Questions

Send your dates on WhatsApp, or call +91 76657 09632. The front desk replies in writing with the room, the dates and the price, and that message is your booking. Nothing is booked or paid on this website.

Per night, with tax included: the AC room ₹2,000, a deluxe room ₹3,000, the deluxe family room ₹4,500, and ₹300 for a bed in the dormitory. The price in your confirmation is the price of your booking.

Nothing is paid on this website. Whether an advance is asked for, and how the bill is paid at the desk (cash, UPI or card), to confirm.

WhatsApp or call +91 76657 09632, the number you booked with, and the front desk confirms it in writing. If you booked through another website, cancel there. The details are in the cancellation policy.

Check in from 12:00, check out by 11:00. Reception takes arrivals until 23:00; if your train gets in later than that, message ahead and someone will wait up.

It depends on the room being free, so ask the front desk when you book. If your train gets in at dawn, say so.

A valid government photo ID for every adult guest. Guests from outside India need a passport with a valid visa. Indian law requires hotels to see and record it at check-in.

Yes. Send the train or flight number when you book and we will arrange it. The railway station is two kilometres away, if you would rather take a rickshaw.

Mamamia, near the fort parking. Or show them the card on our contact page, which has the address in Hindi and our number for the last turn or two.

Yes, free, on the lane outside. It is tight but it works, and the fort parking is a minute further up if you are in something large.

The deluxe rooms are the carved sandstone ones, with an alcove to sit in. The AC room is plainer, cooler and cheaper. The family room sleeps four in two beds, and the dormitory is priced by the bed. Compare the rooms.

Every private room has air conditioning and a ceiling fan. The dormitory has a fan.

The AC room, the deluxe rooms and the family room each have a private bathroom. The dormitory shares one down the corridor.

Steel bunks with bedding on every one, a locker-height shelf, a fan, and a shared bathroom down the corridor. ₹300 a bed. See the dormitory.

Yes. The deluxe family room sleeps four, in two beds. Whether an extra mattress can go in, ask the front desk.

Yes, free, throughout the building.

Yes. Say so when you book so we put you in the right room.

Yes. Ask the front desk.

No. The rooftop kitchen serves breakfast and it is charged separately.

Yes. The rooftop café serves breakfast, coffee, cold drinks and dinner to anyone who walks up.

From breakfast to dinner. Opening and closing times, to confirm.

Yes, for guests. Ask the front desk.

Yes. The rooftop, and its view of the fort, is for every guest.

No. The safaris run for anyone, though guests get first call on the afternoon jeeps.

To Sam Sand Dunes, 42 km west of Jaisalmer and about an hour by road. All three are timed for the light out there, which means the late afternoon.

With one afternoon, the jeep: it covers the most ground. The camel is slower and quieter, and it is the one for the sunset. If you can give it a night, take the camp and put the jeep or the camel in front of it.

Yes. Ask for it when you book and a bed is made up for you on the open sand. From December to February the desert is cold at night, so bring something warm.

A scarf or a cap, sunglasses and water for the afternoon, and shoes you do not mind filling with sand. From November to February add a jacket: the dunes lose their heat fast once the sun is down.

Send the date and how many of you on WhatsApp and the desk replies with the rate. Nothing is paid on this website.

On the desert safari page: the three trips, when to go, and the time of sunset at the dunes month by month.

Four hundred metres: about six minutes’ walk up to the gate.

Patwon Ki Haveli is 700 m away, Gadisar Lake 1.4 km, the railway station 2 km, and Sam Sand Dunes 42 km west.