Mumbai Street Food Crawl (2 uur begeleide proeverij met eten)

We hebben deze tour geboekt via de boeking. com-website. Vervolgens ontdekt dat dit vervolgens via de Viator-website ging en de tour via Yo Tours ging. Aan de positieve kant had ik verwacht dat er alleen kleine gerechten zouden worden geserveerd en dat we zouden moeten betalen voor een grotere portie. In feite hadden we in de loop van de tour genoeg voor een volledig diner. Aan de andere kant verspilde onze gids, Nisar, tijd en hadden we een grotere variëteit kunnen ervaren en meer informatie over het eten kunnen hebben. Nisar nam ons mee naar het oude treinstation en praatte veel over het gebouw. Helaas klopte zijn informatie helemaal niet. Hij zei dat koningin Victoria daar had gewoond (ze was nooit in India geweest!) en pas na de onafhankelijkheid werd het gebouw omgebouwd tot een station (het was altijd een station!). We hadden een wandeltocht door Mumbai geboekt voor de volgende ochtend en onze harten zonken toen we ontdekten dat het ook met Nisar was.

We liepen rond en hadden lekker eten van een aantal mooie schone kraampjes met Muskaan. Ze legde de gerechten uit en paste het menu zelfs aan om enkele gerechten te huisvesten die we wilden proberen. Het absoluut aanbevelen.

We are extremely disappointed with the experience we had with Yo Tours yesterday. We booked the tour on Thrillophilia (attached images of the description on their website), according to their policy it is up to the tour operator to keep the information on that page updated and that they are solely responsible for guiding the tour. So the tour operator is entirely to blame for the terrible tour we were led on. We were meant to be led on an evening tour but my concerns were first raised when the guide messaged me the day before to say we would be meeting at 1pm and in a location that was different to what was on the Thrillophilia page. I told him about this but he said that if we started later some of the locations would be closed so I didn't question it further. Little did I know that we were also being taken to different locations altogether. The tour itself felt pretty flat. The locations and the food selection were pretty poorly selected. These weren't the ones listed in the tour we had paid for and were expecting. Of the 5 things we tried 2 were desserts (ice cream and a creme custard dessert) which to be honest isn't that exciting and definitely not worth the cost of the tour. Not to mention the first thing we had was a bowl of Poha (flattened rice) which would leave you deceptively full for the rest of the tour. One of the locations was shut so our tour was also shorter than it should have been. I was surprised when we got to the 'final location' and our guide said that it was done, this was when I pulled up the website and showed him what we thought we were going to be experiencing during the tour. He explained that he gets assigned the tours by the operator and guides us on the route that they give him. We also ended up paying more than what was advertised on Thrillophilia (marked as 700, we paid 900) but didn't hesitate when booking as we thought we were getting what we'd read on the page and we were excited to take part in that tour. In the end, we absolutely did not get what we paid for, we have contacted the tour operator asking for a full refund so hopefully we will hear back because it was a total scam. Would definitely not recommend and would not book again.