Courtyard Room
₹4,200 per night, before GST
- Sleeps 2
- One queen bed
- 18 sq m
- Ground floor
- Arcade view
Opens straight onto the arcade, so you hear the courtyard. Coolest room in the house in May, and the easiest if stairs are a problem. Shower, no tub.
Eleven rooms in a restored townhouse
The quiet side of Bundi.
Balchand Para, below the palace · Rajasthan
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The house
A merchant's house that stopped being one in 1978.
Ninety is the number on the door, and for most of the last century it was a family home rather than anywhere you could stay. The rooms are the rooms; we did not knock them together. That means no two are the same size, the stairs are steep, and the best light in the building arrives on the top floor at about four in the afternoon.
Rooms
Eleven, and all different.
Blue Room
₹5,600 per night, before GST
- Sleeps 2
- One king bed
- 24 sq m
- First floor
- Window seat
The indigo is original lime plaster, not paint, which is why it is uneven and why we left it. Deep window seat over the lane. One flight up, no lift.
Terrace Suite
₹7,400 per night, before GST
- Sleeps 3
- King plus daybed
- 38 sq m
- Top floor
- Private terrace
- Palace view
The only room with its own outside space, and the reason people come back. Two flights of steep stairs. Breakfast can be sent up if you ask the night before.
Around the house
Courtyard, terrace, and the stepwell around the corner.
Open any photograph to see it at its full size.
The table
One menu, cooked twice a day.
There is no restaurant, only a table on the terrace and whatever came back from the market that morning. Vegetarian by default, Rajasthani more often than not. Dinner is at eight and has to be asked for by four, because otherwise nothing has been bought for it.
Breakfast is included when you book direct, and is served from seven until whenever the last person appears.
Finding us
Below the palace, on foot.
Getting here
- Bundi railway station
- 4 km, 15 min
- Kota Junction
- 38 km, 55 min
- Jaipur airport
- 210 km, 4 hr
- Taragarh Fort, on foot
- 20 min uphill
The last hundred metres
The lane is too narrow for a car. Drivers stop at the Chogan Gate and it is a two-minute walk from there. Tell us your train and someone will meet you with a hand cart for the bags.
House rules
Check in from 2pm, out by 11am. Free cancellation up to 48 hours. Children of any age welcome; the stairs are the only thing to think about. No pets. Passport needed at check-in for foreign guests, because we file Form C the same day.
Guests
What people said.
These three are invented, like everything else on this page. They are deliberately absent from this page's structured data, and on a real property this section would pull verified reviews from Google or the booking engine, and would never be written by us.
★★★★★
The stairs are as steep as they warn you and the terrace is worth every one of them.Meera S., Bengaluru
★★★★★
Booked direct on the phone, got the room we had actually looked at. That is rarer than it should be.Tom H., Bristol
★★★★☆
Small, honest, no pretending to be a resort. The dinner was the best meal of the trip.Anjali R., Pune
A note from Jinova Systems, not part of the sample
Follow one booking to the bank.
Eleven rooms is small enough that the yearly commission figure sounds survivable. So here is a single booking instead, three nights in the Blue Room, priced on both channels, with the direct-booking breakfast costed as a real expense rather than waved at.
| Line | Through an OTA | Booked here |
|---|---|---|
| Room, 3 nights at ₹5,600 | ₹16,800 | ₹16,800 |
| GST at 12%, collected and passed on | ₹2,016 | ₹2,016 |
| The guest pays | ₹18,816 | ₹18,816 |
| Commission at 18% of the room | -₹3,024 | nothing |
| Payment gateway at 2% of the charge | the OTA collects | -₹376 |
| Breakfast for two, three mornings, at cost | not offered | -₹900 |
| Reaches the house | ₹13,776 | ₹15,524 |
₹1,748 kept on that one booking, and the guest still got the breakfast. The house turns roughly 2,200 room nights a year.
Scaled up: eleven rooms at a ₹5,000 average and 55% occupancy is about 2,200 room nights, near ₹1.1 crore of room revenue. If 65% of that arrives through OTAs at 18%, commission is around ₹12.9 lakh a year. Moving one booking in five to direct keeps roughly ₹1.5 lakh of it after what a direct booking still costs you, and keeps it again every year after.
Rate parity clauses in OTA contracts usually stop you advertising a lower public rate than the one you gave them, so the direct incentive is never price. It is the breakfast, the early check-in and the chai in the panel at the top of this page. The ledger is why that works: the breakfast costs ₹900 and the commission costs ₹3,024.
The argument specific to eleven rooms that are all different is that an OTA listing cannot sell them. It collapses the house into two or three bookable categories with a category photograph, so a guest arrives having chosen a type rather than a room. Your own site is the only place someone can look at the Blue Room and then book the Blue Room. That is why the photographs on this page open full size instead of sitting at 260 pixels, and why each room carries its own picture, rate, floor and stair count.
We integrate a booking engine, we do not build one. Under twenty rooms that is eZee Centrix or Djubo, both Indian-built and priced for a property this size. Every figure here is illustrative, assembled from published commission ranges rather than from anyone's books. Bring one month of OTA statements and we will rebuild this ledger from your rate and your occupancy before you commit to anything.