Pathetic state of maintenance for a heritage monument, staff openly demand tips for the free services like shoe custody, camera custody. Inside of the palace, the walls are covered with graffiti and neither the guards prevent this nor the maintenance covers it up. The area near the museum offers joy rides on animals, forcing people to walk on elephant/camel litter.

The Palace of Mysore (also known as the Amba Vilas Palace) is a palace situated in the city of Mysore in southern India. There are many temples in the palace complex too. You also can ride an Elephant in the palace complex. Footwear is not allowed inside the palace. Visitors are not allowed to shoot photographs in the palace too.

The hand made painting with 3D view was marvelous it seems changing its direction with our directions some of the paintings took 3-5 years to make The palace staff people were little rude

Nice place to visit. Talk about security though, women had to have their purses scanned twice and if men had something big in their pockets they had to pull things out of their pockets and have it looked at. Cameras were not allowed in the palace. No one is allowed to have their shoes on in the palace either. The... More

Must see thing at Mysore. The new palace is being given a good makeover and is well maintained. This palace gives a nice peek into the royal past of the Wodeyar kings and the life and culture of Mysore (karnataka) state. The old palace does need some restoration and should have more professional guides.

Breath taking collection on display.Having seen many royalty palaces in the past,i think visit to Mysore Palace was an ultimate experiencing for me and my family.Oh my God.... such wonderful art and craft in a single place on display.Each piece of art seems worth millions in the present times.Such fine paintings,miniatures,carved furniture , God statues , Glass work , Curtains... More

they allow too many people at a time...very difficult to enjoy the visit.. though the palace itself is beautiful...should try to visit in the early morning hours..as it gets really crowded post lunch....

no words to say. its simply amazing and the best place to visit in mysore. When we walk into the palace we can feel that environments of king, queen, army, people, their culture. every one has a imagination how king will be, his darbar, how meeting happen as we have seen serials, read history in social subject. but here we... More

Four places in Mysore are must see. One is this Palace ,ZOO,Brindavan Garden and Art Gallery. This palace is illuminated during Dassera festval.One must take a guide who can explain each part of Palace. Palace is Magnificient .Though lot of crowd because of Summer vacations ,it was handled nicely by security . Cameras are not allowed however people were taking... More