Casa Fortuna

Kolkata (Calcutta)


This modern, five-storey city-centre cube is home to 26 attractive rooms that have burlap-style wallpaper, a good range of business-class mod-cons and oversized windows, albeit some facing the flyover outside. There's a pleasant 1st-floor bar-restaurant with obliging staff.


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