REFERRALS

The Samode Palace has been awarded the best heritage hotel in the country consecutively for the past 5 years. You will find it in all the guide books.

Samode Properties which were once the sole preserve of the princes are today luxury hotels and have attracted a galaxy of VIP's from the world of stage, screen, fashion, politics, writers and royalty.

The Palace has been proud to host The Late Mrs.Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis who was probably the first world renowned dignitary to visit with a House & Garden team and there has been no stopping ever since, Mick Jagger, Jeremy Irons, Michelle Yeow of the James Bond moviefame - who was in Jaipur in early 1999 to judge the Mr.International contest, sister of the King Jordan, Duke and Dutchess of Norfolk, Caroline Herrera, Lulu Guiness and many others.

Samode Palace was featured as the 5th BEST HOTEL BY THE TIMES LONDON Jan' 99 issue and has been written and featured in innumerable domestic and international magazines, travel journals, television programmes, fashion shoots and newspapers, domestic and international inflight magazines.

Due to its singular beauty it was chosen as the principal setting for the British Television production- of M.M.Kayes- The Far Pavillions. The finals of the Master Mind Quiz 1998 was hosted at the Palace Durbar Hall- Shabana Azmi, Remo Fernandes, Roshan Seth and Tara Deshpande & model Feroze Gujral also participated in the fun round of the quiz programme which was hosted by Siddharath Basu for BBC. Famous Bollywood personalities- Amitabh Bachan, Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Amisha Patel, Vinod Khanna are some who have visited Samode Palace.

 

Condé Nast Traveller
-Peter Popham-

" Samode Palace is a gorgeous stage set and for holiday makers staying overnight it must remain a phantasmal blur".
" Its arches, gardens and decorated candelabra'd halls are Europe's fantasy of India".

" Samode Haveli is lived in and loved by the people whose ancestors built it"
" A grand family home that still creates a sense of intimacy and warmth for its guests".

Gourmet Traveller
-Elisabeth King-

" A gorgeous golden dream of a a building spread over three levels. Like the Samode Haveli Jaipur, the palace was once owned by the Rawal of Samode and is now one of India's most prestigious historic hotels".

" The palace boasts of the finest diwan-i-khas ( private audience room ) in India. All the original wall and ceiling paintings and mirrorwork are intact and restored".

 

Elle
-Sheva Fruitman-

"Samode Haveli, a family townhouse with all of the original details and lots of Western comforts. Samode Haveli is a wonderful place to stay while you're in Jaipur. Stay in the traditionally decorated Maharani or Maharajah suites and you'll be treated like one of the family".

 

VOGUE LIVING
 -Juliet Fitzgerald-

 "With its famous Sheesh Mahal or Hall or Mirror, this is one of the most well-restored palaces in India. Samode is set into a hillside, so the palace appears to be climbing upwards. Based around the series of courtyards, the walls are covered with intricate inlays and frescoes. This is the one of the few hotels where simply being in a sitting room transports one back to the heyday of the maharajahs. The rooms are comfortable and well furnished, particularly the suites over looking the small picturesque village below".

 

Seattle Times Newspaper
- Kristin Jackson-

"Samode has such evocative style that it was used as a main set for " Far Pavilions," a BBC television mini-series based on a romantic novel of life in India. I felt as if I'd stepped into an Arabian Nights fantasy".

"At one end of Samode's garden, 50 tent-cabins have been erected for guests. They're tents with a difference - the size of a standard hotel room and with carpeted floors, electric lights, comfortable beds and draped in rich brocades. Each has an attached tiled bathroom and a front porch on which to sip afternoon tea".


Pioneer Newspaper
 - a Correspondent-

"You can have a completely relaxed holiday where you do nothing but wander around the palace and the garden, just soaking in the atmosphere and allowing yourself to be pampered, or you can do things as well. You can explore the surrounding countryside on a camel, stopping for a sumptuous lunch under shady imli trees".

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