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    Use the best of online booking platforms very judiciously

    Today, we have the best online medium platforms available. There are too many of them and they do offer discounts. However, the hotels also sometimes offer good discounts and during the off-season times, particularly when senior citizens are traveling, it is prudent to check directly with the hotels on the kinds of direct offers that will be offered by the hotels. If the hotels offer good discounts, it is fine to go to the hotels directly as well.

    Similarly, branded services are always very costly. They thoroughly milk the value of their well-known names and make merry. However, today, online information is available on tap and one can always decide on alternate modes of travel. There are several packages done at the city level.

    For example, one can take the fastest train to reach New Delhi from Chennai or Bangalore and explore someone like Southern Travels, which offers day trips to Agra or any other place. Similarly, young couples can always combine these trips with fun. The buses go to specific places and it is fine to always keep an eye on the expenses.

    Food that is available in some places may not suit the tastes of people who belong to different places. For example, the South Indian thali is not quite in tune with what the people from North India want. The same applies to those from the South. However, one should always learn to adjust to whatever is available.
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    Yes, it is necessary not to go by just the name. There are many online ticket booking platforms, as well as ones for hotels. One must check out reviews of their platforms. I have read a few cases where a hotel guest, on reaching it, has found no room reserved for him, and on inquiry is then told that the hotel did not accept reservations make by that third party platform. I feel in such cases the hotel should be responsible enough to contact that online platform and direct them to remove their hotel from the listing so that people are not inconvenienced.

    Another point to note is that in trying to avail of discounts through third party sites for a hotel room, one may not get as suitable a room as if one booked directly through the hotel's site or app.

    As for tour operators, that, too, one must thoroughly research about. They often have these lovely websites extolling various tour packages. It is a good idea to not only check reviews about them, but also confirm with them the hotels where one is going to stay and find out about meal arrangements. It is also possible that one should not assume that because somebody is offering a tour package at a low price that quality has been compromised. In fact, you may be pleasantly surprised that lesser known tour operators are often the best.


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