Chaura Maidan
Shimla 171004, Himachal Pradesh
India - Telephone
- +91 177 280 4848
- Official website
- www.oberoihotels.com
- Best available rate
- Check availability
At a glance
- 75 rooms in a colonial-era hotel of the former British summer capital.
- Heated indoor swimming pool, billiards room and children’s activity centre, added during the 1984–1997 renovation.
- The hotel where M.S. Oberoi, future founder of the Oberoi group, started work in 1922.
- Located at Chaura Maidan at about 7,000 feet in the Himalayan foothills, overlooking mountains and valleys.
History
7 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.
The future hotel starts as Tendril Cottage, a one-storey house; a 17-year-old Rudyard Kipling stays there that summer.
Kipling reportedly returns each summer for five years; Shimla inspires his Plain Tales from the Hills.
The British establish The Cecil as a hotel.
Mohan Singh Oberoi is hired at the Cecil, weighing coal sacks in the boiler room.
Oberoi acquires the Cecil through his purchase of the Associated Hotels of India.
The hotel closes for an extensive renovation and refurbishment.
It reopens with a heated swimming pool, billiards rooms and a children’s activity centre.
Sources: Wikipedia (EN), “The Cecil” (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Successful Meetings, “The Oberoi Cecil” · Official website. Text rewritten and translated by Grand Hotels of the World.
