THE LEELA PALACE Chennai, India 🇮🇳【4K Hotel Tour & Honest Review】A Kinda Sorta Palace

[@denisesommer-roque3169]

Surprised you get questions about upload speed and live narration….I don’t think people realise how much work goes into this quality content, that is exactly what sets your channel apart from all others…. You know you get a beautifully filmed, detailed review, that is honest and unbiased…. All one could wish for when looking for information, or just wanting to enjoy the content. Thank you for your great work!

[@tfft]

Yeah- actually I’m envious of creators that can turn out their videos in a month or less… but then I remember nearly everyone else only posts once per week haha. Thanks as always for the support 🙏🏻

[@andy-kai-chan]

I came here to say the same thing. Imagine you doing a walking tour of the lobby as you check in, with 100’s of people around you, and hoping the upload speeds can render a decent HD feed instead of 4K. No thanks

[@freakyyash]

Thanks for the video Kevin. I started to watch your videos from the Taj Palace ones. I am a native from Chennai and have lived my entire life here. I have never set foot inside the Leela Palace. Thanks for showing how it looks and feels. I will keep watching your channel.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@anilhosiery7776]

The most underrated travel channel 💜

[@tfft]

Appreciate that! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@anilhosiery7776]

I think you should also try to upload shorts...

[@aav12]

Your last Leela Bangalore video was a gem to watch! This episode however is gem to watch in addition excellent selection of background music. At least for me it put me in kind of trance and focus! Great work!

[@tfft]

Appreciate that! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@badshah7631]

@@tfftnothing u just got ass kicked by Chennai’s weather

[@ksmechano]

This is my first time watching your channel. Very professionally and nicely done video. Came to watch it after my visit to Leela palace Chennai yesterday. Was blown away away by the beauty and attention to detail at the hotel.

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@travelandbeyonds]

That explanation on time difference between filming and posting video was spot on.

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@muralikrishna5729]

You really are way more experienced than I thought! As a resident of Chennai, I have been to spectra at Leela Chennai multiple times for all three meals but haven't noticed what you mentioned here @16:54. Now that you mentioned it, when I think back, I feel what you said is correct!

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@donjohnson4368]

Excellent, clear, concise commentary- thanks from 🇬🇧

[@tfft]

Appreciate that! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@4mithrandir]

Excellent review/tour of this beautiful Hotel. And a great explanation of why you take time to upload reviews. Thank you.🤗

[@rraja345]

This is the best example of how a travel/Doc video look like

[@tfft]

Appreciate that!

[@denisesommer-roque3169]

Thanks

[@s-d3911]

Don't know Why The KZbin algorithm Not Promoting this type of quality content to the Indian Audience, instead of cringe content... Compare to the number of Indian Audience,the viewership of the videos are very much low... LOVE FROM INDIA🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@tfft]

Share with all of your friends and the algorithm will learn ☺️ Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@s-d3911]

@@tfft Absolutely

[@IndiafanFromGermany]

"The only bad thing about the Leela Chennai, is the Leela Bengaluru" is the best introduction I ever heard; thank You so much for Your creativity Kevin! And I really loved the one in Bangalore. Will follow Your footsteps in Rajasthan in January.

[@rohanmoholkar7199]

your description is really well described!!!!!

[@tfft]

Thanks!

[@anonymouslyopinionated656]

Leela Chennai had issues when they were opening, because they hadn't gotten the proper approvals from some agencies, including the coast guard or navy. Something about being too close to a beach in that area. They had to make some changes to the final layout of the grounds or something.

[@tfft]

Haha “too close” to the beach… can barely see it from the hotel 🙃 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@SunShine_747]

​@@tfft 500 mt from high tide was the rule....

[@kaking2007]

This is correct ......

[@sushantsathe3450]

Your video is full plater content for hotel lovers.. Keep it up & lots of love. 👍🏻

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@jholomorphic]

Haha. I finally got my answer to which Leela Palace is better. Thanks

[@tfft]

Happy to help! :)

[@saggiteightyfour8367]

Great review!

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@shogun1211]

I am addicted to your videos

[@tfft]

I reckon the best kind of addition out there 😉 Thanks for watching addiction

[@leelawrence9522]

totally amazing blogs kevin never miss an episode brillliant with changing flights and hotels so frequently how about a run down on your luggage carry on or more thanx lee

[@tfft]

If I’m traveling and not hauling anything to/from the US, I am 100% carry on. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@kkrc.entertanmentkkrc.ente1576]

It's surprising ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉omg it's amazing

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@positivepraveen9141]

It's like paradise on earth.....

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@patriciafuchs5970]

I really am enjoying the music you have chosen. Nice bathroom and views. I thin you are smart to hold off on reviewing, it is balanced and fair.

[@tfft]

Glad you like it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@GuillermoGomezGG1959]

Your reviews are remarkable, thanks Kevin for your fair well balance observations. Hoping to see a review from Eastern Island - Islas Malvinas - Machu Pichu - El Calafate - Lukla in 2024 :)

[@tfft]

The JW in Cusco is one of my all time favorite Marriott Properties. I’m planning another South America trip hopefully in winter ‘24. Thanks as always for your support 🙏🏻

[@bobophet3191]

Wow amazing & what’s the haunted music in the beginning? ❤❤❤

[@tfft]

All of my music is from Artlist. Don’t have the exact track name on me at the moment. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@rasferrastfarian739]

Nice hotel, great review. (I ALWAYS comment for your 'interaction' metric) 🙂

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@kaking2007]

Great content .... really great. I have been involved with the devleop of a number of the properties and Obeori, Taj and Leela and they are all very special properties. A very fair review..... sorry to say it is not "crips" but papad ......

[@tfft]

I’m not British, I don’t mean potato chips when I say crisps, I mean, crispy things 😉

[@csunil9963]

Looks like some scrumptious food spreads out there ( made my mouth water 😃) in this hotel property tucked away in a sea facing corner of bustling Chennai.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@keshavsingh3212]

Superb place to visit ❤❤

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@sharadjain2463]

hotels of india are amomg the best hotels of the world, whether leela, taj, oberoi, ITC. Instead of dubai or paris, people from all around the world should come to india for great indian hospitality and culture.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@Fyrir.]

You advertised bisleri drinking water for free !! Great video 🎉

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@Ankit_letsdebate]

Hi Kevin. Thanks for the amazing content you've been working hard and sharing. Would like to recommend a hotel worth reviewing in India - ITC Maurya in New Delhi. And also awaiting your review of Qantas airlines along with some of Australian hotels in Melbourne and Sydney.

[@tfft]

This year will just have a very quick ‘taste’ of Australia with more coming next year if it does well. The flight scheduling gods just didn’t have a lot of AUS in the mix this year! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@rohanbhardwaj111]

Always a delight when you drop a new video. Really look forward to watching the next round of Thailand hotel videos. Maybe you should try covering other budget brands like Grande Centre Point too, like you did with Hansar. Would like you see what you think about such hotels.

[@tfft]

I actually filmed for a #short about GC Ratchadamri which is my goto hotel in bkk when I’m not filming. Just need to find time to start making the shorts haha.

[@rohanbhardwaj111]

@@tfft oh nice. I have stayed at GCP terminal 21 and had the choice for Ratchadamri this time but selected terminal 21 again. I'll try to give it a shot next time, but I'm aiming for park Hyatt or okura prestige.

[@tirathsharma5868]

Wonder ful in every aspect

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@PRANAY_KASTHALA]

Awesome Content

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@roshanpjoseph2141]

Nice... like from Alappuzha Kerala

[@abinashpanigrahi5478]

You should have made a video on the Leela palace, Udaipur.

[@tfft]

“Should have” implies I’ve finished with India lol.

[@Anmolnegi-yw7hg]

@@tfft yep udaipur and Jaipur have one of the best hotels in india

[@sibimathen1451]

Leela Palace bangalore has been a lil extra since day 1, but there is a Leela property that put even Bangalore one to shame....The Leela Palace Udaipur.......I guess you know where to go the next India trip

[@tfft]

Next trip is this year 😉

[@faustocoppee8907]

As always, the review brought both expert commentary and fairness (maybe even a touch of generosity) in its scoring. For me, I would find it unacceptable that a luxury hotel with international aspirations would require guests to use the telephone to get real coffee in their rooms. And then not getting it is something else.

[@tfft]

My next video unfortunately isn’t as generous haha. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@larshellmont]

Another great review. Liked your reasoning for the review presentation, please do not change. One of your competitors sadly to say is now doing instant airline, hotel and lounge reviews, not the best idea I think to cross the Atlantic 4 times in 3 days just to report back to viewers. Small issue with latest event space became even space in text. Maybe use Chyron to describe compensation options.

[@tfft]

What do you mean by “instant” reviews?

[@larshellmont]

@@tfft Only that some of your competition does more instant and not reflective reviews of airlines or hotels. For example, fly 2 rt over the Atlantic including trip to Egypt with only a total of 3 nights of hotel stays, all at airports, can not generate thoughtful and honest airline nor hotel service reviews. Only my 5 cents. Keep up the great work.

[@panthbarola1256]

Looking at your reviews, I would have loved it if you went and gave reviews of places like Oberoi Udayvillas or Umaid Bhawan Palace. Those are places which cannot be seen anywhere else in the world owing to the fact that they were actual palaces used by the royal family, some still are.

[@tfft]

You’re implying that I’m done with India lol.

[@kaking2007]

Agree 100% .... they are complete different from the city properties ..... and even more unreal in service and design

[@delrl007]

It would be nice to slowly move the camera and zoom in when you are checking breakfast buffet items and also show the name tag of the food items.

[@tfft]

I prefer that style as well but it just takes up far too much time. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@benitoiiidolor6567]

This is the best hotel in India, I love the inside of it! Great vlog, I will go there on February 19 until 23 2024. :))

[@tfft]

Enjoy it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@tirshanaidoo7398]

Wat does it cost to stay lam from South Africa JHB beautiful hotel

[@tfft]

The price I paid is always in the description.

[@charliebrown5]

Thank You

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@VSV659]

The Bengaluru property is the chain’s flagship property - Chennai came up much later and this property was going to be sold even back in 2013 as the Leela group was cash-constrained. It’s location in the city is always going to be a big negative.

[@tfft]

Agree! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@SnehaSharma-e7b]

They speak very good english and their Beasfarst and coffee are excellent and will accommdate any request if possible we stayed at 3 hotels🎉

[@tfft]

👍🏼

[@ankitsen1998]

You should have visited ITC bengaluru

[@tfft]

I wasn’t too impressed with ITC tbh. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@mystickal6342]

Please dont leave india without reviewing Hotel Oberoi Udayvilas at Udaipur and Hotel Taj has also property at Same city udaipur i am forgetting its name but must checkout

[@tfft]

Who says I can’t just go back? Lol

[@parththakar4455]

cool vids

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@ashwinkumar8728]

Nice place

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@ninettemurk7492]

Thankfully, they still have the cushion dents. By now I image some kind of Indian-dressed pillow warrior going from room to room, giving karate chops to every cushion in sight, while shouting yee-ha!

[@tfft]

I like to think of them as the Pillow Ninja 😊 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@tom_biju]

Do Ramada plaza aswell

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@mukeshvig174]

A beautiful hotel that also suffers from ‘misleading marketing’, is so common even when they have a first rate property. You can remind them but will get nowhere. It’s so common in India, unfortunately. Another common thing about most of such premier hotels is that they lack souls. Taj group does slightly better in that feeling , tho. Thanks

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@mystickal6342]

Out of curiousity i just want to understand what job or businees do you do that you are able to pay for such costly hotels so regulary which middleclass people only dream to visit about in lifetime😂❤😊

[@tfft]

This is my full time gig now. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@mystickal6342]

@@tfft wow thats amazing to know a wonderful and hard job ❤️

[@adventurerh4238]

Rating 6 out of 10

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@deepakbartwal-jl4fs]

Hello

[@tfft]

👋🏻

[@Ashishkumar-cb2mz]

come to mahabalipuram

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@zettavilla]

I think the review is fair and just .. but do you know the sewage and water supply and some electricity is not provided by the govt.. they take out truck loads of waste water to dump else where ..some floors were illegally built initially but that should not put down a visitor ... Thier food courses are famous for marriages luxury style..

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@sundaramcr.3693]

Respected sir today I watched a couple bloggers in your Leela they say 90 percent of your buffet foods are junk and unfit to eat. From now please don't allow these types of vloggers inside your hotel. Also send notification about this to other associated hotels to avoid these idiotic vloggers. Thanks

[@tfft]

Who on earth are you talking to?

[@kishorey1784]

TRue.....it is not a seafront hotel.....stayed in the reviewed hotel n room..............????

[@tfft]

Eh?

[@Johnny847]

Overall, not impressed. This hotel is $275 a night? Not sure, if I would spend that much in India. I mean India is a very inexpensive travel destination. Is there value here? Which is something that your videos do not touch upon. To me, this property is obviously meant for business travellers, who expense the cost. For a tourist, I think $300/night is out of line for what India means to most tourists. Although, the buffet breakfast looks very nice.

[@tfft]

My videos don’t touch on value? Every score on the channel is relative to the price I paid and how that price fits into the local competition. Value is my first consideration.

[@Johnny847]

@@tfft Maybe it is the hospitality industry as a whole. They all seem that they are making up revenue from their closed pandemic periods. In my mind, when a hotel that normally charged $150 is now over $300, it is corporate greed, not inflation. Many, many travel suppliers are losing the good will that they created over the last 20 years, thru greedy pricing. The travel surge will end, if it isn't over now.

[@VK-pd8zz]

Do you need a heaven to stay to give this 85?

[@tfft]

No idea what you’re asking lol.

[@Capo51]

👍🇳🇪.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@princeramyakkumar8300]

It seems like you are an ambassador to the Bangalore Leela Palace. You should be presenting both in their own way. You keep excelled Bangalore most of the time. Your video is biased about Chennai. Not impressed 👎🏿

[@tfft]

Because the Bengaluru property is much better lol. It’s quite simple. Congrats on not being impressed 👎🏼

[@Peace0155]

​@@tfft 🤦🤦