How to Make Darjeeling Tour Economical and How to Find Economical Packages for Darjeeling Tour

By Anooppt @anoopppt

The crispy air, rejuvenating greenery as fresh as dew, sprawling tea gardens, smiling people with rich culture and hospitality and one and all finds peace and harmony in this small town. Yes I am not talking about any other place but a picturesque town Darjeeling cocooned amid the snow capped Himalayas in North East India. Darjeeling is blessed with appealing natural beauty, pleasing weather conditions, scintillating sightseeing spots and great culture and hospitality which attract hundreds of homely and international tourists all the year round. It is truly a lovely place to be for a vacation and enjoy a balmy stay in the lap of the nature.  
Tips to Make Darjeeling Tour Economical
  1. ·   Plan your trip during the off season; this is the best way to make the trip economical.
  2. ·   Book the rooms in hotel in advance, in this case you can also have some discounts
  3. ·   Travel in shared taxi rather than going for a reserved taxi, which tend to increase the travel cost
  4. ·   Travel light so that   you can avoid extra charges on for air fare and even on taxi fare. If you travel light you don’t have to look or a porter to carry your luggage to hotel or to the place you visit.
  5. ·   Always keep yourself away from touts.
  6. ·   Darjeeling has good number of affordable restaurants. You can enjoy your breakfast, dinner and lunch in restaurants rather than ordering from the hotel (Hoteliers add service tax as well as they charges costly for food).

How to Find out Economical Packages for Darjeeling Tour ·   Always look for authentic tour operator. Genuine tour operator always provides packages at affordable rate and they always compensate according to your requirement. In markets, you will find several tour operators who keep certain percentage of profit and sell the booked packages to the other tour operators in order to provide services. This increase the tour packages, so before booking make sure that you are hiring genuine and B2C tour operator instead of BtoB.
·   You can choose to stay in affordable hotels rather than preferring to stay in deluxe or luxury hotels. (Home stays are another best option in Darjeeling these days as they provide all the amenities and give you a homely atmosphere)
·   Include regular taxi rather than including luxury of deluxe category taxi for sightseeing.
·   Some tour operator includes breakfast, lunch and dinner in the tour packages. You have the option, you can either go with this or choose package which only provide services excluding lunch and dinner. For lunch and dinner you can have outside as there are many good restaurants where you will get delicious food at an affordable rate. More of all, you can enjoy food according to your choice rather than sticking to fixed menu.
These are some of the tips which are surely going to make the trip bit affordable. More of all, Darjeeling is bit affordable hill station compared to rest of the hill stations in India. So you don’t have to worry a lot for an affordable holidays in this picturesque hill station also sobriquet as “Queen of Hills”.