Had a 'once in a lifetime' custom made trip put together by Vishal at Ecstatic India for just over 2 weeks in February. Started our adventure in Jaipur then followed the 'Silk Route' north and west to Bikaner then south to Narlai and Udaipur. Every day was amazing with highlights being the Desert Festival in Jaisalmer and the Leopard safari in Narlai. Udaipur also was fabulous and worth spending a number of days. Would highly recommend this company and Vishal for their great customer service, suggestions and the package that they put together for us.

Awesome service, hospitality and care. We were provided assurances and guarantees that were indeed met without reservation. Thank You! Raksha

We travelled 18 days througout Rajasthan and had a wonderful experience. The whole trip was organized by Vishal Sharma from Ecstatic India Tours in a very professional and loving way. From A to Z we felt in very good hands. This trip would not have been the same without the support from this company. Their 24/7 availability during the preparation and execution of the trip is unbeatable. We have never met a company that answered requirements so quickly. Vishal was always available for us, caring about us and made sure we were well and fair treated throught the whole trip. From the beginning on we felt welcomed and all our personal desires have been exceeded. This is a very flexible an trustworthy company with fair prices and high engagement. We would like to return to India anytime and surely with Ecstatic India Tours. Highly recommended tour operator! Vishal, thanks again for everything!

Just come back from a wonderful 3 week tour of Rajistan organised by Vishal from Ecstatic India. Vishal organised our trip to India last year so we know how good this company is & we highly recommend them. We work with Vishal to pick the hotels that suit us (heritage) and he gives us great recommendations regarding routes to follow/things to see. Our highlights were leopard safari at Rawla Narlia, where we saw 2 leopards in clear view (and Rawla is stunning) and the Jaisalmer Desert festival – the most amazing sights highlighting Rajastan culture that you could possibly see. Vishal gave us an Indian SIM card on arrival so that we could keep in touch throughout our trip and this was invaluable. He joined us on our 1st leopard safari which was very exciting. Throughout our trip we were so appreciative of Ecstatic India checking in that things were going well. With this company you will get a very personal and caring service.

We had a fantastic time on this trip. All very easy and straight forward to organise -mostly communicating with Vishal via WhatsApp. We were met at the airport as arranged and then looked after and taken good care of for the next 5 days. We were able to relax, sit back and enjoy the trip with confidence. Our driver was excellent and made us feel safe. All the guides were professional and knowledgeable. The hotels and restaurants were all great, well chosen and no one got ill! Four of us travelled together, first time in India, and we all agreed that this was an ideal way to have an introduction to northern India. Vishal even met us in Jaipur to make sure we were having the best experience with his company. If we return to India one day, we will use this company without hesitation.

Thank you for making our tour a breathtaking one. First time traveling to India and choosing you guys was the best decision we made! Extremely professional and very efficient. Would recommend.

I can say that the time spent in India was amazing due to the personalized tour and my driver Baba. After many, many emails due to me changing my mind the company provided me with a tour package that suited my needs and my short time in India. We had 5 star hotels which were beautiful. The driver was extremely friendly and knowledgeable. The company always reached out during my time to ensure that I was enjoying my stay and to make see if I needed anything, which we did not. The tour guides were funny, knowledgeable and accommodated all of my silly requests such as seeing a snake charmer. I would recommend this tour company to anyone as they are highly professional.

A lot of things to say about this company! If you have one thing to take from my review it's: If you want to visit India for the first time then you can definitely hire them. The service is generally good and they're really helpful but we think some things can be improved so here comes the long version of the review: We toured north India for 10 days in mid-nov 2018 (Delhi,Agra,Fatehpur Sikri (on the road to Jaipur), Jaipur, Jodhpur, Ranakpur (on the road to Udaipur) and Udaipur). 1) BOOKING: VERY GOOD We found the company on Tripadvisor highly rated. Our main contact was Dinesh. Compared to other companies, he did not harass us every day with messages to hard sell us their services. He answered our questions and helped us tailor our trip. He added some suggestions along the several exchanges we had (13) and never pushed us to choose anything. Once the trip proposed was finalized, we had several hotel options on which the price depended (3, 4 or 5 stars hotels). We chose the 4 stars, driver and tour guides for each city. 2) HOTELS: GOOD Let's say that before approving the last proposition of the company we searched for each hotel ratings in booking.com and tripadvisor. On the 5 hotels, only one was bad rated : the Picadilly hotel in Delhi (rated 5.8). We didn't want to take it and asked Dinesh to change it but he assured us that he never had any complains from his previous customers.. well let's just say that (as always and based on our experience) booking.com rarely get it wrong. The hotel was bad, really...the bathroom was not clean at all even if the bedroom was well maintained, the service was slow, the receptionists were not nice enough and the cuisine wasn't a plus even if it was a buffet. Plus, as they rent their space for weddings (with the noise that goes with it) you can notice that regular customers are not their priority . I would not advise to choose it even if it is 3 seconds from the metro station. The other hotels were good, the service great and the rooms really nice. A special mention for Jodhpur and Udaipur hotels: really charming and beautifully set. A really good memory of those and their service. 3) DRIVER: GOOD Santos was great. Very helpful.. always on time and funny. He helped us checking in hotels, gave us some advice along the journey and was very patient regarding any of our queries. Unfortunately he had a personal matter to take care of 3 days before the end of our trip so the tour team had to hire another company driver. This one did not speak english at all which would not have been a problem if he was helpful. We had the impression that he cared more about his car than about giving us a proper ride. He was driving quite dangerously (phone, speed limit, you name it..) and his manners were not aligned to the level of service expected. He was replaced once we called the agency about him for our last day with Hashish who was perfect and managed to get us on time at the airport even if there was an incident on the road that stopped the traffic to the airport. He found a small road that was not even in the GPS to bypass the issue and get us to destination with enough time ahead of us to take a coffee. We also found great that our drivers were always in contact with the agency persons who made sure to follow every step of our trip and to make sure that we were happy and that the service met our expectations. Which lead to the next point. 4) THE AGENCY REACTIVITY: VERY GOOD We had 3 issues during our trip and we must say that Dinech and his team... were really helpful. First: our hotel in Jodhpur wasn't the one we agreed on. When we arrived, we found that Dinesh changed our booking. My husband was not happy about that because first they did not tell us about this before hand even if they assured us that we were upgraded. Then, as the hotel was new the gym was not finished yet. My husband who likes to exercise everyday had made sure before we agreed on the price to check that the first days of the trip would be in hotels where he could work out. It can seem a detail which it is undoubtedly but still.. when you pay and agree on a prestation you do not like it changed without notice. The agency apologized, explained that there has been a problem in the booking and offered us a dinner in any city of our choice for the next days. That was nice but what made us happy was not the dinner really but their reactivity when we tried to reach them, the fact that they apologized without trying to avoid the problem and that they also tried to see if we wanted to change the hotel for the next day which was not an option (tiring and in fact apart from the missing gym the hotel was ok) The second problem, the guide in Pushkar. It was a holy day and there were a lot of pilgrims that day which is quite normal. Our problem was that as soon as we arrived the guide was more like "there are a lot of pilgrims.. it will be difficult to visit. Are u sure u want to do that? I do not know, if i were you maybe i'll think about it... etc.." and we really did not feel that he wanted to show us anything. I mean if you are a guide of a holy city and you know in advance that you'll have tourists coming you can clearly prepare yourself to welcome them and maybe not show them the places where it is really crowded and where they can be a bother for the pilgrims but show them something else like the camel fare and the city as a hole as well as the bazaar etc, you can also just talk about the history of the religion, why people are coming from all the regions around on that week.. bref, you can do your job and adapt as nor the holy week nor the tourists were a surprise in your program. Maybe you are thinking, you should have told him so.Yes, we could have but we did not want to insist with someone who did not seem really into it and as we did not want to force him to go in what he called the craziness.. knowing that anyway he was clear about the fact that we will go there alone.. so why go in one of the biggest temple of a holy city on a holy day without someone to explain to us everything we see .. we would only have been a bother to the people who were there for spiritual reasons. We did not feel that it was right.. again just a personal opinion but really we think he could have been more prepared instead of just insisting on us keeping our money safe like 5 times and that there are a lot of people like 20 times and that it is not a good day like 50 times.. i wanted to say so why did u bother coming? But as the driver saw us coming back after 10 min, he called the agency who asked him to drive around the camel fair so we can see something.. that was again a good and nice reaction. The third problem was the crazy driver but as said above they changed it as soon as we called them explaining all the problems we faced with him (in less than 8 hours..the problems) 5) THE TOUR GUIDES: AVERAGE for History lovers. If you love History and know how to read, you do not need tour guides in each city. Some of them don't give you more information than what you can read in the different tourist docs in the museums and monuments. Plus you have to tip them every time for non adding value for some of them. I think that the one that we really liked were the ones that in our opinion had an added value for us as tourists (Daljit in Delhi... he was really passionate about how the different religions were coexisting in the city. We visited the sikh temple he loved the most and he was passionate about it . We spent the day with him and he showed us almost everything we wanted to see. Dilip and Kuldeep in Jaipur and Jodhpur were really friendly and knowledgeable. Ali in Fatehpur sikri was funny and had a lot of Bollywood anecdotes to share. Those were the more knowledgeable and they seemed to love their job hence they were the one we tipped the most without thinking twice. Pushkar in Udaipur was helpful as he saved us some time (as did the others but again in Udaipur we did a lot of walking vs the other cities where the driver dropped us directly in front of the monuments/museums). And we think that this was his plus as a tour guide. 6) TIPS & COST: GOOD I feel that globally the price was fair. But you have to include the tips in your equation. We live in the UK but we are Moroccans so we did tip using our Moroccan insight as our country is quite touristic and we know that the advised tip is usually proposed using an European scale which is really really high vs the local one. The paper we received at our arrival advised us to give globally between 700 and 1000 roupies of tip depending on if it is a guide or a driver and you have to multiply that by the number of days you spend with the person. We did not follow that advice as we found it (and this is just a personal opinion) irrelevant. A tip should be calculated depending on your personal financial mean, the quality over time of the service you've been provided and the average wage in the country you visit unless of course the tips are officially stated like in London where it is generally 12.5% in restaurants etc... As we think that a tip should not be a wage. We did tip the tourist guides between 200 and 1100 roupies depending on the quality of the service provided and we did feel this was fair as we did not like the idea of tipping when the service was not good (the guide in Pushkar city cf above). We tipped the drivers higher as it was a multiple day service. We tipped every time and always at the end of the service respecting the customs. Do not hesitate to ask us for the prices if needed. We will be happy to answer that in private. Well that was a long comment but we wanted to tell what we would have liked to know.. hope it was helpful! And good trip to India 😊 Again, we advise you to go with Ecstatic India Tours/ Heritage India Tour and travels!

Planning my trip to India with my parents and aunt was probably the most nerve wrecking thing I have had to do. With a heavy budget limitation, barely any knowledge about the places we intended to visit and 3 adults between the ages of 57-70 to look after, I was in constant panic until a friend recommended the services of this company. Vishal is nothing short of amazing. I literally changed my itinerary every third day or week because my parents would want something added or deleted, not even once did Vishal hesitate and would send me a revised copy in less than an hour. Not only that, he would also suggest alternative options which were far greater than what we could have imagined. He is extremely polite, welcoming and will never escalate prices for the sake of making profit. I can guarantee that. It honestly felt too good to be true and I was in constant worry how the actual trip would go. Happy to say, I am left beyond amazed and a bit surprised at how Vishal managed to organize everything so perfectly, with the budget he had. Our hotel rooms were always clean, had great views and efficient services. The car he provided us with was clean and comfortable. The thing that struck me the most about Vishal and the services his company provides was that he would take a personal interest to make sure our stay was comfortable. Every request was met in an efficient manner and would even go above and beyond for us. If you would like to visit India and truly experience its magnificence, I would recommend Vishal's company, infact I keep recommending it to my friends, family and colleagues.

This was an excellent and well-arranged tour and so glad that I chose Estatic Tours from Trip Advisor reviews. My tour was arranged by Vishal Sharma and he provided excellent service throughout the entire process. We had a complicated plan with different arrivals dates that were no problem for Vishal. He organized our trip to Varanasi first which was excellent. We had a great driver and quide and well-chosen hotel. We then flew back to Delhi where we were met with our driver Baba who took excellent care of us for the next week. After dropping us at the hotel, he returned to meet our daughter (20) who was flying in on a delayed flight. Both Baba and Vishal stayed in contact with me till midnight when she was located and brought to our hotel. I have never worked with agents more concerned about making things go safely and smoothly. Ecstatic India Tours (affiliated with Heritage India Tours) provided a very nice mini-van style vehicle that was comfortable for our travels. A guide was provided in each city that we visited. They were all knowledgable and good English. They were all also exceptional photographers who knew all the best spots and happy to take pictures. We had great hotels, good restaurant choices and everything was on our own schedule. We added Ranthambore to our itinerary and glad we did. We decided while we were there to add another night and Vishal and his brother helped us plan a great experience at Alila Fort. I had compared many different tours before choosing this one based on cost and ability to personalize. Also, this tour included many activities that were additional in other tours. Nothing was too much trouble and they went out of their way to make sure that we were having a great time. I highly recommend and would definitely use them again if we return to India.

We had a great 14 day tour of Rajasthan with a wonderful driver, Satendra. It was varied, with visits to the forts and palaces of the cities, staying in quality hotels, some, in paricular, the havelis, with a distinctive Indian decor and atmosphere. Vishal arranged everything very efficiently, including some internal flights, as we spent an additional 5 days in Goa. We left a smartphone in a hotel and Vishal arranged for it to be delivered to another city further on in our itinerary. This reflects the excellent support we were given during our stay. I can thoroughly recommend Vishal and his company. Rathambore park is a must too, to try to see tigers. We also visited Delhi and Agra.

We had a great holiday, organised through Vishal, who was very responsive through the booking process, and tailored an itinerary to meet our needs, including all the hotels we wanted. Vishal even changed our itinerary within 10 minutes when we decided we wanted to stay an extra day in one place during the trip. Travelling with my mum, this was definitely the stress free option for India - picked up from the airport and looked after start to finish. Our driver Veer was excellent and really went above and beyond to make sure we were having the best experience at all times. The guides were all very good and knew their stuff, especially Vinod in Jaipur, who was also a great personality. You do get the inevitable sell to visit ‘authentic’ shopping places at the end of the tours - but no-one was pushy if we politely declined. Just accept this is part of the deal, and don’t be offended! The food was really good, even though we ate a lot at more touristy and expensive restaurants - but to be fair, we weren’t unwell the whole trip, so that was the upside! This isn’t the kind of tour to get the really authentic India experience (book a flight and bring your backpack for that!) but to stay in lovely hotels, great hospitality, see amazing sights, and have a stress free holiday! We loved it, and would definitely book with the company again if travelling to India 👍

Excellent 5 stars Golden Triangle tour with Pushpandra Sharma. He was very professional and hands on and helped us feel at ease through out the tour. We had a party of six and he was there the whole time helping us with everything. He was professional and the hotels were wonderful. We highly recommend his tour and his company for the 5 stars service and tours. Johnny and friends from USA, Canada, and Hong Kong.

Great planning and execution by Shailendra of a massive 3 week cross-country trip in October 2018. Also a HUGE shootout to my driver and brother Baba for getting us all over the Golden Triangle safely and smoothly!

Our 5 days experience was very good and we have managed to see all what was expected (except the Tigers in Ranthambore that were shy on that day - we recommend to go to zone 3 and 6 as we have heard these are the zones with great chances to see tigers - we were in zone 8 and 10) Our driver Ashok was great and speaks very good English. His mini van was always clean and he was always on time to every meetings. This is a trip we recommend for short period of time in this region of India. The pace is quite high as you are one the move every day but this ensure you make the most of your 5 days with peace of mind. Lelya and Loic