Hotel Sona Jaisalmer

Hi, I was wondering if anyone out there had stayed at the Hotel Sona in Jaisalmer please? Our tour operator has suggested it, and we would greatly appreciate any feedback about the hotel. Thanks very much.

Hotel Sona Jaisalmer

Hi Dev,

thankyou for your reply about hotel Sona. We are now going to make enquiries about staying at hotel Shahi, and hopefully get a front room. All the best, Beau

Hotel Sona Jaisalmer

I don%26#39;t think you%26#39;ll regret that decision, beau7; if you are able to stay with Shahi Palace, make sure you do their camel safari. Check this post, which came along just in the last couple of days: tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g297667-i9848-k181…

Hi Alan, Thanks for your advice and Dev%26#39;s we have asked Sanjay to try and book us into Hotel Shahi, and I have definitely made a note of their camel safari! Don%26#39;t suppose you can suggest anywhere in Bundi please? Because it was only just added to our tour Sanjay has not found us accom as yet. Cheers, all the best and thanks again for your help.

Our accommodation in Bundi was SO basic that, believe me, you wouldn%26#39;t want it.... we hadn%26#39;t planned to stay the night, but the 9 p.m. bus to Udaipur still hadn%26#39;t come by 12:30 a.m., and the guy at the bus station opined that it probably wouldn%26#39;t come at all, but no worry, there%26#39;d be one along at 6 a.m. if we cared to hang around. Well, a couple of hundred metres from the bus station we had noticed a place which might have been called, if you were very charitable, a hotel, and we thought ';Oh, well, five hours in a bed is better than five hours on a wooden bench';.... well, that was our first mistake.

Our room had no window, and the door was actually two shed-type doors which almost chained togethe (with the kind of chain you see on farmhouse barns) leaving a crack in the middle as wide as your arm. The toilet -- basically a hole in the ground -- was hard to manage and had no door on it at all, and the ';bathroom'; was a tap and a basin right there in the middle of the centre room onto which all the double-doored apartments let out. I never did get the name of this paragon of luxury.... the Park Hyatt Bundi, maybe?

Oh, well, it was only 130 rupees... cheap, we decided, at half the price.

I will tell you if we uncover any Bundi places during the next few weeks of searches... if not, the wooden bench at the bus station sure is good value for money!

Cheers Alan, Will definitely bare the ';Park Hyatt Bundi'; in mind...NOT. So all in all is it worth going to Bundi, and Pushkar? Would you pick one over the other? Would be interested in what you think please. If you think both are worth seeing we will keep plans that way, but just thinking maybe dropping one of them and having an extra day in one of our other destinations....

I can%26#39;t help in any experienced way re the Pushkar/Bundi choice, as we never visited Pushkar..... I read on a few sites that it had become so touristy, with all the souvenirs, exploitation, touts, and exorbitant prices, that all the charm had gone out of it. Of course, that may only apply to the time of the camel fair.

Bundi is just a pleasant, not-too-touristy town with a massive fort towering over it. We enjoyed it so much that, for this trip, when we had to make a choice between Agra and the Taj Mahal or Bundi (and we wanted to show our kids the best of India), we hesitated for only a half-minute befor crossing out Agra and settling on a day and a night in Bundi.

Only problem is, we can%26#39;t find the website for the hotel we stayed at last time... do you think if we just fronted up there, they would be booked out?