Commendation

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:33 PM

christinakarpodinis@hotmail.com

Dear Shweta, and to all at Compass India,
 
We have arrived home now with wonderful memories of India.  What an amazing country, and so different to anything we have experienced before.  We have to thank you for your wonderful organization of our trip that meant that it all went smoothly and we had a worry-free trip.  As soon as we arrived at Dehli airport we felt that your company was there to do all you could to make our trip a memorable and happy one - for this we must thank you. 
 
At every destination we were met by your representatives who all made it clear to us that anything we needed we were not to hesitate to contact them.  All hotels had our bookings and all made us very comfortable.  We must especially mention the hotel at Udaiphur who gave us a wonderful room in the palace.  At every destination we had our own guides who took us around the sites and told us about the history, religion, architecture etc in a clear and interesting manner.
 
I especially would like to thank our driver, Narenda, who was constantly helpful, kind, courteous and good fun.  Our trip would not have been quite so enjoyable without him.  I would also like to especially mention our guide in Jodphur - Raghu Rathore, who was also very kind, knowledgable and fun to spend the day with.
 
I do not want to detract from the wonderful time we had but I would like to say a few things that might help to make other customer's tours even better.
 
As you know my friend had an accident on our horse ride.  We do not blame anyone for this.  Both of us ride regularly and we both understand that these things can happen around horses - a fact of riding I am sorry to say.  However, neither of us are novice riders although both of us would admit to not being very brave riders.  I have my own horse here in Greece and ride him, and other horses most days.  Of course we did not know the horses we were given in Rajasthan, and they did not know us.  However I would like to say that they were obviously not used to being riden by strangers and they were very, very lively and, consequently, very hard to control.  As I have said, niehter Katerina or myself are beginners and I would say that most people would have had a difficult time with these particular animals.  I would only suggest that if other clients want to go for riding that perhaps it might be better if they went to stables where the horses are used to being ridden by riders of all levels and that get ridden on a regular basis.  I believe that there are quite a number of stables around Jodphur - maybe they would be a safer bet?  I am sorry that this happened as the place from which we went riding was a beautiful little old palace, which was so peaceful and I am sure the people who own the horses are eager to make a living out of them.  I could only suggest for them that they need more horses, rather than the four they had, who are calmer and more used to being ridden by many different riders.
 
Those things said we had a wonderful trip all in all and I hope very much that at some time in the future we will be able to visit India again - we would like to tour the south of India which, I believe, has a different feel to it.  Should this happen I would certainly book through your company again and I would like to have the same driver for the whole trip and Raghu to show us around.  I will certainly be recommending your company to anyone who wants to visit India.
 
Thank you once again for a memorable and magical trip.

Yours sincerely

Christina Lambert-Karpodinis