Hotel Radhika Palace

This building has been around for quite some time. It’s the Seth Lal Chand Agarwal Building, right on Mohan Takeej Road. Being in the Purani Sabji Mandi area means it’s always crowded and there’s always something happening outside. You can hear the vegetable sellers shouting early in the morning, which is how we know it’s time to start the day. The building itself is old, so it has those thick walls and weird corners that you don’t see in new places. We spend a lot of our time fixing little things like leaky taps or creaky doors. It’s just part of being in an older spot in Kota. The 324005 area is very traditional, and we fit right in with that. Most of our guests are people coming for business in the market or visiting family nearby. We don’t have a fancy lobby or anything like that. Just a counter and some chairs where I sit and do the ledger. Sometimes the internet is slow because of the thick walls, but we try to make it work. It gets really hot here in the summer, so we’re always checking the water tanks and the coolers. My family has been involved with this for years, and we just keep it going day by day. It’s not a palace in the way you see in movies, but it’s our place and we stay busy enough.