Sawai Madhopur, India

The Oberoi Vanyavilas

Twenty-eight tents on 20 acres at the edge of Ranthambhore, where a tiger drive is the reason to come and a private pool is not in every tent.

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The place

The count

28 tents on 20 acres, at the edge of the park.

The drive

Oberoi 4x4s. They estimate about eighty tigers in the reserve. A sighting is not guaranteed.

The pool

Private on the pool tents and the Royal Tent. Absent on a standard Luxury Tent.

The table

The Dining Room: international and Rajasthani. A lakeside thali is a separate booking.

The rules

No pets. No smoking inside the tents. Check-in at 2:00 pm.

Our read

Vanyavilas is a tented camp of 28, and the tiger drive is the product. The resort sits on 20 acres at the edge of Ranthambhore, not inside the national park. Oberoi takes guests out in its own 4x4s and says most guests report a sighting. That is their wording, not a guarantee. The station is 10 minutes. Jaipur airport is more than three hours. Only some tents have a private pool. The ordinary Luxury Tent has a garden and a bathtub, and that is a different booking. Come if the dawn drive is why you travelled. Skip it if you need the park at the door of the tent, or a pool in every one of the 28.

Come here for

A dawn drive in an Oberoi 4x4, with a sighting treated as luck
The station, ten minutes away, rather than a three-hour airport transfer
A tent with a pool only if that category was actually booked

Skip it if

You thought every tent has a private pool. Only some do.
You are travelling with a pet. Pets are not allowed.

We’d rather send you somewhere else than send you somewhere that doesn’t suit you.

The Oberoi Vanyavilas is at Sawai Madhopur, Ranthambhore 322001. The hotel phone is +91 7462 353999. They print 28 tented accommodations on 20 acres, beside Ranthambhore National Park. Sawai Madhopur station is about 9 kilometres, which they time at about 10 minutes. Jaipur airport is about 148 kilometres, about 3 hours 10 minutes. They estimate the Bengal tiger population in the reserve at around eighty, and they run jungle drives in their own 4x4s. A sighting is not a promise. A Luxury Tent has a private garden and no pool. A Luxury Tent with Private Pool is the 129-square-metre category. The Royal Tent is two tents, a pool, and a courtyard with a fire. Smoking is not allowed inside the tents. Pets are not allowed. Check-in is 2:00 pm and check-out is noon. The Dining Room serves international and Rajasthani food. The park itself is the outing. The resort is not inside the park. Ranthambhore Fort is a separate dawn drive. Surwal Lake is about half an hour if birds are the morning, not tigers. Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.

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How the days go

01
Arrive
Sawai Madhopur. Station about 10 minutes. Jaipur airport about 3 hours 10 minutes.
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Live here
A dawn drive in an Oberoi 4x4, with a sighting treated as luck
03
Go
Book on the hotel site. MindReach does not take the reservation.