Culturele en erfgoedpaden door de begeleide wandeltocht door de oude binnenstad van Mumbai

We had a great time on this tour! Our guide Tanvi was personable, helpful, and informative. This was a great first thing to do on our trip because it have us an idea of what we wanted to see more of later on.

Great tour of the highlights of South Mumbai and explanations of the history behind each point. Great time

I had booked this tour prior to arrival in India as I thought that it would ease us in to our independent journey around India. Our guide was Nisar. He had been our guide for a street food tour the previous evening and our hearts sank when we discovered that he would again be our guide. A lot of his information was either irrelevant (the names of architects and how much they were paid) or incorrect (Gateway of India built for Queen Victoria - WRONG - she never visited India, it was built for George V) (Flora Fountain named after a member of the British royal family - WRONG - a Roman goddess) (the Indian Mint is a 'secret' building that nobody knows about - WRONG - it is shown on Google Maps). We spent a lot of time wandering around with no clear idea of where we were going and returned to the same place a few times. He took us to some shops when we mentioned a few things we had thinking about buying. We thought we did a good job of haggling the price down. However, our subsequent travels revealed that we had still substantially overpaid. The only positive was that Nisar took me to a kiosk where I got an Indian sim card. But overall it was a long, tedious day where we learnt little that we couldn't have found ourselves. Nisar claims to be doing guiding to support a large number of orphaned children. If that is true then he needs to seriously improve his knowledge and his organisation of the tour.

Nasir was a great guide, very friendly and we enjoyed what he had to say. Gave a good insight into Mumbai including places we would not have visited.

My walking tour was very enjoyable. It was easy going and my tour guide went out of his way to make I felt comfortable as he explained everything about the beautiful city of Mumbai. He explained all and answered off of my questions. And also helped further with getting my phone all sorted. A great day. And Thankyou. So much.

A great tour to do if you’re short of time and want to get your bearings. Our guide Ali met us at our hotel and showed us around all the beautiful buildings of Mumbai. We skipped the gateway of India as it was opposite our hotel and we’d been. He did take us instead for local tea which was delicious. We had an added treat it being Sunday that we saw a Bollywood movie being shot, and witnessed a minor bike vs car accident outside the library, huge fun as the car driver had a mini meltdown, and Ali was there to translate.

Most memorable? That the guide DID NOT SHOW UP. Have requested a refund but have heard nothing from the company at all. Very very disappointed. Has made me rethink whether I will book another tour in Delhi.

My tour was with Rahul. Nice guy, but was 40 minutes late and the “90-120 minute tour” that was supposed to start at 5pm, went until 8:15pm. He had good information, but walked very slowly. Probably why we ended at 8:15pm. Also felt like we didn’t see that many interesting things other than the hotel and India Gate (which I had seen earlier that day).

My partner and I did the free Mumbai walking tour on 5 Oct 2022 5pm (can’t remember guides name). We have done many walking tours around the world and this was the worst we have ever done. At the beginning the tour guide immediately informed us we would pay him at the end and the money is “for the children”. On the tour the main info we got was the name of a building, the year and the architect. An example includes the flora fountain who the guide said the architect was “david” (no last name). I fact checked and this was not even correct. When we asked questions he would either ignore, answer “yes/no” (to a non-yes/no question) or provide an answer that was so obviously false (e.g. the high court has only ever seen three cases). We would ask multiple times to ensure he understood but he was clearly not wanting to answer them. The other tour attendee answered our questions more than the guide so at least we got some info! This person also appeared frustrated with the guide. One of the few bits of info included a rumor from his dad about a building, and telling us multiple times how a post office can post items. The info gained was truly awful. Towards the end he asked us to take a video of us smiling saying how great the tour was - we did that to avoid confrontation, noting the absurdity given the tour was awful. At the end he showed us a to a restaurant, he sat next to me in a booth so I couldn’t get out and demanded we pay him. Before reading the below, note that In the booking/confirmation email, it stated the company would never force anyone to pay a fixed amount and that 500 rupees was a standard example. So before the tour My partner and I agreed 500 rupees each if the tour was standard, more if it was good. It was awful but we gave him 500 rupees for his poor attempt. He proceeded to get angry and demand more money (he started the convo with saying we need to pay an absurd amount, by the end he was only demanding 500 rps each). He called his boss and made my partner speak to the boss who demanded more money too. This happened more than once. I tried to tell him if he wants a set fee he should advertise that. He ignored me, only wanting to speak to my (male) partner. He kept saying the money was for the children but would also accidentally say it was for the “company”. When we called him out on that he said “oh yeah it’s for the children”. We have been in India a few weeks so are used to people asking for money but this is the worst we have experienced. He was very intimidating so once he finally left after 5 mins of demanding more money, we only left the restaurant once our Ola was right at the door. It might have been dramatic on our end but we really thought he would be waiting outside for us (he wasn’t - but that is the level of intimidation he used). Given the company wants to use intimidation tactics, they should at least put on a good tour!

Akansha was excellent and very responsive in organising the tour. We learnt so much and thoroughly enjoyed the guided walk which included a great mix of past and present history. Thank you