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Ooty - the Queen of southern hill stations: This highly popular and picturesque hill station is located in the densely populated southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Ooty has a colourful history being first discovered by the British Collector John Sullivan who developed Ooty as a summer resort. Ooty is also known as Ootacamund or Udhagamandalam hill station. It is encompassed by four hills namely the Doddabetta, Snowdon, Elk Hill, and Club Hill. These hills are part of the Nilgiri ranges. Today, the hill station is more than a summer resort.

Ooty Hotels: Hotels in Ooty offer you the lap of luxury and comforts making you feel at home even away from your home. The Ooty hotels range from heritage hotels to cheap hotels in Ooty, economy hotels in Ooty and three/ four star hotels in Ooty. These hotels provide you with a wide range of options from deluxe suites to independent air conditioned cottages affording spectacular views of the city and the surrounding hill foliage.

Club Mahindra Resort: This is one of the premier first class or five star hotels of Ooty. This traditional Danish villa, now converted into a luxury hotel offering deluxe, club and luxury suites, is positioned on the green slopes overlooking the Nilgiri mountains. Club Mahindra Resort speaks of class and elegance. The resort also offers you a variety of studio and single rooms decorated tastefully and incorporated with all modern amenities. Each cottage has a patch of green in between them to cater to the privacy needs of the clients. Keeping with the old worlds charm, each room in the hotel has been bestowed an exotic Danish name. The hotel provides fine dining and wining facilities. The in house restaurant serves delectable multi cuisine dishes. You can choose from a variety of Indian, Continental or South Indian Dishes or try out the authentic South Indian tangy fish curry and chicken dishes. The hotel also has two state of the art conference rooms for business meetings, seminars and presentations. The conference rooms are equipped with audio visual tools and devices. Club Mahindra Resort also offers a host of recreational activity of live entertainment, playground activity and boating. It also offers services of fishing, trekking with badminton and squash courts.

This hotel also provides modern amenities of hot and cold water, room service at all hours including doctor-on-call and laundry service.

Cheap hotels in Ooty fall into two main categories of economy hotels in Ooty and budget hotels. The latter are hotels and guesthouses meant solely for the budgeted travelers. These hotels offer rooms at discount prices and offer only necessary facilities.

The Fernhills Palace: This is a luxury economy hotel. It is situated on 50 acres of land overlooking the green valleys and tea garden of the mountains. Completely decorated and embossed in Burmese teal, this palace converted economy hotel offers economical luxurious comforts to tourists. It has deluxe, ordinary and club air conditioned and non-air conditioned suites with amenities of:

» a spacious sitting room
» big bedroom
» a dressing room
» bathrooms coupled with contemporary facilities
» sit outs
» fireplaces having arrangement of log fire

The hotel's multi cuisine restaurant offering Indian, Chinese and Continental fare is a pure tourist delight. The hotel caters extensively with its snack and theme bar shop, garden restaurant and myriad recreational facilities.