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a very grand royal, Umaid Bhawan Palace hotel, India

Umaid Bhawan Palace Hotel Rajasthan, India

On the edge of Rajasthan's Thar desert, in a land of amazing palace hotels, Umaid Bhawan is one of the most staggering. "Better by a turban length than Lake Palace" this is the last stupendous princely architectural extravaganza of the Raj. Built in 1929 as part of a famine-relief project by the Maharaja this is no longer famine territory. Architecturally it is the ‘finest example of Indo-Deco.’ When you visit you can enjoy the 'durbar hall', marbled floors and the sumptuous underground-indoor swimming pool embellished with 'Art-deco' motifs.
One wing remains the personal home of the current Maharajah, while the remainder of its 375 rooms have been given over to one of India's most sumptuous palace hotels.

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One does not often have chance to swim in a marble-lined
underground pool, but by joining our textile and craft tour later this year
you can experience this and....a lot of other palace hotels!

the 'Warp and Weft of India' Oct - Nov 2000.

There are limited spaces for 2000 but we shall run it again in 2002.
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