AlcorOne executes hospitality fit-outs across South India — guest rooms and bathrooms at ₹3–10 lakh per key and ₹10–15 lakh for premium keys, hotel restaurants, bars, lobbies and back-of-house priced per sq ft, all phased floor by floor so the property keeps selling rooms while the work runs.
Hospitality fit-out services build or refurbish the interiors of a hotel, resort or serviced-apartment property — guest rooms and bathrooms, corridors, lobbies and public areas, restaurants and bars, and the back-of-house kitchens, laundries and staff areas the operation runs on. What separates them from a commercial fit-out is that the property is usually still trading. Work is phased floor by floor or wing by wing behind hard separation, acoustic performance between rooms is a contractual outcome rather than a finish preference, and every programme decision is made against rooms that would otherwise be sold. AlcorOne Solutions LLP delivers hospitality fit-outs across South India as one accountable scope covering civil works, joinery, wet areas, MEP coordination, FF&E installation and handover — with guest rooms costed per key and public areas per sq ft, because the two behave nothing alike.
A hotel is not one fit-out. It is four with different economics, different programmes and different approval paths, executed inside the same building at the same time.
The repeating unit. Wardrobe, headboard and panelling joinery, the full bathroom with waterproofing and sanitaryware, flooring, ceiling, lighting and in-room electrical — proven in a mock-up, then rolled out at pace. Costed per key.
The first ninety seconds of the guest experience, and the part with no repetition to absorb cost. Feature joinery, stone and flooring, ceiling and lighting design, reception desk and back-drop. Costed per sq ft.
The closest thing to AlcorOne's delivered work. Front-of-house, bar, commercial kitchen with exhaust and grease ducting, make-up air and drainage falls — the same discipline as a standalone restaurant, inside an operating property.
Never seen, always the critical path. Wet-area waterproofing, drainage to serviceable points, extraction balance, linen and housekeeping stores, staff facilities. Gets specified last and delays handover first.
Guest-room fit-out in South India runs approximately ₹3 lakh to ₹10 lakh per key, rising to ₹10–15 lakh per key for premium and luxury rooms and suites. Public areas and F&B are priced per sq ft instead. Use these to budget, not to quote — the binding number comes from an itemised BOQ read against the property survey and the operator's brand standard.
| Area type | Typical scope | Fit-out cost | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guest room, mid-scale / business | Room joinery, bathroom, flooring, ceiling, lighting, electrical | ₹3–5 lakh | per key |
| Guest room, upscale | Above plus feature panelling, upgraded sanitaryware, layered lighting | ₹5–10 lakh | per key |
| Guest room / suite, premium | Above plus stone, veneer and bespoke joinery, suite bathrooms | ₹10–15 lakh | per key |
| Hotel restaurant / specialty dining | Front-of-house, bar, commercial kitchen, exhaust and drainage | ₹3,500–6,500 | per sq ft |
| Hotel cafe / coffee shop | Counter, seating, service area, lighting | ₹2,500–4,500 | per sq ft |
| Lobby, reception & public areas | Feature joinery, stone and flooring, ceiling, lighting, reception desk | ₹3,000–6,000 | per sq ft |
Basis: AlcorOne execution rates as of , exclusive of GST. Indicative range for planning; the binding figure comes from an itemised BOQ against the actual site measurements and specification.
Reviewed by Pradeep Kumar Vasadi, Principal — on-site execution and delivery.
Per-key figures cover the room and its bathroom: demolition and civil works, wardrobe, luggage bench, headboard and wall panelling, minibar and study joinery, flooring, ceiling, lighting and in-room electrical, the full bathroom with waterproofing, tiling, sanitaryware and fittings, door hardware and lock interface, curtain tracks, painting and snag closure. Excluded and normally operator-supplied: loose furniture, mattress and bedding, television and in-room technology, safe, minibar unit, OS&E, artwork, and property-wide MEP plant. Also excluded: statutory fees, fire and FSSAI clearances, and the mock-up room where it is contracted separately.
Three things move a key inside its band, and none of them is the finish catalogue. Repetition is the largest: the first room costs far more than the fiftieth, because the mock-up absorbs the specification, the templates and the mistakes — so a 20-key boutique property and a 200-key hotel built to identical drawings do not land on the same per-key number, and the smaller property should expect to sit higher in its band. Bathroom specification is the second: the bathroom is a small fraction of the room's area and a large fraction of its cost, so a shift from a shower cubicle to a wet-room with a stone counter and concealed cisterns moves the key more than re-finishing every wall in the bedroom would. Whether the property trades through the works is the third: phased floor-by-floor delivery around occupied rooms carries barricading, restricted working hours, protected material routes and lower productivity per shift, and that is a real cost a closed property does not pay. An operator comparing quotes should confirm all three assumptions before treating two per-key numbers as comparable.
On any programme past about fifteen keys, one room is built complete and signed off before the rest are released — finishes, joinery, bathroom, lighting scheme, acoustics and the door-and-lock interface all proven in place rather than on a sample board. It costs a premium and three to four weeks, and it is the cheapest insurance on the project: a specification error caught in the mock-up costs one room, and the same error caught in month four costs every room already built. Operators who compress the mock-up to save the programme almost always spend it back in rework.
In hospitality the sequence is not chosen for construction efficiency. It is chosen so the property can keep selling rooms.
Dust, noise and access separation from occupied floors, with riser isolations sequenced so a shutdown never crosses into a trading area. Rooms come out of inventory in planned batches, not opportunistically.
Material in and debris out on circulation that never meets a guest, protected end to end, with service-lift slots booked rather than assumed.
Party walls, door seals, riser boxing and partition-to-slab details built as specified items. A guest who can hear the next room has had a bad stay — and these cannot be retrofitted without reopening a finished room.
Waterproofing, drainage falls and ducting routes are settled and tested before any finish is ordered, because they fix floor levels and ceiling heights everywhere downstream of them.
A hospitality programme is judged on two numbers: what it cost per key, and how many room-nights it took off sale to get there.
Rooms are measured as found and grouped into key types — standard, accessible, corner, suite — because a property with six key types is six fit-outs, not one. Existing services, riser positions, slab levels and acoustic performance are recorded before any drawing is produced.
The operator's brand standard, the design intent and the survey are reconciled into an itemised BOQ per key type, with the contractor-supplied and operator-supplied split written in — so nothing ends up in the gap between two schedules at installation.
One room built complete: finishes, joinery, bathroom, lighting, acoustics, door hardware. Reviewed, snagged and formally approved before the first floor is released for rollout.
Rooms delivered in batches behind hard separation, with off-site joinery fabrication keeping site time to installation, protected routes for material and debris, and daily reporting to the operator on rooms due back in inventory.
The lobby and restaurant packages are sequenced into the property's own low season where the calendar allows, with temporary reception and circulation arrangements agreed in advance rather than improvised.
Services tested and signed off, snags closed room by room against the operator's own checklist, and a handover pack recording as-built condition, specifications and every service modification made.
Worth stating plainly, because an operator is entitled to know before a meeting rather than during one.
AlcorOne has no completed hotel or resort project to show. We would rather publish that than imply a track record we do not have. What we do have is the work immediately adjacent to it, delivered and photographed: a full-service restaurant at Tai Tai in Jubilee Hills covering dining, bar and back-of-house; three La Pino'z Pizza outlets across Kokapet, Mokila and Q City, each to a franchise fit-out standard; Dessert Addictions, a dessert cafe in Chennai; a food-court kiosk for Madurai Famous Jigarthanda in Chennai; and multi-cabin office fit-outs including reception and public-area joinery. For a hotel restaurant, bar, lobby or back-of-house package, that is directly transferable — the kitchen services, wet-area construction, brand-standard compliance and trading-hours phasing are the same disciplines. For a full guest-keys refurbishment it would be our first, and any operator weighing a contractor for that specific format should factor it in. We would rather win that work on the specification and the process than on an overstated portfolio, and we are happy to be measured against a firm that has done twenty.
Hospitality feasibility depends on the property, the key count, whether it trades through the works and the scope commissioned. Share the property for a direct fit check.
They build or refurbish hotel, resort and serviced-apartment interiors — guest rooms and bathrooms, corridors, lobbies and public areas, restaurants and bars, and back-of-house kitchens, laundries and staff areas. What separates them from a commercial fit-out is that the property is usually still trading, so phasing and acoustic performance are contractual outcomes rather than preferences.
Approximately ₹3 lakh to ₹10 lakh per key for guest rooms in South India, and ₹10–15 lakh per key for premium and luxury rooms and suites. Mid-scale and business-hotel rooms sit around ₹3–5 lakh, upscale around ₹5–10 lakh. Public areas and F&B are priced per sq ft instead — see the cost table.
Because a guest room is a repeating unit, not an area. Two rooms of identical square footage can differ by lakhs on bathroom specification, joinery and lighting — and operators budget, finance and benchmark per key, because that is how the asset earns. Public areas have no repeating unit, so they revert to per sq ft.
Included: civil works, wardrobe, headboard and panelling joinery, minibar and study, flooring, ceiling, lighting and in-room electrical, the full bathroom with waterproofing, tiling, sanitaryware and fittings, door hardware and lock interface, curtain tracks, painting and snag closure. Excluded and normally operator-supplied: loose furniture, mattress and bedding, in-room technology, safe, minibar unit, OS&E, artwork and property-wide MEP plant.
By floor or wing with hard separation — the zone isolated from occupied floors for dust, noise and access, riser isolations sequenced never to cross a trading area, and material and debris on routes that never touch guest circulation. Noisy trades run in agreed daytime hours, and the quiet window in a hotel is wider and less negotiable than on any commercial site.
Roughly 10–14 days per key once the floor is released and the mock-up is approved, with rooms in parallel batches — a 20-key floor typically clears in 6–8 weeks. The mock-up itself takes 3–4 weeks before that and should not be compressed. A full hotel restaurant with back-of-house runs 8–12 weeks; a lobby 6–10 weeks.
Because a guest who can hear the next room has had a bad stay, and that is what a review reports. Party walls, door seals, riser boxing and the partition-to-slab junction decide whether the built room performs like the specified one. They are executed correctly on site or not at all — they cannot be improved later without reopening a finished room.
Commercial kitchen services with exhaust and grease ducting, make-up air balanced against extraction, wet-area waterproofing across kitchens, laundries and bathrooms with drainage falls to serviceable points, staff areas, housekeeping stores and linen rooms. Ducting routes and drainage falls are settled before any finish is ordered, because they fix ceiling heights and floor levels.
No. There is no completed hotel or resort project to show, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. The transferable delivered work is F&B and commercial — Tai Tai in Jubilee Hills, three La Pino'z outlets, Dessert Addictions, a dessert cafe in Chennai, a food-court kiosk for Madurai Famous Jigarthanda in Chennai, and multi-cabin office fit-outs with reception joinery. A hotel F&B outlet or public area is close to that; a full keys programme would be our first.
AlcorOne is an interior fit-out contractor, and hospitality — including hotels and resorts — is one of the formats we take on, alongside offices, retail and residential. We have no completed hotel or resort project to show, and would rather publish that than imply otherwise. What we do have delivered and photographed is the F&B and commercial work directly adjacent to it: a full-service restaurant covering dining, bar and back-of-house at Tai Tai in Jubilee Hills, three La Pino'z Pizza outlets across Hyderabad, Dessert Addictions, a dessert cafe in Chennai, a food-court kiosk for Madurai Famous Jigarthanda in Chennai, and multi-cabin office fit-outs with reception and public-area joinery. A hotel F&B outlet, bar, lobby or back-of-house package is directly transferable from that experience; a full guest-keys programme would be our first, and an operator who needs a specific hotel track record should factor that in before appointing us.
A resort raises a distinct set of constraints from an urban hotel's floor-by-floor phasing: a remote site with longer and less predictable material haulage, on-site labour housing for a crew that cannot commute daily, and trading logistics that follow their own seasonal or event-driven occupancy pattern rather than a city hotel's 24/7 rhythm. Resort-specific site access and material lead time should be scoped in the property survey, not assumed to be identical to an urban hotel.
A fire NOC and, for any F&B area, an FSSAI licence are the two clearances that most directly affect the design. Both are excluded from the per-key rate, per the cost table's notes on statutory fees, and are typically obtained by the operator rather than the contractor since they attach to the licensed business. They should be sequenced early because fire NOC requirements — sprinkler density, detector spacing, refuge areas — affect ceiling and services design, the same logic already applied to fire and MEP coordination on our mall fit-out work.
A kitchenette adds its own wet-area waterproofing and drainage beyond the bathroom a standard key has, and longer average stays can justify a more durable wear specification on flooring and joinery. Whether FF&E is operator-owned or guest-owned on a serviced-apartment format is a live question that varies by operator model — consistent with loose FF&E already being excluded from our per-key rate, this is confirmed at brief stage rather than assumed either way.
Starting with an F&B outlet, bar or public area before a full guest-keys commitment is the lower-risk order for a first engagement — it proves execution quality on a self-contained scope without pulling rooms out of inventory. This is consistent with our own position above: no completed hotel or resort project, but directly transferable F&B and public-area delivery. See Where to Start a Hospitality Fit-Out: F&B First, Guest Rooms Later.
Projects start on a 20% deposit of the total contract value, adjusted against the final invoice. The balance is released against milestones tied to progress — material procurement, civil and carpentry completion, finishing and handover — and the exact milestone schedule is written into each project's payment schedule, because it moves with size, scope and site condition. Published rates are exclusive of GST. On a trading property the milestone list is normally cut per phase rather than per property, so a wing released back into service closes out its own payments.
Yes — that is the default assumption on hospitality work rather than an extra. Guest rooms are quoted per key at ₹3–15 lakh and F&B and public areas per sq ft, which lets the programme be cut into releasable phases instead of one shutdown.
Include the property and location, the key count and how many key types, the target standard or operator brand, whether the property trades through the works, and which packages are in scope — rooms, public areas, F&B, back-of-house. We will come back on a phasing approach that protects trading floors, a per-key and per-sq-ft cost position, the acoustic and wet-area items that belong in the specification, and an honest view of where our experience does and does not reach.