Taj Lake Palace, one of the most unique and romantic hotels in the world, is somewhere you and your loved ones worth saving the bucks for. Here are some reasons why.
For maximising the time spend on this “island” (we call it since it is at the middle of the Pichoca Lake) we even requested for a super early check-in. The amazing team offered us an upgrade to one of the lake-view palace suites.
We are visiting Udaipur for the first time, and itis called the city of lakes, which means the lakes are of course the main point of sight-seeing. To join one of the private lake cruise will cost us about US$70 (AU$100) anyway, and the Taj Lake Palace (link to my Booking.com discount voucher which you can use towards to your booking at Taj Lake Palace) offers free private transportation between the palace and Udaipur via water anyway, so if you think that way, you are not paying any much more extra but with some extra exclusive experiences and stay. The Taj Lake Palace accomodation starts from around 600-900 AUD/ night including taxes depends on the season, which is just a decent five star hotel price. BTW you can’t find any 3 or 4 stars hotels in Udaipur anyway, so you just have to pick between a budget hotel and a luxury hotel anyway at the end.
We visited Udaipur in late November, just caught the very last bit of Diwali celebration, which is super amazing – life time experience. I really recommend you to visit during either the Diwali or the Holy Festival in March, you will be able to see more of India. But to be honest, I would rather to stay at a budget hotel if I can for the festivals, since I really wouldn’t go out of the Taj Lake Palace during my stay at all. You can just breath in the beauty of the Taj Lake palace (at the middle of the lake) yourself without disturbing and watching the busy lake pass by during the day.
After breakfasts at the Taj Lake Palace, most hotel guests have gone to their City Palace Tour or lake cruise, so we literally enjoyed the swimming pool and the spa all to ourselves until everybody is back to the palace around 3 pm. There is a sunrise Yoga I would also recommend you to take part in, you can enjoy the atmosphere of how peaceful the lake and the palace is during sunrise.
Unfortunately Adam and I still got food poisoned during our stay here at the Taj Lake Palace, so we highly recommend you eat and drink carefully where-ever you go, always wash your hands and avoid food hand touched by other people. Don’t drink tap water, be cautious when you taking a shower (of the tap water), try to brush your teeth with bottled water. drink more green and black tea as they helps to kill the germs in your stomach.
I hope you will visit Udaipur soon, and please do feel free to ask any questions! Share any tips if you have been to India before and would love to hear your thoughts!
Kurt x
PS. Use my Booking.com voucher towards your Taj Lake Palace or any other hotels booking. Or use my A$55 Airbnb discount coupon towards your Udaipur Airbnb stay.
