Hotels in Agra - Prices and Reviews

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If you come to India you must go to Agra is what every guide book, tourist, traveler and Indian will tell you, the home of the Taj Mahal, is an unmissable wonder of the world. Everybody knows Agra itself, is busy and ugly and it is best to arrive, visit the Taj and leave, that was our plan too. But after arriving late on Thursday afternoon we de...

On the train from Amritsar to Agra, to see the Taj Mahal, Lisa and I were hoping the train would be late, like most of ours had been so far. The train was scheduled to arrive at around 1am and I was planning to get up at 5am to see the Taj at sunrise. If the train was a few hours late we could stay in our train beds, and save us from trying to f...

We woke up and ate at the hotel's restaurant (Olive Garden) for breakfast. We then headed to the Red fort where we had a good view of the Taj from a distance. ALong the way, Bobby pulled us over to sample the local candy called Petha. He pushed some "Pumpkin Candy" at us which we tried. Whatever it was it was not pumpikin and it was overly swee...

Agra is a place that won't ring a bell for most people, yet it houses one of the world's most famous landmarks - the Taj Mahal. The city itself contains an array of interesting architecture and remains of ancient civilisation, yet the Taj dominates in its elegance and scale. Like several times before, such as the Colloseum or Grand Canyon, the f...

Arriving at Agra central station 8am after leaving New Delhi early morning at 6am was a cold and misty train ride....temperatures here dropped to 4c but warmed up during the day, the cold spell swept down from the snow capped Himalayas across Jammu & Kashmir and then swept across the plain of Uttar Pradesh to New Delhi and Agra. I had to pur...

Arrived late in Agra to see the silhouette of the beautiful Taj Mahal against the back drop of a busy city. Woke early to catch the sunrise over one of the wonders of the world..and it really is spectacular.. Made completely out of whit marble, very symmetrical with 4 sides and 4 posts. It was built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife who dies gi...

So on the 2nd we finally left Dehli for Agra which takes about 5 hours by car. It was a constant 45 degrees in Dehli way to hot for me. We now have a new driver called Neema who will spend the next 16 days with us as our tour guide and driver which makes travelling so much easier and he speaks English and likes to drink so we all get on really w...

I was on serious countdown to the end of the trip by now, and also very excited about seeing the Taj Mahal. And when I finally got to see it, at 3pm on Saturday afternoon, it made everything else worthwhile. All the hard journeys, the begging, the squalor of India - it didn't matter any more because this is what the trip to India had been all ab...

Dear Readers: We hit the road this morning a little after 9am. I had sent the last bus and driver & assistant packing the night before because the sound system was really ******, and the air conditioning had only two settings -- freezing and off. That driver had also accumulated one traffic violation during our tour yesterday, and I thought it b...