The Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park was a five-star hotel located on TTK Road in Chennai, India. It opened in 1981 and closed in 2023.
History
The 250-room Holiday Inn Adayar Gate opened in 1981 on the site of the gates to an old "garden house".[1] It was built by Adyar Gate Hotels Limited (AGHL), established in 1970 by T. T. Vasu (one of the owners of the T. T. Krishnamachari Group, aka TTK) and K. R. Veerappan. Later renamed the Holiday Inn Madras, the hotel was taken over by Welcomgroup Hotels in February 1985, when the controlling stake in the company was acquired by the Goyal family for ₹ 30 million.[2] The hotel was soon after renamed the Welcomgroup Adayar Park Hotel.
In 1988, Sheraton Hotels was contracted to manage the hotel, renamed the Welcomgroup Park Sheraton Hotel & Towers.[3] In 2015, Intercontinental Hotel Group assumed management and the hotel was renamed the Crowne Plaza Chennai Adyar Park.[4]