Full-Day Custom Private Tour of Kolkata

My tour started badly, and late, as the guide just sat in my hotel lobby and made no effort to find me. I had to telephone the tour company. The guide was not very knowledgable and gave limited explanations where much more could have been said. And despite the late start, the guide was very keen to finish on time. Rather disappointing for a fairly expensive tour.

Our guide met us promptly at our pickup location and was very friendly with excellent English. He came across as a little pushy with regard to the itinerary as we had a set number of things we wanted to see in our limited time. Unfortunately, one of our two priorities, the Mother House, is closed from 12-3 every day and all day Thursdays, which he was apparently unaware of as well, so we only got to see one of the two places we really wanted to go. Took an interesting drive around the city though, so feel like we got to at least see Kolkata from the car.

We were able to do some research and provide our guide with a list of our interests ahead of time. This enabled him to plan a route and determine what there would be time for and what was within a reasonable driving distance. We expressed interest in the wetlands as we're interested in birds and the guide, who is also a naturalist, took us to a fantastic bird sanctuary within the city and we got some totally fantastic pictures. We were in Kolkata during a festival that jammed up the roads and on a day when it was raining. Both the guide and the driver made super human efforts to enable us to at least get photographs of the places in which we were interested. This was a phenomenal tour, partially due to the skills and enthusiasm of our guide. BUT kudos to Viator for making something like this available - it was hard to find a tour where we were interested in everything that was included and this facilitated a wonderful experience tailored to our interests.

Viele Plätze besucht, die ohne Guide nicht möglich gewesen wären. Ausreichende Informationen durch und gute Gespräche mit dem Guide. Ein gelungener Tag.