Kolkata (Calcutta) Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

We had a driver for the weekend who drove like an actual mad man!! The drive was bumpy and scary when we driving towards the oncoming traffic, it got the adrenaline going. The hotel looked nice from the outside but damp and dirty would sum it up. The beach was lovely and had nice walks along the sea dipping our feet in but kept our clothes on - ...

A day apart. My breakfast is a cup of coffee and two biscuits-all I can afford in the posh air-conditioned cafe on Park Street. The other customers are English-speaking Indian couples and another American writing in a notebook. There are two main chains of these coffee shops-Coffee Day and Barista. Both are doing a brisk trade in frozen coffee d...

Tonight was a special night for me. It had the quiet, informal feel of a relaxed family night at the ashram. Baba had been traveling since Jan. 5th and had an intense, very productive program schedule the entire time. When I arrived this evening at the apartment, he was tired and ready to relax rather than get to work. ShantiMaa and I sat on cha...

We made it safely to India yesterday afternoon. It was quite a day...the traffic is very bad in Thailand (think gridlock). Sometimes it is so slow that the driver turns off the car. (more on that) In Bangkok, we first stayed at a hostel that turned out to be in a bad neighborhood. It had the hardest bed I've ever slept on in my life. It was actu...