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I have been on 3 tours created by Lijo Jose. He does an incredible Job managing the tours. He helps you decide if the tour is right for you, He helps with problems with credit card companies, he is patient and forgiving with booking issues. He personally showed up at each tour and made sure everyone got on the right bus. He rembered both mine and my wife's names. If any problems came up during a tour he was immediately available to help his guide and driver solve the issue. He also made sure the tours ran on schedule. His tours are the best run I have ever experienced in over 50 years of traveling. The tours themselves are also exceptional. My experience was on small comfortable busses - 20 or less. The drivers ( sometimes 2) were professional. The tour guides were personable, educated, knowledgeable local people. The tour guides I had spoke English clearly and answered questions satisfactorily.

To be blunt...when we cruisers book independent shore excursions that takes us miles and hours away from port, we wonder...this far away, are we risking returning to our cruise ship on time or will something happen that will cause us to be stranded in port? Tina and I have hired over forty local tour companies that take us miles from our ship and we've never had an issue about returning on time. And Muziris Heritage shore tour continued our confidence that we can travel hours away from our ship and be assured that we will be returned safely. Of course things can happen, so we always insist on returning a hour ahead of debarkation. And we did this time as well. And we saw everything we expected to see in so many places.

Tour was very poor. the areas for local industry they tour were so filthy that I have been turned off anything Indian manufactured. The river cruise was just around the local area and the food offered was not appealing. Better keep your money and look at Sri Lanka

FABULOUS Day Tour!! Highly recommended. Lijo was very knowledgeable and provided a very safe, educational and fun day exploring Cochin! 5 Stars Plus!!!!

We were met by a bus at the cruise terminal and left around 9:00. We then drove through the countryside to Alappuzha, which took about an hour and 45 mins, and where we then embarked onto a houseboat. The extremely comfortable houseboat, provided a relaxed tour of the idyllic Kerala back waters and lakes, which lasted almost 3 hours. Towards the end of the cruise, the crew provided a delicious freshly cooked traditional Indian buffet lunch, together with drinks. After disembarking, we then drove back towards Fort Cochin, where we first stopped at the famous Chinese fishermen’s nets for a photo stop. We then continued on to the Matancherry/Dutch Palace, where there was time for either a quick visit, or shopping opportunities at the roadside stalls. We returned to the cruise terminal just before 17:00. Altogether a great value tour, a bit different and more relaxing than a normal land tour.

This trip was well arranged and gave us an interesting insight to life in Cochin. Well worth the visit. Would be better if it can be shorter. The food was surprisingly quite good

Recently cruised from Singapore to Barcelona and stopped at Cochin. Whilst the churches and historical sights were OK we could not get over the rubbish along roadsides, train tracks and around "homes" and in the water ways including fish farms. Appears very few take any pride in keeping clean homes and we raised this with our tour guide. He advised it is a cultural issue and the population accept this as normal. Even saw rats around the rubbish dumps. Could not live like that.

We booked shore excursions in both Cochin and Goa and they were very good. We would book with them again. Customer service was excellent. I accidentally left my camera on the bus when we returned to the ship. By the time I realized it I was in our cabin and the bus was gone. I called Lijo Jose from the ship, he located the bus/driver and the camera was returned to me before our ship left. We were more than impressed with their responsiveness. Five owl eyes for Muziris Day Tours

We were on Celebrity Constellation. 7-21April We booked 3 tours, the Cochin backwaters, Goa and the Spice Plantation and Mumbai City Tour. We had excellent, good quality transport, with air conditioning and good guides. All very informative. The lunches in Cochin on the houseboat, and the lunch in the Spice Plantation were excellent. No complaints at all. The tours were very well planned and carried out. We would recommend anyone visiting India to use this tour company.

Excellent trip. Left as soon as small bus was filled up. Great guide. Bus not crowded. Cost a third of the price the ship was charging. Lijo always texted immediately back on any questions prior to going. Highly recommend. Did Mumbai with same company. Had fantastic lady guide.