The Hotel Bissau Palace is an elegant traditional Hotel built in 1919
and recently renovated. Close to the walled city and overlooking the Tiger fort
the Bissau offers an oasis of calm, care, comfort and respite from the heat and
dust of the city. The Guest Rooms are spacious and comfortable. A gracious Hotel
with old-world charm and reputation for excellent cuisine and service. An
atmosphere pregnant with intrigue, excitement, tragedy. Turreted ramparts
enclosing a world of wealth. There is the lounge and library with its vast
collection of royal portraits, old silver and armoury dating back to the 17th
century, all mementos of history and time exuding a languid grace of the bygone
era.
Accommodation:
The Hotel Bissau Palace consists of 40 Rooms with attached Baths, hot
and cold water, Telephone and Room service.
History:
The Hotel Bissau Palace was developed in the early 1920's by
Rawal Raghubir Singhji. One of the outstanding chieftains of the era, he was a
man of excellent taste as can be gauged by the vast collection of literary
works, jewellery and objects d' Art, of which he was a great patron.
One of the earlier Thakurs of Bissau Shyam Singh was an outstanding if
somewhat unconventional ruler. An Englishman who visited his court in 1808 had
this to say At his palace I saw four Shekhawat Chief's and cousins - they were
plain men, and seemed to be living in great harmony. While some of the others
bore strong marks of the effect of opium especially noticeable in their eyes,
one of them Shyam Singh seemed remarkably mild and well mannered but scarcely
had I crossed the desert when I heard that Shyam Singh had murdered the three
others at a feast, stabbing the first with his own hand. This story may or may
not be authentic but is quite typical of times and conditions prevailing in that
particular era. To his credit, however, it must be maintained that Shyam Singh
was at his best a brilliant general and tactician who hired the services of
French mercenaries in his fight against the British and the Jaipur State. Most
of the armoury displayed here were a part of Shyam Singh's personal effects.
Services & Facilities:
Swimming pool
Lawn Tennis
Witness rare Books in a fine wood panelled Library
Bars & Restaurants:
Bhuwaneshwari is the main dining Room for Breakfast, Lunch and
Dinner, serves Indian, Continental and special recipes from Rajasthan.
Location:
The Hotel Bissau Palace is located outside Chand Pole Gate, just
outside the walled city. It is just Ten minutes walk from the City Palace and
fifteen minutes walk from Hawa Mahal, Palace of winds. It's 1 km from the
Central Bus Stand, 2 km from the Railway Station and 15 km from the Airport.