Umaid Bhawan, Jaipur - Reviews & Contact Details

5 days accommodation here was lovely, a cool pool away from the dust and heat from the street, decor was heavy A$50/night was good value!

I been staying at UB for over three years. The hotel is well run and the family go the extra mile to make your stay welcoming and fun. There is rarely a problem with over booking (think airlines!) but this is due to people booking and not turning up. If guest are ill, it because the been travelling to long, on limited budgets and eating in other places. I'm a designer so I often stay for over a month, no one has every been sick from the cooking at UB. Travellers can often not eat the very food that will help them feel better or rush around all day in the heat without taking time to rest, this is my experience of why people become sick. Great location, great family and a cool pool. Christina

Now that we are safely home in the US, we want to thank you and the entire staff of Umaid Bhawan for making our January visit to Jaipur so enjoyable. Your hotel is simply wonderful. The rooms are elegant, the staff is very friendly and accommodating, and the food in the restaurant was so good that we had no desire to find any other place to take our meals. We will recommend your hotel most highly to anyone who plans a visit to Jaipur. We hope to return ourselves at some future date and will look forward to staying with you again.

I booked 5 rooms for my family and myself for Dec. 24-27, 2006 in the Umaid Bhawan. It was not easy to find something in Jaipur during that time because of several conferences, so I was glad to find rooms in a hotel with excellent reviews at a reasonable price. I booked through hotel.com and received an e-mail confirmation from the Umaid. When we arrived after a long drive on Xmas Eve, we were told to wait for the reservations manager, who apologized and told us something about a plumbing problem which made several rooms in the "palace" unuseable. He had therefore made arrangements to accomodate us in their "newly renovated castle". When my wife and I went to check it out, it turned out that "newly renovated" was a euphemism for "construction site" - it smelled of fresh paint, people were working with noisy power tools and there was no infrastructure whatsoever (never mind that the rooms were several floors up without an elevator). Originally we were told that this was supposed to only be for one night, but they were not able to make any guarantees that we would get rooms in the main hotel later. Needless to say, we refused to stay in a construction site. In the meantime members of my family had been told stories about people too sick to check out by other members of the hotel staff. That, together with their inability to promise rooms for the next day, indicated that all their excuses were blatant lies to veil the fact that they had overbooked out of greed. This is especially scandalous, given that I had prepaid(!) the entire bill months in advance and had received an e-mail confirmation. In the end they refunded the money through hotels.com, but instead of celebrating Xmas in peace, we had to go through an Odyssey of finding rooms in other hotels and ended up leaving a day early. Thanks to the reservations staff of the Umaid Bhawan our stay in Jaipur will be remembered with a rotten aftertaste.

Best house hotel i have stayed in india and the house hotel is very clean,a old heritage house newly renovated with a homely feeling with great value for money so jus t go and enjoy the hotel.

umaid bhawan guest house is Owned by Wing Commander (Dr.) Bhim Singh Rathore, a retired Air Force Officer, Umaid Bhawan is an old heritage property converted into a family run hotel situated in a posh residential colony in the heart of Jaipur city. Just 1.2 Kms. from the Railway Station, and Bus Stand, Umaid Bhawan is ideally located for both the tourist as well as the business traveler and it offers a quite retreat from the hustle and bustle of the lively town of Jaipur. Ranked as one of the best run budget hotels in Jaipur by the Lonely Planet international travel guide book, Umaid Bhawan offers guests a pleasant and comfortable home away from home with traditional Rajput hospitality.