The city is called Karauli, an ancient and historic city come to less whose only attraction is a palace of 600 years, with beautiful carvings of stone and many frescoes … little more, people are very religious here and virtually everything revolves on base To that, it is not a tourist city, much less.
The hotel sounds good. It is Bhanwar Vilas Palace … a hotel member of the Indian Heritage Hotels Association and the Royal India Legacy. Built in 1930 with colonial style, it is nowadays it is also a hotel since 1995, the current residence of the Maharaja of Karauli. Which makes you feel like a real Maharaja, which I did not like at all.
We arrived at the Palace Hotel where … after a time of descending in the gloomy hall with dissected animals and such, we were accompanied by the great hallways to the room. It should be noted that we were the only tenants of the hotel, and absolute silence reigned inside the huge old palace.
At first, we were told that it was strictly forbidden to bring drinks and food from outside, which forced us to dine in the hotel itself, with a price rather typical of the center of Europe than a village lost for “I do not know where in India” To which we refused in full … and we had some discussion even calling the person in Jaipur who had booked us that hotel.
We went through the historical village, which tell us the story of past many foreigners were seen from all over the place … we entered a temple and the truth that we did not seem well received … they did not look, push, etc … what invited us to leave, Buy some bags of dry foods and some soft drinks and return to the “Palace”
Once there, the discussion continued with dinner and we walked around the huge palace-hotel. The interiors of the hotel were well crafted and architectured in very old style. Though some might feel it is a kind of old, gloomy, dark, or uncared for … and with a lot of staff Dressed as if they were two centuries ago. So we decided to stay in the room and wish to spend the time to go the next day to Agra.
