South Male Atoll Friends Packages

My Overall trip for Goa was very nice... starting from beggining Hotel was very nice with all requirements I have requested to Ashok...North and South Goa sightseeing was also good.....but their should be addition of few places....dinner cruise was planned on Saturday but our train got late so it has been postponed to Sunday.....we have waited for 5 hours and at night 11 we have received confirmation that it has been cancelled....that 5 hours just a waste of time and dinner cruise agent was worse in talking....but Ashok has arranged for next day dinner cruise and it was best..... travel Agent Ashok is very helpful and he is best...I recommend everyone to contact him for tours ...thank you

It was a really a good experience to travel around east, west & south sikkim with different really good locations. Tips & Customized plan provided by the Agent was really good. Some improvements can be done in the stay hotels choosing according to the taste and requirements of travelers.

Experience was seamless whether airport transfer hotel check in and check out process. I have travelled from north Vietnam to south. Guide was awesome but had little bad experience with the guide on last tour of our trip. Cruise

Overall I had a wonderful trip. The driver sobi was a nice and very helpful guy. He helped us with everything. The travel agent delivered everything as promised, I will definitely consider him for my next South India trip

*Pros:* - Quick on call support at any point - Handling with patience while tweaking the itinerary multiple times - Budget friendly planning - Customization as per requirement - e.g break journey - Provided Hotel with good locations Cons: A: No idea of exact location & impacting events on the journey dates. e.g.1 We landed to Madurai on the day of Year's biggest festival of Minakshi Temple. Impacted our schedule. e.g.2 We were first timer to Tirupati. Being Travel planner - the team should have ensured that we have proper provision for Tirupati Darshan. Rather - the team took advance from us without confirming if we have ensured darshan tickets, - and then started our struggle with surprise - as we were not able to get Darshan Tickets. Somehow, we ourselves managed to get Darshan tickets at almost 6 times actual price, which is big amount - also impacting our budget & complete itinerary. We had to hire local vendor to solve this. Don't know if it is intentional by the Travel Planner, they just ensured that advance is received then let the travelers struggle with surprises. - how can Travel planner miss such important factors. Based on our request - additional discount was added by the travel agent- as we had to suffer extra cost to manage darshan tickets. e.g.3 We landed Trivandrum on day of election, due to which couple of our major destinations were not open on that day (Being Government Properties) This was also surfaced on the day - and no one from the travel agent team could anticipate this till last moment. This could have been better managed & well informed. B: Violation in the committed itineraries. e.g. 1 We supposed to land at Madurai at 5 am, which was well informed in advance. Still we found challenge to convince the team to arrange early morning pick-up, which was denied even after pre-agreements. Thanks to WhatsApp messages as proof - it saved us. e.g. 2 Based on early landing at Madurai - we specifically asked for ensuring early check-in at Madurai Hotel. Which was to our utter surprise,- this was completely missed by the team - and they denied for this & asked use to wait from 6 am to 12 pm for Check-in. We were in state of panic. Here also - Thanks to WhatsApp messages as proof - it saved us - which was having clear mention of the agreement for this requirement. But still - Team could not full-fill the agreement - and we had to adjust with make-shift arrangement for 1st half - 2 rooms instead of committed 4 rooms. e.g. 3 At Trivandrum, the checked-in hotel refused to give us Buffet Breakfast (CP plan), which was committed. Guess - this also happens. The hotel was under renovation and smelling paint at reception - this was not even known to the travel agents - that's what they say. So, the committed buffet they converted to “à la carte” and told us that it will be delivered to room. & they were not sure of Menu. This all information was given to us after interrogating the hotel staff at Check-in. Otherwise, it was left as Morning surprise. We had to argue & fight lot - to make sure they deliver Buffet - at least in limited way at their small available cafe. We got this done with Fight and involving travel agent. C: Driver's proficiency Make sure for south journey you ask for proper Driver who atleast understands Hindi. Else it will be like under-control of bot which is having it's own agenda. Our Driver - had limited agenda as per given list - that too was not followed - or we had to enforced. We managed somehow through Hinglish and could convey what sequence to be followed and made sure it is done. D: Hotel Categories - was committed to be 3-4 star atleast. 2 out of 5 provided hotels were way below 3 star category - atleast as experience. One of the hotel was so bad that - had to click photos to share bad experience with the agent. *Summarization:* - Agent should have proper understanding of location & other impacting factors (eg. Darshan Tickets, Larger events on the day, Hotel under renovation...) - Properties To be provided with proper check (e.g below committed star ratings, Breakfast facilities...)

It was a great trip and we return home with fond memories of Goa. Special thanks to Manish @ travel triangle for promptly taking our calls and seeing that cab/ shared bus are taken care of . A word of advice is that South Goa trip could have been clubbed with Dudhsagar Waterfall visit.That way one day could be well utilised in shopping or just for leisurely stroll along the ⛱️ beach I loved the water sports activities especially parasailing and dnt miss the 9D show ,fish aquarium for sure

Nice trip and but lot of travel time in car ,and you can provide more packages in South India region also

Few things were missed out from the inclusions: Travel Insurance was not shared with us though it was mentioned in Inclusions. Travel itinerary to the resort was not mentioned anywhere. It takes almost 4 to 5 hours for us to reach the resort from Male airport which was not informed much earlier. We lost time in travelling rather we should be spending time on vacation. Please be very transparent next time. Dolphin view, Sunset watching, food

Few things were missed out from the inclusions: Travel Insurance was not shared with us though it was mentioned in Inclusions. Travel itinerary to the resort was not mentioned anywhere. It takes almost 4 to 5 hours for us to reach the resort from Male airport which was not informed much earlier. We lost time in travelling rather we should be spending time on vacation. Please be very transparent next time. Dolphin view, Sunset watching, food

Thulhagiri Island Resort and Spa is located in the Heart of North Male' Atoll, Republic of Maldives. 20Minutes Speedboat from Male' International Airport. Our boats are available to pick you up from the Airport at any time of the day , we had a great time ahead thanks to Holidays Paradise to provide the best service.