Set In the Tea
The gardens around the property are worked, not landscaped, and the New Chumta factory is a few hundred metres from the gate.
Tea
Resort - Siliguri
Tudor GablesIn a Tea Garden
Siliguri is where the plains give out and the road to Darjeeling, Sikkim and Bhutan begins, and the resort sits in the tea that covers the last flat miles of it. The architecture is deliberately Tudor — gables, timber and long low elevations — which ought to be incongruous and instead settles into the hedged green geometry of a tea estate as though it had always been there. A hundred and fifty-four rooms, six places to eat, and the Himalaya standing up out of the haze on a clear morning.
For over four decades, MAYFAIR has hosted travellers who could not settle for the ordinary. Whether your heart is drawn to lagoon gardens, Himalayan terraces, or the Bay of Bengal at dawn — every MAYFAIR address is composed with the same quiet promise of grace.
Highlights
A working estate, a resort large enough to hold a wedding and a film screening on the same evening, and the shortest road there is to three mountain states.
The Planters Tea Lounge
A room given over entirely to tea, in the one part of the world where that is the obvious thing to do rather than an affectation.
A Resort, Not a Stopover
An outdoor pool, a spa, a gym, a movie theatre and fifteen banquet halls — Siliguri is usually somewhere people pass through, and this is built to stop them.
Nine categories
across one hundred and fifty-four rooms
Rooms look into the tea, into the jungle, or up towards the hills — and the suites are named for the people who used to run estates like this one.
Mountain View Room
Turned towards the hills. On a clear morning after rain, the Himalaya come up out of the haze and the room earns its name.
View Details
What a day here holds
Tea, properly
First flush, second flush and the autumnals, poured in a lounge that sits inside the gardens that grew them.
The pool, year-round
Outdoor and open through the year — Siliguri sits low and warm, whatever the hills above it are doing.
The gym and the games
A fitness centre, billiards and a children's playground, for a family that has just come down off a mountain road.
The gateway run
Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Gangtok and the Bhutan border all begin here. Siliguri is the junction that makes the rest of it reachable.
Good to Know
Wellness
Tranquillity at its best
Cuisine
Unique dining experiences
In-house Bar
Memorable occasions
Lactarium
An oasis for nurturing motherhood
Doctor-on-call
24-hour medical assistance
Complimentary Wi-Fi
High-speed throughout the estate
In the tea gardens outside Siliguri, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. Siliguri is the junction for Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Gangtok and the Bhutan border, and Bagdogra is the nearest airport.