Holiday Inn Agra

... mess, with no real centre, and as we drove through it was hard to know exactly where we were.  We stayed at the Holiday Inn, which whilst a little business like in ambience, was a clean and welcome respite from the dust, with crisp white linen and ...

... a stop on the way to Agra, but why the tour company decided to book this for just gone noon I don't know. Agra itself is pretty uninteresting and nothing special as Indian cities go. It was of course more tuned into tourism than ...

31.01.07 Exploited tghe quiet and slept in. Once up headed out of Agra to Fatehpur Sikri, a deserted palace / ghost city 40 km away using a local bus. Enabling us to enjoy the surprisingly green coutry side and the suicidal driving that is an art form ...

... straight to the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was amazing. It was so beautiful but it was really busy that day as it was a bank holiday. Unfortunately because it was so busy we did not go inside to see the tomb but it really didn't matter as we saw the ...

Since yesterday we were only able to see the Taj Mahal in Agra, this morning we went to visit the Agra Fort. Its located on the west side of the Yamura river (almost across from the Taj, we couldn't see it because of the pollution). It was build by ...

... sleep deprivation long enough to ensure that I was still awake when the train got to Agra. Took a taxi from Agra Cantt stn to the Holiday Inn hotel where Vikas had made a reservation for me. The taxi driver, however, knew a much better place to ...

... really stubborn, you won't get her to buy anything," and then he backed off. We finally made it to lunch at the Holiday Inn, which is really beautiful, though the food was only so-so. I had soup and tried ordering samosas but they ...

... I need to secure the Gold status for the coming year, making a collection of the hotels frequent customer cards : Mercure, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Sheraton... May be I would now have the Marriott and Sofitel one :-) I said I will travel up to Southeast ...

... They said to get in and out as quickly as you can and that all the prices are expensive due to the posh hotels such as Holiday Inn and the Radisson. Can't wait!   They left at 9.10pm and I left shortly afterwards and wandered past eating bovine and ...

... beautiful outdoors restaurant (thanks again Rumi!), and we did also manage to visit Dehli Fort in the end.  Before we left for Agra, we also went down the bazaar, where both Nikki and Nats had water bombs thrown at them and got ...

... taxes, additionals and bribes!! 2 trains to Mumbai Flights to Kerala and back for mum Hotel for mum. 7 Destinations:  Agra (Taj Mahal), Pudaipur, Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur (free elephant ride), and couple of others cant remember ...

... road but when the turnoff came I took it. Surprisingly it was tarmac for a number of kilometers, till it got just past Danseys Pass Holiday Camp. On that road there was a stretch of fence with loads of pairs of shoes hung over it – don’t know ...

... and donned our flip flops before checking in our two minuscule (in comparison) rucksacks.  Hey now this does feel like a holiday!!!  Oh, just in case you're wondering, this seamedly hasty flit from China was intentional.  We decided that ...

... had the guts to venture out of the hotel in Delhi as they were all scared of leaving. Not the best way to start a holiday and i'm pretty sure STA Travel and GAP Adventures will have some letters in the post no doubt. After the meeting with the tour guide ...

... ).  The cool thing about my phone is that there's some weird calendar related thing on it that is uniquely Indian- I'm guessing holiday or some sort of related thing on there?- there goes all the studying I did for this trip- knowledge just brimming ...

... , however.  One may wonder why an American would be concerned with such a trivial commodity in India while on holiday.  I can assure you that a significant portion of Indian programming is in English and/or a combination of English and ...

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