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"An upmarket retreat of tented villas in India’s Great Thar Desert."
the sunday times travel, 2011
 
"The Serai, Jaisalmer is one of those out - of - this - world experiences that are very rare."
Vogue, 2011
 
"It’s the little touches that rasie the bar… As you leave it is with a new understanding that camping doesn’t get any better."
TATLER, 2010
 
"The Serai, Jaisalmer adorns the cover of Conde Nast Traveller's Annual Travel Awards Issue. October 2010."
Conde Nast Traveller Annual Travel Awards Issue, 2010
 
"Madonna’s visit in 2007 helped cement Rajasthan’s place on the global style scene, but the new Serai Jaisalmer has just increased the vogue factor…"
OUR 45 FAVORITE NEW HOTELS
THE IT LIST 2010, TRAVEL & LEISURE
 
"Top New Hotels in the World – The Serai, Jaisalmer"
Conde Nast Traveller US Edition, Hot List, 2010
 
"The Serai brings a new level of luxury to this part of western Rajasthan. The overall effect is something out of a dream: romantic and completely magical..."
CONDE NAST TRAVELLER HOT LIST, 2010
 
"And five of the best around the world."
Highlife, British Airways
 
"An immaculate camp."
House and Garden, 2010
 
"SujAn hotel group, who brought unparalleled luxury to India's Ranthambore tiger reserve a decade ago with its Sher Bagh tented camp."
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"This is the first tented camp to be set up in the bathed-in-honey no man's-land of Jaisalmer... The Serai is dramatically elemental but with a glamorous kick..."
The 101 best hotels in the world.
Tatler Travel Guide 2010
 
"Oasis in the desert! Luxury travel finds a new address at The Serai in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan where ever swirling sand dunes meet clear blue skies for an unforgettable rendezvous in the Thar desert."
Livingetc 2010
 
"... stay at the just-opened The Serai, a tented camp setting new standards of luxury in the desert."
CONDE NAST TRAVELLER, 2009
EXPERIENCE THE FIVE SENSES OF INDIA
 
"The Serai, Jaisalmer. A 21-tent camp and spa in the Great Thar Desert with an infinity pool inspired by ancient ornate wells."
Conde Nast Traveller, 2009
 
"The Serai-Jaisalmer is poised to change the face of hospitality in the region... the resort's piece de resistance is the elevated infinity pool..."
Travel +Leisure, 2009
 
"The Serai is 21 billowy dreamy tents dotted amid the indigenous scrub... At night, it's all movie-set romance, as lanterns and a campfire glow between the bushes."
Harper's Bazaar Magazine, 2009
"The 10 most Glamorous boltholes in India"
 
"Jaisal Singh has already given friends and family a preview of his new desert camp outside Jaisalmer; the 20 lavish tents, with campaign-style furniture and durrie rugs, will take the first paying guests in September."
TEN MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED HOTEL OPENINGS, CONDE NAST TRAVELLER RED HOT LIST, 2009
 
"The Serai is smart, sexy, magical. What makes it all the more clever is that it smoothly crosses the boundary in India between old-school hotels with history and the big-brand hotels that occasionally leave you with that antiseptic-bubble feel. The Serai has frontier decadence in space and scrub and a wonderful lurid harshness."
Tatler Travel Guide, 2009, Featuring the 101 best hotels in the world
 
"Need a reason to return to India...Amid the hypnotic sand dunes of the Thar Desert, outside Jaisalmer, is The Serai camp and spa, with 21 tented suites on 100 acres of scrub."
Conde Nast Traveler, 2009
 
“The best luxury camps rival brick and mortar hotels offering splendid landscapes and pampering. Here are some of the best camps... With centuries of experience, these camps in India are some of the best in the world.”
SILVERKRIS, THE TRAVEL MAGAZINE OF SINGAPORE AIRLINES, 2009
 
“SUJAN Luxury's latest property doesn't launch until later in the summer, but already there's a growing sense of anticipation.”
The National, 2009
 
“Among the properties on our radar is The Serai which opens spring 2009 in the Thar Desert. It promises to be the new word in posh camping, with 21 superplush tents among the wild scenery that Rajasthan is so famous for.”
THE IT LIST ON CONCIERGE.COM, 2009
 
“It’s India’s first luxury desert camp, and it looks rather fabulous.”
The Sunday Times, lONDON, 2009
 
“there is a new desert camp at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India- The Serai claims to be the ‘first seriously comfortable hotel’ in the area.”
The Times, lONDON, The hottest hotels for 2009, 2008
 
"Posh camping has just got better with the opening of the serai, a luxury desert camp and spa in Rajasthan, India."
South China Morning Post, 2009
 
"The Serai outside Jaisalmer, the latest addition to one of travel’s chicest trends: luxury camping. Here 20 stylish tents come with huge, comfortable beds, plus heating and aircon- all conveniences especially enjoyed after long camel treks through the desert. More importantly there will be a real emphasis on conservation."
Financial Times: How to Spend it, 2008
 
"The Serai in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, launches this spring. Twenty one huge tents (and even huger beds) will sit in the desert with panoramic vistas of some of India's most beautiful countryside. There is even a spa in one of the canvas structures so you can get relaxing treatments after camel trekking or exploring nearby villages."
Conde Nast Traveller on concierge.com, 2008
 
"new properties opening their doors include The Serai, a luxurious camp with 20 enormous tents featuring stone beds and aircon in Jaisalmer."
The Guardian, 2008