Pratap bhawan Home stay

We loved our time at Pratap Bhawan Homestay. We stayed in the cottage which was a huge room with a fantastic bathroom and a really comfortable king sized bed. Breakfast was delicious and we also opted in for lunch one day which was so tasty. Highly recommend doing so and make sure you try Himanshu’s special aubergine curry. Himanshu and his wife were wonderful hosts and nothing was too much trouble including our midnight check in after a delayed train. Definitely recommend staying here!

Lovely hospitality and evening meals

Tuk til drivers often could not find their way to the address

We ate dinner in each night. Beautifully home-cooked, varied, reasonable and fresh; why go anywhere else? With Prem to do the cooking, Prakash performing excellent butler duties, Himanshu as Mr Fixit for anything you want organised and a fount of knowledge for everything touristic ably supported by Deepti; there is a wonderful family feel to staying at Pratap Bhawan. The accommodation is very comfortable and we met some very interesting people around the breakfast and dinner table.

Tuk tuk drivers had difficulty in finding the place but got there in the end. Perhaps some directions for them in Hindi (not all could read western script) on the back of the business card along the lines of 'on the east side of the railway crossing by the water tower', would be helpful? While speaking of railway lines, yes it is close and the train drivers, like all drivers of motorised vehicles in India love to use their horn (to excess) and while I can't understand why a train driver needs to sound his horn so often or in such long blasts, we didn't have a disturbed night because of this. But ear plugs were provided just in case!