The House of Mangaldas Girdhardas
an Indo-European style mansion, was built in 1924 by Seth Mangaldas
Parekh, a textile industrialist of Ahmedabad, and has been converted
by his descendants into a boutique category hotel with state-of-the-art
facilities
Ahmedabad is known for its 15th and 16th century Indo-Saracenic
monuments, excellent museums like the Calico Museum of Textiles, havelis,
institutions, and architectural works of Le Corbusier, Luis Kahn and
contemporary Indian architects.
10 a/c rooms with
attractive interiors, double or twin beds, marble-topped work table,
swings, settees, TV, speaker-phone, internet connectivity, tea/coffee
making facilities and long baths with hot showers.
Agashiye, the rooftop restaurant of trie House of Mangaldas,
is known for its contemporary Indian vegetarian platters or thalis.
Green House is a cafe offering Gijarati and South Indian snacks and
mini-meals, juices, coffees, Indian desserts and hand-churned ice-creams
with a choice of indoor a/c and outdoors seating in a semi-open garden
pavilion. The fountain courtyard is a pleasant place for breakfast
and next to it is the HBM Lounge available for conferences and banquets
with audio-visual presentation facilities.
The Adalaj Stepwell, The Sarkhej Roja and Akshardham
at Gandhmagar, the Nalsarovar and Thol Sarovar Bird Sanctuaries, and
the 2400-1600 BC archaeological site at Lothal.
Conference and banquet lounge, reading
and movie club.
