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Hotel
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UMAID BHAWAN
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Umaid
Bhawan is one of the largest and grandest
private residences in the world.
The palace was built between 1929 and 1943 and
over 3000 artisans worked over 14 years to
create this magnificent edifice. If there is one
palace that combines architectural extravaganza
with aesthetic triumph, it is the Umaid Bhawan
Palace. If there is something that is best
experienced than described, it is absolutely a
stay at the Umaid Bhawan Palace.
From the time of the origin of Jodhpur to the
present day, the Rathore capital suffered severe
scarcity of water and drought followed with
unfailing regularity every third or fourth year.
A tradition developed among the Maharajas to
alleviate the suffering of people by creating
work. The work usually took the form of building
canals, roads, temples, stepwells and palaces.
Rosita Forbes, travelling in the 1930s through
Jodhpur, experienced firsthand the severe
rainless times in Jodhpur, and described the
goings-on:'The scarcity of water in the city has
been remedied by the erection of a reservoir
with eight pumping stations. Roads are
spreading. Fine buildings are springing up on
the outskirts of the lovely town.Maharaja Umaid
Singh conceived the Palace as the centerpiece of
his massive famine-relief scheme. The
acclaimed designs of Henry Lanchester for
Cardiff City Hall and Law Courts/Central Hall,
Westminster, impressed Maharaja Umaid Singh, and
Lutyen's protИgИ was entrusted with
the job. It took 14 years and 3000 men to
give shape to this stupendous expression. The
Palace was designed as a smooth combination of
European classical elements interlaced with
oriental ones. Massive sandstone boulders were
cut from a quarry at Surasagar near Jodhpur and
transported by a special narrow-gauge train to
the construction sites. Master masons chiselled
these rough stones into blocks of five and seven
tons. The blocks were then fitted in an
interlocking fashion with no mortar or cement
being used in the construction
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Heritage
(Government Approved) |
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No of Rooms: |
Total
A/C Rooms 96, Number of
Floors: 3
Double A/C 63, Double Total 63, Suites A/C 33,
Suites Total 33,
Centrally Airconditioned, 4, 250, 40, 3, 1,
Indian |
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| Umaid
Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur - 342 006 (Rajasthan ) |
H/C
running water, Telephone, CCTV, Mini
Refrigerator
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3
kms. from Airport, 5 kms. from Railway Station,
3 kms. from Bus Stand |
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Other
Facilities: |
Locational
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Hotel
Booking
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Business
Centre,Banquet Facilities, Conference
Facilities, Beauty Parlour, Shopping Arcade,
Health Club, Swimming Pool, Tennis, Golf, In
House Theatre, Museum, Palmist Squash. Doctor on
call, Laundry, Money Changer, Safe Deposit, Baby
Sitting, Valet, Travel Desk Service, Indoor pool
with a sun terrace, sauna, private museum,
village safaris / camel rides |
Centrally
Located. |
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