Shikwa Haveli is all about luxury of leisure, tasteful grandeur and the experience of a life of the era of the royals, the nobles and the famed Zamindars. The lavish and regal architecture combined with meticulously planned details of every aspect of your stay provides a memorable experience.
After a 15 years long gigantic task of extensive restoration, reconstruction and renovation, Shikwa now is adorned with red stone Chajjas, Chatris, hundreds of mehrabs, arches, pillars, jails, jharokas, marble fountains and exquisite doors. The Haveli has been aesthetically, tastefully, elegantly and artistically furnished with family heirloom and the personal collections antiques, artefacts and furniture reflecting the art, cultures and heritage of the civilizations and societies of the world acquired and brought from all over the world.
In an environ of privilege and exclusiveness created and maintained by Shikwa, you have an exhilarating and exciting feeling of owning the centuries old heritage and having the place by yourself,
It is a pleasure to meet the hosts; Shariq Bin Raza, an (ex) UN Diplomat and his dynamic and versatile wife Alka Raza, an author and journalist with their son Sahil Raza, who live at Shikwa and personally take care of the comforts of the guests. Their lives in many countries and extensive travels to more than 80 countries around the world provide an excellent opportunity, if desired, to know and chat about very varied topics and subjects under the sky
The food at Shikwa is a serious affair !
Personally supervised by the Lady of the House with decades of very close exposure to Cuisines of different continents and vast experience of hosting high profile and diplomatic formal and informal lunches and dinners in a large number of countries across the world, the lunches and dinners are specially curated for each set of guests at Shikwa taking into consideration the backgrounds of the guests, their preferences towards vegetarian or non-vegetarian, dietary restrictions – abstinence from garlic, onion etc, bloom boutique udaipur allergies to certain ingredients and/or foods, diabetics among the guests if any or similar restrictions, the fresh vegetables and other produce available on particular days of the season etc. Udaipur boutique hotels
