金盏花大酒店客满为患，穆瑞尔（玛吉·史密斯 Maggie Smith 饰）和桑尼（戴夫·帕特尔 Dev Patel 饰）开始寻找起了下一个“据点”——玛丽戈德大饭店，在那里，美好的图景展开，两人的事业将走上另一个高峰。 玛琪（西莉亚·伊姆瑞 Celia Imrie 饰）终于邂逅了她的真命天子，只是天子的数量竟然有两位，一时之间，玛琪不知道改选哪个才好。桑尼即将和女友奈娜（蒂娜·德赛 Tina Desai 饰）携手步入婚姻的殿堂，但前提是，忙于工作的他得能抽得出时间参加他自己的婚礼。与此同时，诺曼（罗纳德·皮卡普 Ronald Pickup 饰）和卡罗（黛安娜·哈卡索 Diana Hardcastle 饰）亦从两人纠缠不休的感情漩涡里找到了未来的新的方向。
It's been eight months since the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in Jaipur, India, has been in its current model, with the original British pensioner residents minus Graham (Tom Wilkinson), and Douglas Ainslie's (Bill Nighy's) now estranged wife Jean (Dame Penelope Wilton), still there and immersed in South Asian life for all of its good and bad. In both the good and bad categories, they all, minus Muriel Donnelly (Dame Maggie Smith), are facing emotional issues of the heart in one form or another, which are somewhat affected by their professional commitments. Meanwhile, the hotel is victim of its own success, and as such, the world is seemingly Sonny Kapoor's (Dev Patel's) oyster. He is financially secure enough that he and Sunaina (Tina Desai) can now get married. But he and his business partner Muriel believe they need to expand to a second property, that property which they have chosen and has long been on the market. They are looking for an investor, they believing being a franchise of Evergreen, an American based conglomerate specializing in seniors facilities, the best way to proceed. Evergreen's response is that they will send someone to Jaipur to investigate on their behalf. Sonny is certain the Evergreen representative is an American who checks into the hotel without a reservation, Guy Chambers (Richard Gere), despite Guy stating that he is an aspiring novelist wanting to experience the world for his book. Regardless, Sonny places all of his attention on Guy at the expense of everyone else, especially the other temporary resident of the hotel, Lavinia Beech (Tamsin Greig), a young Brit who is on a reconnaissance trip at the hotel for her mother, and at the expense of his and Sunaina's wedding planning. Sonny's world takes a possible turn for the worse with the arrival back into town of his brother's friend, Kushal (Shazad Latif), as Kushal ends up factoring into Sonny's professional life, as well as is a person who may interest neglected Sunaina romantically. What Sonny is unaware of is that his own actions are a bigger threat to his professional success and future life with Sunaina than Kushal or anybody or anything else. He will also find that eventual heartache is an inherent part of his life in running the hotel in its current model.
