To our embarrassment we had never heard of Ranthambhore or the wonderful exclusive Oberoi Vanyavilas. Prior to booking this vacation taking in 6 Oberoi Hotels.
But I will be forever grateful that we booked via Oberoi Exotic Vacations and indeed listened to the fantastic itinerary proposed to us by the ‘Yoda “of Oberoi Mr Karan Kohli, whose wonderful assistance and equal excitement for assisting me with our dreams of a wonderful tour of India with Oberoi legendary Service.
Transfer to Ranthambhore from Agra was quite lengthy but made very comfortable by our wonderful Oberoi Driver Raju. That was allocated to us for our entire journey and available for extra trips at a phone call away 🙏Oberoi. And with the use off Oberoi WiFi in car and available for us to keep with us while walking around shops etc. marvellous. Oberoi think of every eventuality for you 🙏
Journey made comfortable with halfway stops with good facilities en route, Made us smile seeing Raju our driver in his resplendent white uniform gleaming gold epaulettes and red Safa with chilled towels on a silver server presented to us when we got back to the car after halfway stop, Certainly gave us the Royal Oberoi Treatment😂💕🇮🇳🙏
Arrival at Vanyavilas was beautiful walled fortress style entrance and showered with rose petals from fortress roof top. Amazing
Lakshmi their resident elephant was their to greet us too ( we later became very good friends😂)
Greeted by the wonderful Ms Ratna Malhotra ( General Manager). And Saikat.
They were very excited that we were with them for an extended stay, ( most visitors only staying for a few days). And offered us room service ( which is not something they normally offer due to size of resort and distance rooms are from Restaurant. But we didn’t need or require it, the Restaurant presided over by Chef Gunjit is amazing and they wanted us to order off menu too🙏. Service here is amazing thank you to you all. ( we won’t list out everyone’s names. Anyone staying here will get to know them all, they are the reason we will return🙏
Tents are amazing. I was worried we would not have enough room for our bags and belongings, and we had quite a lot😂. But storage space is cavernous and we had packed for a months tour! Thank you for storing our empty cases too. ( my little quirk not wanting to see my cases when I’m on holiday makes me feel I have to leave again soon😂)
This place is just so clean, they must wash paths each night as it’s sooo clean and pretty and out farewell gift of photo frame with montage of photos from our time there was amazing. Thank you Aishwarya. 🙏💕.
We were here for relaxation only and did not do lots of jungle activities but thankfully to Saikats recommendation of exclusive Oberoi Gypsy half day tour, we got to see all that we wanted to and could return early from the heat of Ranthambhore National Park to the exclusive sanctuary of Vanyavilas. We loved it. And their laundry service was the best we have ever encountered each item that was folded was with card and tie of Oberoi packaging. Amazing, Not forgetting all the Velcro Oberoi ties they used on turn down service to tidy all our plethora of wires and cables for phone, watch, computers, sound dock etc. Oberoi really exceed at that attention to detail. Thank you Oberoi and Vanyavilas and Ratna and her entire team got the special gifted for us and our grandchildren 💕💕🙏🙏🇮🇳