Clarks Shiraz, Agra

Advantages: ROMANCE
Disadvantages: Time your first view for the less crowded times.

...After reading several reviews I thought it is time to recall our visit to the Taj which is from memory so may be sketchey on detail, but there is all the necessary historical facts on other very good reviews , so this is just an old lovers memories. Jane (My very own Queen Mumtaz Mahal) and I were coming up to our Silver Wedding Aniversery in March 1995, so we wanted a very special destination for a Holiday to celebrate, we both had a hankering for India so a two week Holiday was booked to Goa with a mini tour included of Jaipur, Agra and Delhi. (The Golden Triangle). We had 7 Nights in Goa then it was time for the mini-tour. It was on the Flight to Jaipur that I lost my fear of flying. Goa to Bombay not too bad the Air hostesses served Curry Meat or Veg. Plane landed at Bombay every one got off except for our tour party of 22 souls... Read review

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Advantages: One of the Seven Wonders of the World
Disadvantages: Beautiful from outside but an empty shell inside

...I have just come from Agra and am disgusted by the inflated admission costs for foreigners to the Taj Mahal. When I went there a few years ago the cost to enter was the same for everybody - Indian or foreign visitors, Rs 5. The Government has now revised the costs so that if you are Indian you pay Rs 10 - about 15p and if you are a foreign tourist you now have to pay $30 US. I know the the Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders of the world but this is outrageous and just another way of fleecing the foreign tourists.... Read review

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Advantages: Breathtakingingly beautiful peice of architecture
Disadvantages: Crowded, smelly and expensive.

...We went to India in September last year and ended our tour of Rajisthan with a trip to Agra and the Taj Mahal. I have to admit I wasn't looking forward to it - in my experience these things are often better in your imagination and on postcards - but that is a somewhat jaded point of view, and we toddled off to stay in a hotel just outside Agra. Firstly, I am glad we did not stay in Agra itself. It stinks. We went to so many parts of India, and saw so much poverty, but Agra was the worst with regards to sanitation and smell. But you take the rough with the smooth in India, and this is really only to be expected some of the time. Hilariously, the touters at the enterance called out to us that we could not go in without them, otherwise we would not be able to see the sunset!!!! In case anyone was remotely likey to buy this line... Read review

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