This Jodhpur hotel is now the best in the world

One of the fanciest palaces

In the summer of 1944, hundreds of royals gathered for the opening of Umaid Bhawan Palace, a magnificent sandstone edifice that dominates the skyline in India's northwestern city of Jodhpur.

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Converted into a hotel chain

3 years on, India was free from British rule, and more than 500 princely states faced an uncertain future, with most have faded into obscurity; but the family that built this palace continues to thrive - in part by converting a section of it into a hotel.

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Live like a king

"How many places do you know in the world where you can actually live right where the Maharaja is living next door to you?" said the hotel's general manager, Mehrnawaz Avari. "The idea is to treat our guests like kings and queens."

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