This experience is one of those experiences you tell everyone is not possible to explain in words. It must be individually experienced to understand.
This is a real palace...functioning as a real palace until the late 1950's. It still has the feel of a palace, even if it has become a little commercialized. As we understood, the original royal family still owns the property and seeks to cover their ownership costs by licensing it to a hotel management company. This provides for a situation that is both the positive and the negative. Obvious care is taken to truly care about the property...everything is well maintained and manicured. But, it also means many available corners are generating revenue, including shops in the hotel and garages converted to tourist offices, etc.
The staff is among the best of any hotels we have ever stayed in...
obviously long time veterans of this hotel who have not lost any of their desire to serve the guests in the most attentive manner possible.
We often stay in other five star properties, including Aman properties and Four Seasons. We were suitably pleased that this hotel cost less, but in our opinion, was a superior experience to the better hotels/resorts world wide.
And, to make it even better, Jaipur was the highlight of our India trip...the most interesting sights are nearby.
