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A English-speaking guide in Udaipur
A licensed English-speaking guide in Udaipur costs ₹1,500 for a full day of eight hours and ₹900 for a half day of four. With an AC car and driver on the published package, a full day is ₹4,000. Udaipur has 4 monuments on this page with their entry fees and opening hours, and the guide’s Ministry-of-Tourism licence card is sent to you before you pay anything.
Full day · 8 hours
₹1,500
Half day · 4 hours
₹900
With car and driver
from ₹2,400
Licence region
Rajasthan
What it costs
English guide rates in Udaipur
The guide fee is set by language, not by city — a English speaker is ₹1,500 a day in Udaipur and the same in Delhi. The vehicle half of a bundled day is the published 4 hr / 40 km and 8 hr / 80 km rental package, so every figure below is two published rates added together and nothing else.
Half day
4 hours, 40 km included
₹900guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹2,400
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹3,100
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹3,700
Guide ₹900 plus the published 4 hr / 40 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
Full day
8 hours, 80 km included
₹1,500guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹4,000
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹5,000
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹6,000
Guide ₹1,500 plus the published 8 hr / 80 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
The half-day guide fee is 60% of the day rate, rounded up to the nearest ₹50 — the rule is printed on the rate card so the arithmetic is checkable. Monument entry is extra and is listed by monument further down this page.
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India
Regional Level Guide (RLG)
English
- Language examined in
- English
- Licensing region
- Rajasthan
- Full day · 8 hours
- ₹1,500
- Half day · 4 hours
- ₹900
Every licence card carries a photograph, a licence number, the issuing region and the languages the holder is examined in. We send a photograph of the card on WhatsApp when a booking is confirmed, before you pay anything, so you can check the number, the region and the language against the guide who meets you.
Why the licence matters here. Archaeological Survey of India monuments admit licensed guides and turn away unlicensed ones at the ticket gate. An unlicensed "guide" who approaches you outside the Taj Mahal or Amber Fort cannot accompany you inside, which is why the pitch is always made in the car park.
What you will see
The monuments of Udaipur, with what they cost at the gate
Every fee and opening time below is the figure published on this site's own guide to that monument, linked from each row. None of them closes for a weekly rest day.
Udaipur monuments · 1 of 4
City Palace Udaipur
- Hours
- 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
- Time needed
- 2.5–3 hours
| Monument | Entry — Indian | Entry — foreign | Hours | Closed | Time needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Palace Udaipur | Not published | Not published | 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM | Open all days | 2.5–3 hours |
| Lake Pichola and Jag Mandir | Boat ride ₹400–800 | Boat ride ₹400–800 | Boats 10:00 AM – Boats 5:00 PM | Open all days | 1–2 hours |
| Jagdish Temple | Not published | Not published | 5:00 AM – 2:00 PM, reopening 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM | Open all days | 30–45 minutes |
| Saheliyon ki Bari | Not published | Not published | 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM | Open all days | 45 minutes |
1 of 4 carry a published entry fee. Where a fee is not shown it is because this site does not hold a verified figure for it, and we would rather leave a gap than print a number nobody has checked.
English in Udaipur
What a English commentary does here that it does not do elsewhere
Udaipur’s reputation in English was made by one book. James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, written in the 1820s by a British political agent who admired Mewar enormously, created the romantic Rajput — and almost every English-language description of this city since has been working from it. A good English commentary tells you that before the lake does its work on you.
What your guide covers
Mughal and Rajput history reaches English through a settled vocabulary — jali, chhatri, pietra dura, charbagh — and the job is to use those words and then explain them, rather than flattening everything to "carving" and "garden".
Tod’s Annals: what he got right about Mewar, what he romanticised, and how much of today’s tourist narrative is still his.
The 1818 treaty that made Mewar a British protected state, and what it ended.
The City Palace museum galleries read against their own labels — which are good, and where the dynastic account they give is the family’s rather than the historian’s.
The shape of the day
A half day and a full day in Udaipur
Udaipur is the Rajput city that never submitted to the Mughals, and that is the whole of its character: the Sisodia rulers of Mewar refused the marriage alliances that Amber and Jodhpur accepted, lost their capital at Chittorgarh three times for it, and built this city in the hills afterwards. A guide who tells you that first makes sense of everything you then look at. One who starts with the lake and the hotel from the Bond film does not.
Half day · ₹900 guide
City Palace and a Pichola sunset
Udaipur’s half day is best taken in the afternoon, which is the opposite of everywhere else on this list — the boats run until five and the light on the water is the point.
- 13:30
Hotel pickup
Most of the old-city hotels are a five-minute walk from the palace gate; the car matters more for Fateh Sagar and Saheliyon ki Bari.
- 14:00
City Palace
Two hours and change. The Mor Chowk peacock mosaics, the Zenana Mahal, the Krishna Vilas miniatures, and the Amar Vilas terrace at the top with the whole lake below it.
- 16:15
Jagdish Temple
Five minutes up the hill, and still a working temple rather than a monument — which your guide will brief you on before you go in.
- 16:45
Boat on Lake Pichola
The last boats leave around five. Past the Lake Palace, landing at Jag Mandir, and back as the light goes.
- 18:00
Drop
The 4 hr / 40 km package covers the afternoon as laid out.
Full day · ₹1,500 guide
Mewar in a day — palace, lakes and gardens
- 09:00
Hotel pickup
A later start than the fort cities. Udaipur’s monuments open at 09:30 and nothing is improved by being early.
- 09:30
City Palace
Three hours at opening, before the day-trip coaches arrive from Jaipur and Jodhpur.
- 12:30
Jagdish Temple and the old-city lanes
The temple, then the lanes behind it — miniature-painting studios, the Bada Bazaar, and the ghats where the city still washes.
- 13:30
Lunch on a rooftop over the lake
Paid separately. Almost every rooftop in the old city has the same view; your guide knows which ones also have the food.
- 15:00
Saheliyon ki Bari
The gravity-fed fountain garden — a short visit, and a good one in the heat of the afternoon.
- 16:00
Fateh Sagar and the Monsoon Palace road
The lake drive, and up to the Sajjangarh ridge if the group wants the long view back over the city.
- 17:00
Boat on Lake Pichola
Jag Mandir and back at sunset, which is when this city earns its reputation.
- 18:30
Drop at hotel
The 8 hr / 80 km package covers the day as laid out.
Orientation. The old city wraps around the eastern shore of Lake Pichola, with the City Palace on the water and Jagdish Temple a few hundred metres up the hill. Fateh Sagar is two kilometres north. Jag Mandir and the Lake Palace are islands, reached only by boat from the palace jetty.
The fare, stated plainly
What is in the price and what is not
What the fare covers
- A Ministry-of-Tourism licensed Regional Level Guide for the Rajasthan, examined in English
- The guide’s licence card photographed and sent on WhatsApp at confirmation, before anything is paid
- An AC vehicle with driver on the published rental package, if you book the bundled rate
- Driver waiting time at every stop for the whole package duration
- Fuel, tolls within the package distance, and the driver’s allowance
- Help at the ticket counters, including which tier to buy and which gate to use
What it does not
- Monument entry tickets — these are paid at the gate and the figures for Udaipur are in the table above
- Meals, and any shopping or activity you choose during the day
- Distance beyond the package’s included kilometres, charged at the published per-km rate
- Guide or driver gratuity, which is customary but never compulsory
- Monument camera and video charges where the monument levies them
About English guides
Working in English
The working language of most of India’s tourism trade, which means an English-speaking guide is also the easiest to verify: you can ask your own questions and judge the answers.
Who it serves
United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa
How names are handled
Place names are read as English speakers expect to hear them, with the Hindi or Urdu original offered once so you can use it with shopkeepers and drivers.
Notice we need
Usually available at short notice, including same day.
The licence, and how to check it
A Regional Level Guide licence is issued by the Ministry of Tourism after a written examination, an interview and a training course run through the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management. It is issued for a tourism region, not for the whole country, and it names the foreign languages the holder is examined in.
Every licence card carries a photograph, a licence number, the issuing region and the languages the holder is examined in. We send a photograph of the card on WhatsApp when a booking is confirmed, before you pay anything, so you can check the number, the region and the language against the guide who meets you.
Udaipur is licensed under the Rajasthan. Rajasthan — the state issues its own regional guide licences
Udaipur in photographs
What the day looks like
Photographed on the Udaipur routes these itineraries use.
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Book a English-speaking guide in Udaipur
Send your dates and the length of day you want. We come back with a named licensed guide, a photograph of their licence card, and the total in writing — ₹1,500 for the guide on a full day, or ₹4,000 with a sedan and driver included.
We send the guide’s licence card before you pay anything. Nothing is charged to confirm.