Woodville Palace Hotel, Shimla, India

Advantages: Beautiful hotel in charming gardens and quiet location
Disadvantages: Not enough heating and a bit bizarre

...them) and fell for the Woodville Palace. It was close enough to town to walk and at 2000+ meters altitude that can be a bit of a shuffle for the first day or so. However it was also was tucked away from the noise and bustle of the city in the Chhota Shimla (Little Shimla) district on a quiet side road. And as a bonus, it was around half the price of the Cecil. After a number of emails back and forth to the hotel, we booked two rooms on a three day ...
...Century, the site that the Woodville stands on was the residence of Sir William Mansfield, the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Army. In pre-independence days only three people were entitled to take a carriage (or later a car) down the main pedestrian street, The Mall. These were the Viceroy, the Commander in Chief and the Governor of the Punjab. So it's fair to say that in Shimla society the C in C was a Big Cheese. The house was later sold to ... Read review