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Golden Triangle: The Imperial Heritage
Delhi - Agra - Jaipur - Delhi
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Not every palace hotel is a palace, and not every palace is the right room. The four categories worth distinguishing, and the questions that separate a great stay from an expensive one.

Beyond the famous names, there are private estates and royal residences that receive guests by invitation only. We know them well.

The Ministry of Tourism will classify a building as a Heritage hotel if it was built before 1950 — and will separately classify a brand-new building as 'Legacy Vintage' if half its material came from an old one. Between those two schemes, a 1958 monuments Act and a fire code that treats a fort as an auditorium, sits everything that the word luxury actually means in a converted palace.
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