Baroda Hotels

The Circuit House of Baroda is located near the Railway Station (around 3 mins of walk), keeping in mind the convinience of the visitors.

Known as the State Guest House, it was ordered to be built during the reign of Maharaja Ganpatrao Gaekwad during 1840s.These Guest Houses were run by the State and were exclusively used to house the State Guests. The State Guest Houses was later converted to Baroda Hotels during the reign of Maharaja Saiyajirao Gaekwad III with a basic motive of promoting tourism.

Thus during the 1890s the State’s visitors or travellers had two options to choose from, either The Dak Bungalow in cantonment of Fatehgunj camp or the Baroda Hotels.

The whole complex consists of total four building blocks, i.e. the main building, two other blocks and an other block which is a native style bungalow. The main building is a one-storeyed bungalow with 2 bed-rooms and one drawing room. The two other blocks consists of 3 bed rooms. All of these residential blocks were well furnished . For other visitors, who wanted a native style living, they were housed in the other native style bungalow.

(These are same bungalow which are now known as Circuit House & it’s surrounding Officer’s Bungalow)

The people who visited the guest houses were greeted with Alcohols & Non-vegetarian meals. But there was a strict policy against visitors carrying their own alcohol.

Following is a rare list of the few different types of Alcohol with prices which were included in the menu of the Baroda Hotel :
– 1923 Vintage @ Rs 14
– White Wine @ Rs 8
– Johnny Walker White Horse @ Rs 11
– Johnny Walker Black Label @ Rs 14
– Ginger Wine @ Rs 5
– Brandy @ Rs 12
(Prices of the Bottles)

These were either served by the bottles or in Pegs, as required by the customer.

The buildings currently working as The Circuit House (1 storeyed building),The Valmiki Bungalow (The one Haveli on left side of Circuit House Campus) & Officers Club Haveli were all part of the Baroda Hotels at one point of time.

* Circuit House is a Guest House exclusively for government employees, which is in almost every City or State, where a government employee can stay alone or with family with prior booking.