Basil Minor, United Kingdom
Places Visited: Tamilnadu and Kerala Tour - Mahabalipuram, Kanchipuram, Pondicherry, Thanjavur, Madurai, Periyar, Munnar, Coonoor, Mysore and Bangalore

Dear Gaurav,

We had as always an excellently organised trip. Our driver Chandra was exceptional, always with a smile, always impeccably dressed and managing to help and cater for our wishes to enhance the whole holiday. Going out of his way to stop at interesting places and beautiful viewpoints and ensuring that we were always safe and not bothered by ticket touts.

We enjoyed the range of different accommodation that we had. Particularly noteworthy were the two Ideal Resorts and the Anantha Heritage Hotel in Pondicherry.

Your choice of places to see and the provision of guides, where necessary, was inspired.

The food we were served was generally excellent (with the exception of breakfast at the Lalith Mahal Hotel Mysore which was poor, their a la carte dinner was fine).

The Bison Country Homestay we much enjoyed as it was very homely and as seasoned travellers we are accustomed to staying in other than 5 star hotels. This venue might not be suitable for those visiting India for the first time or who expect very high standards of accommodation. We however loved it.

We loved the ambience of the Heritage Hotel in Madurai, unfortunately we only had one night there and could not use their facilities to the full.

As always the organisation of the trip from first tentative ideas of a route and places to stay to the final itinerary went smoothly. Once the Holiday began at Chennai Airport until we were delivered to Bangalore Airport, everything went exactly to plan.

Our holiday was also enhanced by the friendly fellow tourists, mainly from other parts of India, whom we met on route, who went out of their way to make us feel at home. We are always astonished by how welcoming everyone is, and is one of the reasons why we keep on coming back to India.

As you know, there was only one problem, the fact that our bank for some reason refused to pay out on our credit card when we arrived, although they have paid you a number of times before and we did tell them that we were going to South India starting in Chennai. This was made more inconvenient in that we could only use our debit card at ATMs twice in any 24 hour period. Our bank would have allowed us to take out £300 at each withdrawal, but the banks in the towns we passed through would only supply Rs 10000 at a time. We had no problem at any hotel or shop using our currency card or Visa debit card so it might be an idea for your representative when meeting a traveller to carry a portable card reader.

I enclose two photographs of my wife and I.

Our next trip, in a couple of years time must go into the foothills of the Himalayas perhaps to Darjeeling where my Grandfather was born, or perhaps to Shimla and on to the Corbett National Park.

Thank you again for the very well organised and faultless trip.

Basil and Hilary.

Ron Searle, Qatar
Places Visited: Golden Triangle Tour - Delhi, Agra and Jaipur

Guarav,

Thanks so much to Savion for a memorable and enjoyable holiday, Jaipur and Agra are must see locations. I certainly recommend your company and hope to use it again.

Ron
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Christelle Mcdermid & Group, South Africa
Places Visited: India Tour - Delhi, Varanasi, Agra, Jaipur, bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Cochin, Munnar, Periyar, Alleppey, Kovalam

Good Day,

I would just like to thank everyone at Savion Travel Agencies for a fantastic holiday.

You really did a great job and my family and I had a wonderful time.

Thanks to all the guides who where all very knowledgeable (especially the one in Dehli and the one in Varanassi) and our driver, Milap who drove us from Agra to Udaipur. (He was brilliant)

All our hotels were also top class and everybody everywhere did their level best to accommodate us.

I will definitely recommend India as a destination as well as Savion Travel Agencies!

Thanks again, we had the best holiday!

I hope to visit your beautiful country again, Himalayas here I come!

Kind Regards
Christelle Mc Dermid
(South Africa)

Rachelle Oseron, Israel
Places Visited:  Delhi, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Varanasi, Agra, Jaipur, Pushkar - India

Hi,

Namaste.

Firstly, it was wonderful to finally meet you! I'm glad that now I can put a face to the e-mail.

Secondly, I wanted to thank you for all your hard work on behalf of our group. It was a tremendous success and they want more! We gave out our own evaluations to the group and, without exception, they rated your travel company with the highest marks.

I know that you worked very hard to put this group together and you went out of your way to make sure that everything went well. Everyone really appreciated the upgrade to 5 star hotels in Delhi but now I'm worried that we've set a precedent! Those hotels were really beautiful.

I'm so glad that we switched Rajeev for Sanjay to be our escort. Rajeev is a wonderful guide and we enjoyed him very much, but Sanjay is an outstanding escort and I can't imagine doing the trip with anyone else. Everyone in the group loved him and he was a big part of the success of the trip.

The trip we did is the perfect itinerary for first-timers. I have heard from many people who were unable to go with us this time, including many people who live in America, that they want to do this itinerary next year. In addition, our group would now like to do a trip to either the north of the country or the south. It's possible that we may do 2 trips next year - in February for first-timers and in September/October to the north.

I was so happy with the services provided by your company. I'm sure that the participants gave you constructive feedback, as they gave us in our evaluations, so that we can do an even better trip next time.

I'll give you a few weeks rest from my incessant e-mails and then we'll start to plan for future trips.

Thank you again for everything.

Warm regards,
Rachelle.

Francie Pinkwater, United States
Places Visited:  North India Tour

Hi,

just wanted to thank you for an amazing experience. Arrived home safely this morning. The whole trip ran so smoothly, other than the fire in Kharajaharo and the move to the somewhat creepy Holiday Inn, but out of your control. The representative was there in 2 min. to help us out. You are a top notch group and would highly praise you. The drivers were so nice and the guides so informative.

Once again thanks for making India so special. I am now in 18 degrees C cooling down.
Francie Pinkwater.

Henry Roy, Canada
Places Visited:  North India Train Tour

Savion Travel Services arranged a tour of Rajasthan for me and my family this past summer. Their organization was excellent and everything was very well planned and exceeded my expectations. They are very professional and go out of their way to satisfy the customer. ...

... We were very happy with our trip and the cost was very reasonable. Anything we did not enjoy or did not meet our expectations was out of their control. ...

... Surrender, Neeraj and Sanjay were my contacts. I only met Sanjay but spoke often on the phone with Surrender and Neeraj Sanjay was extremely professional, courteous and looked out for our well being throughout the trip with frequent follow-ups. ...

... The drivers that were assigned to us were again very experienced, professional and patient. And all spoke English and Hindi very well. ...

... In conclusion, I have no hesitation in recommending Savion and Neeraj and Iam planning another trip possibly in the near future.

Patricia Krishnan, United Kingdom
Places Visited:  North & West India Tour

Hi,

Dr. Krishnan and I would like to thank you both for organising our wonderful trip to India, also Sanjay but I will email him personally. From beginning to end everything went smoothly and just as you organised it. All our drivers were excellent and I would like to especially mention Raj who picked us up at Pathankot and left us in Chandigarh. He did a magnificent job on very difficult roads and was prepared to be at our beck and call 24 hours a day if necessary. Our guides also were first class and we learnt a great deal from them during our tours. As you know the only problem was with the "hotel" in Narkanda but fortunately we were able to return to the wonderful comfort of the Radisson in Shimla and spend one more day there seeing more sights that were of great personal interest to me. If by any chance you needed to send other tourists from the UK to Narkanda it would be possible to see it as a (very long) day trip as it is only 55km from Shimla and I am sorry that we were unable to enjoy the scenery there. Anil in Shimla also did a first class job and quickly re-organised our tour when we returned there at short notice and took personal care of us on several occasions.

You can rest assured that we will not hesitate to recommend Savion Travel to any of our friends and I hope you will get more business from our recommendations. The same applies to our daughter & son-in-law, Amit Gupta and Sarada Krishnan (Mrs Gupta). Thank you once again for your very professional care in organising our trip.

Farewell for now, Patricia Krishnan

Ayman Majali, Jordan
Places Visited:  Delhi & Agra, India and Nagarkot & Kathmandu, Nepal

Dear Sir,

Our experience with your esteemed travel company was excellent . The guides were polite and professional. The guide at Agra (Amarish) was very informed about the touristic sites and very polite. Also the guide at Delhi (Sanje) was also very helpful. The driver was professional (Erlok) and his helper was also very kind. The upgrading to Claridges was fantastic and the people at the hotel were very hospitable especially when they offered us a birthday cake for our daughters' birthday and gave breakfast boxes for early departure. The recommendation of the lunch at Agra (ITC Sheraton, the Mogul) was also very good.

Thank you very much for making our trip successful.
Ayman Majali

Rachelle Oseran, Israel
Places Visited:  Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Haridwar, Shimla - India

Hi,

I just returned home a few days ago. We were in Hong Kong and Thailand after India and I just returned on Sunday. I wanted to thank you for a wonderful holiday - my son and I both loved the trip. We very much enjoyed meeting Sanjay - he was very efficient, kind and helpful. As I filled out in my evaluation, we were very happy with the services provided by Savion Travel...

... I also really liked the Clarks Shiraz in Agra and Shahpura House in Jaipur. The Connaught Hotel in Delhi is ok - not wonderful, but I guess it's in a good location...

... Thanks again for a wonderful holiday and I'm looking forward to visiting India again with our group.

Warm regards,
Rachelle

Natalia Colomer, Spain
Places Visited:  Delhi, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Agra - India

Hi,

I would like to thank you for the great job your team did during our tip in India. Everything was very well organized and they were taking a lot of care of us. Specially. I would like to highlight that Neeraj was following up every day how we were calling us to the hotel to check if all was fine.

Furthermore, let me tell you although all of them were good (just small problem with the guide in Agra but nothing important) the guide in Jaipur was wonderful and our driver Nando as well, you should keep them!!

Thanks a lot,

Best regards,
Natalia

Patricia Krishnan, United Kingdom
Places Visited:  Delhi, Agra, Samod, Ranthambore, Pushkar, Jodhpur, Mount Abu, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Mandawa - India

Hi,

Once again I am writing with our thanks for arranging a marvellous, magical holiday to India. From the moment we arrived and were met by Sanjay, everything went to plan and we had wonderful accommodation throughout and particularly enjoyed our upgrades to The Claridges and The Imperial in Delhi. The service we received at all our hotels was exemplary, as was the attention we received from Savion Travel's representatives at hotel check in and check out. Although we had previously visited many of the sights, because we had our own personal guides this time, an extra dimension was added as we were given far more information and spent more time enjoying learning about our surroundings. All our guides were excellent.

We want to particularly thank our driver Sanjay who brought us safely back after driving us over 3000 kilometres coping brilliantly with India's multifarious traffic hazards and road conditions. He took care of us so well and our vehicle was always spotlessly clean. He himself was very knowledgeable and pointed out many interesting things and advised us well whenever we went shopping!

There were so many highlights to our trip that it is difficult to say what we enjoyed most but a first for us was the stay in the desert camp at Manwar which was incredible fun, especially the jeep safari and camel ride. The experience of staying in the Samode Palace Hotel was unforgettable too. Our room was superb as were our surroundings and we were given a personal tour of the beautiful original mirrored and painted rooms used by the Maharajahs - we ourselves felt like royalty!

It goes without saying that we would unhesitatingly recommend Savion Travel to all our friends and hope to use your services again personally. Thank you so so much for all the arrangements and highly professional care taken in the organisation of our wonderful trip.

Kindest regards,
Patricia Krishnan

Jonathon Schuch and Pat Schuch, United States
Places Visited:  Delhi & Agra - India

Hi,

I 'm sorry this thank you is so late. You and your associates did an outstanding job in coordinating our trip to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and other sites. Every detail was covered and we truly enjoyed our stay. I hope things are going well and we have already told many of our friends about our very positive experience with Savion Travel - mainly due to the excellent handling of every detail by Gaurav Khanna.

Please pass this note on to the rest of your team involved with our travels.

Warmest regards from Jon and Pat Schuch, Brighton, Michigan, USA.

Kristian Asdal, Norway
Places Visited:  Delhi, Banaras, Agra, Ranthambore, Chandigarh - India

Hi,

The Arendal Group arrived safely back home last weekend and I would like you to know we all had a fantastic time in India.
Although we had some (expected) incidents of Delhi belly, there were no other main incidents to reduce the excitement.

Our best regards to Sanjay who followed us closely all the way and made sure all the practical arrangements were taken care of. Thanks again!

Best wishes from

Kristian, Nishi and the rest

Holger, Karen, Jana & Katja Maul, South Africa
Places Visited:  Palace on Wheels, Delhi - India & Kathmandu - Nepal

Hi,

We had a lovely holiday!

I would like to thank you and the excellent team that looked after us in Delhi. It was really good to see and know that Anupam and the rest of the team was allways waiting for us at the airport and assiting wherever they could.

The arrangements in Kathmandu were also excellent, the hotel is one of the best we have stayed in.

I will definitely recommend your service to friend sand other people.

Regards

Holger, Karen, Jana & Katja Maul.

Cathy & Peter Fennell, United Kingdom
Places Visited:  Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Lucknow, Dehradun, Mussoorie - India

Hello Savion Travel,

This is a letter of thanks for your recent organisation of our Indian holiday.We are very pleased with everything you did for us, We thought the holiday was well organised and we would thoroughly recommend you to anyone. With your help, we achieved everything we wanted to.
The air conditioned car provided was good and the drivers were always prompt and helpful.The guides were always there to meet us and we were never on our own, on arrival anywhere.The guides were well informed and one particular guide, Al Furqan in Agra was outstanding. He spoke excellent English, explained everything perfectly, and was the perfect host.
Lastly, of course, we must mention Sanjay Mishra, who was a friend to us throughout our stay. When away from Delhi, he constantly kept in touch with us and helped to sort out any little problems we had.He was really very helpful to us,and we couldn't of done without him.He deserves a promotion!
There wasn't much on the down side: The train journeys, especially overnight, are not to be recommended.Also the statutory visit to the carpet/jewelry/linen store were sometimes a bit tedious and long.
Otherwise, well done Savion on an excellent job! Congratulations!!

Cathy & Peter Fennell.

Marc Willemsen, Germany
Places Visited:  Delhi, Shekhwati, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Pushkar, Udaipur, Samod, Ranthambhor, Agra, Varanasi, Khajuraho - India

Hi,

It's been over a month now since we returned from our trip to India and the highest time to write an e-mail with a big thank you to the both of you. Our Indian adventure has been one of a lifetime and the both of us agree it has been one of the most fantastic trips we have ever made. I can rave about the beauty and splendor of all the sites we have been shown, also I could dwell away by the fantastic food we have tasted, the people, the colors, the smells... But these are all the beauties that India has to offer and make it such an interesting country to visit. They however have nothing to do with Savion and we would like to focus on that in this e-mail.

The both of us would like to say a BIG BIG thank you for the fantastic way that out trip has been organized. It started off with numerous e-mails in which you made sure that the trip was absolutely to our liking and ended with a perfectly arranged tour. It was a schoolbook example of how an organized tour should be. Everywhere we were welcomed by your local representatives and all our sightseeing's were accompanied by friendly and highly knowledgeable guides. This really made our trip the success that it has been. The hotels have been fantastic and there were some real surprises in hotels that you had selected for us. Just to name a few of the highlights: Shekawati, Bikaner, Samode. On more than one occasion we have been totally speechless about the great places we had the pleasure to stay in. And all of this would not have happened without your support! Once again Thank you so much!

A special word of appreciation should go to Param, our driver, what a wonderful guy he has been. Friendly, a very skilled and safe driver, in spite of the hectic traffic in India we never felt unsafe. We met as customers but left as friends, we were so pleased to have him as our driver. He has worked very hard to make sure the both of us were comfortable during the 17 days he drove us through Rajasthan. Please forward our thanks to him and say hello from the two of us.

Also please say hello to , Sanjeh, your representative in Delhi. Not only did he give us a heartwarming welcome on arrival in Delhi and farewell when we left but he also called several times during our trip to make sure we were doing fine and pleased with the services provided. Another proof of the professionalism and commitment of your organization!

So where do we go from here, I have already mentioned India was an adventure of a lifetime, well that is not completely true as we have already decided we want to come back at least twice to discover other parts of India (A trip to Kerala in the south and one to the North which could be either Kashmir and Ladak or another region in the Himalaya's (Sikkim, Darjeeling) are high on our wish list). It goes without saying that there will be no discussion on who to do this tours with, based on the fantastic experience we had we will then once again choose Savion as our tour operator. You have been absolutely marvelous !!!

It might take some years before we come back but we are already looking forward to exploring some other parts of India with you. Until then we wish you all the best and success in your business, you are doing a brilliant job and deserve all the success in the world.

Once again, we cannot say thank you enough, every time we think back on India we have big smiles on our faces. These smiles are partly due to the efforts of you to make this trip possible. One final time THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

With the warmest of greetings from Germany,

Marc and Paul