Sariska Palace Hotel, Sariska

My experience was very good.I liked the location as the hotel was surrounded by Aravali's mountains. Food there was just ok but I enjoyed the other activities like sports,swimming etc.

Best Experience: Scenic beauty, Sariska tiger reserve where I was lucky to see a very beautiful but dangerous animal i.e The Tiger.

Worst Experience: Lot's of people have got the stomach upset problem after having the Lunch as well as Dinner.

The Hotel is located near Sariska Wild Life Sanctuary. There is not much of vegetation around. Threes are low in height and not dense. The Hotel is a heritage building. It was built by Raja Jai Singh as his hunting lodge. It is an imposing structure in the middle of wilderness. We stayed for one night in March this year. We arrived in the afternoon and left in the afternoon the next day. The person manning the reception was not very attentive and had no knowledge about the area. The Hotel also had no literature whatsoever about the area and the hotel. There were several old framed photographs of Royalty along with their entourage but no information about the building. The rooms in the main building were in very bad shape. We stayed in one of the annex of the main building. The rooms there were good and linen clean. The room service was satisfactory. There was some used crockery lying in the lawn when we checked in. It was still lying there when we checked out. We were told that the food was not good in the hotel. We, therefore ate elsewhere. In the morning we had breakfast in the hotel. It was terrible. Thank God we did not take dinner there. The dining area was in dire need of some maintenance. The lawns were well maintained and plantation around was good. Landscaping was good and quite well maintained. Wish they could do the same with the main building. In the evening the hotel organised couple of local artists. Since they had not circulated the information, there were very few guests. We arrived there by chance. Actually we went for a walk around of the property and stumbled over there.

Best Experience: Highlight of the stay was jeep safari in the jungle. As mentioned earlier, it was not a dense forest and hence there was absence of the feeling of roaming in jungle. However, we could sight a lot of spotted dears, Sambhars, wild boars, Langoors and Peacocks. We also saw a Peacock dancing in full glory. We could not sight tigers as was the case with all other parties. There are only 5 tigers in the tiger reserve. Anyway, the safari was enjoyable.

Worst Experience: The breakfast!