make this special. My initial request was for 3* & 4* hotels and I received quote of Rs 44,400 for that from Rocking Trips. I had offers from other vendors as well and from Make my trip as well but I trusted Rocking Trips somehow and did not pay heed to rest of the quotes. Looking at the hotels, I decided I would go for higher starred hotels so I asked Rocking trip to upgrade their quote with 5* hotels. I received a revised quote for Rs 69,500 (I paid Rs 88,200, including flight fare). Diffence is Rs 25000. Nowhere, I negotiated on cost, because I did not want to compromise on quaity. I was so busy during the time we were discussing the quotes that I did not notice that the new quote only had two hotels changed, which was for the first 3 days (I checked this on my email once we started having problems, my bad). I had a wonderful time in initial 3 days in Kerala, however, the problem started from the 4th day when we checked in to the Houseboat. Houseboat was too old and below average. Every other houseboat looked far better than ours. We contacted about the issue with Akshay from Rocking Trips and we were shifted another houseboat which was equally bad. Food served on boat seemed to be cooked before and kept in hot case. Same vegetable was served in the night. Was served rice in lunch with topping of ants on it. We ordered for cake, candle light dinner and flowery bed. Cake was so bad that we gave it back and candle light dinner was with flies all around. In the morning, our room had net of spider webs. There were rats that kept making noise througout the night to keep us awke. We did not complain with the houseboat guy because he was trying his best to deliver but this is not something we expected from Rocking Trips after paying this much money for a trip in India. Next was Hotel at Kovalam, again very average and cramped hotel. There were many hotels on the beach or around which had better interiors than our hotel. When we complained about the hotels and suggested a good hotel at Kovalam, I was asked if I can pay extra Rs 2500 then we would be shifted to that hotel (Common!). Then we moved to hotel at Kanyakumari. I think this was the farthest hotel from the beach. I have no compalins about the distance because we had car but the view. Hotel was inside a small lane and it was surrounded by local houses. We reached around noon and were hungry so asked for food and we were told that they do not have a restaurant. Even soap and shampoos were provided only after we called. There was water kettle but no tea bags or sugar. When I asked for tea bags I was handed over Green tea and sugar wrapped in a tissue paper. Our plan included breakfast in the morning so they brought it some local outlet nearby, eating which we had our stomach upset. This is fault of Rocking Trips who simply wanted to make as much money out of this that they forgot to book decent hotels. My honeymoon has been ruined because of last 4 days and I am not sure if something can be done by Travel Triangle to avoid such froad or maybe I should have opted for make my trip. Unless I have some assurance, I am not booking from Travel Triangle again. Even with all the harm done, I would like to appreciate following things: - The Driver Praveen, who was amazing companion and well behaved driver - Hotel at Munnar and Thekkady (Exceptionally good, and that is what my expectation was for the rest of hotels)

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ned for some time and as a result in the last moment our houseboat was changed.Everything should be crystal clear from beforehand so that the people don't get unnecessary Harrassment for the inconvenience caused. Please work upon that Munnar sight seeing was very great.

ional park in Munnar. N ticket booking is accepted only via the e-ticket kiosk for which we wasted almost an hour trying to do the bookings. Their wi - fi there never worked. If the trip advisor could Inform travelers in advance which network works well specially in Munnar then may b the travellers could arrange for a sim before hand. Also there is an option for ticket booking for the wild life boating online. But not all travelers r aware of the same. That could b also informed so that the tickets can be booked Atleast 1 day in advance. Overall experience was satisfactory.. also the waterfalls in summer r dry. This is not mentioned to the travellers so sight seeing to these places r not worth it. Something better can be planned instead Have taken back some good memories from the trip. The back water house boat experience was good. The boat had wooden carvings.. our driver also was very cooperative n took good care of us during the trip. Would recommend the same driver to more passengers travelling in the future.

r. Vinu informed us that Many sightseeing and Safari locations mentioned in the travel itinerary planned by Mr. Robin like Soochipara Waterfalls, Wayanad Muthanga Wildlife Safari, Kuruvadweep Island, Thusharagiri waterfalls were closed due to Forest Department issue. He suggested that we cannot go to these places as they are closed for many days. Ideally, we would expect the travel booking manager to inform us about such temporary closure of sight seeing areas before we reach Wayanad, so that we could have planned and booked tickets for other Wildlife Safari's and sight seeing like Bandipur National Park, Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Sulthan Bathery. We only realized that once we reached there. We even tried to book online Safari tickets to Bandipur when we reached there, but the tickets need to be booked atleast 3-4 days in advance. The price of the overall trip (Resort stay + Cab) could have been more competitive given a lot of tourists had skipped coming to Wayanad in May 2024 due to heat wave (hot weather conditions during day time). Most people were local Keralites. Overall, it was a decent experience with hotel stay, food and travel arrangements. Mr. Robin is prompt in answering queries through call / message making an interactive booking experience.

vy handled all the small small things very professionally right from picking us from Kochi Airport on first day to dropping us at Trivendrum Airport on last day. Breakfast provides by the hotels was very hygienic. Overall I will rate 10/10 to the service provided to me by the travel agent & all my further trips will plan from Travel Triangle only. Visit to Eravikulam National park at Munnar Elephant ride & Kalaripayattu at Thekkady Houseboat experience was best at Alleppey Kanyakumari & Padmanabhan Swami temple visit was the best part of the trip .

e stopped at 5.30 pm and resumed next day morning. Rest of the time, it was like a stay at a hotel. But hospitality was good.