We stayed at Jagat Palace two nights mid-November 2019 ($177/night including taxes and breakfast). It was quite stunning in many ways but ultimately overpriced and disappointing. And regarding the breakfast, it sucked. Granted, it’s a “pure veg” municipality (our first in India or anywhere) so there was no expectation of eggs-to-order. I guess with that established upfront with a predominant western clientele, why try harder regarding anything else. Too snippy?

Overall, the facility is stunning, as are the rooms, but aside from the efficient and courteous (“normal”) front desk staff, there was something vibrationally “abnormal” about everyone else working there. Too sensitive?

Festival week in Pushkar — the world-renowned Camel Festival — ended just as we were arriving. Bad timing on our part but we knew it when planning — it just didn’t work out to make the festival. We were burned out (see video review below) and seemingly everyone else was too from a busy festival week and, in our case, from already over two hard-driving fabulous months enjoying India.

We used the very good room service both nights for dinner, with excellent food, and after just one of the inclusive breakfasts, we found a taxi to outside city limits and found a proper breakfast the second morning.

Two last comments to add to the “disturbing” category: we watched the likely property owner / grande-dame berate two employees. It felt medieval. Second, Paul at departure was a few hours from commencing a full-blown, 14-day episode of dengue fever. Who knew? [For more on those unpleasantries, see “Santosh Villa Homestay” review above.] Dengue has an incubation period of 3-6 days from time of mosquito bite. So we were both sick (Rich: improving; Paul: becoming) during our stay at Jagat Palace.

Pushkar is unlikely to be a place we ever return. However, post-visit many fellow travelers familiar with this tiny town in Rajasthan universally remember it fondly. Admittedly, we didn’t see much of the place. Oh, and the air quality was atrocious and totally stultifying (PM2.5 > 270).