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 Traveller's Tales: Advise for travellers in Agra, India
Heed our handy tips on safe travel in Agra, India. You may read about travel warnings, health, what to wear, travel with kids, travel with pets, local weather, local government, medical information and traffic information in the area.Also, you might want to read our
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| D Flynn |
16 September 2004 |
Stayed at Jaypee Palace Hotel, Agra - Agra, India.
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Beware the prepaid taxis! We got one from the train station to the hotel and the driver offered to collect us the next morning, bring us on a tour of the sights - including an English Speaking guide - and return us to the hotel and ultimately to the train station at which point we would pay the agreed fee of Ruppees 650! Unfortunately though we couldn't understand the guide and really he used us as an opportunity to learn English! When collected to be brought back to the train station the guide met us in our hotel demanding we pay him for his services as a guide and demanding we visit more shops with him so that he could earn commission on the sales! Only after this, and subsequently meeting the driver did we cop that the job was a nixer and so we had major hassle trying to escape from both the guide and the driver!
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| P Mahon |
16 December 2003 |
Stayed at Amar, Hotel - Agra, India.
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Agra is not a place for beginners. The whole town seems to be out to get the tourists and if it weren't for the Taj Mahal I would recommend avoiding it. Our first experience was walking to a restaurant at 10:30pm and being followed constantly by rickshaw drivers who wouldn't accept that we preferred to walk. When we found the restaurant closed we gave in and took a rickshaw downtown. He refused to stop at a Pizza place we saw saying it was closed when obviously it wasn't and took us to a restaurant of his choice.
The prices were so inflated (especially considering that it was a grimy, empty place) that it was ridiculous. We stood up to leave and the owner said "ok we'll give you a 30% discount". We said forget it and he said how about 50%, but we decided to leave and finally forced the driver to take us back to the pizza place we originally saw which was open. Getting from A to B was always a struggle with drivers who were always ducking into carpet or handicraft places so that we could "just look not buy". The hard sell was so overwhelming and omnipresent that the effect was a desire to buy nothing and to just get the hell out of there.
The Taj Mahal however is superb, the most beautiful building I have ever seen and probably worth the aggravation of the town.
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| D Dihal |
08 May 2002 |
Stayed at Agra Ashok, Hotel - Agra, India.
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The place visited was very pretty. Taj is the prettiest thing I every seen. The resturant slide your credit card then came to tell you that you have a decline card. One evening I went to this resturant next the hotel. After eating, I tried to pay by credit card. I tried two cards and my companion tried two cards. I was told all four card decline. I told me credit card where I will travelling, so that they would not get alarm when they see all these foreign charges. I have a high credit limit on my cards, so does my companion. But I later learn the Indians tactics, they want cash, Instead of tell me stories, they should ask for cash, I would have pay with cash. The food was delicious and cheap. But playing games is too much.
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| T Wood |
20 March 2002 |
Stayed at Howard Park Plaza International - Agra, India.
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Be wary of taxi drivers. Drivers tend to want to take you to shops you don't want to go to. Also insist on acting as a guide and then ask for payment for the privelage.
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| L Le ngoc |
30 November 2001 |
Stayed at Howard Park Plaza International - Agra, India.
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Almost all the major hotels of Agra are nearby which is convenient as the hotel sole coffee shop does not offer an exciting menu.
The Taj Mahal (and the Taj Ganj area) is within walking distance, if you are able to ignore the cyclerickshaws saying hello all the way.
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