How To done well-travelled Reservation in Hotels for there Customer

Do so only if you are well-travelled and happy to sort things out should the room turn out not to be as described or to be double-booked. Visit the Heaven on North India Tours and get blessed by Mata Vaishnodevi with Ajinkya tours.

It can be more secure to book through an online agent such as booking.com especially out of season or in out-of-the-way places. If travelling alone book a room for two (the price is often similar) otherwise you may be assigned a broom cupboard with a view of a wall.

British tour operators use their own Indian agents to make reservations on their behalf. This gives security at busy times when overbooking is a regular occurrence. The first guests to be bumped are those who have booked independently as it’s easier to upset a couple than a valued travel agent who brings business all year. (I have sat with a hotel manager doing just this at a top heritage hotel.) Independent travellers often end up in the worst rooms.

There are three main types of quality hotel in India: heritage properties (former Raj guesthouses, royal palaces and forts), glitzy modern hotels often set in beautiful gardens, and boutique guesthouses and homestays, which are often family-run.

Some of the best heritage properties, tented camps and boutique city hideaways are represented by MAhout, which can advise on itineraries. Its website also has links to some of Britain’s top tour operators to India. Visit the Heaven on earth Kashmir Tours and get blessed by Mata Vaishnodevi with Ajinkya tours

Many forts and country homes are wonderfully photogenic but don’t deliver on service or, in some cases, on basic things such as hot water or a decent mattress. Owners may spend much of their time in the city (where their children are at school), leaving guests in the hands of old family retainers who are not up to the job. It pays to use a tour operator with up-to-date knowledge of such properties.

Tour operators

Most specialists in holidays to India offer both escorted tours and private car-based journeys tailor-made according to your interests. A local agent or tour guide will meet you off every flight and train and escort you to the hotel, help you check in and discuss any concerns or additional guiding you need.

Expect to spend around £3,000 per person, based on two sharing, for a two-week private journey around Rajasthan staying in four-star hotels or top heritage properties. 

Village Ways  organises private walking trips and small-group holidays in the Indian Himalaya staying in village communities that benefit directly from tourists’ visits. It has recently introduced similiar trips in rural Rajasthan, Karnataka in the south, the Pindar Valley in the Himalayas. It has recently introduced similiar trips in rural Rajasthan, Karnataka, Kerala and Satpura in Madhaya Pradesh.

Wild Frontiers  runs some of the most interesting small-group tours (maximum 12 people), with a focus on “village India”. They’re good value at around £2,000 for two weeks, including heritage or four-star accommodation, all meals and entrances (international flight extra). Itineraries range from a tour of southern Rajasthan in open-top cars (“India in Slow Motion”) to wild walks in Kashmir. It also offers stay-put Christmas and Easter house-party style holidays in a palace near Udaipur, and can tailor-make private journeys countrywide from its Dehli office.