The Best Hotels Near RAAS Devigarh, by the Record
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The hotel sits on a marble island in the middle of Lake Pichola, which means the boat is your check-in desk. Built as a royal summer retreat and later commandeered by both the Taj group and a Bond film crew, this is a full-service luxury hotel where old-world opulence and central air conditioning coexist without apology. Rooms facing the courtyard lily pond are lovely; those facing the lake are better. The Michelin Guide awarded it 3 Keys.
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A boutique hotel in a haveli that has been, at various points, a royal residence, a school, and a poultry farm, which tells you something about the neighborhood's range. Taro Studio stripped out the expected jewel-box Rajasthani palette and replaced it with white, grey, and sage, with splashes of lake-blue or terracotta in the rooms. The rooftop restaurant looks directly at the City Palace.
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Leopards have shared this land with the Bisalpur family for generations, which puts the evening safari in a different category: the brothers leading it grew up tracking the cats across Jawai's granite outcrops. This four-room heritage guesthouse sits beside the family's crumbling 18th-century rawla at the foot of a volcanic rock face. Their mother runs the kitchen, menus shift with the seasons, and farm picnics and sundowners by Jawai Lake fill the quieter hours.