Packing your holiday with sightseeing and shopping sounds good until you realise that you’ve left almost no time for that vital element — pampering yourself. Next time, indulge yourself with a break that’s rejuvenating and relaxing, and close to the city. An increasing number of resorts around the city are offering healthy getaways with special offers on weekends.

Fort Ramgarh, a heritage hotel with a 360-year history, has introduced a Health and Rejuvenation package that’s royal in every way. “The concept is healthy living and rejuvenation,” says Amitabh Singh Chandel, the managing director. The three-day and two-night residential package offers meditation, yoga, spa therapy, health food, general health check-up, diet counselling and aerobics apart from beach cricket and rain dance.

In what has been described as a step-by-step guide to 100 per cent natural healing, the author comes up with a simple, easy-to-practise regimen that he promises will rejuvenate you in just 20 weeks.  for more please read this on Times of india

Panchkula, April 28
The Fort Ramgarh Institute of Hotel Management has joined hands with the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute.

Stating this in a press release here today, Adarsh Suri, director of Ramgarh institute, said students would now be provided with a better hospitality, online learning, distance-learning courses, videos, seminars, textbooks, and study guides. American Hotel would update hotel management courses, he added.

“It is our consistent endeavour to offer best possible education with the help of professionally trained faculty and offer the hotel industry the kind of staff it needs,” said Amitabh Chandel, managing director, Fort Ramgarh. — TNS

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Chandigarh, August 14
It is official. The door of the Fort at Ramgarh is the tallest door in the country higher than even the gate of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra. The latest edition of the Limca Book of Records which is the Indian equivalent to the Guinness Book of Records, lists the entry of the “tallest door” at page number 204.

The wooden door guarding the 350-year-old Ramgarh Fort near Chandigarh measures 37ft in height and 14½ ft in width.

The “Buland Darwaza” at Fatehpur Sikri stands 120 ft tall, including the steps and the constructed area but the actual door is only 23 ft. The door at the Bathinda fort in Punjab is 26 feet high.

Interestingly, the doors of forts and palaces were kept exceptionally tall in previous centuries so that the rajas sitting on elephants could enter without dismounting. Hence they were often called hathi deorhi.

The door of the fort is a replica of the original door, which was built 300 years back by the Chandel Rajput dynasty but broken during the 1857 mutiny. The replica was reconstructed in late 1980, by Kanwar Mohan Singh, a scion of the former ruling family of Ramgarh, is now a part of the premises converted into a heritage hotel. Each of its two panels weighs 21 quintals despite which, it can be easily closed and opened. About 2000 man-days were spent in putting the new door together with 343 custom-made copper plates and 343 spikes on it.

Spikes were used on the doors in olden days so that these could not be broken by an attacking army with the help of elephants banging their heads on it.

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Many fine elements of the original designs have been preserved, including the Art-Deco style and mirror mosaics. The luxurious deluxe rooms, some of them carved out of nine-foot thick walls, overlooking a cosy lawn and a typically Indian courtyard have intricate frescos hand painted on their ceilings.

The distinct decor and furniture of every room mocks at the dull uniformity of assembly-line interior design, so unfortunately familiar today. Yet, the Fort, managed by dedicated professionals, boasts of all modern amenities like attached bathrooms with hot and cold water, telephone and CTV to make your stay comfortable