Palatial Suite – Costliest Hotel Room in the world

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By November 2008, the Shahi Mahal Suite in Jaipur’s Raj Palace Hotel (INDIA) will be ready to welcome its first Guest – a Russian. The Shahi Mahal Suite for a 2 nights stay will cost a whooping $80,000 (about Rs. 35.2 Lakh). GKV Hotels Pvt. Ltd. which owns the property, is asking for what will amount to the world’s most expensive hotel room based on a single night’s stay. Raj Palace Hotel is taking bookings for a two-night minimum stay. The cost of two-nights is equivalent to a nicely loaded C-Class Mercedes Benz in India or about Rs. 73,500 for every hour you spend inside the room or more precisely the entire floor.


The hotel is still being built and when finished will come with multiple bedrooms, including space for personal staff and any hangers-on, private home-theare privileges, an exclusive swimming pool, a private spa whose floor, walls and jacuzzi are coated with 24-carat gold. And of course, complete that with your own private chef and kitchen.

Raj Palace will also ferry the Shahi Mahal’s guests by helicopter from New Delhi to Jaipur. In Shahi Mahal, “people will just have to think” of something and it “will be available,” says Ankur Rara, deputy general manager of the hotel, which is set on a five acre spread land.

Arun Puri, managing director of GKV Hotels, is married to Princess Jayendra Kumari, the 16th generation of Rajasthan’s Chaumoo royal family that built Raj Palace in 1727. The hotel itself has been in operation for 10 years.

A survey by Forbes magazine last year put the most expensive hotel room in the world at Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France. It charges $37,500 a night for the penthouse suite. In the peak visitor season, Hotel Martinez sometimes can up its rates to $42,748 but come off-season, the rate can dip to as low as $13,400.

The 500 sq.m. suite comes with the usual in-room amenities as well as a 250 sq.m. outdoor terrace, containing a jacuzzi and overlooking the French Riviera, a European resort locale where the annual Cannes Film Festival is one of several draws for celebrities from around the world. Hotel Martinez is happy to throw in a butler as well as complimentary limousine rides.

  • nidish

    cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllll? proud to be an indian

  • pradeep

    Yes, really we should be proud to be an indian. there are more than 60 crore poor people in this country and one hotel room rent per night is 35 lakh, really a proud moment for world’s richest country india.

  • Rohini

    hmm…. i wonder why anyone would want to pay such an amount even if they are stinking rich! Hasnt anyone heard about diminishing marginal utility??? :d

  • pradeep

    If you can go the website of the said hotel(which u can find thru google), u can see a suite which is worth 40,000 USD a night to be opened october next year. Even now they have a suite which cost 15,000 USD a night.

  • D.Khanna

    I personally think that if somebody have that much money to spend for a single night stay, it is their wish to spend it as they like it. But if they spend it on some causes like giving to poor people or building a nice little cosy home for some orphanage, if they spend the money for some underpreviledged people, then they have used that money wisely. Here is another catch too. If they give it to poor, they are lending it, giving it to God and He will pay them back for He is not indebted to anybody.

  • pradeep

    i agree with u mr d khanna

  • D.D.Pachori

    Great!!
    Its good to hear that India is creating such a milestone in the area of Hotel and tourism Industry, with Proud we can say now that INDIA is leading from the front.

    Jai Bharat!!
    Jai Hind!!

  • pradeep

    I cannot agree with Mr. pachori. If we have to be proud, first we need to reduce the hunger of our half a billion people first. What is the use and what an irony it is, to have such a costly hotel where in the next street you can find scores of people going to bed hungry!!!

  • http://www.gmail.com gaurav sharma

    its true to feel that yes india is sucessing in this field but if some one has that much of money to spend 2 nights wont he create a place of his own for living

  • PRAGYA

    i m really proud 2 b an indian as INDIA is greatly developing in this field bt on the other hand we will have 2 look after the poverty which is also increasing in INDIA day by day.first we will have to make our citizens happy by abolishing poverty……..& this can b done only when we the people will take great interest in abolishing poverty 4 making INDIA a DEVELOPED COUNTRY

  • Rahul Gupta

    its good to hear that india is developed so fastly
    & i m proud to be an indian

  • pradeep

    Dear Rahul, do you really think India is developing so fast? Just go to the street next to this expensive hotel. You may find 100s of people going to bed hungry, the roads dirty and dusty (if there are anything which can be called a road), the public transport system not even fit for use for animals, huts and slums everywhere, policemen and other government officers asking for bribes even from beggars, more than half of the population illiterate, government hospitals of very poor hygiene, Yes, India is the most developed country in this world, just because the most expensive hotel room is situated in India

  • KHADEER AHMED

    Yes this is india or Bharath Or Hindustan every indian has to be proud with this type of hotel room there is poor people .there are million of hungers,but our policy push us to lavish life because of incom tax,what ever it may be i really proud of my self iam a indian.

  • Shariq Rashid

    hi!!!!
    this is all fake data my pop lives in dubai.. i have ben to burj al arab and stayed at presidential suite clasic for 3 nite…..it costed me 115000$..of course paid by dads company

  • miket

    look!!!!!!!!!!!!….people of da world…..looking at he whooping indians …its high time now….gr8 goin INDIA….its really INCREDIBLE INDIA

  • miket

    shariq,,,i really think tht u shud think twice b4 writing such crap….plz excusr this forum frm ur shit

  • pradeep

    dear miket, do u really think we are going gr8, and what is really incredible? do you know just within 2 kimlometer of the said hotel, you can find atleast 500 people who do not earn 35000 Rs a year, u can find 1000s of people, in the same town where this hotel is situated, going to bed without having proper food because they cannnot afford. even after knowing these fact, if you still think india is going gr8, i dont know what to say. i will feel proud when our country has got good hospitals, good primary schools, no pverty, good and safe drinking water for evry body, no hungry & starved people, at least 70% literacy rate, good roads, neat and clean environment to live. i hope every indian should try for such a future, rather than trying for building palatial building for those who are already over pampered. We should have somthing for the poor people.

  • Rajiv

    We are talking about the poor and poverty here but we are forgetting that the money spenders are not Indians, there will be rich foreigners staying in this place and if we see….yes it will help in the growth of the Indian economy….the money can reach the poor through multiplier effect.

  • karan

    i am really impressed with the costliest hotel being built in rajasthan.i wish to stay there some day

  • karan

    i am really impressed with the costliest hotel being built in india.

  • Rajiv

    My theory becomes void when our citizens like Karan starts wishing to stay in the costliest suite ever……
    The suite infact has not yet been operated but bookings have already been received………
    The Jaipurs costliest hotels operation had been withheld due to certain problems including terrorism and recession……..

  • http://amitshankarsingh.blogspot.com Amit Shankar

    people…concerns of eliminating poverty and orphanage and kind of things are fine.. but do we need to wait to do something great till every poor is fed or every orphanage built…

    answer is no…. things need to roll parallelly.

    we all should be proud…concerns are genuine..

    we just should not think that all space programmes, films and art related stuff should be stalled till all charity is completed.

  • Pradeep

    I didn’t mean all those things should be stopped until the poverty is eradicated. But we should stop feeling proud about those things until we eradicate the poverty

    To have such an opulence in the middle of the huts of the poorest in the world, it is like adding insult to injury to those poor people.

    In fact, we should be shameful of spending money on these kind of things rather than spending money on education, building better roads, better policing, better public transport, better public buildings etc. etc. etc. especially when we need them badly.

    I agree things should run parallel, but preference should be given to those things which are needed most urgently

    My message is that, there is nothing to be proud of in having a palatial suite in the midst of utter poverty.

  • vivek

    go indian go….d world is now of indians…..me comin back……….

  • Jits

    Its a mixed type of feeling. At a point where I am feeling proud to be a citizen of such a nice country (city also), same time i am feeling bad for the dear ones who can spend money on this, specially Indians. What came to my mind is that, these type of suites should be available only for foreigners & if any Indian want to stay, then his bank account must be gone through by the IT dept. and after accepting clean chit from there, indians cn reside there. ;)

  • http://amitshankarsingh.blogspot.com Amit Shankar

    enough people!!!!!!! lets put this to rest. IT has things to do and so have we all. these shades of aritocracy are hardly sustained by reason and it does lead anywhere trying to deduce logic out of all that…..

  • ABHISHEK

    hi all great thoughts by all in all aspects.
    but really like pradeep’s thoughts i wonder why he is not happy of the fact that india is going there where it should have been already.
    i do respect all your point of views ……about poor people, poverty and corruption and all whatever u have mentioned. but i would like to ask you that what do you personally do to stop all this do you go to a slum and feed people do you stop a policeman when u see him taking bribes i dont think o ur the ones who can only crib of facts but do nothing however just remember one thing u manage urself rest all will be managed by itself.
    hope that helps you

  • pradeep

    Dear Abhishek, i have done both the things you have mentioned and more things, as much as i can. But that is not enough. In a huge country like india, if a few people did some good things, not enough. anyways, thanks for ur thoughts

  • Gurjay

    hmmm….. its not the world costliest room rather its the costliest sleep.. spending Rs 35laks for sleep g8..

  • Mohit Jain

    This is high time to show rest of the countries that what India can do.. Go India Go..Love you India..!!

  • khaja Bidar

    obviously i am feeling proud to have such a hotel in india but i requests richy indians not to visit the hotel n use ur money wisely in improving education ,kicking poverty let this hotel meant for the foreigners

  • Sanjay Doshi

    I feel that this kind of hotels should be made available for foreign tourists. This is a very good way of earning foreign exchange

  • sarath

    i agree with pradeep he is right

  • naveen kumar

    i am feeling great a hotel in india is costliest in world

  • Ruchit Turakhia

    India is Richest in Culture…Luxary dont make u Rich its the culture & manners that make u Rich..Good to hear that India owns a 7 star Palace like Abu Dhabi..& always proud to b an Indian.

  • raj sharma

    I M HAPPY TO SEE THE PICS OF THIS HERITAGE HOTEL..IN JAIPUR…IN INDIA….IWISH I CAN ONLY VISIT ONCE….CONGRATS TO ITS OWNER,,,MR.ARUN PURI JI…BEST OF WISHES

  • Shital Hungund

    Well its surprising…cause Rajasthan was quoted as the backward state of India….congrats anyways….

  • praveen

    This is good for our country. Usually people from foreign countries come for tourism and spend lavishly,here also the case is that a Russian is going to stay in this palace which means that he is bringing money to our country and 30 or 40 percent of that money is going to the Indian Govt as TAX and will be used for the people of India.

  • pradeep

    Dear Praveen,

    I cannot fully agree with you, because you can see most of the people staying in costly hotels in india are not foreigners but indian filthy rich. Money will be transfered from one filthy rich hand to another, and do you think goverment is going to get any tax from it? I recently read an article stating that in tourism & entertainment sectors, only 7.3% of the tax due to government is actually reaching the government, meaning most of the big hotels do not pay their tax