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New Delhi information

Google map, hostel details, activities, nightlife and cost calculation

As a member you will have, in addition to the information in this document, also a Google map with marked locations of hostels, airports, bus/train/metro stations, nightlife areas, night clubs, salsa clubs, sightseeing locations and other locations of interest.

You will furthermore have important accommodation details such as price and contact information beside other information about activities and nightlife.

You will also have a detailed cost estimation.

Highlights

Agra itself is a sprawling, loated and polluted industrial city that few travellers seem to have a good word for.

Take a day tour to Agra from New Delhi instead of staying in Agra. Visit Akbar's Tomb, Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. The bus leaves at 7.00 on all days except Mondays and returns to Delhi by 22.00. Adult Rs 850.

Internet resources

http://www.arrivalguides.com/en/Travelguides/Asia/India/NEWDELHI

http://wikitravel.org/en/New_Dehli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi

http://wikitravel.org/en/Agra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra

Climate & When To Go

New Delhi in India

Month	Mean Temperature ^oC		Mean Total Rainfall (mm)	Mean Number of Rain Days
Month	Daily Minimum	Daily Maximum	Mean Total Rainfall (mm)	Mean Number of Rain Days
Jan	7.3	21.1	20.3	1.7
Feb	10.1	24.2	15.0	1.3
Mar	15.4	30.0	15.8	1.2
Apr	21.5	36.2	6.7	0.9
May	25.9	39.6	17.5	1.4
Jun	28.3	39.3	54.9	3.6
Jul	26.6	35.1	231.5	10.0
Aug	25.9	33.3	258.7	11.3
Sep	24.4	33.9	127.8	5.4
Oct	19.5	32.9	36.3	1.6
Nov	12.8	28.3	5.0	0.1
Dec	8.2	23.0	7.8	0.6

Flights

Travel Help recommends you to use www.reseguiden.se when you are planning your flights. Use the +/- 3 days menu and fetch all flight costs. An overview of all costs for different departure and return dates immediately gives you information about which travel dates you should avoid due to high flight costs. You also get an indication of which travel dates have the lowest costs, especially if some low cost air companies only fly on some week days.

The example below was for 2012 and the search was done for flights from Gothenburg. Book your flights as early as possible to get the lowest prices. You should book your flights before Christmas if you want the absolute best flight prices for the next year.

Airports & airport transfers

Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)

http://www.airwise.com/airports/asia/delhi/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_International_Airport

http://www.world-airport-codes.com/india/indira-gandhi-intl-1873.html

=> http://delhiairport.com/

=> http://www.newdelhiairport.in/traveller.aspx

Transfer between airport and hostel

Metro: Airport => Train station

http://www.delhiairportexpress.com/passenger-guide/metro-route.html

Walk (5 min): Train station => Hotel

Exit from Platform No 1 side. It is called the Paharganj side.
After crossing the main road, you will notice a street going diagnolly left. It is called the PAHARGANJ MAIN BAZAAR.
Enter Main Bazaar and keep walking.
After about 400 mts you will notice a red sand stone mosque on the right.
Our street is just before that mosque on the right hand side itself.
Enter the street GALI CHANDI WALI, when the street splits, take the right hand side and our's is the 2nd door on the left.

Call 09136272141 (Mobile) OR 01123584076 (fixed) in case of trouble locating our Hotel and Hostel properties.

- alternative -

Taxi: Airport => Hotel ( Hotel recommends a pick-up for 440. The reason follows below )

Arriving at the Delhi airport after a long tiresome flight, you’re tired, and choose to pick a pre-paid taxi from the airport to commute to your hostel in Delhi. The driver, after driving for a sometime, tells you that he doesn’t know exactly where the hotel is and suggests that he checks with the Government Tourist Agency to enquire about the booking and the hostel directions. Too tired to wander off without directions, you agree to him, being oblivious to the fact the driver is pretending not to know directions, and the Government Tourist Agency he is talking about, is nothing but spurious agency run by touts.

Anyways after arriving at the unofficial agency, the (un)concerned person pretends to call your Hostel in Delhi, and the impostor, on the other end of the call, imitates to be someone directly associated with Smyle Inn. He then informs you that your booking has been cancelled, or something to that effect. Now that you’ve learnt that your booking has been cancelled by your Delhi hostel, you feel perturbed and dismayed. Your driver and the agency, well aware of this, take full advantage of the fact and manage to convince you to take you to another Budget Hotel in Delhi, which may OR may not be more expensive. After you reluctantly agree, you check-in to this new budget hotel in Delhi. The driver and the agency get commission money from the new so called Budget Hotel and they laugh their way to nearest pub.

Another innovative way is to create some kind of security hoax alert saying that the area is closed due to security issues or the area has been cordened off due to disturbance in that area OR something on similar lines.

Be aware that if you arrange an airport pick-up through a hotel, it is more expensive than a prepaid taxi from the airport due to the airport parking fee, up to Rs 120, and Rs 60 charge for the person collecting you to enter the airport arrivals hall.

Delhi Traffic Police Prepaid Taxi Booth is otherwise just to the right outside the international terminal entrance. It cost about Rs 220 to Paharganj and a 25% surcharge between 11 pm and 5 am. Don't give the driver your voucher until you get to your destination.