Location

Located in the Thar Desert, Jodhpur, city of high tourist attraction with all basic amenities for both domestic and foreign tourists.

About Hotel Umaid Bhawan Palace

20th century palace, Umaid Bhawan Palace was built by Maharaja Umaid Singh. Maharaja Umaid Singh conceived the Palace as a centre piece of his massive famine-relief scheme. Today a portions of the Umaid palace have been converted into a hotel and a museum and rest of its is used as residential purpose for the royal family.

Umaid Bhawan Palace combines architectural extravaganza with aesthetic triumph, one of its kind.
Umaid Bhawan Palace can qualify for several firsts: the largest private residence in the world, the finest extant example of art-deco, the only palace to have paintings from the Ramayana painted by a Polish artist, the first to use air-conditioning, electricity and elevators, and the most impressive for its size and dimensions.

The Umaid Bhawan Palace is among the biggest private residences in the world. A colossal 347 room structure with two monumental wings separated by a central dome soaring to a height of 185 feet.

The Architecture

Architect, H.V. Lancaster, who planned it, wanted it to rival the Viceregal Lodge (now Rashtrapati Bhawan) then being planned by Sir Edward Lutyens in the new capital at New Delhi, also then under construction.

Umaid Bhawan is one of the largest and grandest private residences in the world, a remarkable example of Indo-colonial and the art-deco style of the thirties. It took 14 years from 1929 to 1943 and over 3000 artisans to construct of this magnificent edifice.
The Palace was designed as a smooth combination of European classical elements interlaced with oriental ones. Furnished with fashionable Art Deco interiors by the Polish artist and decorator, S.Norblin, the palace consumed one million square feet of the finest marble. The world of Umaid Bhawan Palace contained everything that the royalty required - a private cinema hall, a luxurious swimming pool inlaid with tiles depicting the zodiac, gigantic royal suites, a soaring rotunda, fancy ball rooms, a majestic durbar hall, billiards room, ballrooms, banquet halls, libraries, staff quarters, servant quarters to list a few.

Reaching Umaid Bhawan Palace
By Air: Indian Airlines operates flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Udaipur and Jaipur.
By Rail: Jodhpur is connected by rail with Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Lucknow. It is also covered by the famous "Palace on Wheels"
By Road: Jodhpur is well connected with Delhi (597 km), Udaipur (260 km) and Jaipur (336 km).