What actually happens between “we want to go somewhere” and boarding the flight
We have been planning holidays for Ahmedabad families since 2010. This is how we work, what we insist on, and what we tell every client before they pay a rupee.
1. You tell us three things
Who is travelling (ages matter — a 70-year-old and a 7-year-old change the plan), roughly when, and how much you would like to spend per person. You do not need to pick a destination; half our clients ask us to suggest one for their dates, and we will say plainly if a place is wrong for the month you have in mind.
2. We send a day-by-day plan with real hotel names
Not a brochure. You get the itinerary as it will actually run: drive times, what is open that day, where lunch happens, which hotel and why. We only book hotels one of us has stayed in or inspected; if we have not, we say so.
3. You change anything you like
Most plans go through two or three rounds. Slower pace, an extra night at the beach, a temple added, a long drive removed. The price updates each time and is confirmed in writing.
4. We book everything and stay on the phone
Flights, hotels, car and driver, permits, insurance, train tickets, houseboats. One bill. During the trip you have our number and the driver's; we have solved lost luggage in Leh and a missed connection in Delhi from our desk in Ahmedabad.
Veg and Jain food on the road
This is the question we get most, so here is the honest picture. In Himachal, Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Rajasthan and Kerala's hill towns, Gujarati and Jain food is easy — restaurants cater to Gujarati groups and hotels serve thali on request. In Ladakh, Odisha and the Tamil Nadu temple towns, pure-veg food is everywhere but Gujarati food is not; expect good South Indian or Punjabi vegetarian instead. In remote spots — Pangong, Nubra, Chilika — we tell the camp or houseboat kitchen in advance and confirm it in writing, and we suggest you carry theplas, khakhra and dry snacks for the road regardless. For strict Jain requirements (no onion, garlic, root vegetables), tell us at the planning stage so we pick hotels whose kitchens can actually manage it, not just say they can.
Travelling with parents
Three quarters of our groups include someone over 65. The things that matter: drive length (we cap most days at 4–5 hours), hotel lifts and ground-floor rooms, altitude (Ladakh needs a doctor's clearance for heart and BP patients; Kashmir and Himachal are fine for almost everyone), the number of hotel changes (fewer is better — our Relaxed itineraries exist for this), and walking distances at temples and viewpoints. Wheelchairs, dolis at Shravanabelagola and Kedarnath, and helicopter options are all things we arrange routinely. Tell us about medication and mobility when we plan, not at the airport.
What we do not do
We do not sell trips that we think will disappoint you for your dates. We do not add “optional” sightseeing to inflate a day. We do not book hotels for commission alone. And we do not disappear after you pay — that is the whole point of using a local operator instead of an app.