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Lake Palace

A feast for all your senses

In a hotel where you arrive not by car (or even by limousine) but by boat, can anything be normal or usual? The Lake Palace Hotel amazes and delights you at every turn. It is pure white marble, every ancient inch of it slender carved columns, fountains, filigreed screens, marble from the pinnacles of its domed chattris to the bottom of its swimming pool, created for the private frolics of a princess.

It is suites that echo with historic memories-royal mahals with no room for the ordinary. Whose walls are frescoed with ancient watercolors, inlaid with miniature paintings and intricate mirror mosaic, luminescent with dancing light reflected from the waters of the lake through stained glass windows of every hue. Where balconies may be larger than hotel rooms elsewhere. It is the early morning musical cacophony of birds in the pink and white masses of bougainvillea drooping over a rippling lily-pond, and the soulful liquid stains of a sitar playing a raag older than Udaipur itself, wafting through the cool night air.

It is venerable, secret recipes passed down through time by word of appreciative mouth, brought to life by the skilled hands of our chefs. It is a hotel whose Guest Book reads like a Who's Who - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Vivian Leigh, Perez de Cuellar, Olaf Palme. Where you will be honored and indulged as befits royalty-for this is a palace after all.

Tours that will make Udaipur's vibrant History come alive for you

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Udaipur's rulers intended the Lake Palace to be a haven of peace and solitude. Today, ensconced in its luxury, you may find it hard to imagine that the surrounding hills once shook under the advance of besieging Mughal armies. But visit the nearby forts and battlements, and listen to the legends, and you will realize how hard the Mewar Rajputs fought "for the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods" Kumbhalgarh, Chittorgarh, Haldighati - these are names that raise a surge of fierce pride in every Rajput's breast.

And in the rare, hard-won times of peace, the rulers of Mewar gave free rein to their artistic and engineering talents in artificial lakes and gardens such Jaisamand and Sahelion-Ki-Bari. With as much fervor as when they plunged into battle, they raised intricately carved temples in thanksgiving for having emerged alive from the bloodshed. Nagda Eklingji and Nathdwara are hallowed Hindu shrines. Religious tolerance was another facet of the Rajput sense of honor, and faiths other than their own were sheltered and honoured in the State of Mewar. The Ranakpur Temples are centers of the Jain Faith.

All these fascinating sites lie within a 100 kilometers radius of the Lake Palace Hotel. Our Guest relations staff are steeped in the lore of the land, and will gladly assist you in drawing up itineraries that will fill each day's touring with interesting places to visit and people to meet, without exhausting your energy. Come, step out and step back into an age of chivalry and splendour, fierce spirit and devout spirituality.