COMMENDATIONS
Guest
Name : Virginia & Daniel
Country: Spain
Email: VIRSAN1@terra.es
Year: 2006, July
Dear Durjay,
It´s been quite a long time since our trip to India finished, and we owe you some feedback. We´ve been prety busy until the moment since just before our trip started, we had moved to a new house. Now life is becoming normal.
I hope you all are fine, and we expect no relatives or friends of yours have been affected by the bombs in Mumbai. We were shocked when we heard the news. Our mind was full of thoughts and feelings similar to the ones we had here in Spain with the 11M attacks at Atocha train station.
Coming back to the trip. We must say we had a wonderful time in India, and you and your team made a great work. Everything run accordingly and we made the most of our stay. Something I considered highly important was the driver, and I have only good words for Shingara. He was absolutely perfect, always in a good mood, willing to go wherever we planned different from the scheduled tour. He contributed a lot to having a great tour.
With regards to the guides, I must say they were all good, but there was one whom we considered exceptional. The guy who guided us in Jodhpur. Absolutely fabulous!!! I guess he is one of those guides you can follow during a whole trip. Very nice person and very professional. When we have friends coming to India, or if we come back again, we will ask you for this guy, for sure.
We were a little bit disappointed with the guy who toured us in Udaipur. He took us to a very expensive miniature shop and we decided not to buy anything. That same day later in the afternoon, he followed us to see where we were buying things, and the day after during the trip he asked us for an explanation. We didn´t expect that treatment. We did not pay much attention to that but I guess you´ll need to be careful, because it was an uncomfortable situation for us and I guess there was no need for it. From the point of view of the tour I must say he did a very good job, very interesting explanations and very good spoken Spanish.
Our trip to Agra was a little bit stressfull, I know this is in part my fault, because I try to concentrate as many things as possible in a trip. I guess it would have been better if we had gone to Agra by train instead of by car. It took us a very long time and left us with not much time to visit monuments. We had to decide which visits to skip, and that´s hard when you´ve come from so far away to visit a country. Maybe you can think of this for some other trips of people.
There was a hotel we did not like at all. The one in Jaisalmer. It was abandoned and the people at the front desk were not very helpful or nice (the staff was very good, as everywhere in India). Just in case someone else asks you for it.
I guess these are the only things I would highlight, for the rest, the trip was excellent and we keep on looking the pictures we took once and again. Absolutely wonderful, Durjay! Great work you and your people did. We loved everything we saw, we loved the people, the chaos, the traffic, everything. You have a wonderful and huge country and the best thing is that you are making it accessible to foreigners like us at all its best. It was great to see your people at the airports, at the hotels, never feeling alone or insecure. I know a colleague from Daniel has contacted you in order to organise his trip to Calcutta. We´ve been publicising your company all over because we had a great experience, and we would like our friends to share that too.
Next time we visit India we would like to go to the South - Kerala and the backwaters. We have no dates but I´m sure I will contact you again!
Feel free to provide our e-mail address to give feedback to other travellers from Spain. We will be glad to share our wonderful experience with other people so that they take Compass to plan their tour.
Thanks for everything once again!
Our warmest regards
Virginia & Daniel
Spain