I'm going to make my first trip to India in March and I'll be attending a conference at the (way too pricey) Grand Hyatt Mumbai. I know it's not too far from the international airport, and I'm thinking that for the first few days I might stay at a hotel in the Julu Beach area and catch a cab to the conference at the Hyatt. I prefer the salt air to the city air anyway. So my first request is for recommendations for a budget hotel in the general Julu Beach area. Clean and cheap, and somewhere I'll can get a wi-fi connection; in the hotel would of course be ideal, but I could live with it if I had to walk to a coffee shop to find a hot spot.

After about 3 or 4 nights in the northern suburbs, I'll then want to stay for 3 more days in downtown Mumbai. I'd like to stay around $60 a night if it's possible to find clean, cockroach-free, nonsmoking, secure lodging at that rate. I realize I will probably need to go higher, but I would like to economize if I can find a place I can live with.

Finding the actual website of a hotel in India is maddening. Everybody and his brother has a portal website that implies that this is the hotel's site, but the tipoff is that they never provide the phone or fax number, and they always have a web-based inquiry system. So if you have a fax number, website, or email address for the hotels you recommend please enclose them.

Thanks,
Pilgrim