In Chandigarh even the buildings have acronyms. SCO stands for shop cum office, the long rows of three storey blocks Le Corbusier's planners designed to line every sector market, and Maya Hotel occupies four of them, numbers 325 to 328, on Himalaya Marg in Sector 35 B, near Piccadily Chowk.
Built in the 1980s as Hotel Maya Palace and renovated since, it is now a compact business hotel of twenty five rooms on three floors. The Buzzczar restaurant serves Indian, Chinese and continental dishes, a café stays open around the clock with pizzas, burgers, frankies and pastries, and there is a bar, a conference hall and a banquet room for up to around one hundred and fifty guests. Rooms have minibars, kettles, desks and safes, breakfast is generally included, and guests give the free wifi a perfect score.