Rajasthan, India

Mharo Khet

Price per night from$432.34

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (INR37,170.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Fine-tuned retreat

Setting

Back-to-roots Rajasthan

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There’s a steady, storied tempo to life at Mharo Khet, where daily activities take cues from Rajasthani traditions and a clutch of standalone cottages bang the drum for locally practised heritage crafts. This 40-acre retreat shows respect for its environment, too, growing 95 per cent of produce in its organic gardens and spinning time-honoured recipes into elevated plates across a trio of dining spots. Playing counterpoint to the Thar Desert’s sultry sun, a central palm-bordered pool is a blissful revelation.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

10 cottages.

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a buffet and à la carte breakfast, served daily at Samaa.

Also

Mharo Khet is fully accessible for guests with limited mobility: everything has been built with wheelchair-users in mind, including widened doorways, spacious bathrooms and showers, and ramped entryways.

At the hotel

Organic gardens, greenhouse, 40-acre farm, walking trails, umbrellas to borrow, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In cottages: climate control, minibar, tea- and coffee-making kit, yoga mats, bathrobes, slippers and Ma Earth Botanicals bath products.

Our favourite rooms

There may only be one category, but each cottage comes with its own signature style. Spaces are steeped with local culture, named after different ragas (a type of scale distinct to Indian music) and filled with hand-carved furnishings by local artisans. Each cottage’s duo of decks flaunts your unspoilt surroundings, perfectly placed to capture the sun’s rise and set.

Poolside

Mharo Khet’s central outdoor pool is its cooling locus, bordered by sunloungers and shading date palms, and no more than a kaftan-clad wander from the hotel’s dining areas.

Packing tips

As long as you’ve a willingness to try new things, you’ll be all set to make the most of this culture-rich retreat.

Children

Welcome; cottages have space for cots and an extra bed. Most hands-on activities are for over-11s, but there are plenty of board and field games for younger Smiths. The restaurants also have kid-friendly menus available.

Sustainability efforts

Mharo Khet celebrates its surroundings in all it does: interiors were handcrafted with Earth-kind materials by artisans from surrounding villages; energy and water is carefully conserved and sourced sustainably; extensive recycling programmes are in place, and almost all of the restaurants’ produce travels a few steps from the on-site gardens. The hotel is also working closely with a local charity to help train and upskill disadvantaged women from neighbouring communities, and most of the offered activities are focused on showcasing the region’s natural habitats and traditions.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Graze amid the guavas at Paeru, or secure an alfresco seat at Samaa for views of the hotel’s nature-swathed surroundings.

Dress Code

Keep it relaxed at Samaa and Aab, but evenings at Paeru call for classier get-ups.

Hotel restaurant

Around 95 per cent of produce at Mharo Khet’s trio of eateries comes from the gardens, and an ever-evolving rotation of plant-forward plates will have you falling for this region’s revered cuisine. Samaa is your all-day option, where laidback dishes include seasonal street-food staples, spice-pimped small plates and smoky flavours from the tandoor. There’s an air of formality to evenings at Paeru, courtesy of its finessed approach and nine-course tasting menus. But its elevated flavours aren’t all that impress; this restaurant’s open-air setting in the guava fields is equally alluring. When hunger strikes mid sunning session, moving is the last thing we want; so thankfully, Aab has you covered. This poolside spot serves all sorts of light bites, fresh salads, flatbreads and grain-packed bowls.

Hotel bar

A locally crafted teakwood top and handmade clay tiles cover Samaa’s central bar, where bites include spiced rice cakes, crispy banana chips and upma-style fries. But the main lure is in its custom cocktails, all based around nine ‘hero’ ingredients (which are, of course, picked from the garden) and infused with a selection of spirits. Each has its own spin, but the hotel’s take on a classic Negroni takes the win for its punchy blend of mandarin-steeped gin and coffee-laced bitters. The jalapeño-tequila-moringa blend that makes up the Ananas is well worth a sample, too.

Last orders

Samaa serves breakfast 7.30am–10am; lunch 12.30pm–3.30pm and dinner 7.30pm–10.30pm. Paeru plates lunch from 12.45pm–3pm and dinner between 6pm–9pm. Aab opens 8.30am–10.30pm.

Room service

The restaurants are part of Mharo Khet’s experience, so in-cottage meals aren’t encouraged. But if you do need snacks in situ, request-only room service is available from 8am to 10pm.

Location

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Address
Mharo Khet
Manai
Manaklao
342306
India

You’ll find Mharo Khet just north of Jodhpur, on a 40-acre farm near Rajasthan’s small town of Mānaklāo.

Planes

Jodhpur’s international airport is a little under an hour away from the hotel by car. Transfers for up to five passengers can be arranged on request for INR5,200 each way.

Trains

There are frequent, direct routes to India’s major cities (including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Jaipur) from Jodhpur Junction. Transfers are available for INR5,200 to make the 45-minute drive to the hotel.

Automobiles

There’s a fleet of cars for transfers at the hotel, so little need to self-drive unless it’s on your bucket list. There’s a free private carpark on-site and round-the-clock valet parking.

Worth getting out of bed for

Every activity at Mharo Khet is hosted by a local saajhi and has been designed as your door into traditional Rajasthani culture. Delve into creative pursuits with pottery and painting Indian miniatures, or take a charpoy lesson to learn handed-down weaving techniques, used by artisans to create traditional, mini day-beds. There are cocktail-making and cooking classes, too, which start with ventures into the organic gardens and culminate in a private dinner. 

If you aren’t particularly passionate about mastering your craft in the kitchen, and would rather leave the tempering to the experts, family-style feasts or romantic meals à deux can be set up around the hotel’s grounds. Local Manganiar musicians are called on to tune alfresco evenings, and classical games (such as gillidanda, kho kho and santoliya) keep tots — and your inner child — entertained.

Salute the sun with a private or group yoga session, before guided walks take you around this retreat’s 40 acres of farmland. Saajhis can also plan trips to neighbouring farmers’ markets, and private tours of the 350-year-old Sathin Garh and Mehrangarh Fort Museum.

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this heritage-rooted hotel near Jodhpur and unpacked their charpoys and miniature paintings, a full account of their experiential break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Mharo Khet in Rajasthan…

The musical concept of raga — with its seven-note scale and rhythmic rules — forms the basis of all traditional Indian composition. And at sustainably minded Mharo Khet, days follow an equally melodic structure. 

Set on a stretch of 40-acre farmland on the northern outskirts of Jodhpur, this boutique retreat reveals itself one tone at a time. The organic gardens are your chorus — filled with produce that supplies 95 per cent of the restaurants’ ingredients — and sit along a choir of blooming rohida flowers, date palms and khejri trees. 

An opus of activities, from cooking classes, starlit suppers and private concerts to pottery lessons and artisan-led weaving workshops, are conducted by your in-house saajhis and arranged to showcase the region’s rich traditions. But calls to your locale don’t stop there, for each of the 10 standalone cottages sings for its supper with bespoke, karigar-crafted furnishings and locally designed details. This is a stay that strikes all the right chords…

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