Hotel design and technical advisory
A drawing costs little to change; a built hotel costs a great deal. Amit reviews your design through the eyes of guests, staff and the brand, while it is still on paper.
- Guest room, public area and back-of-house reviews
- Brand technical standards compliance
- Kitchen, laundry and MEP planning
- Owner-side only
- Paid by hotel owners, never by brands or vendors
- 100+ hotel projects
- Advised across India
- 50+ hotel brands
- In Amit’s working network
- 40+ cities
- From metros to tier 2 and 3 markets
Designing a hotel that works, not just one that photographs well
Most hotel design conversations focus on what guests see: the lobby, the rooms, the restaurant. The parts that decide whether a hotel runs efficiently are mostly out of sight. How far does a room attendant walk with her trolley? Can a banquet for 500 be served from the kitchen without crossing the lobby? Is there a service lift where housekeeping needs it? Is the laundry big enough for the occupancy the feasibility study promised?
Amit’s design and technical advisory reviews every stage of your drawings with those questions in mind. He brings two decades of hotel operations experience and his team’s specialist knowledge, including Chef Vaijant Pushkar’s kitchen expertise, to make sure the building supports the business it is meant to house.
What Amit reviews
- Guest rooms Room size and proportions, bathroom layout, storage, lighting, sockets, acoustics and accessibility.
- Room mix The balance of standard rooms, premium rooms and suites against expected demand.
- Public areas Arrival, lobby, lifts, restaurants, bars, meeting and banquet spaces, and how guests move between them.
- Back-of-house Staff entrances, stores, receiving, laundry, housekeeping, staff facilities and service routes.
- Kitchens Location, size, equipment and flow for each outlet and for banqueting.
- MEP and systems Air-conditioning, hot water, power backup, fire safety, water treatment and building management.
- Brand standards Compliance with the chosen brand’s technical requirements, and where waivers make sense.
- Mock-up room A full-scale sample room reviewed before the rest are built.
The cost of a wrong decision, multiplied by every room
In a hotel, small design decisions are repeated dozens or hundreds of times. An extra half-metre in room width, a bathtub instead of a shower, a different tile or tap: each choice is multiplied by the number of rooms and shows up in both the construction budget and the operating costs for the next twenty years.
That is why Amit insists on a mock-up room on most projects. Building one complete room, furnished and lit, before the rest go into production costs a little time and money. It reliably reveals problems that drawings hide, from a wardrobe door that hits the bed to a mirror without light. Fixing them in one room is cheap; fixing them in a hundred is not.
Working with the brand’s technical team
Once a brand is signed, its technical services team will review your drawings against its standards. Amit helps owners prepare for those reviews, challenge requirements that add cost without adding value for the hotel’s market, and agree waivers in writing so that they are not reopened later.
Back-of-house: the part guests never see
Back-of-house areas decide how many people a hotel needs to run and how well they can work. Long service corridors, a laundry on the wrong floor, a single goods lift shared with guests or a kitchen two floors away from the banquet hall each add staff hours every single day for the life of the hotel.
Amit reviews back-of-house as a set of journeys: how linen moves from laundry to room and back, how food moves from receiving to store to kitchen to table, how waste leaves the building, and how staff get from the entrance to their lockers and their workplaces. Each journey should be short, separate from guest areas and easy to supervise.
These spaces are also where owners are most often tempted to save money by shrinking them. Amit helps judge which savings are sensible and which will cost more in payroll than they save in construction.
Hotels Amit has advised
Every tag is a real hotel. Sarovar, Clarks, Lemon Tree and more, across six states.
At what stage should design advisory start?
At the concept stage, before the structural grid and room module are fixed. Amit can also join later, but the savings are largest early on.
Do you design the hotel?
No. Your architect and interior designer design the hotel. Amit reviews their work as the owner’s hotel expert and helps you brief them.
Can you review an existing hotel for renovation?
Yes. Renovations and conversions benefit from the same review, especially of back-of-house and services, which are often the hardest parts to change.
What is a mock-up room?
A full-scale sample guest room built and furnished before the rest of the rooms go into production, so that problems can be found and fixed once.
Do you advise on kitchens and laundries?
Yes. Kitchen and laundry planning is a specialist part of the service, led with Chef Vaijant Pushkar.
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- Owner-side only: no fees from brands or vendors
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