Taj Umaid Bhavan Palace Reviews

It is one of the fort made during 20th century. A part of the palace is museum and a part is heritage hotel.

You will get an awesome view of Jodhpur from the palace. It's a royal thing. Try to reach before 4, else you will be late.

Absolutely stunning.. A must visit if in jodhpur. But one needs to call and do prior booking for a meal to see the Palace.

Went to Risala for our first anniversary dinner and the whole experience was fabulous. Left us spellbound. The restaurant is located inside the palace itself and it's recommended to make prior reservation. The place has a quiet ambience with soothing lightning and opera-ish music in the background. The staff is highly courteous and hospitable. The food and drinks menus are splendid as well covering indian and continental cuisines and a large variety of drinks - having some 'palace specialities' as well. A casual mention of the fact that it was our anniversary made them arrange a special cake for us. We were the last people to leave the restaurant so one of the waiters even gave us a tour of the palace - at least of the areas which were open. We absolutely LOVED the overall hospitality, ambience, food, drinks and the whole EXPERIENCE. Risala by Taj is thus HIGHLY recommended.

Please visit once, if u wanna watch old stuff vechile..

It's really a wonderful place. A must visit place if you are in jodhpur.

One of the Best heritage hotel of the world .Umaid Bhawan Place is also one of the Best Heritage TOURISM.

Nothing special, except you get to watch vintage cars

Nice place, but very small museum as it looks very big but it's for hotel only 7 rooms for museum. The vintage car collection is great

Nice neat clean well managed parking fir disabled too. Public toilet vintage car display seperately, big lawns but in a hill so go in car, displays articles of Mahraja of Jodhpur. Illumination in night. But one wing taken by Hotel where entry restricted.

A very big and wonderful palace in the blue city of jodhpur. It covers a large area and has huge gardens. It is officially a hotel mainly for tourists. It also has a small vintage car museum with wonderstriking and beautiful royal cars. The tickets are very less and it has fresh and cool drinking water facility.

It is a magnificent piece of architecture and offers lots for the visitors. The six rooms have wonderful collection of historical artefacts and portraits. The museum store has good collectibles.

This is what Rajasthan is all about , the place makes you feel like a king itself . The way you are welcomed is the best part of it . The open air dinning area gives you a good royal feel very quiet and majestic you have a great view infront of you , the food served is really tasty specially the continental food . If you love a silent place with a place at to your self this is one place you have to visit , very spacious halls perfect for any events you want to organize .even the smoking zone is very fancy with a pool table and some more indoor games the view from up is the best specially at night

Marvelous palace, now converted into the top most hotel of India managed by Taj group, museum and private residence of Jodhpur Maharaja.

Beautiful, top class hotel. We spent a pleasant afternoon and evening.

Not worth it... only commercial fort not much access to visit this place

Umaid Bhawan Palace, located at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, is one of the world's largest private residences. A part of the palace is managed by Taj Hotels. Named after Maharaja Umaid Singh, grandfather of the present owner Gaj Singh of the palace, this edifice has 347 rooms and serves as the principal residence of the erstwhile Jodhpur royal family. A part of the palace also houses a museum.

Ground for the foundations of the building was broken on 18 November 1929 by Maharaja Umaid Singh and the construction work was completed in 1943. The Palace was built to provide employment to thousands of people during the time of famine.
Umaid Bhawan Palace is linked to a curse by a saint who had said that a period of drought will follow the good rule of the Rathore Dynasty. Thus, after the end of about 50-year reign of Pratap Singh, Jodhpur faced a severe drought and famine conditions in the 1920s for a period of three consecutive years. The farmers of the area faced with famine conditions sought the help of the then king Umaid Singh,[3] who was the 37th Rathore ruler of Marwar at Jodhpur,[4] to provide them with some employment so that they could survive the famine conditions. The king, in order to help the farmers, decided to build a lavish palace. He commissioned Henry Vaughan Lanchester as the architect to prepare the plans for the palace; Lanchester was a contemporary of Sir Edwin Lutyens who planned the buildings of the New Delhi government complex. Lanchester patterned the Umaid Palace on the lines of the New Delhi building complex by adopting the theme of domes and columns.[3] The palace was designed as an extraordinary blend of western technology, and many Indian architectural features.[4]

The palace was built at a slow pace as its initial objective was to provide employment to the famine-stricken farmers of the locale. The foundation stone was laid in 1929. About 2,000 to 3,000 people were employed to build it.[5] However, the actual occupation of the palace by the Maharaja came only after its completion in 1943, very close to the period of Indian Independence. There was criticism in some quarters for embarking on an expensive project but it had served the main purpose of helping the citizens of Jodhpur to face the famine situation.[3] The estimated cost of building the palace was Rs 11 million.[6] When it opened its gilded doors in 1943 it was considered as one of the largest royal residences in the world.[4]

Umaid Bhawan Palace as seen from Mehrangarh Fort
The site chosen for the palace was on a hill known as Chittar hill in the outer limits of Jodhpur, [7] after which the palace is also known,[8] where no water supply was available near by and hardly any vegetation grew as hill slopes were rocky. The building material required was not close by as sandstone quarries were at quite a distance. Since the Maharaja had the foresight to bring his project to fruition, he built a railway line to the quarry site to transport the building material. Donkeys were inducted to haul soil to the site. The sandstone transported by rail was dressed at site into large blocks with interlocking joints so that they could be laid without the use of mortar and thus create a wonderful edifice.

This palace stands out in beauty. The lighting in the evening makes it even more beautiful.

Museum and hotel is there...must visit. Largest private residence in Asia

One of the Best Properties in India. Must see the state of the art sculpture

Umaid bhawan palace is not so cool. But if you are interested in antique items than it is for you. You can find some antique clocks and some historical pictures here.

One of Best place in Jodhpur
Very nice
Enjoying with children

Very nice palace... extremely beautiful.... must visit if you are in Rajasthan

A beautiful palace and a wonderful welcome and many more beauties to add on inside.

Worth visiting. Check out the vintage cars.
There is a shop inside for juices and icecream outside and jewelries and clothing inside. They accept credit card. Washroom is clean and well maintained.

Here half palace turns to hotel which is more expensive...but must visit and live a royal feeling

Nice place to visit & see the royalness in this genre. Well maintained. It's been said that in a part of the palace still the prince reside.

It was really great experience for seeing old fort of 500-600 years ago the king has so many cars of old century please visit umaid musium for great king of Jodhpur pics and their war suits

I visited as a tourist.
Beautiful place.

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If you r interested in old bldg it is not the place to visit. It just have photos of kings who ruled there

Finest place and you will love to see the vintage car collection of your highness.

The Royal palace of Marwar rulers,made by Sri Umaid Singhji now a five star hotel and also their residence.A museum,depicting life style of Rathore dynasty and their family photos.You can also see their vintage cars collection.

Undoubtedly it is one of the best 5 * hotel of the world. History is well maintained here. Food is to good here, there are 2 restaurants one indoor and one outdoor with great views of fort and city.

Some good memories of our great kings however some part being converted to hotel no full glimpse is available.