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| PACKAGE OVERVIEW |
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| Discover India in a new light - from the quaint monuments of the British era in Mumbai to the imposing palaces and forts of Udaipur and Jaipur and the glorious memorabilia of the Mughals in New Delhi and Agra, explore the different faces of India and cherish the versatility, diversity and unity of the colourful nation. |
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| INCLUSIONS: |
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 Accommodation for 3 nights in Mumbai
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Accommodation for 2 nights in Udaipur
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Accommodation for 2 nights in Jaipur
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Accommodation for 1 night in Agra
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Accommodation for 2 nights in new Delhi
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Meals - 10 breakfasts
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All surface transportation by air conditioned car as per the itinerary
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All sightseeing tours in an air conditioned car as per the itinerary
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Dharavi slum tour in Mumbai once during the stay
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Boat ride on Lake Pichola in Udaipur (subject to weather and water level condition) once during the stay
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Elephant ride at Amber Fort in Jaipur once during the stay (subject to availability)
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Complimentary entry to the monument
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Services of an English speaking guide for all sightseeing tours
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All applicable hotel and road taxes
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| ITINERARY |
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DAY 01: ARRIVAL IN MUMBAI
On arrival in Mumbai, meet our representative at the airport and take a transfer to the hotel for overnight stay.
Meals:
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DAY 02: MUMBAI
After breakfast, proceed on a sightseeing tour of Mumbai and visit the Gateway of India, Dhobi Ghat, Hanging Gardens, Marine Drive and Juhu Beach. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 03: MUMBAI
After breakfast, proceed on a half day Dharavi Slum tour that will bring you up close and personal with living conditions of residents in the biggest slum in Asia. The small hidden alleys reveal a world like no other where small industries survive alongside family huts and children playing. This tour aims at breaking down the negative image of Dharavi and brining people of different countries, races, religions and social classes together to increase understanding and empathy. Enjoy the evening at leisure. Stay overnight at the hotel. MakeMyTrip.com will donate 10% of the tour profits to NGOs helping to empower Mumbai's poorer communities.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 04: MUMBAI - UDAIPUR (1 HOUR 10 MINS BY AIR)
After breakfast, take a transfer to the airport for a flight to Udaipur. On arrival in Udaipur, meet our representative at the airport and take a transfer to the hotel. In the evening, enjoy a boat ride on Lake Pichola. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 05: UDAIPUR
After breakfast, proceed on a half day sightseeing tour of Udaipur and visit the City Palace, Sahelion Ki Bari and the Doll Museum. Enjoy rest of the day at leisure. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 06: UDAIPUR - JAIPUR (310 KMS / 7 HOURS BY ROAD)
After breakfast, drive to Jaipur. On arrival in Jaipur, check in to the hotel. Enjoy the evening at leisure. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 07: JAIPUR
After breakfast, proceed on a full day sightseeing tour of Jaipur city and visit the 16th century Amber Fort and take an elephant ride up the Fort's ramparts. The Fort encloses superb palaces and a marble temple dedicated to the fearsome goddess Kali. Also visit Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar (observatory) and the City Palace complex museum. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 8: JAIPUR - AGRA (230 KMS/ 5 HRS BY ROAD)
After breakfast, drive to Agra. En route, visit the imperial city of Fatehpur Sikri constructed of sandstone and built by Emperor Akbar. Within it lies the tomb of the great Sufi saint Salim Chisti. It houses the Panch Mahal and the Buland Darwaza, two of the many excellent representations of Mughal architecture. On arrival in Agra, check in to the hotel. In the evening, visit the local market. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 09: AGRA - DELHI (210 KMS/ 5 HOURS BY ROAD)
After breakfast, visit the Taj Mahal, the 7th Wonder of the World built by Emperor Shah Jehan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Also visit the Agra Fort constructed of red sandstone with ornate interiors that house the Jehangir Mahal, Khas Mahal, Sheesh Mahal and Deewan-e-Am. Later, drive to Delhi. On arrival in Delhi, check in to the hotel. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 10: DELHI
After breakfast, go on a full day sightseeing tour of Old and New Delhi and visit the Red Fort comprising exquisite palaces reflecting Mughal architecture and the largest mosque in India, the Jama Masjid. Walk through the colourful and bustling Chandni Chowk bazaars. Also visit Raj Ghat, a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, Humayun's Tomb, one of the city's finest historic sites as well as the Qutub Minar, a soaring tower of victory dating back to 1199. Drive past Rashtrapati Bhavan, the residence of the President of India, Rajpath and India Gate, among other landmarks. Stay overnight at the hotel.
Meals: Breakfast
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DAY 11: DELHI
After breakfast, check out of the hotel and take a transfer to the airport for onward flight.
Meals: Breakfast
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| HOTEL DETAILS |
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UMAID MAHAL
 
City: Jaipur
While not really a heritage hotel in terms of being an ancient structure with legendary history, Umaid Mahal has been created on the lines of a heritage property. The hotel is just two years old but its architecture and decor remind one of an era gone by. While the lobby is furnished with antique like furniture and decorated with lots of paintings, the reception counter boasts of an ornate metal frame with intricate carving, creating an effect of a stately era.
Hotel Facilities
Car Rental Facility | Indoor Multi Cuisine Restaurant | Outdoor Activities | Dining Hall | Live Entertainment | Laundry Service | Conference Facilities | Doctor on Call | Swimming Pool | Free WiFi | Parking Facility | Travel Desk | Business Centre
Recreational Facilities
Folk Dance | Puppet show | Village Safari
Room Amenities
35 Air Conditioned rooms | Television | Direct dial telephone | Study table | room service | balcony | Attached washroom | continuous supply of hot & cold water
Dining
Restaurant: Taikhana- is the multi cuisine restaurant with beautiful ambience.
Lounge bar serves all major Indian and foreign liquors.
Rooftop Restaurant is a tented restaurant serving delicious food with an amazing view from the top. Fold dance performances are also organised here
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PARAS MAHAL
City: Udaipur
Hotel Paras Mahal stands out in all of Udaipur's hotels because the decor, for once, is not Rajasthani. There are no hand painted walls here, no mirror inlay work, not even any colourful tapestry. But the hotel is plush, clean, calm; it smells nice, cuts out the noise and pollution of outside the moment you step in and has polished floors and courteous service. The decor is contemporary, with only two Rajasthani puppets at the reception reminding you that you are in Udaipur. The hotel lobby is spacious with comfortable couches.
Rooms
The interiors of Hotel Paras Mahal are spacious and modern with glass elevators. Creepers through the corridors around a central covered courtyard around which the 60 rooms are set. The rooms are not divided into any categories. All are air conditioned with amenities such as intercom, television, tea/coffee maker, mini bar (chargeable), study table and cupboard. The rooms are very spacious and tastefully furnished. Most rooms have a window seat which overlooks the beautifully maintained gardens bursting with flowers.
The washrooms are clean, fitted with bath tubs and a 24-hour supply of hot and cold running water. Other amenities include soap, shower cap, bubble bath, moisturiser and shampoo. The guests can avail 24-hour room service.
Dining
Deepawali Restaurant is done in pretty shades of blue and white and serves multi cuisine fare. It can accommodate 60 people and looks over to the lawns. There is another restaurant which is reserved only for large groups. Hotel Paras Mahal also has a Lounge with a high ceiling from which suspend crystal chandelier. The Lounge is classy, done in beige and grey, laid out with couches and glass topped tables. It looks over to the hotel's inviting swimming pool and serves food as well as drinks. To the left of the lounge lies Swati, the coffee shop. Simply furnished, snacks are served here.
To the right of the Lounge lies the colourful bar called Urvashi. In contrast to the discreet luxury of the Lounge, the bar of Hotel Paras Mahal has yellow walls and cream and maroon couches. Bar stools are lined in one corner and low lamps hang on the tables. A quaint gramophone rests in a corner too. Another bar called 'Celebrations' lies on the outside, with a separate entrance. The hotel encourages non-guests to come to this bar to avoid any inconvenience for the guests staying at the hotel.
Facilities
The hotel's swimming pool is shaped like a peanut and lovely, surrounded by greenery, white deck chairs lying about, and a greenhouse in the far corner. Hotel Paras Mahal also has excellent conference facilities in the form of two conference halls - Saraswati Sabhagar I and II. Both can accommodate 100 - 150 people in theatre style arrangement. All equipment such as LCD screen, projector and so on is available an extra charge. Done in blue and white, the conference halls are spic and span and have an outside entrance to avoid any inconvenience for the guests inside the hotel.
Other facilities offered include laundry service, travel desk, currency exchange, a shopping arcade, postal service. Hotel Paras Mahal accepts Visa and MasterCard.
Location
The hotel is located near Paras Cinema in Hiran Magri. The airport is 30 km away, Railway station 4 km away and the bus stand lies at a distance of 2.5 km.
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HOWARD PARK PLAZA
City: Agra
Location
Howard Park Plaza is situated on the arterial Fatehabad Road, just 5 kms from the Agra Cantt. Railway Station. Lying in the heart of the tourist area, it is just a 10-minute walk from the Taj Mahal and a 10-minute drive from the main shopping centre Sadar Bazaar. The UP State Handicrafts Showroom and Pizza Hut lie at a distance of 250 metres from the hotel.
Howard Park Plaza, a 4 star hotel, offers the complete range of facilities that are required for a comfortable stay. The hotel's atrium lobby is decorated with a beautiful marble centre-piece that is crafted like a rangoli and filled with coloured gravel. Looming right above that is a long and exquisite chandelier, possibly the longest in Agra. After admiring these wondrous decor items, move on to the reception where the friendly staff greet you eagerly and help you check in.
Rooms
Accommodation options at the hotel include one Suite and 85 Superior rooms that are elegantly furnished and well appointed with all modern amenities including sofa, study table, cable television, tea/coffee maker, mini bar, luggage rack, cupboard and thermostat with temperature control. A complimentary bottle of mineral water is provided in each room. The attached washroom has a bathtub and soap, shampoo, shower cap and linen are provided for.
The Suite has a separate living room and bedroom besides two washrooms. Additional amenities in the Suite include a 4-seater dining table and two televisions, one in the living room and the other in the bedroom. The attached washroom has a Jacuzzi style bathtub and is replenished with shower gel, dental kit, shaving kit and hair dryer, in addition to other amenities.
Dining
Howard Park Plaza offers a range of dining options including a rooftop barbeque facility (during winter only). Rendezvous, the multi cuisine restaurant cum coffee shop adjoining the lobby offers a variety of Indian, Continental and Chinese delicacies with buffet as well as a la carte options while Downing Street, the pool facing bar offers the best in Indian as well as imported brands. While Rendezvous is open from 6:30 am to 11:30 pm, Downing Street remains open from 11 am to 11 pm. Room service is available round the clock.
Services & Facilities
Regal Hall, the conference/banquet hall with a provision of partition, can accommodate up to 350 guests while the Business Centre offers all necessary business services.
The range of recreational facilities offered at Howard Park Plaza includes a Spa with a beauty salon and ayurvedic massage centre. Swimming pool access as well as Spa facilities are available from 7 am to 8 pm. The hotel also boasts of a rooftop Taj viewing gallery and a shopping arcade, D' Craft, where one can find all handicraft and souvenir items.
Other facilities on offer are Wi-Fi service (chargeable at Rs. 200 per hour or Rs. 500 for 24 hours), travel desk, car rental service, safe deposit lockers at the reception, in-house laundry service, doctor on call and spacious parking.
Don't Miss
The two highlights of Howard Park Plaza are the atrium lobby and the recently renovated Spa. The atrium lobby features one of the longest chandeliers in the city, if not the state. The Spa offers a wide range of services besides a soothing ambience.
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COURTYARD BY MARRIOT
City: Mumbai
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City: New Delhi
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| DESTINATION INFORMATION |
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| MUMBAI |
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India has always been fixated with Mumbai earlier known as Bombay. It is India's archetypal metropolis, imbibing the most extreme of paradoxes. The dream factory is glitzy, home to Bollywood, a thriving commerce industry, the moneyed swish set and some of the country's best educational institutions. Initially a group of seven islands that were merged together by land reclamation, Mumbai has a rich Colonial heritage. An amble through the fort area is testimony to the fact, housing beautiful Gothic-Elizabethan buildings and monuments.
The distinct collage of Mumbai's population is reflected in the shopping. It is an inherent urban city where everything is on offer for everyone; where second hand book bazaars coexist with high-end shopping malls, where flower markets jostle with flea markets, where the quaint antiques market is belligerently housed in an area called the Chor Bazaar (Thieves' Bazaar). You haven't seen Mumbai if you haven’t sampled the street food - varied and vivacious, scrumptious and spicy, it will leave you asking for more as your eyes water and ears burn. Wash it down then with a tall glass of juice available all over Mumbai at stalls.
Having listed out the essentials, what one has to understand is that Mumbai escapes definition. It is a city constantly moving, changing, evolving, and it can be known only by being experienced. Everything exaggerated, impossible or unimaginable you might have heard about Mumbai is in fact true, and more. Look beyond its glaring disparities and you will discover its seductive spirit that keeps the city alive, making it what it is. India is great.
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Landmark of India, Mumbai, India gate
Mumbai Gateway of India
Mumbai Haji Ali Dargah
Mumbai Heritage Wing of the Taj Mahal Hotel
Mumbai Skyline
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| AGRA |
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A crimson sun casting an orange hue, setting behind the luminescent white marble of the epitome of everlasting love 'The Taj Mahal', is probably the 'cliched' picture that leaps to our mind when we think of Agra. Why should it not? After all Taj Mahal remains unsurpassed in beauty. But there is much more to Agra than just the Taj Mahal. Agra has a rich and puristic cultural mix of the Persian and the Mughal era. It is home to many ancient relics and monuments of historical and cultural significance - Taj Mahal, the ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, the exquisite tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah are just a few of the many wonders of pristine Mughal architecture that are nestled in the city.
Historians are of the general opinion that the city of Agra was founded in 1504 A.D. by Sikandar Lodi, the ruler of the Delhi Sultunate. Sikander Lodi's son, Ibrahim Lodi, ruled over the city after his father's death until he fell fighting Babar in the first battle of Panipat fought in 1526. Under the Mughals, the city witnessed the blossoming of some of the finest pieces of architecture ever made. The magnificence of the ancient times is not the only thing that would strike you with awe. In the backdrop of the monuments and the tombs, is a bustling industrial city getting richer by the day. Some of you might get down on your knees twice - at the Taj Mahal to propose and the second time to thank your stars for all the shopping you could do in the city! Agra has a thriving market of marble artifacts, silk fabrics, and leather goods available at dirt cheap rates.
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Agra Taj Mahal
Taj Complex
Agra Taj Mahal 1
Agra Taj Mahal
Agra Taj Mahal 2
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| NEW DELHI |
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Delhi is the present day version of Indraprastha, the legendary capital of Pandavas, and has in-between been seen various rulers on its throne, the longest being Mughals. No wonder Delhi has charmed writers, Sufi saints and travellers alike. The present Delhi is one of the most developed Indian as well as global cities albeit with its glorious past lurking across the city. The head of Indian government sits in Delhi in the Parliament in central Delhi, surrounded by forts and monuments of his ancestors, both autocratic and monarchs. These are places like Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb, Jantar Mantar et al. Then there are imperial architectures around Lutyen's Delhi including Connaught Place, in heart of city and the closest Delhi can get to London's Trafalgar Square.
While these old one's have been there since long, the New Delhi, including NCR or National Capital Region has shown exemplary growth in architecture, business avenues, services, tourism and township. Let us have a quick trip across the capital...
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Humayun Tomb - Delhi
India Gate - New Delhi
Red Fort - New Delhi
Jama Masjid - New Delhi
Delhi Bahai Lotus Temple
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| PHOTO GALLERY |
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