Travel Guide: India’s Golden Triangle with V Care Tours Jaipur

If you want to immerse yourself into a totally different holiday, India should be on the top of your list, it’s different, mad and has fantastic architecture.

The Golden Triangle, Northern India, is offered as a destination by a number of expensive UK travel agents but you can book directly with V Care Tours, owned by Deepak Dhandh and based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. We used Kuoni for our previous trip to India, we put two trips together and as it was fine, we checked them again this time but their prices we far more than what I got with V Care Tours.

Here at Yeah Lifestyle, we will be reviewing the agent used, the tour and the hotels and also how to get to Delhi from the UK.

What did we think of V Care Tours

After receiving a rather expensive quote for a two week trip to India, the Golden Triangle, I decided to look at other options. After strolling the internet for a few days, I finally found V Care Tours, they have very good reviews on trip advisor and before booking I also spoke to two past customers based in the UK who confirmed that they received very service from V Care Tours.

My friend and I were very impressed by the service we received from V Care Tours, Deepak and Jitendra (our driver who goes by the name of Vicky for ease) during our trip. Jitendra was always on time, gave us advise on where to eat based on our taste.

How can you book? 

You can contact Deepak directly via his website or WhatsApp

Phone 91-141-4007669
Whatsapp 91-9314066669
vcaretours_travels@yahoo.co.in

How much are the tours?

The tours will be individually priced based on your itinerary, the level of hotels you want to stay at and the car you choose. You need to bear in mind that you will have a driver and a car for the whole time and guides in the important cities. The only thing you will have to pay in addition to this are the entrance to the monuments and your meals. The price usually includes room and breakfast.

V Care Tours also have some examples of the type of tours you can do with some indication of the price. Obviously this will be different dependant on your own itinerary.

Itinerary

Our Itinerary was prepared by Deepak but we could have altered it if we decided to do so. We felt that the trip was great for us and we saw a lot of cities and experienced the roads in India with a very experienced and safe driver.

Here is the full itinerary we did over our two week trip:

Delhi – IHCI Cannaught – 2 nights – Nice and modern hotel with the best coffee in India!
Agra – Courtyard by Marriott  – 1 night – Very good hotel and good breakfast
Jaipur – Shahpura House – 2 nights – Very unusual and not European, good food at the restaurant but the breakfast not average.
Deogarh – Deogarh Mahal – 1 night – Need to be pretty fit for this one, very nice rooms but lots of stairs to get anywhere. Food not so good, to toned down to suit European taste.
Jodhpur – Dai Haveli – 2 nights – Great hotel with fab views of Jodhpur, very good roof top restaurant and great breakfast
Jaisalmer – 1st Gate Home – 2 nights – Great service, food was really good both at breakfast and in the evening at their roof top restaurant. They even gave us a packed lunch of the day we left as we had a long journey
Bikaner – Narender Bhawan – 1 night – Very new hotel but done in the old style, fab room, great food and very good service
Mandawa – Vivaana Culture – 2 nights – Old Haveli updated to make a really nice hotel. Good food both at dinner and breakfast. Good service.
Delhi – Lutyens Bungalows – 1 night – Good for the airport but not my favourite hotel, the room were dated but the gardens were great, a small oasis in Delhi. The food was not great so we ate out.

During our visit in Jaipur, Deepak took us to visit the non tourist areas of the city. It was very interesting and somewhere we would not have gone without him. He also took us to a local place serving lassi – the real stuff not what you get in England and also bough us some local samosas and another type of fried savoury pastry usually eaten for breakfast.

We also had a surprise for our Jaipur visit, Jitendra came to pick us up in the morning in an old Ambassador car. It was great!

In India, tourists have to barter for any purchases which is not something we are used to do so we were very pleased to find a place in Jodhpur where we could ask the price of the goods and get one we did not feel we needed to barter for. Here is an example, we looked at some T-shirt in the previous city and were quoted 1000 rupees, when we asked the price at Blue Bohemian (shop number 210-A, vegetable market, Clock Tower, Jodhpur) the owner Vicky quoted 200 rupees for the same T-shirt. The same applied to all the other items he had in the shop. We did most of our gift purchases there.

When we got to Jaisalmer, our driver told us about Camel trips and meals in the desert. He took us but we decided not to stay as we got there a little too early and would have had to wait too long to see the sunset and to eat but it would have been worth it. If you decide to do this, leave just before sunset to ensure you are able to see it on the desert.

We were very lucky as when we got back to the hotel and went to the restaurant, we saw a magnificent sunset over the Jaisalmer fort from the roof top.

About V Care Tours – Jaipur

Deepak Dhandh is the owner of V Care Tours and he started the company in 2002 with just 1 car. He use to drive it on his own to know the needs of the clients. After 1 year of driving, he started the company and hired few drivers. In the later stage, he realised a customer is given more services when the driver himself is a partner in the car he is driving. Hence then he started financing drivers to buy their own car, by this way the quality of car & services have been maintained so far. Today they have a fleet of 38 Numbers of self-owned cars & vans.

V Care Tours are reliable, knowledgeable and courteous. One can always get in touch with the driver via WhatsApp.

Review by Brigitte Kershaw

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