Lobby
The Durbar Hall
The old audience hall, now the lobby: a double-height room of scalloped arches where tea is poured on arrival.
- Arrival tea & rose-water welcome
- Concierge & butler desk
- Open to guests 24 hours
Ostrelle · Meghvana Palace
Your private
world of
luxury
A 1742 lake palace in the Aravalli hills, restored for eighty-eight guests at a time.
The lake from the Rani’s jharokha
A private world, framed
Built in 1742 so a queen could watch the monsoon arrive, unseen.
Meghvana's jharokhas — the carved stone windows that once let the zenana see the world without being seen — still frame every view. We restored the palace stone by stone, kept its forty-one jharokhas and its lake, and added a quiet pavilion wing in teak and sandstone. Eighty-eight rooms and suites; never more than one guest per window.
Ostrelle is named for the warm southern wind that carries the monsoon inland. At Meghvana it arrives across the lake every evening, at the hour the lamps are lit.
- Palace completed
- 1742
- Rooms & suites
- 88
- Jharokha windows
- 41
- Lake & gardens
- 26 acres
The palace, in three dimensions
Walk the palace before you arrive.
Drag to turn the palace. Hover a wing to read it; select one to fly there. Eight places, one lake.
Meghvana Palace · maquette
Rooms & Suites
Five ways to live in the palace.
From a garden room with a window seat to the whole top of the Zenana Tower. Every room has its own jharokha.
Deluxe Room
A window seat over the char-bagh, and the sound of the channels at night.
- Room size
- 42 m²
- Guests
- 2 adults + 1 child
- Bed
- King or twin
- View
- Garden
Amenities
- Jharokha window seat
- Rain shower in Makrana marble
- Hand-blocked Sanganeri linen
- Chai & coffee service
- Evening turndown with rose water
From, per night
₹38,000
Illustrative rate, before taxes
Experiences
Everything the palace does, beautifully.
- 01
Dining
Sheesh, under ten thousand mirrors
Royal Rajasthani cooking — laal maas, ker sangri, slow dal baati — served in the palace's mirror-work hall, where a single candle becomes a galaxy.
- Sheesh · royal cuisine
- Jal Terrace · lakeside grill
- The Chhatri · rooftop tasting
- 02
Spa & Wellness
The Megh Spa
Ayurvedic rituals by physicians and therapists trained in Kerala, a vaulted hammam on the old monsoon cisterns, and nine pavilions open to the garden.
- Abhyanga & shirodhara
- Hammam & steam
- Couples' pavilion
- 03
Swimming Pool
Level with the lake
Thirty-two metres of heated water set flush with Lake Meghvana. Cabanas in hand-woven cotton, a pool butler, and adults-only hours as the light turns gold.
- Heated year-round
- Cabanas & pool butler
- Adults-only 16:00 – 19:00
- 04
Fitness
Dawn on the ghats
Yoga on the lake steps as the mist lifts, a twenty-four-hour studio with Technogym equipment, and a resident teacher for private sessions.
- Daily dawn yoga
- 24-hour studio
- Private training
- 05
Business Lounge
The Library
Four thousand volumes, leather armchairs and very good coffee. Quiet rooms, a secretary on call, and the fastest Wi-Fi in the Aravallis.
- Private work rooms
- Secretarial services
- All-day refreshments
- 06
Events
Audiences in the Durbar Hall
Board retreats, launches and gala dinners for up to 220 guests in the Darbar Pavilion and the palace halls, planned by a team who have done it all before.
- 220 seated · 6 breakout rooms
- Hybrid AV & interpretation
- Full buy-out available
- 07
Weddings
Three days, one palace
Haldi in the char-bagh, sangeet in the courtyard, pheras on the lake lawn under a mandap of marigold and jasmine. The palace is yours for the whole celebration.
- Up to 600 guests
- Palace buy-out
- In-house décor & cuisine
- 08
Local Experiences
The Aravallis, slowly
A Manganiyar musician at your table, a boat to the island temple at dusk, the block-printers of Bagru, and a leopard trail in the hills with the palace naturalist.
- Folk music evenings
- Lake & island boat
- Craft & wildlife journeys
Dining01 / 08
- 06:00 Morning: Mist on the lake, the first bells from the island temple. Yoga on the ghats, or simply the jharokha and a blanket. (Raga Bhairav, the raga of dawn)
- 08:30 Breakfast: Breakfast where you like it — in bed, in the courtyard, or on your terrace: kachori, fresh paneer, masala chai brewed in brass. (Raga Bilawal, for the bright morning)
- 11:00 Pool: The lake-edge pool before anyone else wakes up to it. Cold towels, cut fruit, a cabana and the hills. (Raga Todi, for the late morning)
- 13:00 Spa: When the stone is hottest, the spa is coolest: an abhyanga in the vaulted pavilions, warm oil, the hammam after. (Raga Sarang, for the heat of noon)
- 14:30 Lunch: A thali in the shade of the courtyard neem: twelve small bowls, bajra roti from the tandoor, and a long siesta after. (Raga Bhimpalasi, for the afternoon)
- 18:30 Sunset: Godhuli — the cow-dust hour. The palace turns the colour of saffron, and the warm wind Ostrelle is named for comes across the water. (Raga Marwa, the raga of sunset)
- 20:30 Dinner: A table on the lake terrace, a Manganiyar singer, laal maas cooked the old way. Or Sheesh, where the mirrors take the candlelight. (Raga Yaman, for the first hours of night)
- 23:30 Night: The palace lit on black water. A last cardamom milk on the terrace; the jasmine opens; the lake keeps the lamps until morning. (Raga Darbari, the raga of the court)
A day at Meghvana
Twenty-four hours, by the ragas of the day.
Hindustani music gives every hour its own raga. We plan the palace day the same way: morning to night, each moment in its own light.
Meghvana Palace · Aravalli Hills · Rajasthan
Reserve your stay
Best rates are always here, with breakfast, arrival by boat and a late check-out whenever the house allows.