Luxury Trips India

Guest Name : Ms. M. Patricia GarridoGessa & Ms. M. Azucena Hidalgo Sanchez
Country : Spain
Before anything else I also wish U Happy Holidays and wish you enjoy your Christmas with your loved ones!! :) and this is also to tell you that we have been really very satisfied with the organization of the trip which couldn't have been better!!

The Hotels were very good and the service of the attendants, guides and the drivers magnificent! Specially want to confess that our last driver Gajendra Singh Yadav was so very generous and helpful, always at our disposal and was guarding and protecting us like a Father and we grew fond of him and we would please like you to tell him this as we were so secure with him !!

It was a great experience and I am sending you some of our photos to mark this adventure of ours

Without anything else I want to appreciate and congratúlate you for the work from the very first time you contacted me it was a pleasure talking to you and all your colleague's help and without a doubt I will not fail to recommend my friends and family to contact you and more than anything if i can return to India I will go with Compass!!

A big kiss and a greeting.

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Guest Name : Ms Ana Gloria
Country : Spain

Dear people of the Compass team, I thank you for your work on my trip to India on Holi Festival.

Everyone who attended me, made the trip full of good memories.

From Barcelona I'm sharing my memories, photographs and video footage with my friends and I continue to encourage people to travel to this great country.

I don't remember the names of all those people who attended me and I would appreciate if you could send me a list of the guides and drivers from every city I visited, so that I can send them some pictures, etc..

Especially of the person who accompanied us in Jaipur. I am sending a picture of a woman who worked at the Amber Fort and had already appeared in the photographs of the trip in 2010. She is a housekeeper, but for me very important. I too am a woman and when I saw that she recognized me I think she wanted to explain and ask, but she did not understand English and time forced us to continue the visit.

On the other hand, I thank Vaishali for the splendid treatment and I must mention that the Barcelona office helped out a lot.

Look forward to hearing from you.
Ana Gloria

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Guest Name : G. Kirschenbaum and Gayle
Country : USA
Sorry we didn't get to meet. I know you were in NY and thought perhaps we might meet here.

First, I want to thank you for a wonderful tour. I will definitely recommend Compass to others. Pawan was on top of things all the time and available at any hour. Most of the guides were excellent. Particularly Angelique in Jaipur, and .. now I'm forgetting his name, our guide in Varanasi. They don't get any better. They worked far beyond the call for duty. Both highly intelligent with great personalities. Couldn't do enough for us.

It was especially great to have a female guide who understands the interests of women more.. like shopping desires.

Our driver Devin or David was extremely attentive and caring. He worked really hard and took care of my mother. He also worked over and beyond the call of duty. A very thoughtful, kind person. The only thing is for me he drove too fast and weaved too much for comfort in between cars. I did tell him and he definitely improved.

Our driver the last day in Delhi who we didn't have much contact with and I believe he didn't really feel comfortable with English, a very nice man from Nepal, driving style was more comfortable for us.

The hotels were excellent, I loved the Havelis particularly the one Jodpur. What a treat!

All the sites were fascinating. The only city that I thought the sites that were on the schedule were not of interest were in Delhi. We were now in the capital of India and we didn't need to see anymore ancient monuments when we only had one day there. I noticed a sign on the road for Gandhi's museum and then for Indira's and our guide took us there. We were both so fascinated by it. I believe westerners would be quite interested to visit both. Then in the afternoon we went to the old market in Old Delhi and that was also a treat.

We did manage to hook up with Isaac from the synagogue late at night and in fact, Pawan joined us. I was happy to make that contact for him. Isaac is a good speaker and quite involved in diplomatic relations about the topic of Jews in India. He is from the old Bene Israel tribe. A good contact for any of your Jewish travelers who go to Delhi.

We also had a lovely lunch with someone else I connected with named Gulu Ezekial. Gulu writes about cricket. He has a column in the India Times and has written several books on the subject. We met because I learned he is half Jewish. He took me and my mom and his sister to lunch at a lovely restaurant called The Kitchen. I highly recommend this place for your tourists.

Also, I would say the best Indian food we had was at the restaurant our guide Angelique took us to for lunch in Jaipur. I don't remember the name but I'm sure she does. It was not the fanciest place but the food was fabulous. She introduced us to a vegetarian dish that was not spicy - navaratan korma (sp?) with cashews. Yummy. Mom and I don't do well with spicy food. I ate a lot of chicken tandoor and chicken tikka masala. Both delicious and what I eat often in the states.

Having the cell phone made us feel secure. We knew we were not out of contact with our family in the states and we had a means to contact Compass or anyone in India. Thank you. It's a real plus. I understand it was your idea and I can only say a great idea that makes a huge difference.

We always felt taken care of and never alone. The way the tour was organized with a local compass rep and a local guide was perfect.

I was so impressed by the number of universities. And so impressed by the people who are so poor but don't feel poor. I loved learning about the Jaine people, visiting their, learning about Buddha.

Varsha, in all, I was blown away. Blown away by India, by the people, by Compass service. I want to come back and explore the areas I have not been to.. further north, Punjab, the south and so on.

You know what they say, Incredible India!

I will look for some pictures and forward to you. Are you on Facebook?

Warmest regards, Gayle

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Guest Name : Kay and M. Curran
Country : Australia

Dear Compass India,

My wife and I would like to thank you for the wonderful service provided by your company during our recent trip.

I can only say that you and your staff far exceeded any reasonable expectations we may have had in relation to service, the quality of accommodation and the general experience of our trip.

Beginning particularly with Anchal, every member of your staff that we contacted was invariably helpful, polite, cheerful, creative and just basically nice.

The comfort of being met at every airport and assisted to our hotel was beyond value.

In many cases, and in particular during the fog delays in Jaipur, the local agent went far beyond what would be generally expected, managing to reschedule lost flights with a different airline, thus ensuring our eventual arrival in Kochi when it would appear that many others in similar situations did not.

In every case, the accommodation provided was excellent and of a higher standard than expected. Where hotels were not ultra-modern and 'international' in style, they were more traditional and provided other attractions. I am thinking of both Ranthambhore and Kochi where the hotel design seemed to capture the unique feeling of the location. Even the slightly faded splendour of the Fariyas in Mumbai provided as a bonus a spectacular view of the harbour, complete with dhows!

The drivers provided were beyond praise. Their skills were awesome and their even temperament, so essential for the type of driving they were doing, excellent. Their English skills were sufficient for the task and they were invariably considerate of our needs in relation to things like toilet stops.

The guides arranged were excellent. We appreciated the fact that the guide in Ajanta had a masters degree in history and that the guide in Mumbai was able to give us what was effectively an oral history, having lost a close relative in the attack.

We had three outstanding experiences during the trip, including that in Mumbai. The others were a 'close and personal' meeting with a tiger in Ranthambhore and the incomparable experience of the Taj Mahal which defies all explanation and expression.

Again, many thanks
Kay and M. Curran