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Houses, not hotels
Each residence is privately held. We do not franchise, dilute, or add a wing because the season was good.
Aurelia
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A shop for palaces, villas and residences. Choose a chamber, see the full price, and pay at checkout. The folio is your order.
Tonight
Udaipur
Lake Palace · 4.98
From
₹1,25,000
chamber / night
01 — The platform
Aurelia is not a chain. It is a collection we would stay in ourselves — restored palaces, cliff villas, a ryokan of nine rooms. You buy a stay the same way you buy anything else: a price, a checkout, and an order you can cancel.
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Each residence is privately held. We do not franchise, dilute, or add a wing because the season was good.
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Staff are briefed on how you take your tea, not on a points balance. There is no category of guest we prefer.
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What we arrange is often not on a page: a closed museum, a still lagoon, a table that does not exist.
02 — Featured
How a stay is bought
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Pick a residence and a chamber that is free for your dates.
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Room, extras and 18% tax are added before you continue.
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Razorpay takes the card, UPI or net-banking payment.
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The folio is your receipt. Cancel from there if plans change.
04 — Rituals
Access
Museums, palaces and ateliers once the public has gone. A curator, a key, and an hour that cannot be bought at the door.
Dining
Chefs who cook for a house, not a room. Sandbanks, courtyards, cellars and cliffs — dinner as a private act.
Voyage
Launches, dhonis, gozzi and yachts. Arrival by keel is still the most civilised way to appear.
Flagship
Nine rooms around a moss garden. Kaiseki at dusk. A bath of hinoki wood that looks onto maple.
From ₹1,45,000 / night
Buy this stay05 — Notes
“They did not give us a welcome drink. They gave us the feeling that the house had been waiting, which is rarer.”
“I have a great many hotels. I have one residence I return to. Aurelia understands the difference.”
“The bill was considerable. The silence was worth more. I cannot remember the last time I was so thoroughly left alone, and so thoroughly looked after.”
Circle
Membership is a secretary, a hold on a suite, and the right to be tedious about flowers.
From ₹1,65,000 / night
Maldives
Malé
Spa
Hammams, hinoki, Ayurveda and jungle pavilions. Treatments written for the house, not a menu.