Umaid Bhawan Palace

Overview

About this property

Umaid Bhawan Palace is a palace hotel on Circuit House Road in Jodhpur, near the Umaid Bhawan Museum. It is part of one of the world's largest private residences: one part is a Taj hotel, one part is a museum, and one part is still the royal family's home.

The listing shows the palace range: restaurants and a bar, an outdoor pool and an indoor pool, a spa, a fitness centre, free WiFi, free breakfast and parking, plus room service. That is the grand palace pick for Jodhpur — a landmark building with everything on site.

This page is built from the hotel's Google Maps listing, not its official site, so we describe what the listing shows. For room types, menus and prices, the hotel's own site — reached through the Book button — is the right place to check. Note the check-in and check-out times in the glance box: they come from Google's own listing data, confirmed when the photos were collected.

Umaid Bhawan suits travellers who want Jodhpur's grandest address: the palace and its gardens by day, Mehrangarh Fort and the blue city nearby, and the hotel's own restaurants and spa by evening.

At a glance

What you get here

Everything above is taken from the hotel's Google Maps listing. If something is not listed here, it means the listing does not publish it, so we have not written it.

Rooms

Rooms in a palace

The rooms here are palace rooms and suites: large, calm and furnished in the palace style, with gardens outside. The listing's photos show the range — rooms, gardens, pools and the palace building — and the hotel's own site will have the latest list of room types.

We do not list room types or counts here, because the listing does not publish them. The gallery shows the range, and the hotel's own site will have the latest list and prices.

Room types and prices change with the season, so the hotel's own website will have the latest list. We do not show prices here because they change often, and we do not want to show you an old price.

Food & drink

Where to eat

The listing shows restaurants and a bar on site, plus free breakfast. That covers the day's meals without leaving the palace — useful after a fort morning or before the markets.

Outside the hotel, Jodhpur means mirchi vada and makhaniya lassi — the tour's own food note. Eat them in the old city, and get up to a rooftop cafe for the fort view with your chai.

For restaurant names, cuisines and meal timings, the hotel's own site is the right place to check. The listing confirms restaurants and a bar exist; it does not name them, so neither do we.

Things to do

A day of palace, fort and markets

A good day at Umaid Bhawan starts at Mehrangarh Fort — the great cliff-top fort above Jodhpur's blue city. Then Jaswant Thada, the marble cenotaph near Mehrangarh, and the Clock Tower market — Sardar Market around Ghanta Ghar — for the shopping walk.

The palace's own museum is part of the day too: it sits in the same building, so the palace, the museum and the gardens can fill a slow morning on their own.

In the afternoon, the old city's food stalls are the walk: mirchi vada and makhaniya lassi, the tour's own line. A rooftop cafe with fort views is the chai stop.

Back at the hotel, the pools and spa are the easy way to end a long fort-and-market day, and the restaurants cover dinner.

Amenities

Most popular amenities

These are the amenities confirmed on the hotel's own website. Anything not listed here means we could not confirm it from the official site, so we have not written it.

Location

Where it is, and what is near

Jodhpur is the blue city, and Mehrangarh Fort is the reason. The great cliff-top fort stands above a sea of blue houses, and the view from the top is the city's signature.

The classic Jodhpur day pairs the fort with its neighbours: Jaswant Thada, the marble cenotaph near Mehrangarh, and the Clock Tower market — Sardar Market around Ghanta Ghar — for the shopping walk.

Jodhpur means mirchi vada and makhaniya lassi, as the tour's own food note puts it. The old city's food stalls and the rooftop cafes, with fort views free with the chai, are the edible half of the day.

Getting here

How to reach the hotel

Jodhpur is the trail's last city, reached from Jaisalmer across the desert. The fort and the old city are the day — Mehrangarh in the morning, Jaswant Thada next door, and the Clock Tower market in the afternoon.

Inside Jodhpur, the old city around Ghanta Ghar is walked. The lanes are the market, and the blue houses are the sight — a car stays parked while you walk them.

Best time

Best time to visit Jodhpur

October to March, no exceptions — the trail-wide rule. Desert summers are brutal, and winter is when the blue city is made for walking.

Winter mornings are cool for the fort climb, and the afternoons suit the markets. Summer makes the same climb and the same lanes a punishment, not a trip.

Good to know

Before you book

Jodhpur's food is mirchi vada and makhaniya lassi — the tour's own line. Eat them in the old city, and get up to a rooftop cafe for the fort view with your chai.

Licensed shops cover the city for anything stronger, and the desert camps run their own bars if you tell them in advance. Sulabh complexes cover restrooms in the city.

The Clock Tower market — Sardar Market around Ghanta Ghar — is the shopping walk: textiles, handicrafts and the old city's shopfronts. Bargain the way the locals do, with a smile and a walk-away.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

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