Umaid Bhawan Palace - A Dream Destination!!

Hello guys,

I hope you all must be doing good. It's been so long that I have not posted any blog. But now I am back with something very interesting.
So guys, in December 2017 I went to Jodhpur that is in Rajasthan only. I went there for my cousin's wedding. And we stayed there in the Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace. And my today's blog post is about Umaid Bhawan Palace only. So, let's get started.....

Umaid Bhawan Palace.

The night of wedding.

Umaid Bhawan Palace, located at Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India, is one of the world's largest private residences. A part of the palace is managed by Taj Hotels. We stayed there for three days and four nights. And those were the best days and best nights till date.

It is the back side of the palace

It is the pool side of the palace.

It was the Mehandi Day.

 The Palace is divided into three functional parts - 1. The residence of the royal family, 2. A luxury Taj Palace Hotel, and 3. A museum focusing on the twentieth century history of the Jodhpur Royal Family.

The newly wed couple in front of the palace.

All of the kids.

Me and my sister.

The place were the Wedding was done.

1. The residence of the royal family -
The entire palace complex built with sandstone and marble is set in an area of 26 acres (11 ha) of land including 15 acres (6.1 ha) of well tended gardens. The palace, consists of a throne chamber, an exclusive private meeting hall, a Durbar hall to meet the public, a vaulted banquet hall, private dining halls, a ball room, a library, an indoor swimming pool and spa, a billiards room, four tennis courts, two unique marble squash courts, and long passages. The inner dome is a major attraction in the palace which rises to a height of 103 feet (31 m) in the interior part which is capped by an outer dome of 43 feet (13 m) height. The entry to the palace has decorations of the Coat of arms of the Rathore royal family. Maharaja Gaj Singh, known as 'Bapji', stays in a part of the palace. The architecture of the palace is described as an amalgam of Indo-Saracenic, Classical Revival and Western Art Deco styles. The interior decoration is credited to J.S. Norblin, a refugee from Poland, who created the frecoes in the throne room on the east wing.
I have no pictures of the residence of the royal family because we were not allowed to go there and even there in no picture on internet either.

2. Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace -
The hotel wing of the palace is run by the Taj Group of Hotels and is called the Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace Jodhpur. It has 64 guest rooms including the luxurious "Regal and Vice Regal Suites" and the fabulous "Maharaja and Maharani Suites" with art deco style decorations, the latter is fitted with a bath tub carved from a single block of pink marble said to be the only one of its type in India. The banquet hall of the palace wow forms the large restaurant. My favourite part of the palace was the swimming pool. I really loved it. And favourite part of the room was the bathroom (it's weird but still), there were so many mirrors in the bathroom, and I really love mirrors.
Look at some of the inside pictures of the Hotel Taj Umaid Bhawan Palace.

The reception area.

The lobby outside of the Maharani Suite.

Marwar Hall

The grand staircase.

The private swimming pool and spa.

The dome of the reception area.

My room's dressing room.

Our room.

The washroom of our room.

Inner courtyard of Umaid Bhawan.

Lobby outside of our room.

The painting inside Umaid Bhawan Palace.

3. Museum -

The museum has exhibits of stuffed leopards, a very large symbolic flag gifted to Maharaja Jaswant Singh by Queen Victoria in 1877, an impressive quirky collection of clocks in front of the museum. Glass, porcelain wares, memorabilia, and information on the building of the palace are also part of the exhibition. The Darbar Hall, which is part of the museum, has elegant murals and also substantial number of miniature paintings, armour and an unusual collection of household paraphernalia that was in vogue in the 1930s, which were costly and then not found in India. There was a vintage car collection also. I really liked that too.

Look at some of the pictures of the museum.

A miniature of the Umaid Bhawan Palace.

A very old clock.

The museum.

The vintage car.

The vintage car.

I really liked that place so much and I want to visit the palace again because I have never been to some palace like that and everyone of us enjoyed a lot there. That was a destination wedding. The food was also very tasty and delicious.I really recommend everyone of you to visit that palace once in your whole lifetime.

There are so many more places in Jodhpur but we were so busy in the wedding that's why we had no time to visit those places.

And some of these pictures were clicked by me and my family, and I took some of them from the internet.

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