About Heritage Tour & Wildlife Trip
Day - by - Day Tour
Day 01: Arrival at Delhi
Day 02: Delhi
Day 03: Delhi - Udaipur
Day 04: Udaipur
Day 05: Udaipur - Jodhpur
Day 06: Jodhpur
Day 07: Jodhpur - Jaipur
Day 08: Jaipur
Day 09: Jaipur - Ranthambhore
Day 10: Ranthambhore
Day 11: Jaipur - Agra
Day 12: Agra
Day 13: Agra - Jhansi - Khajuraho
Day 14: Khajuraho - Varanasi
Day 15: Varanasi - Delhi
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Guest Comments
-----Original Message-----
From: Ghislaine Caulat <
Ghislaine.Caulat@ashridge.org.uk
To: info@compasstoursandtravels.com
CC: durjayatcompass@hotmail.com
Subject: Thank you!
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:17:29 +0100
Dear Durjay,
We have now got back home and before work takes all my attention back
again I would like, also in the name of my partner Francis, to thank you
and your team for one of the most fascinating and wonderful trips that we
have done so far. India, or at least the north of it as we have seen it,
is a wonderful country and discovering it has been for us in turn
wonderful, upsetting, touching, overwhelming... It has definitely been an
intense and stretching experience with good learning for us...
You and your team have contributed to this experience. The programme was
excellent: it has enabled us to learn about the past of India as well as
to get to know the India of today with its culture and its people at the
same time. The pace of the programme also worked very well for us.
The guides that you have selected have all been nice and very professional
people. We have particularly appreciated Aman in Varanasi (a passionate
and kind person keen to convey so much about his country, a real wealth of
knowledge with excellent pedagogical skills), Raghu (?) in Jodpur (a real
fine man, very knowledgeable and handling his guests very well), Man Singh
in Jaipur (very efficient, straightforward, always finding a good balance
between the level of details to communicate and the number of things to
show) and Netin in Delhi (very knowledgeable, personable and full of
humour) . Francis has also appreciated Satender (?) in Bikaner who did
the tour in very good French!
Most hotels that your team has selected for us have been excellent.
Udaivillas was a real dream! Deogarh was a pleasure, as was Devi Garh (a
fantastic hotel). Mandawa Castle was maybe less convincing (not as well
taken care of as the Laxmi Niwas Palace in Bikaner fo example). The only
real shadow though was the Rajwada Hotel in Jaisalmer, which we thought
was very poor, a real shock after the wonderful Umaid Palace in Jodpur. I
gave some verbal feedback about the hotel to Wickram and also completed a
feedback form for the hotel. They wanted us to sign the voucher at our
arrival so I could not write any feedback on it. We were grateful that
your team accepted to give us a suite in the hotel (after I contacted them
to inform about the situation), which made things a bit better... Still we
were relieved when we left the place... A less serious flaw was the
selection of the last hotel (The Grand) in Delhi, which compared with the
Taj Mahal and the Oberoi, was disappointing in terms of location (so close
to the airport) as well as in terms of atmosphere... While I understand
the logic of putting us in a hotel close to the airport on the last day,
we would have much more preferred to finish our trip on a nicer note, in a
place like the Taj Mahal for example. We would not have minded to get up a
bit earlier for the airport....
I would like to thank very much your agents in the different places. We
have very much appreciated Piyush's help in Varanasi when I got concerned
about several mosquito bites that I got on one day: he has been highly
responsive, caring and professional. Also Raj Singh in Udaipur was very
responsive and efficient when he organised for some clothes that I forgot
in Deogarh to be delivered in Udaipur: thank you! Thank you also to John
in Agra and to Ajay in Jodpur for taking the time to come to the hotel and
welcome us: a kind gesture. Obviously thank you also to Wickram for his
friendly and professional services.
Last but not least I wanted to thank the drivers: Ram in Varanasi was a
very good and pleasant driver who showed us very interesting aspects of
the Indian day-to-day life on the second day: we have appreciated this a
lot. In particular we would also like to thank Narendra, our "long
distance" driver. He has been an excellent driver. He was discrete while
at the same time very attentive to our needs. A very kind man who has been
a very good company for us!
In terms of the trip as a whole, as mentioned before, we are very
satisfied with all destinations that you put on the programme although,
in retrospect, we think that we could have skipped Jaisalmer, not only
because of the hotel but also because we found the place too full of
tourists, with no particular soul in spite of being the oldest fort in the
world... but of course we can only say this in retrospect and we fully
understand why you put it on the programme.
I hope that you will find this feedback helpful. We are offering it as a
sign of gratitude and respect for your very good work. We will keep
excellent memories of our trip. We will certainly recommend you to our
friends and families and, should we consider to visit India again in the
future, we will come back to Compass Tours.
It was also nice to meet you personally and to see the offices and the
people behind the email address that I had contacted....
We wish you and your team all the very best for the future.
With kind regards
Ghislaine & Francis
UK
friend
!!