MakeMyTrip Flagship Hotels 2026: 13 Best Premium Stays in India
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You've opened seven tabs comparing the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai against The Imperial, Delhi against a "₹4,999/night palace in Udaipur" that turned out to be a homestay 11 km from Lake Pichola. Premium hotel discovery in India is broken — half the listings rotate, the other half ride brand names that don't survive a Tripadvisor scroll. So we did the scroll for you.
These are the 13 hotels we would actually book ourselves on MakeMyTrip right now — heritage palaces, business-grade luxury, and one literal floating marble pavilion. Every property is a verified flagship listing on MakeMyTrip with real bookable rates, and the comparison table at the end stacks them by best-for so you can pick by trip purpose, not by guesswork.
- The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai — ₹19,499/night
- The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur — ₹85,499/night
- ITC Grand Chola, Chennai — ₹14,499/night
- Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur — ₹95,999/night
- Rambagh Palace, Jaipur — ₹37,999/night
- Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur — ₹72,500/night
- The Leela Palace, Chennai — ₹16,499/night
- Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad — ₹54,999/night
- ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata — ₹12,499/night
- Hyatt Regency Delhi — ₹11,799/night
- Taj Bengal, Kolkata — ₹15,799/night
- Taj Connemara, Chennai — ₹13,499/night
- The Imperial, New Delhi — ₹17,499/night
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⭐ Best Overall
The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"If you can only book one heritage stay in India, this 1903 Indo-Saracenic palace beside the Gateway is it — the address is part of the experience."
Mumbai's most photographed building works just as well as a hotel. The Sea-Facing rooms in the Palace Wing look across Apollo Bunder to the Arabian Sea, the Tata Suite is where heads of state stay, and Wasabi by Morimoto is one of the country's top-rated restaurants. Booking through MakeMyTrip on a non-event weekend is the only way the rate stays remotely sane.
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👑 Premium Pick
The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"Travel + Leisure has ranked Udaivilas the #1 hotel in the world more than once — and 30 minutes by the Lake Pichola fountains tells you why."
A 50-acre lakeside estate done in classic Mewar architecture, with a private boat jetty that ferries you across to the City Palace. Premier Rooms with semi-private pools are the move if you can stretch to them; otherwise, even the entry-level Premier rooms get the same lake-view balcony and the same colonnaded breakfast terrace. MakeMyTrip's MyBusiness rate often beats Oberoi's own BAR rate by 8–12%.
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✦ Editor's Pick
ITC Grand Chola, Chennai — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"The largest single-block luxury hotel in India, built like a Dravidian temple — and one of the only LEED Platinum hotels in the world at this scale."
522 rooms but never feels crowded thanks to four distinct lobbies. Bukhara, Royal Vega, and Peshawri get all the press, but the standout is actually the breakfast spread at Madras Pavilion — easily a 90-minute affair. Club-tier rooms include lounge access with all-day food and evening cocktails; on MakeMyTrip the upgrade is frequently bundled in the room rate.
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👑 Premium Pick
Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"A literal white marble palace floating on Lake Pichola. The 'arrival by royal barge' is the kind of thing you remember when you're 70."
Built in 1746 as the summer palace of Maharana Jagat Singh II, it's been a hotel since 1971 and James Bond stayed here in Octopussy. Rooms are restored heritage suites with original frescoes and inlay work — no two are identical. Suite categories include the legendary Grand Royal Suite at the corner of the lake. Pre-COVID it was the hardest reservation in India; MakeMyTrip's flexible-cancellation rates are easier to land than calling direct.
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★ Top Rated
Rambagh Palace, Jaipur — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"Former royal residence of Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II — Travel + Leisure's #1 hotel in the world for 2024. The peacock-tiled corridors alone are worth the rate."
47 acres of formal Mughal gardens in the centre of Jaipur. The Suvarna Mahal restaurant serves the original Rajput court menu in what was once the royal dining hall, and the Polo Bar has the regimental photos from the 1930s polo era. Rooms in the Palace Wing carry the original royal-suite naming; the more contemporary Luxury Rooms still get marble floors, walk-in dressing areas, and balcony peacock views.
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👑 Premium Pick
Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"One of the largest private residences in the world — and the Jodhpur royal family still lives in one wing while you stay in the other."
Built between 1928 and 1943 in the Art Deco-meets-Beaux-Arts style, the palace looks out over the blue city of Jodhpur. The hotel portion runs 64 rooms — Historical Suites are in the original royal wing with the original brass-fitted Art Deco bathrooms intact. Risala restaurant has a private courtyard that opens to the desert sky. Booking 6–8 weeks ahead via MakeMyTrip is the sweet spot for rate and availability.
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★ Top Rated
The Leela Palace, Chennai — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"The only luxury hotel in Chennai that opens directly onto the Bay of Bengal — every room is sea-facing, no exceptions."
326 rooms across nine floors, with a marble lobby that draws South Indian temple architecture cues. Library Blu is the city's only true rooftop bar with sea views, and Spectra at the top of the hotel does a sunrise breakfast pointed at the water. Club tier (floors 6–9) gets a separate lounge with the same view at half the room count.
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✦ Editor's Pick
Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"A 200-foot hilltop palace built in 1893 — the 101-seat dining table is the longest single-piece rosewood table in the world."
Once home to the 6th Nizam, Falaknuma was the most expensive private residence of its era and took 16 years to restore before reopening as a Taj hotel in 2010. The drive to the palace is in a horse-drawn carriage; the welcome is a fanfare from the entrance hall. Adaa restaurant serves the original Nizami court menu (Patthar ka Gosht is mandatory). Even the entry-level Palace Rooms come with butler service. MakeMyTrip's package rates often bundle the heritage tour at no extra cost.
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★ Top Rated
ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"Kolkata's newest luxury opening (2018) — and the first ITC property to add the full Taj-style butler service to standard rooms."
456 rooms across two adjoining towers, sharing facilities with the older ITC Sonar next door. The Royal Wing rooms get private terraces overlooking the East Calcutta Wetlands. Ottimo serves a strong Italian menu and Yi Jing is the best Sichuan in the city. The location is right between the airport and the EM Bypass — closer to dinner-meeting territory than the heritage stays in central Kolkata, but the room product is meaningfully newer.
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Best for Business
Hyatt Regency Delhi — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"Walk-to-Bhikaji-Cama-Place location plus a Saturday brunch (La Piazza) that's been Delhi's top business-lunch ritual for two decades."
451 rooms, but the smart booking is a Regency Club room — separate fast check-in lounge, all-day food, and evening cocktails. Located on Ring Road, it splits the drive between South Delhi and the airport in roughly equal halves, which matters when you've got a 7AM meeting on one side and a 9PM flight on the other. MakeMyTrip's corporate rate beats walk-in by ~12% on weekdays.
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★ Top Rated
Taj Bengal, Kolkata — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"The atrium lobby in Belvedere Road is still the most striking entrance of any Taj property — and Sonargaon does the city's best Bengali thali at lunch."
229 rooms across nine floors arranged around a glass-roofed central atrium. The Hub on the top floor is the city's longest-running 24x7 multi-cuisine option and the Junior Suites come with a separate sitting room — easily the best value upgrade in the city. The hotel sits in Alipore opposite the National Library, with the Victoria Memorial just five minutes away.
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Heritage Pick
Taj Connemara, Chennai — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"The only heritage hotel in Chennai — and the Art Deco facade was the first thing Sukhna Lal Bahadur Shastri saw when he hosted the 1960 Madras Conference here."
Originally built in 1854 as the Imperial Hotel, the Connemara has been a Madras institution for 170+ years. A full restoration in 2018 left the Art Deco lobby and the original Verandah restaurant intact while modernising the room product. The pool courtyard is one of the city's prettiest, and Raintree (the Chettinad restaurant) is genuinely the best in town.
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Heritage Pick
The Imperial, New Delhi — Best Booking on MakeMyTrip
"Lutyens-era 1936 hotel on Janpath — the Daniell Collection of 18th-century lithographs in the corridors is genuinely museum-grade."
235 rooms across a colonial Art Deco building set in eight acres of palm-lined gardens. The Imperial Suites in the original wing feature the restored Daniell-era prints and Burma-teak floors. 1911 — the all-day diner named for the year George V held the Delhi Durbar — does a famous high tea. The location on Janpath is two minutes from Connaught Place and 20 from the airport.
MakeMyTrip Flagship Hotels — Comparison Table
| Hotel | Price/night | Key feature | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai | ₹19,499 | 560 keys across the original Palace Wing | Best Overall |
| The Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur | ₹85,499 | 90 rooms, suites, and lake-view villas w | Premium Pick |
| ITC Grand Chola, Chennai | ₹14,499 | 522 rooms + 78 serviced apartments acros | Editor's Pick |
| Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur | ₹95,999 | 65 luxury rooms and suites, all on a flo | Premium Pick |
| Rambagh Palace, Jaipur | ₹37,999 | 78 rooms and suites | Top Rated |
| Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur | ₹72,500 | 64 rooms and suites in the Taj-managed w | Premium Pick |
| The Leela Palace, Chennai | ₹16,499 | 326 sea-facing rooms | Top Rated |
| Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad | ₹54,999 | 60 rooms across the original Palace and | Editor's Pick |
| ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata | ₹12,499 | 456 rooms across two towers, opened Janu | Top Rated |
| Hyatt Regency Delhi | ₹11,799 | 451 rooms | Best for Business |
| Taj Bengal, Kolkata | ₹15,799 | 229 rooms across nine floors with a soar | Top Rated |
| Taj Connemara, Chennai | ₹13,499 | 147 keys | Heritage Pick |
| The Imperial, New Delhi | ₹17,499 | 235 rooms and suites in a 1936 Lutyens-e | Heritage Pick |
