We did not intend to stay here, actually booking for Vivek Hotel 3km away. However, thanks to a dodgy taxi driver, a dodgy tourist office and our overtiredness after an overnight flight, we inadvertently ended up here. (Common scam from Delhi airport: taxi driver drops you off telling you that he can't find your hotel, but you are in the area you requested, so there's a tourist office who can help you find the hotel. 'Tourist office', actually travel agent (Travel Venture India Pvt Ltd), tells you you're in the wrong area, but that the area you planned to go is not nice and you should instead book into a local guesthouse (which you later find out is run by them). Then they try to sell you an overpriced package for travel around India.) Anyway, the guesthouse was cheapish with ok rooms, but there was no hot water, the floor was grubby and the door locked with only a sliding bolt. The air-conditioning unit varied from sounding like it was about to take off, to squealing like a mating fox. And to top it all off, on the second day someone was obviously caught short with a bout of the runs on the stairwell up to the guesthouse, and no one cleaned it up. The tourist office holds the key to the guesthouse, so if you go out you need to go via the office, where they subject everyone to heavy-handed sale spiels for trips to Kashmir. Not a nice experience.
Bathroom: private
Views: Small window onto dark internal lightwell.
Cost: 600 rupees (approx 9 euros)
Recommended: Never. These scammers don't deserve a shred of further business.
Contact details: Bill's Guesthouse, Dandoo Guesthouse give the office address details, 7A/W44, WEA Channa Market, Karol Bagh, New Delhi BEWARE if any guesthouse you plan to book has this address, it is linked to this dodgy office.
1 comment:
Ha-ha-ha, love the entry, really funny. Watch out for Delhi Belly!
Have enjoyed all your entries since Egidir!
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