Golden Triangle 3 Days

Great tour! Highly recommended

Awesome experience in India. We did a very last minute tour booking and everything was great thanks to Manoj. Our driver Mukesh was always on time and flexible to our requirements. We really enjoyed all the information and insights provided by the guides in the three cities, as well as their willingness to take pictures for us take home a beautiful memory from the Golden Triangle. Would definitely book with them again!

Best Tour Guide in Delhi/Agra/Jaipur

This is a great tour with a great company. We have been using India Trip Designer and Manoj for our tours for almost 10 years. Most knowledgeable and most trustworthy guides. Great price and wonderful experience tailored to your needs.

I would definitely recommend to my family and friends as this was an amazing experience with a great tour guide.

Overall the trip was amazing! the tour guide was very informative and made the time enjoyable and accommodated to our needs.

Highly recommend

Highly recommend India Trip Designer for the Golden Triangle Tour. Manoj our tour guide was very knowledgeable and took us to great stores for shopping.

Hassle free, reliable and fun trip

Overall the tour has been really good. From the start it was very easy to communicate with the tour guides over what’s ap as to when they would be arriving to pick us up etc. The tour guides all spoke very good English and provided in-depth knowledge of the monuments. Both the driver and guides were very friendly and went over and above with helping us get a local SIM card and providing us with tips of what to when the tour finished. The hotels were very good and we especially liked our Jaipur hotel which had a lovely rooftop terrace to take in the sites of the city. Would recommend this company to friends and family coming to India.

Good but watch out for tourist traps

Overall-- average/good, met expectations Attractions - 4 out of 5. Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Amber Fort, and Jantar Mantar were all excellent. I would recommend skipping some of the lesser attractions if short on time and fully explore 2 places that you really want to see each day. They will bring you to a bunch of crafters that make jewelry, rugs, etc. These are cool but they will try to sell you items at tourist prices, if tempted to buy at least haggle. Hotels - 5 out of 5. We bought the 3- star hotel package, and both nights exceeded my expectations. Restaurants - 4 out of 5. We ate at 2 restaurants, both a little fancy/expensive and geared towards tourists but the food and service were excellent. Driver- Surandra - 4 out of 5. Surandra was flexible with changing plans and food/bathroom needs. Got us to places quickly and safely. Bought us snacks when we didn't have time to stop for dinner. Chews tobacco in car. Agra guide - Balvir - 5 out of 5. Very knowledgeable and polite, helped us navigate the city, hotel, tips for other service people, etc. very well. Really made the experience positive. Jaipur guide - KC - 3 out of 5. Not particularly considerate to our interests or schedule. Knowledgable but redundant. Did help arrange transportation and tickets, saving us money with the student ticket.

A lovely time

Surandra was an excellent driver, who picked us up for the airport in Delhi, took us through Delhi and to Agra and Jaipur, and pointed out places of interest and photo opportunities along the way. When we told him we had to go back to Delhi (a much longer trip than he had planned), he arranged for another driver and even provided us with fruit for snacks. Our guide Balvir in Agra was very good, explaining not only the history of the places but also the surrounding culture and the tips for various other service people. He also took very good pictures and helped us skip lines. Our guide KC in Jaipur was friendly and helpful, but he repeated himself constantly to the point of annoyance. He also sometimes treated us (2 adult women) like children, warning us not to wander in the Amber Fort for fear we'd get lost, not listening when we said we wanted to spend much longer there, reading the museum plaques for us, and telling us to hold on and not use our phones during the gentle elephant ride. The guides did bring us to artisans and an elephant sanctuary where the owners tried hard to get us to buy things, and these stops were not on the itinerary. However, if you're firm and tell them no, you can leave right away, and if you're interested you can bargain them down to much lower than their starting price. This trip has a lot of driving (3 hours from Delhi to Agra, 5 hours from Agra to Jaipur), but it gives you a very good picture of Northern India as a whole; the city, town, countryside, and crazy traffic. We chose 3-star hotels, which still turned out to be much fancier than we anticipated. They took us to nice restaurants, which weren't so fancy as to be out of our price range. Overall, they were flexible with our requests. The trip was ultimately a good though rapid-pace experience of Northern India. If we had time, I would have liked to have spent a little more time at a few of the places, but it was a good choice for the time we had.

Well organised but unsatisfactory

We made the 3-days-Golden-Triangel tour with India Trip Designer and we have to say that we would not book the same tour with the same agency again. The tour was very well organised and they chose quite good hotels (we selected the 4-star-hotels). The service was always on time. However, we had 3 tour guides (one in Dehli, one in Agra and one in Jaipur) and non of them managed to satisfied us. The information they provided could have been given by an audio guide in the same quality, but with more enthusiasm. When we asked some questions, we got wrong answers (which was easy to prove as their responses didn’t make sense). Another thing which made us feel very uncomfortable was that we didn’t had the feeling that they wanted to show us the place. Their focus was on us spending as much money as possible at the different places. At the end of the tours in Delhi and Jaipur we were lead to “secret” places offering us the highest quality products at apparently cheap rates.... Another thing was that the second driver we had was very tired when we went from Agra to Jaipur, which scared us a little bit. Overall we would say that the organisation is very good but the tour guides are not even though they are one of the most important parts of such a tour. Nevertheless, we can not recommend it as it’s not proper value for the money.

Great Agent, Taking care of you the most

we were really happy about the tour program, eventhough we were travelling at summer when the temperature almost reach 50, but they can make us still enjoy all the program. It was efficient, and not draining our energy. we can still have pleasure resting time during the travel. All the guides were excellent, Jimmy with his wisdom and warmhearted, Ajay with his energy and sense of humour, also Kamal the brigthess and smartest that was able to answer all of our questions. The agent gave us good hotel, with strategic location. And it is very good that the head of the company also greet us in Agra. Last but not least, we have a good driver too, punctual, good driving skill, polite, funny also, Surandra. definetly will recommend the company and program to all of my friend and family. and maybe coming back again trying another program in another season.

Incredible experience - well organised tour

We did a three day tour with India Trip Designer in mid-December 2018, covering Delhi, Agra/Taj Mahal and Jaipur. From the start Manoj, the owner of the company, was quick to respond to my query and flexible in adapting it to our needs. We always got a quick answer from him. Manoj designed the best, and efficient, way to see the Golden Triangle in only three days (two nights), which we thought would be impossible! Travelling as two girls first time in India, we much appreciated the good organisation of the trip. We have to particularly praise our fantastic driver, Bantu, who was with us from the moment we arrived to Delhi until the end of our tour. Bantu is very fun and pleasant company, extremely reliable and always in time. We always felt safe in the trip with him. We can't recommend him more! The tour was very well organised, the sightseeing and pauses in restaurants well thought through and chosen. We always had knowledgeable guides in each city. In Delhi our guide Sunny even has a degree in Indian and British history. The guides in all cities were attentive and knowledgeable - and they had an eye for taking good photographs. Just a minor confusion for us was that it seemed that some of guides expected a tip, which we had not prepared for, given the tours were part of our package. Perhaps the guests could be better advised on this and on an appropriate amount. The hotels we stayed were pleasant. Everything was booked for us against a small deposit, and the rest of the amount we could settle on our second day in Agra, flexibly in euros, dollars or rupees. A minor confusion happened in Jaipur where there seem to have been confusion among the organisers which hotel we were booked at. We recommend double checking in advance with Manoj the names and addresses of the hotels for each night. Overall, we enjoyed our tour very much and we had an incredible time with amazing people. The tour is very good value for money, and we found it was better priced than the tours offered by other providers and definitely well organised.

Perfect trip

We booked the three day trip and were collected straight from the airport and started our Delhi tour. This was interesting and then we drove to Agra; the drive itself was an experience not to be missed with trucks, bikes and cars all travelling towards us on the dual carriageway and we were on the correct side! The hotels we stayed in were excellent and the trip overall was excellent value. Our guides were very informative and knowledgable. Jaipur was the highlight (even taking into account the Taj Mahal - what a place that is!) and we'd love to re-visit the forts there. Overall, excellent. Bantu was an excellent driver and Sunny and Adj were brilliant.

Brilliant driver and well organised 3-day tour

We took a last minute trip to India for a 3 day tour of the Golden Triangle. I contacted India Trip Designer based on other Tripadvisor reviews and Manoj responded quickly with all the required information and a fair price. Ramesh was our driver for the duration of the trip from Delhi airport pick up (5am) to Jaipur, Agra and back to Delhi. The shining star of our trip, Ramesh was very friendly, a safe driver and really put us at ease. He has been driving tourists around India for the last 20+ years and takes great pride in his job. All the places we stopped on route were clean and friendly with no pressure to spend money. Ramesh put in a lot of effort to make sure we were getting what we needed when we needed it, even stopping to get us water and bananas when we were out of local currency. If I was to travel to India again I would definitely contact Ramesh and will recommend him to our friends. Ramesh works incredibly long days (12hr +) and still always greeted us with a smile. The tour all in all was really well organized, we are not people who generally take tours but if you only have 3 days this is the most practical option and there is really nothing for you to organize except cash. The guides were overall very good and we are glad we had them, they also help shield you from the hawkers, with a guide you are not such an easy target. Take their advice and don’t initiate any conversation unless you are prepared to buy. If you want to help, donate money to a local charity. Make sure to do your research on the sights and know where you do/do not want to go to make sure you are getting the time where you want it. If you are not interested in shopping for gems or crafts definitely make it clear upfront so not to waste anyone’s time. We prefer to spend the time sightseeing. The 4* hotels were of a good standard, particularly in Agra we were delighted to get a room with a view of the Taj Mahal. It would have been nice to stay in a Jaipur hotel closer to the Pink City so that in the evening you can wander around that area, our hotel was not in an area of any interest so there was little to explore. Overall a great trip, highly recommend this company and particularly Ramesh. Georgina & Shane, Ireland/UAE

Awesome experience- golden triangle

It was an exceptionally well planned trip by the organizers. Starting from the arrival at the airport , we felt safe and in control. Our driver “Surindar” was really good and safe driver. We felt really at ease with him at the wheels. He is very caring with the kids and really good human being. Guides at the each part of our trip were very knowledgeable and helped us from all the nagging vendors. Overall visit to Delhi, Agra and Jaipur with the help of Surindar and guides became really memorial event in our life. We will surely plan many more trip with you in future

Great driver, good hotels, poor guides

The driver Surendra Singh was brilliant. He was very helpful and polite and his driving was very safe. Hotels were very good as well. The only weak point are the guides. They always ask for tip even though they were already paid for the job. Their knowledge was extremely limited and sometimes we caught them on lying or even on making up the info. Be also careful about the crafts workshops they take you to. It is short show and later they take you to the shop and try to sell the stuff in high prices...

Excelente visita

Empezando por nuestro conductor Foren, agradable atento y prudente. Con un coche de alta gama y muy cómodo. El guía a Agra, Manoj, agradable,colaborativo y muy buen fotógrafo! No podíamos acabar mejor la visita con Ram, nuestro guía en Jaipur. Habla español perfectamente, atento, agradable, inteligente y con ganas de enseñar y aprender. Fue lo más. Además, te da tranquilidad que te recojan y estén esperandote en todo momento. Estuvimos en 2 hoteles de muy buena calidad. Totalmente recomendable.