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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not go back to India. Hard in many ways.[/quote]

Only, if you are traveling like the poorest of the poor.

I only luxury travel to and in India. I fly business class in middle eastern airlines (Emirates or Etihad), stop over at Abu Dhabi or Dubai, go in luxury and comfort and minimize the impact of jet lag,  Then, I either stay with my family/friends who have extra room, AC, well established homes and servants - or I stay in expensive 5 star hotels. I hire the best and most expensive touring vehicles available and drivers that are known to the family or have great reviews. And I travel mainly with family or friends.  I also shop a lot and get all my bulky stuff couriered to US.

India is not a place to do on shoe-string budget travel.  If you do that then you have to be inconvenienced sometimes.  However, India is still incredibly cheaper than US or Europe so it boggles my mind that westerners want to travel in the way the poorest of the poor are travelling there.  If you spend a fraction of your money that you spend in a Western country and stay in good hotels and take taxis from  proper registered taxi service, you will have an experience of comfort and luxury.

Nothing beats the food in India. Not one country I have visited has better food than India (ok, Thailand is amazing food too). [/quote]

Sorry but no. We traveled richest of the rich. You still see things out the windows of your "best and most expensive touring vehicle". The poverty is appalling and the way Indians treat their most vulnerable is appalling. But I'm glad you go back and do all your shopping and can't relate to your countrymen. Just intent on getting the shopping done and the food shoveled in, huh?[/quote]
What a weird thing to say. For many of us India is our country of origin. We go back to see family, and yes we travel business class, stay in nice hotels, shop and eat while we’re there. [/quote]

And like the pp pointed out: the abject poverty and obvious caste system doesn’t bother you at all.

Remember the Seinfeld episode with the wedding in India? Even the bride’s Indian parents refused to go. [/quote]
It’s my homeland. I go to see my family. If that sounds strange to you then so be it. And Seinfeld was a comedy show in case you didn’t know.[/quote]

Of COURSE it makes sense for people to go whose family lives there. The point is whether it is an enjoyable place to go just as a normal tourist. I think most people in the latter case say it’s an experience and they might be glad they did it once but it is rarely a spot tourists fall in love with.  [/quote]

DP here. I just posted that India was awful. The poor begging on the streets really made it uncomfortable. I stayed at the best resorts. The staff suffocated me by asking me how they could assist me. I remember the perfume stench at the hotels was nauseating. I love to Indian food occasionally in America. I hated every meal I had in India.

I have an Indian friend who loves to visit her family and says how she used to always get lice when she went. How is that enjoyable?!?!? [/quote]

Another DP here.  I also hated India.  I visited Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata, each on separate trips, when I was living in Pakistan for work.  India is slightly better than Pakistan, which I hated more, but I did not like India and have no desire to ever return.  Seeing the way wealthy Indians treat their "servants" and those in the service industry they deem beneath them was utterly sickening.  You have to be OK with exploiting someone else whose life is hell for your comfort if you yourself want to be comfortable in India.  Wealthy Indians are not only happy to exploit these people, they are super, over-the-top conspicuous and tacky in showing off their wealth, talking about their wealth, and making you understand as soon as possible that they are, in fact, wealthy.  Hated India.

Yes, the staff in nice hotels and shops WEFE suffocating.  They hovered, they pestered, and they would not leave me alone to shop in peace.  This is because wealthy Indian people like and expect that kind of thing.  This also drove me crazy when I lived in Dubai and staff in pharmacies or shops in the mall would pounce and hover in the same way (though I liked Dubai).

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