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The Leela Palace Goa is an extrovert expression of luxury, elegance and the opulent Indian architecture. The hotel nestles the Vijayanagar Empire Temple and palace architecture along with the Portuguese reminiscence. The 75 acres of most tastefully manicured and landscaped gardens, 10-hole par-3 golf course and the spacious villas and suites, Leela Palace is the ultimate destination for a leisure experienced in the most gracious style.
Accommodation
151 spacious and chic rooms and suites that overlook the sylvan, manicured gardens and the refreshing lagoons, are all adorned in luxury, comfort and elegance and most thoughtfully furnished. Each room has central air-conditioning, and modern amenities like 21" color TV with satellite channels, DVD players, hi-fi compact disc players sound system and personal safes. The various types of accommodation at Leela Palace are:
Pavilion Room: These 54 rooms express the Indian and the Portuguese culture in the ambience.
Lagoon Suite: These are villas styled in complete accord with the Portuguese architecture. The private terrace of each suite provides the necessary private outdoors living space that overlooks the wonderfully landscaped lagoon.
Lagoon Deluxe Suite: These are 4 luxury suites for complete indulgence and a private retreat.
Royal Villa: These four villas have their own private plunge-pool and terrace. You can have to wondrous golf course and ocean view.
Presidential Suites: A Presidential suite has to be a one-of-its-kinds experience, thus the hotel has only one of it. The suite boasts of the refreshing golf course and ocean view. It is a unique experience of complete luxury. It is a small luxurious villa with a master bedroom, two adjoining bedrooms, living room, dining room and its own kitchenette with an attached maids room. A private plunge pool, outdoor Jacuzzi and 3 outdoor garden showers outline the luxury.
The Club Suite: These are 15 one-bedroom suites of which 6 have their private plunge-pool. They have a tropical appeal in their ambience and a private butler to complete the luxury. The rooms have been done in signature style of Jaya Ibrahim, the world-renowned Indonesian interiors decorator.
Other facilities
Being a five star hotel, it has a well-appointed 24 hours business center, room service, and hours concierge. It also has facilities like laundry, travel desk, boardroom and meeting room, and airport transport.
Drinks and Dining
Reiterating the fact, The Leela Palace is a luxury spelled in the form of brick and mortar structure, served with elegance and style and presented with warm hospitality. The hotel has various restaurants to delight the gourmets with a gamut of cuisines.
The Café: The menu at this multi-cuisine restaurant is a balanced admixture of western, Asian and local specialties. It also has a sumptuous breakfast buffet every morning. It has three different seating areas. The upper level has the indoors and outdoors seating option whereas the lower terrace offers casual and convenient dining. The restaurant has a seating capacity of 120 guests.
Jamavar: As the name suggests, this restaurant is very Indian in its appeal, décor and cuisine. It has a capacity to serve finest Indian cuisine to 80 guests at a time. The ambience is set by the lavish embellishment of intricate wooden screens and decorative Jamavar shawls.
The Riverside: The waters of Sal River, soaked in the silvery moonlight and the aroma of rich Italian cuisine, it is a perfect recipe for a unique dining experience. If you fancy a dinner with the stars, river, and cool breezes, you can choose any of the 52 riverside seats. However, if you want the cool comfort of indoor restaurant and a picturesque river view, you can dine at the main dining area.
Susegado: The guests have time and again rated it as the most elegant Seafood Grill Beach Restaurant in Goa. It serves grilled and tandoor seafood and meats, fresh salads with an array of frozen cocktails. While you have a quick snack and drink, you can revel upon the live & recorded music. This restro-bar is open only from October to May.
Yali Lounge: This lounge is nestled within the Vijaynagar Palace lobby, under its majestic domes. It overlooks the tastefully landscaped waterfalls, tropical gardens and lagoons. The handpicked antiques and the serene ambience make a perfect ally for an afternoon tea, pre-dinner cocktails, or after dinner Cognacs, Cigars & Coffees.
Aqua: It is a lounge for those who do not really want to subscribe to the formal setting of the Yali lounge. This is a totally an entertainment lounge. Form the sci-fi audio-visual equipment, cigar divan to a late evening discotheque, Aqua is an ideal gathering place.
Business Facilities
The Leela Palace is immensely popular amongst its corporate clients for organizing conferences, business meets and summits. The 4 grand indoor and 2 lavish outdoor venues make a perfect business center. Aparanta is a theatre style conference hall, located at the lower lobby level. It opens up to lawn area that can be an ideal setting for coffee breaks, taken in between the conference. Hampi is adjacent to the main business center of the hotel. This conference hall seats 200 delegates with theatre style and 100 with classroom style arrangement. Bidar and Badami are two smaller conference rooms with a seating capacity of 24 guests with theatre style arrangement and 16 guests with boardroom style setting.
The outdoor venues include the Leela Gardens that are grass lawns, adjacent to the beach. It can accommodate 400 guests for a reception and 30 guests for a sit-down dinner. The Beach Front lawns host theme nights and informal dinners. They have an open air barbecue and a capacity of 400 guests reception. Some of the extic theme nights organized at the Beach Front are the Goan Experience. Barbecue under the stars, International food Bazaar, The Night of the Maharajas, Beachside Grind, Carnival Extravaganza, Dastarkhwan Dining Experience, Chandni Chowk and Homely Kerala Meal.
The other business center facilities include computers, fax machines, photocopier, cellular phone.
Recreational Facilities
The Health spa @ The Leela Goa is the state-of-the-art heath spa that offers exclusive ayurvedic treatments, holistic health treatments, skin care treatments, ayurvedic spa packages and spa basic packages. The spa also organizes daily yoga sessions.
The other recreational facilities include tennis club with three floodlit courts, 12-hole pitch and putt golf course, golf lessons, cycle rentals, croquet and a complimentary program just kids for the little guests of the hotel.
The hotel also organizes exclusive water sports for its guests. These include dolphin cruise, the sunset cruise, excursion to Palolem beaches with a boat charter, parasailing, jet skis, speed boat rides, water skiing, wakeboarding, knee-boarding, banana-boat rides, sailing, windsurfing, fishing trips, grand island trip, river cruise and more.
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