Taj Falaknuma Palace

the rooms

Garden or city: the first choice

Everything except the 3 Historical Suites looks into the palace gardens — lawns, old trees, the pool, peacocks and the building's own arcades.

The Historical Suites face the other way, out from the front of the palace over 400 years of Hyderabad, 600 metres up, from a private sit-out. Neither is the upgrade. Garden rooms are quieter, and the ones to take in December. The city view is the one people remember, and it is best for about 40 minutes after sunset.

Room or suite, in a house built for neither

The Palace Rooms and the Luxury Rooms run 50 to 66 square metres, large by any modern standard, because they were rooms in a nobleman's house before they were hotel rooms. A suite adds a separate living room.

The Royal Suite is the smallest of them at 65 square metres — really a generous room with a sitting area in it.

The Grand Royal Suite is where the living room becomes its own room, with a good deal more ceiling above it. If you came to be in the palace rather than in a bedroom, that is the rung to take.

The Nizam Suite

The Nizam Suite is 180 square metres over 2 floors, with a private pool and Jacuzzi, a butler on call and its own way into the J Wellness Circle. There is only 1 of it, and people take it for an occasion rather than choosing it as a room. Getting the date is harder than making the decision.

Twin or double is chosen when you book

Palace Room, Garden View and Palace Room, Garden View, Twin Bed are 2 separate rooms here, and so are the 2 s. The bed is not something to ask for on arrival — you choose it when you choose the room, and asking for twins in a double room later may not be possible.

Rates here move with the nights you choose, so there is nothing honest to show until you have chosen them. Pick your dates above and the rooms the house sells online will price themselves.

A pale green room with panelled walls, a bed under a draped canopy on a patterned rug, a small sofa and two chairs by the window and a striped runner at the foot of the bed.

Palace Room, Garden View, Twin Bed

55 m² · The residential wings · The palace gardens view · sleeps 2 + 1 child

The twin-bed room, 55 to 66 square metres in the palace's residential wings, with a canopied bed, painted motifs run round the walls and polished floors underfoot. The double is a separate room with its own name, so the bed is chosen when you book rather than asked for on arrival.