Easy Tours Of India

Easy Tours of India is aptly named. Everything about dealing with this travel agency is indeed easy. I worked with Sunil & Luanne in America, and Sakshi in India. Since this is an Indian travel agency, with one outpost in Austin, they really know India. I looked at several other companies, including two group tours with AAA and a private tour, where you went to more places, and stayed in nicer hotels was significantly cheaper with Easy Tours.
Another Unilocaler hit the nail on the head when they said that you pay for a seamless experience with Easy Tours. We went on a 15 day trip to India for our honeymoon and it was such a wonderful experience. While India is not for the faint of heart (it is a third world country) it is truly magnificent.
When you arrive in the airport you are picked up by that city’s facilitator. In each city you have three people. Your facilitator (who picks you up from the aiport, tells you about the culture of each city/​state your in, and helps check you into your hotel), your driver (who safely drives you from place to place and miraculously doesn’t get into accidents even though the traffic and roads in India are crazy) and your tour guide. I was impressed at each city by all three people. I was most impressed with the guides Easy Tours was able to procure. Several had PhD’s and our guide at Khajaraho was an archeologist who had worked at Angor Wat.
Each of the hotels we stayed at was very good. If you can afford it, stay at any of the Oberoi properties as they are truly luxurious. Or stay at their slightly cheaper Trident Option. Next, stay at Taj properties, but not their Gateway option, which is not really a 5 star hotel. ITC is also very good.
Since we were on our honeymoon, several of the hotels upgraded us to suites for free. At some hotels they lit flowers, and had rose petals in the bathtub and several places made us a whole chocolate cake to share. In Goa, they had a band serenade us when we entered the room.
Our trip started in Delhi, went to Varanasi, Khajaraho, Ranthambore (sadly no tigers on our tour, but lots of other great animals), Agra, Jaipur, Goa & Mumbai. You can tell your driver/​guide if you don’t want to buy things, but each place which sells items normally gives a very interesting demonstration, even if you don’t end up buying anything.
I highly recommend Easy Tours for planning a trip to India. They are easy to work with, very reasonably priced and have very good guides.
Last tip, read everything they send you, especially the part about domestic travel. We ended up paying a lot for our baggage because we bought so many souvenirs that we went over the allotted 15k per person.

Really as good as it gets!
Kudos to Theresa, Luanne, Arpita, and their entire teams.
Just wrapped a 21 day tour of Northern India, put together by Easy Tours. The main problem? Having to make choices! So much to do.
Good thing that every city guide was either superb or excellent. Full of information and advice. Knowledgeable, friendly, and experts at working through the crowds!
We saw more each day than we could possibly have organized on our own in a week.
So reassuring to arrive in every city, walk out the door and see the smiling Easy Tours escort, always on time, always visible, and always ready to help with the bags.
Restaurant suggestions were all excellent, hotel choices in many locations, over the top! The suggestions for Delhi, Agra, Khajuraho were great. Ranthambore was over the top, a majestic palace that looked to be floating in the desert fields.
My regret? My oldest child at university could not join us. My greatest consolation?
Now we have an excellent reason to return!

We recently returned from a three week tour of India, including a short side trip to Nepal. We used Easy Tours of India.
We elected to do a private tour rather than a group tour, but I suspect that our experience would be similar to those on a group tour.
Overall, Easy Tours did a great job. I would recommend them for someone going to India for the first time. What you are paying for with Easy Tours is their experience and expertise, and their network of staff throughout India. You could easily price out the individual components of the trip (hotels, airfare within India, admissions, transfers, etc) and come out much cheaper. However, what you get with Easy Tours is a seamless experience. Their representatives are there to assist you every step of the way, from the moment you arrive at your gateway (Delhi or Mumbai) to the point they drop you off at the airport to return home. This is very important for someone who is coming to India for the first time.
Our tour included Delhi, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Varanasi, Khajuraho, Agra, Ranthambore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur and the side trip to Kathmandu and Nagarkot in Nepal. All of our guides and drivers were very good. Some were better than others, but that is to be expected. Also, in India particularly, your driver is just as important, if not more so, than the guide. We had great drivers. Very little pressure to buy things. In fact, we skipped a few opportunities to go to places such as carpet factories.
A couple of suggestions… Easy Tours promotes the «luxury» aspect of the accommodations they offer, at all levels. However, some of their options at the lower tier are hardly luxurious. Be particularly wary of the Taj «Gateway» line of properties. We stayed at several Taj Gateway properties, and they were 3 star properties at best. I would recommend that you carefully research Easy Tours’ hotel options in each city. You can upgrade individual locations as warranted, without having to book the higher level of accommodation for your entire trip.
Also, be sure to have Easy Tours email you a copy of your air reservations. We obtained a copy of ours, and discovered a significant error in one reservation. First and middle names had been transposed AND misspelled. At first Easy Tours said this would not be a problem, but I called the airline myself and was told it could be an issue. In the end, Easy Tours reissued the ticket correctly. After having experienced many India airports, I can assure you such an error would likely have been a problem. Also, Easy Tours prefers Jet Airways over Air India. We ended up flying both due to schedule issues, but I can see why they prefer Jet. Try to stay on Jet if you can.
In summary, Easy Tours is a great choice for a first time visit to India. Just do your research carefully when arranging your itinerary and selecting your hotels.