The Ashok New Delhi

... Delhi (Karol Bagh area), the Sheela Hotel in Agra, The Jaipur Ashok Hotel in Jaipur and The Alka Hotel in Connought Place, New Delhi. During my all too short holiday I enjoyed some very chilly early morning starts, wonderful sunny day trips out and much ...

... and all wishes us good lunch and bon voyage with lots of exciting adventures & experiences. 12.00 Midnight. July 11th Palam Airport, New Delhi Leaving Lodhi House at 4.45 we reached Palam Airport at 5.05. Immediately the baggage was put to weight & ...

We arrived from Mumbai in the evening? The flight was very pleasant and the food was good. The Ashok was such a big jump in quality from the other two hotels we stayed at and it was good to experiece 5 star service in India? Overall, we rate service ...

The area that we stayed in was beautiful and most streets were lined with huge trees and small gardens - Delhi, the garden city. The Jamma Masjid and red fort area is special. We went there by cycle ricksaw - what an experience! Highly recommended! ...

... in touch ever since. How fortunate we were to get to meet Ashok and his amazing family two years later at his home in New Delhi!  Our stay in India was essentially an extended layover.  When we purchased our "around the world" tickets, we had ...

... nbsp;in order to negotiate the various ring roads of Delhi. Travelling through the exclusive embassy enclave of the Lutyens designed New Delhi, then the Rajpath past India Gate, we passed the Feroze Shah Kotla Cricket Stadium before moving into Old ...

... following day highlights:  cycle rickshaw ride through Old Delhi's market places through very narrow spaces; dinner with Ashok's family in New Delhi suburb - thank you Ashok, Urmila and Akash!  this was truly our personal welcome to India and a ...

... expensive restaurant so we found a rickshaw to take us somewhere cheaper.  Our driver was accompanied by a young man named Ashok, whose father owns a small rickshaw and taxi business. Ashok asked us what our travelling plans are.  We told him ...

... we were reunited last night and had a tour of Delhi today, with a guide and a driver. The driver successfully navigated the streets of Delhi only by constant use of his horn. Our guide was good and funny but not as interested in shopping as Mom and I ...

... of time around there when we were last in Delhi it still looked so very grand and special.  Following our brief tour of Delhi we returned to our starting point!  Another weird feeling!  It had felt like a long time that we had been on the ...

... ; Today, my Rotarian, Ashok, his wife, Alka, myself and several others affiliated with Rotary, went to visit the vocational school Ashok established as president of his Rotary club in '04-'05.  It was really cool; they focus mostly on educating women ...

... of red wine, we were given an abridged version of the history of India from Taairini, and carefully supplemented by her father Ashok. Sweeping her arms left and right across an imaginary time line drawn in the air between us, she told us of the ...

... afternoon after doing a little shopping and exploring in Chennai, I got on a plane with my SAS sponsored group and flew to New Delhi. If you thought American airplane food was bad...you should try the Indian airplane food! Surprisingly in Chennai I hadn't ...

... Heat: 36 degrees & sunny sunny sunny) which for all it's bad press you would know was once the capital city, looks interesting. (Delhi did not become capital until 1912). The hotel in West Bengal really is in a converted fort (built 18th century (1783) ...