Woodville Palace Hotel Shimla

Woodville Palace Hotel is a charming and warmly operated heritage boutique hotel occupying a beautifully maintained 1938 royal palace on Ritz Road in Shimla, the former residence of Raja Bhagat Singh of Jubbal, offering an intimate and genuinely atmospheric colonial-era palace experience in the hills above Shimla’s main promenade at rates significantly below Shimla’s grand Oberoi properties. The hotel offers 24 rooms and suites in heritage configurations including family rooms individually furnished with period antiques, original Shimla colonial portraits, hunting trophies, and residential memorabilia that evoke the gracious mountain lifestyle of the Raj era with extraordinary authenticity. A restaurant serving Indian and Continental cuisine in the palace’s original dining room, a bar in the palace library, and warm personalized hospitality from the resident proprietor family complete the intimate experience. The Mall’s pedestrian promenade is a ten-minute walk downhill through the pine forests. Christ Church, the Ridge, and Shimla’s heritage colonial architecture are accessible in fifteen minutes. Jakhu Hill is thirty minutes uphill. The Kalka-Shimla UNESCO Heritage Railway — the toy train journey through 102 tunnels and across 864 bridges through the Himalayan foothills — departs from Shimla Station. The Viceregal Lodge at Oberoi Estate, one of Shimla’s most important colonial heritage buildings and now home to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, is a twenty-minute walk. Woodville Palace is consistently praised for its heritage authenticity and warm family hospitality.