The questions
before you book it

Five options, all inclusive of the private floor, table service and a menu agreed in advance:

• Heritage Breakfast — ₹499 per head · min 8 · 2 hours
• Corporate Half-Day — ₹899 per head · min 8 · 4 hours with a working lunch
• Charminar Heritage Experience — ₹999 per head · min 4 · walk, craft session and meal
• Deccani Round Table — ₹1,299 per head · min 12 · evening dinner with a talk or performance
• Full Floor Buyout — ₹20,000 flat · up to 24

No. No room hire, no cover charge, no service charge added at the end. The per-head figure covers the reserved floor, table service, the menu and unlimited filter kaapi and tea. The number you take to approval is the number you pay.

Yes, and you should. Send the date, headcount and occasion and you get back a package, a menu and a per-head figure in writing — usually the same day. That is the document to attach to the approval request, rather than a screenshot of a website.

Around sixteen people. Above that, ₹20,000 flat generally beats per-head pricing, and it has the added advantage of not moving when your headcount does. Ask for both figures when you get the quote and take the better one — the desk will give you both if you ask.

Yes — GST invoices as standard, with purchase orders, advance payment and corporate accounts all accepted, and vendor onboarding paperwork completed for your finance team. Send the onboarding pack with the booking rather than afterwards; finance is what usually delays these, not availability.

Yes. A standing arrangement sets the terms once — a corporate code for your organisation, bookings recorded against it, and a month-end activity summary to your admin lead. Most companies that use the room once end up using it quarterly, and this is what stops the re-quoting. Set up by Neel Sharma on +91 99721 31903.

CORPORATE_TERMS

Plus a complimentary familiarisation breakfast for your HR leadership before the first booking, and the terms fixed in writing so they do not shift between quarters.

48 hours for a breakfast, team lunch or offsite. 3 days for a full floor buyout. 7 days for anything with a guided walk or a craft session, because a guide and a workshop both have to be booked. Popular dates go early — there is only one floor.

Tell the desk as soon as you know. Per-head pricing is confirmed against the final headcount, so a number corrected the day before is straightforward. Minimums do apply per package, so a significant drop may move you to a different one — which is another argument for the flat-rate buyout if your numbers are unstable.

CANCELLATION_POLICY

If the date is moving rather than falling through, say so early — moving a booking is easier than cancelling one.

Yes — a complimentary familiarisation breakfast for your HR leadership, before you commit a team to it. It takes about an hour and it is considerably easier than explaining afterwards why the venue was wrong. Arrange it on +91 99517 90000.

Yes. A recurring slot is set up once against your corporate code rather than re-quoted each time, with a fixed per-head rate. Speak to Neel Sharma on +91 99721 31903 about a standing arrangement.

Parking is arranged on the booking — send the vehicle count when you confirm and the drop-off is on the main road frontage beside Sardar Mahal. Cars, tempo travellers and minibuses are all workable; flag a larger coach a day ahead. Share the Plus Code 9F6G+GG in the calendar invite for anyone making their own way.

Yes — complimentary filter kaapi and a snack for accompanying drivers and team escorts, on every visit. They wait comfortably rather than in the vehicle.

No — there is no lift in the building and the private floor is up a staircase. If anyone on your team cannot manage stairs, tell us at the booking stage and we will seat the whole group on the ground floor instead. Better to know when you are planning than on the morning, and it is worth checking rather than assuming.

6:00 AM. An early departmental breakfast that finishes before the working day properly starts is the most-booked format here — nobody loses an afternoon and nobody travels twice. Charminar itself does not open until 9, so a 7 AM sitting is genuinely quiet.

No, and that is largely the point. The kitchen is 100% pure vegetarian — no meat, no eggs, anywhere — with Jain preparation on advance notice and the whole environment alcohol-free. Nobody has to opt out of anything, ask twice, or quietly eat around the edges of a menu.

One limit: this is not an allergen-free kitchen. Milk, wheat, nuts, lentils and spices are handled daily. Flag serious allergies when you book.

Yes — a display screen, projector and Wi-Fi, with power at the table. Say at the booking stage that it is a working session so the room is set up as a meeting rather than a meal, with the equipment ready before the team arrives.

We don't do obstacle courses or trust falls. A guided walk through the Old City, a lac-bangle demonstration at a family workshop in Laad Bazaar, or an attar session — the Deccani perfume tradition — then a seated meal upstairs. Groups of 10 to 25 work best, and it is the format people take photographs of. Seven days' notice.

Yes. Reserved, air-conditioned and alcohol-free, with a well-lit entrance and staircase, clean maintained washrooms, staff in uniform and CCTV in common areas. Women's networks and mixed corporate teams use the room regularly, and an optional bangle or attar craft session works well for this.

Yes — photograph freely. It is a genuinely good-looking room in a restored Art Deco building with work by local artists on the walls, which does better in an internal newsletter than a hotel meeting room. Tell us if you would prefer we did not photograph your group ourselves.

Yes — a closed room with controlled access and service only when called for. Quieter than a hotel lobby and considerably more professional than a café, available from 6 AM. The Corporate Half-Day covers it, with 48 hours' notice.

• Ms Sraboni · +91 99517 90000 — bookings. Dates, quotes, menus, parking, the familiarisation breakfast. 10 AM to 7 PM. Start here.
• Neel Sharma · +91 99721 31903 — corporate account, standing arrangements, vendor onboarding and purchase orders.