Prince William and Catherine, then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, used The Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra during the final day of their April 2016 India and Bhutan tour. The hotel hosted them, and contemporaneous reporting places meals and a Luxury Suite at the property.
Those facts verify a visit. They do not verify an overnight stay. The dated itinerary and departure reporting show that the couple arrived in Agra from Bhutan on April 16, visited the Taj Mahal, and left India that evening. Celebrity Hotels therefore corrects the assessed relationship from stay to visit.
What the stored source says
The source attached to the hotel record is an Architectural Digest article published in April 2017. It says The Oberoi Amarvilas had hosted Prince William and Kate Middleton and connects their visit with the couple's Taj Mahal appearance. The article discusses the hotel's suites, but it does not give check-in and checkout dates or say that the couple slept at the property.
The wording supports their presence at the hotel. It is not enough on its own to establish an overnight stay, especially when the dated tour record fixes the Agra stop to the final afternoon of the trip.
Direct hotel confirmation
Oberoi Hotels later described The Oberoi Amarvilas as the property that hosted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their 2016 India visit. That first-party confirmation resolves the exact hotel: The Oberoi Amarvilas on Taj East Gate Road in Agra, not another Oberoi property.
The Economic Times supplied more detail six days after the visit. It reported that the royal party used a Luxury Suite because the Kohinoor Suite had already been allocated to another royal guest. It also described a Mughlai dinner prepared for William, Kate and their delegation. This establishes use of hotel facilities and a suite, but a suite visit or day-use room is not automatically an overnight stay.
The same-day timeline
The Royal Family's own account calls the Taj Mahal the couple's final stop and says they ended the tour there that afternoon. India Today reported the released schedule more precisely: lunch and dinner at Amar Vilas, a late-afternoon Taj Mahal visit, and departure for Delhi by chartered aircraft later that evening.
ABC News reported on the completed Taj Mahal engagement and said the couple would fly back to the United Kingdom afterward. These records align on the important point: April 16 was a same-day Agra stop at the end of the tour, not a hotel night followed by another day in the city.
What the evidence establishes
Corrected relationship: visit. The Oberoi's own account confirms that it hosted Prince William and Duchess Kate, while the Economic Times documents their suite use and dinner at the exact property.
Original relationship assessed: stay. The available records do not support displaying the April 16 activity as an overnight stay. The official tour sequence and independent departure reports place their flight out of India that evening.
Not established: The reviewed sources do not provide a guest folio, check-in time, payment record, booking terms, or evidence of a separate night at The Oberoi Amarvilas on another date. The correction is limited to the documented April 2016 visit and does not claim that the couple could never have stayed there at another time.
This correction receives evidence grade A because it combines the hotel's direct confirmation with the Royal Family's primary tour record and contemporaneous independent reporting. No source or social-media photographs are reproduced because reusable image rights have not been established.