01 · On the water
Real ghats, not a lake view from the road.
The house steps straight down into Pichola. Our boat leaves from the bottom step.
Concept project · not a real hotel
Lal Ghat · Old City · Udaipur
A havelion the water.
Eighteen rooms on the ghats of Lake Pichola, in a house built for waking up to the lake.
The house
Built in the 1880s by a family of textile merchants who wanted to wake up facing the lake. We kept the view, the neem tree and the forty steps down to the water. The rest we restored slowly, by hand.
1880sBuilt for a merchant family, restored in 2026
18Rooms. No two are the same size.
40Stone steps from the courtyard to the lake
Three reasons to stay.
02 · Eighteen rooms
Small enough to know your name.
No lobby queue, no buffet line. The family still runs the house.
03 · A living haveli
140 years old, and still lived in.
Chai at seven, music some evenings, and a neem tree older than the house.
From the water
Tap the haveli.
This is the house as the boatmen see it. Tap a marker to look inside.
Five places to look. The card closes when you tap the marker again.
Rooms & suites
Three ways to stay.
01 / 03
Days here
Slow on purpose.
From the first chai to the last candle on the roof. Drag to see more.
7 am
Chai in the courtyard
The kettle goes on under the neem tree. Take your tray up to the window seat if you like.
9 am
Breakfast at the window
Poha, fruit and masala chai, served wherever the light is best that morning.
Noon
The plunge pool
Indigo and white tiles, the whole lake in front of you, and nobody else around.
6 pm
On the water
Our boat leaves the ghat an hour before sunset and is back before the lights come on.
8 pm
Dinner on the roof
Dal baati churma and rotis off the tawa, with the City Palace lit up across the lake.
9 pm
Music in the courtyard
Some evenings, a dholak and a kamaicha by the fountain. Diyas on every step.
Where we are
The old city is our front door.
Jheelhouse sits on Lal Ghat, on the east bank of Lake Pichola. Most of what you came for is a walk away. The rest is a short boat ride.
Illustrated, not to scale.
- Bagore ki Haveli3 min walk
- Jagdish Temple5 min walk
- City Palace10 min walk
- Ambrai Ghat15 min by our boat
- Jag Mandir20 min by boat
- Udaipur airportAbout 45 min by car
Celebrations
Take the whole haveli.
Small weddings, anniversaries, a birthday that deserves the full courtyard. All eighteen rooms, the roof and the boat, for up to 36 guests. Tell us the date and we'll write back within a day.
The lights come on at seven