Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain (Ring Road): Rooms & Location

Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain is a 3-star, 62-room hotel near Ring Road, listed by Expedia about 3.7 km (a five-minute drive) from the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, with a free buffet breakfast, free Wi-Fi and free self-parking. It is not MPT Samrat Vikramaditya, the Madhya Pradesh Tourism heritage hotel beside the temple in Jaisinghpura; the two share a name and nothing else.

The booking sites never say that. Search the name and you get Expedia-group listings for the Ring Road hotel, a much smaller "Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain" on Hotels.com and the state-run heritage property, with no hint that they are different places. This profile separates them first, then gives the Ring Road hotel's location, room types, breakfast and parking facts with sources, and says who should book here and who should stay nearer the temple.

Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain: which one is this?

Three listings carry the name of Vikramaditya, the legendary king associated with Ujjain. They are:

• Hotel Vikramaditya (Ring Road): the subject of this page. Expedia lists it as a 3-star hotel with 62 rooms, renovated in 2023, at 81/1 Hariphatak Ring Road, Nanakheda, Ujjain 456001, with free breakfast and parking. This is the mid-range hotel most searchers mean.
• MPT Samrat Vikramaditya The Heritage: Madhya Pradesh Tourism's restored heritage hotel in Jaisinghpura, which MP Tourism describes as a five-minute walk from the Mahakaleshwar temple, with three vegetarian restaurants and direct booking through the state corporation. It is a different property with a different operator in a different part of the city; our separate guide to MPT Samrat Vikramaditya covers it.
• "Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain" (Hotels.com): a further listing showing a 2-star property with 10 rooms, check-in from noon, a minimum guest age of 18, check-out at 10:00 AM, a front desk with limited hours, fan-cooled rooms, a 32-inch LED TV and laundry, and the same 3.7 km to Mahakaleshwar. No address renders on the page, so it is impossible to say whether this is a second small hotel of the same name or a duplicate record of the Ring Road property. Its facts are kept apart from the 62-room hotel throughout this page.

Before you pay, match the room count and the address on the booking page to the table below. A 62-room hotel with an elevator, a garden and a buffet breakfast is not the same stay as a 10-room property with a part-time front desk, whatever the name says.

Quick facts

The table sets the three listings side by side. Rooms, star class, renovation year, amenities and check-in rules for the Ring Road hotel were read directly from the Expedia listing; the address, distances and breakfast hours did not render on the page and come from the same listing's search text, so they are attributed as "Expedia lists". MPT facts come from our own guide, which draws on the MP Tourism page.

On those facts the Ring Road hotel sits squarely among the mid-range hotels in Ujjain: a three-star class, a large room count, breakfast and parking included, and a location on the modern side of the city rather than in the temple lanes. Rates are not quoted here because they change with the festival calendar; the booking page on the day is the only reliable figure. Phone number, website and GST details could not be verified and are not published.

Location: Ring Road side of Ujjain

Expedia places the hotel at 81/1 Hariphatak Ring Road in Nanakheda, pincode 456001: on the ring road around the city rather than in the old town around the temple. It is a hotel for people arriving by road who are happy to drive to the temple, not for people who want to step out of the lobby into the temple lanes.

Distance to Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga, Vedh Shala and Sandipani Ashram

Expedia lists the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga at 3.7 km and calls it a five-minute drive; allow longer in traffic and on festival mornings. The Vedh Shala observatory is listed at 2.7 km. The listing says the hotel is close to Sandipani Ashram and gives a 14-minute walk in its search text, which makes it the one sight within walking range. No distance to Ujjain Junction is published on the listing, so none is given here; the Expedia line about the hotel being "connected to" a rail station is marketing copy and should not be read as the station being next door.

Getting to the temple from here

Plan on a short drive for every temple visit. With your own car the free self-parking makes that simple; without one, the listing mentions tour and ticket assistance at the front desk. What you give up by staying on Ring Road is the ability to walk to the temple before dawn and walk back to bed; what you gain is a larger, recently renovated hotel with space to park. The parking angle is covered for the whole city in our guide to Ujjain hotels with parking.

Room types

Hotel Vikramaditya room types, as listed on Expedia, number five, all described with city views, air conditioning, a TV and a private bathroom. The names below are as listed on Expedia; occupancy is implied by the names, not stated separately, so confirm the bed configuration before booking for a group.

The listing does not differentiate the five categories beyond their names, so the "suited to" column is a reading of what the names imply, not a description of the rooms. Ask the hotel what separates Deluxe from Superior before paying the difference. Note that the Hotels.com listing for the 10-room "Hotel Vikramaditya Ujjain" describes fan-cooled rooms with a 32-inch LED TV, which is a different standard altogether; if a booking page shows fans rather than air conditioning, you are looking at the other listing.

Breakfast, parking, Wi-Fi and work facilities

These four facts are the practical case for the hotel; all four were visible on the Expedia listing.

• Breakfast: a free buffet, listed in the search text as served daily from 8:00 to 10:30 AM. For a family that has been at the temple since before dawn, a hot breakfast back at the hotel at nine is worth more than it sounds.
• Parking: free self-parking, the single biggest practical advantage over the hotels in the temple lanes.
• Wi-Fi: free in-room Wi-Fi, where some budget hotels near the temple list Wi-Fi in public areas only.
• Work facilities: laptop-friendly workspaces in the rooms, a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, 24-hour room service, an elevator, laundry, a garden, concierge and tour and ticket assistance.

What is not listed is as useful to know. The Expedia page does not mention a restaurant beyond breakfast, a bar or banquet facilities, and no opening year is given, so none of those are claimed here even though they appear in some third-party descriptions. If any of them matters to your trip, confirm it with the hotel.

Who should book here, and who should stay nearer the temple

Hotel Vikramaditya suits three kinds of traveller in Ujjain. The first is a family driving in from Indore, Bhopal or further, who wants to park once, sleep in a newer three-star room and drive the 3.7 km to the temple each morning. The second is a business visitor to the Nanakheda side of the city who needs a desk, in-room Wi-Fi and a buffet before meetings. The third is anyone who has stayed in the temple lanes before and found them too cramped or noisy for a multi-night stay.

It suits one kind of traveller badly: the pilgrim whose entire trip revolves around the pre-dawn Bhasma Aarti and who wants to walk to the queue and back without a vehicle. For that trip, a hotel within a few hundred metres of the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga is the better choice, even if it is smaller and older. The city-side versus temple-side trade-off is the first decision to make in Ujjain; the hotel is the second.

Booking and alternatives

The Ring Road hotel is sold through the Expedia-group sites, and the Expedia listing for Hotel Vikramaditya is the most complete public source for it, including the room categories and the full amenity list. Check that the page shows 62 rooms and the Hariphatak Ring Road address before you book, because the 10-room Hotels.com listing carries almost the same name. For the heritage hotel, booking runs through Madhya Pradesh Tourism rather than through this hotel's channels; the two are not interchangeable and a reservation at one will not be honoured at the other.

If the dates you want are full, Hotels in Ujjain profiles 30 properties on its /hotel/ pages, each with an address, the distance to Mahakaleshwar Temple and Ujjain Junction, an approximate price band and a rating, last updated 28 March 2026. Start from the mid-range hub for the three-star alternatives and compare by location first: a Ring Road-side hotel will share this one's advantages, a temple-lane hotel its opposite. If the answer to "which Vikramaditya" turns out to be the heritage one, read the MPT guide instead; it is a different trip.

Written and reviewed by the Hotels in Ujjain editorial team. Facts checked against primary sources; see the reference above.

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