The lit facade of Hotel Gangaur Palace at dusk, its carved balconies and arched windows glowing above Gangaur Ghat Marg in Udaipur's old city

Gangaur Ghat Marg, Udaipur

Eighteen rooms in a three-hundred-year-old Udaipur haveli

339 Gangaur Ghat Marg, in the old city. Lake Pichola is a minute's walk, the City Palace eight. Check-in from noon.

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Rooms
18, on three floors
Lake Pichola
1 minute on foot
City Palace
8 minutes on foot
Check-in
From 12 PM, out by 10 AM
The lime-washed inner courtyard of the haveli, with carved balconies and jharokha windows rising through three floors
The street frontage of Hotel Gangaur Palace on Gangaur Ghat Marg

The house

Gangaur Palace has stood on Gangaur Ghat Marg for about three hundred years. The rooms sit around an open courtyard. The stairs are stone. The windows are jharokhas: shallow boxes that push out from the wall under a cusped arch, deep enough to sit in, looking down into the lane.

Bagore Ki Haveli is next door. The ghat is at the end of the road and Lake Pichola a minute past it. Most of what you came to Udaipur for is within a ten-minute walk, and the lanes are too narrow to drive anyway.

There are eighteen rooms on three floors, and no two floors are laid out the same way. A handicraft shop takes up part of the ground floor. The stairs carry on up to the terrace, which looks across the rooftops to the water. There is more on the courtyard and the architecture, and the two room categories are described in full.

The building
A 300-year-old heritage haveli
Rooms
18, across three floors
Address
339, Gangaur Ghat Marg, Lal Ghat
Gangaur Ghat
130 m from the door
More about the house

Rooms

Two categories, both with a jharokha window. Every room has an attached bathroom, air conditioning, a television, telephone, writing desk and table lamp. Rates change with the season, so we quote on enquiry.

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Inside the haveli

Havelis were built inward. From the street you see a carved door and a row of shuttered openings and very little else. The house turns instead towards its courtyard, which brings light and air down through the floors.

Gangaur Palace still works that way. Cusped arches frame the galleries. Jharokhas lean out over the lane. The stair climbs past painted pillars to the roof.

More on the architecture

Looking up through the haveli's open courtyard at tiers of carved white balconies and coloured glass windows
The courtyard, rising through three floors
A cusped arch doorway with a painted red border opening onto an inner passage of the haveli
A cusped-arch doorway
The entrance hall with a mirror-worked painted pillar, seating and the stair to the upper floors
The entrance hall and painted pillar
The haveli's upper balconies lit after dark, arched openings and stone brackets picked out against the night
The balconies after dark
A boat crossing Lake Pichola seen through a cusped arch, with the Lake Palace on the water behind it

Around the hotel

Distances below are measured from our door. The travel desk books boats, cars and transfers; everything under a kilometre is quicker on foot.

  • Gangaur Ghat

    The ghat the road is named for, where the steps drop straight into Lake Pichola.

    130 m

  • Bagore Ki Haveli

    The neighbouring haveli-museum, with its evening programme of Rajasthani music and dance.

    120 m

  • A boat on Lake Pichola

    Sunset boats leave from the ghats for the lake and its island palaces.

    1 min walk

  • The City Palace

    The Mewar court's great riverside palace complex, eight minutes up the lane.

    600 m

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Photographs

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The illuminated balconies and arched windows of the haveli at night

Enquire about a room

Send us your dates and the number of guests. We will confirm what is free and what it costs, by email or on the phone.

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Check-in 12 PM Check-out 10 AM Primary guest 18+ · Photo ID required