Fateh Prakash Palace

The Hotel

Fateh Prakash Palace was built in the early twentieth century by Maharana Fateh Singh of Mewar — the same Maharana who completed the adjoining Shiv Niwas Palace — as a ceremonial palace for state durbars and as a residence for the royal family. The building includes the Durbar Hall, where the Maharanas formally received state visitors, with portraits of the entire Mewar dynasty arranged on the walls in chronological order. In the late nineteenth century Maharana Sajjan Singh ordered a comprehensive set of European furniture and crystal from F&C Osler of Birmingham — chandeliers, dining tables, dinner-service crystal, and decorative pieces — which arrived in 1888 but went largely unused after Sajjan Singh's death in 1884. The collection sat in storage for over a hundred years until Maharana Arvind Singh placed it on display at Fateh Prakash in 1994 as the Crystal Gallery, now considered one of the world's largest single-buyer Osler crystal collections.

The hotel opened in 1992 under HRH Group of Hotels, the Mewar royal family's hospitality arm. The 65 rooms run across six categories: Palace Room, Deluxe Suite, Luxury Suite, Luxury Suite with Sit Out (private terrace), Grand Luxury Suite (lakefront with sitting room), and Royal Suite (the named royal apartments — Sajjan, Bhopal, Khush Mahal, Surya Mahal — each occupying a distinct historic palace wing with original Mewar-family furniture, fresco ceilings, and direct Lake Pichola views). The Royal Suites are the headline category and the most architecturally significant heritage rooms in any Udaipur hotel — multi-room, with the kind of crowded antique-furnished texture that comes from being curated by the family that originally lived there.

The food-and-beverage programme runs across two principal venues. The Gallery Restaurant operates inside the Crystal Gallery wing — guests dine at Sajjan Singh's original 1888 Osler crystal table, with Osler chandeliers above and the rest of the gallery around them. It is the most architecturally singular dining setting in Udaipur and arguably in India. Sunset Terrace is the lakefront roof of the Manek Mahal wing, looking west across Lake Pichola to Jagniwas (Lake Palace) and the Aravalli sunset — Udaipur's most-photographed cocktail terrace. The J Wellness Circle spa runs eight treatment rooms, an Ayurvedic consultation programme, and outdoor treatment cabanas, shared with Shiv Niwas Palace next door.

The Fateh Prakash sits jointly with Shiv Niwas under the same Mewar-family operating umbrella — guests staying at one hotel use the spa, the pools, the ghats, and the dining rooms of both, and the City Palace museum, the Crystal Gallery, the Durbar Hall, and the Vintage Car Collection are all accessible by internal connection. For travellers who want the full City Palace experience the joint Shiv Niwas / Fateh Prakash booking is the answer; for travellers who want the larger room product and the lake views the Fateh Prakash side is stronger; for travellers who want the more intimate, courtyard-style Mewar marble crescent the Shiv Niwas side is the better fit. Note: Fateh Prakash has more recently expanded its Taj-branded distribution presence — the property is bookable through Taj Hotels under the "Taj Fateh Prakash Palace Udaipur" banner although ownership and operating control remain with HRH Group of Hotels.

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