Nearest railway station is Churchgate which is about 3 km while local public transport buses of BEST buses no. , 3, 6, 43, 45, 103, 107, 122, 123, 124, 125, 132, 133, 137, 11 , 21, 83, 136 will get you to Colaba bus depot. While International airport of Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport Andheri and domestic airport of santacruz is more than 20 km away. Best way to go around in taxi, famous black and yellow one or newly introduced sea blue air conditioned one.
It is tourist destination because most of tourist attractions are surrounded here so hotel business is also developed near colaba. Hotel Taj opposite to Gateway of India and Fariyas hotel is top on the list.
Attractions
Gateway of India is foremost tourist attraction in colaba. Then Hotel Taj opposite to Gate way of India and Prince of Walse Museum and navy nagar - a military cantonement area. Down the colaba road there is Afghan church made up of white stone.
shopping
For shopping there are so many options from street market to branded names. But I want to specially mention colaba causeway for shopping on street. It is one of famous street market of Mumbai. Starting from back of Hotel Taj it is stretch to almost 1-1.5 km of road. Street vendors sell variety of goods ranging from cloths, antique items, leather items and many more. It is of cheaper rate market with huge variety and sometimes vendor talking in English to attract foreign tourist.
food
Restaurants are adjacent to this street market. They serve almost all variety dishes of each corner of world from Thai to mexican to chinese and many more.Colaba is worth visit while visiting Mumbai
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Good start to your review although as Claiiiree has previoulsy stated i think that if you added some more info to your review then this would make it more useful. If you update or add more to your review let me know and ill reread and rerate for you
Claiiiree 20.09.2008 00:15
I think this needs a bit more detail, I am forced to write a comment due to earlier rate..
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