We love to hear from our clients after their journey, receiving letters such as the following is a highlight in our working day.

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WARDEN/FISHER
MARCH 2003

Dear Kapil

A whole week has flashed by since we returned form India and I apologise for not writing sooner. We have been busy catching up with family and friends who all wanted to know how our trip went.

Thanks to you and Amanda and all your planning it went very well!!

All the places chosen were very special and gave the four of us some wonderful glimpses of life in India.

Our photos - hundreds of them - have been developed and remind us of our travels. Please tell Mitripal and Surinder that I will have copies made of the ones I promised them as soon as I sort through the negatives.

Our guides were very efficient and informative although two were very hard to understand. All the hotels were comfortable and quite splendid especially the beautiful Oberois. Samode Palace and Khimsar Fort were very atmospheric.

Your Mitripal and John Benny from Kerala are outstandingly good drivers and looked after us all as though we were Royalty. We are forever grateful to them and to Surinder too for his care.

We would have liked more time to shop casually in the bazaars as the crowds and colours and happy bargaining are all part of a novel experience in a different country.

Best wishes to you and your family and to MP and Surinder. And thank you once again for arranging our Indian Safari.

Kind regards
Joan & Morrie Fisher
Margot & Robin Warden

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SNYDER & STONER
NOV 2002

Dear Amanda:

We are back now scarcely a week and the visions of India are still very fresh. Ruby Ann and I find ourselves constantly reliving the journey in our daydreams not to mention our night-dreams. The trip was fabulous and we really can't thank you enough for all the time you spent helping us plan our wonderful itinerary that included so many highlights that really were being drawn from two very different kinds of trips. Everything went off as planned and we absolutely feel that what was delivered to us was very consistent with what was represented.

Raj Kumar is a fine young man who did an excellent job representing the company and putting us at ease upon our arrival. The vouchers were exceptionally well done. In general your company did an amazing job in handling the logistics and other arrangements associated with our journey. We are still fascinated that custom itineraries and independent travel can be handled so efficiently. We would not hesitate to use Luxury Holidays Online (Trans India Tours) again for a subsequent trip to India or perhaps Africa along the lines as we have previously discussed. We also would (and have) recommended your organisations to anyone interested in travelling in India.

Sincerely,
Warren and Ruby Ann Snyder, USA

P.S. By the way, we rode camels all day at the Pushkar Camel Fair (what a great way to see and experience the fair) and we rode elephants to our hearts content in Bandhavgarh. We saw 12 tigers at Bandhavgarh, which may have been a record, and just let us say that nothing beats tracking a tiger on an elephant. We also saw a leopard (excellent siting) in Ranthambore, which was kind of ironic, since that's the one thing we didn't see in Africa. We are also still full of lots of other tidbits, so if you want to hear more just let us know. Thanks again for such a great adventure!

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LOVELL
February 2003

Dear Ashu,

Thank you so much to you and your company for providing Richard and I with outstanding service all throughout our India trip process. I can't believe we did it all very simply through e-mail - I found your company on the internet, e-mailed back and forth with you to customise our itinerary, and we never even needed to make one phone call to come up with the perfect trip! And it did indeed turn out to be perfect in every way. Seamless: at every point where we were to be met at our numerous stops in India, a representative was always waiting for us and knew where we should go, which hotel we were staying at, and what we wished to see in the region. All guides were extremely friendly and pleasant to be around, which added to our enjoyment of the culture and touring. The competent service from every Indian we encountered made us not want to leave the country! From the hotel concierges to the car drivers to the guides, all were willing to do whatever it takes to make our stay wonderful. We can't say enough about how happy we are. We're telling all of our friends to go to India, and to use Luxury Holidays!

Thank you for an amazing trip. The experience and memories are priceless.

Regards,
Rebecka

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TRANTNER
February 2002

Hi Amanda,

Many apologies for the delay in replying - lots of things to be catching up on here!

Anyway, we had a fabulous, fascinating trip and have definitely caught the India "bug" - (in more ways than one, but more of that later!). We were particularly impressed with the overall organisation and service provided by Trans India and their affiliated agents - everything went very smoothly.

You asked about Nilaya. We absolutely loved it and wished that we had stayed longer! It's totally chilled out, right in the middle of nowhere half way up the side of a mountain! The website and Hip Hotel book do not really do it justice. It's incredibly informal - the staff call you by your first name and at lunchtime you are shown the (4 course) dinner menu for that night and asked if you would prefer something different - It's like staying in someone's house. Claudia & Hari (the owners) are absolutely charming and there was a bizarre mix of guests - including a Norwegian TV crew making a cookery program with Norway's equivalent of Delia Smith (if that means something to you?). Oh, and to cap it all, the (Indian) house white wine was fab (unlike all of the other sherry-tasting gut-rot we sampled at other establishments) and was a complete steal at Rs 1100 including tax! Overall, it was the perfect end to our trip, but I guess that it wouldn't be to everyone's taste as there is not an awful lot to do apart from sunbathe, swim, snooze and eat/drink!

We have got one final suggestion. We went to the Sea Lounge at the Taj in Mumbai for a drink and then (following a recommendation from Claudia at Nilaya) had dinner at Trishna's - an absolutely fabulous seafood restaurant about a five minute walk from the Taj, just near the fort. I can't think of anywhere else in the world where you can get a crab the size of a dinner place for $16... (and it was so big that two of us couldn't finish it!)

That's about all. I would just like to reiterate that we had a great trip and thank you so much for all the time and effort you put in to arranging our itinerary. We are already planning the next visit....

Best wishes,
Simon & Louise