The Hans New Delhi

We travelled from London on Finnair - (not 'thin air')- via Helsinki - flights were fine and food OK not too long a change over in Helsinki, arrived late/early morning into Delhi and met by Explore, who we are travelling with for the first 2 weeks of our trip, we are a day early so we get a nice lie in before we meet the group tomorrow lunchtime. The hotel and bed await ! Hooray ! Hans Plaza Hotel Ambiance 3/5 Food 3/5 Service 3/5 Room 3/5 Location 3/5 Total 15/25

Its our first day and we are looking forward to meeting our fellow travellers - and wondering just what we have let ourselves in for! Breakfast was decidedly average. Met Sumeet - our guide and we all moved into a conference room - a tad military in style we all introduced ourselves and we were all allocated group status - we are GROUP D - hooray for us - D for ???? dummies ? dopes? dancers? dogs?? anyway thats who we are for the trip! Onto our coach for the tour of Delhi - the Presidential P...

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Arrival in Delhi, India Arrive Delhi and check into hotel. www.hanshotels.com This afternoon we include a city tour of the sights of New Delhi, a creation of the British Raj of the 30's, and includes the Lok Sabha (Parliament), India Gate, the Rajpath Qutb Minar and Humayan's Tomb. ACTUAL: I got into the hotel at 3:30 am after taking a taxi from Delhi airport and the driver couldn't find the hotel exactly. Who'da thunk that Connaught Place was so big? :) Anyway, they offered me a glass of man...

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Hi everyone Welcome to our 2nd part of India trip: Delhi. Witth Mumbai under our belt, we were now heading into the unknown... we had no hotel bookings for Delhi and no idea of what Delhi was like... although we had our guide book we were too busy having massages and jacuzzi's to sit down and formulate a plan. Priorities. It was a scary prospect. Just our train ticket. And a whole day on arriving to find accommodation and our bearings. At Mumbai we got on a 16:40 sleeper train which was due i...

Getting up early again for our second attempt to see sunrise at the Taj Mahal - this time we were woken by the alarm clock and everyone felt much better if not exactly fighting fit. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, even more remarkably there wasn't even that much fog. What could go wrong? Nothing as it turned out. Rob had expected to be a bit disappointed by the Taj Mahal itself but even he had to catch his breath as we walked through the main gate. There really is little point trying to desc...

Our one day whistle-stop tour of Old and New Delhi was to be given by Dinesh, a most interesting chap. He had previously been in the jewellery trade and had only become after a guide after an old friend stole millions of rupees of gems from his hotel room and then disappeared. After contemplating suicide, he decided to learn Japanese and become a tour guide. He cheerfully declared all Japanese tourists to be mad and said 99 percent would take a photo of anything, "if they saw you take a sh*t,...

Well, we are back in Delhi. This is our 5th time here, and 5th hotel! This time it is the Hans Plaza, which was a fine hotel but had very inadequate help. Usually around 4-5 people standing behind the counter, with the only person who could do anything on the phone. Quite frustrating! We are mostly killing time today, as we have to leave for the airport by 9:00 p.m. and it is too hot for most sightseeing. We went to pick up our custom made suits, and aren't too sure we are happy with them. Th...