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Garlic Holidays, Kozhikode Reviews

SImply Good
Jul 14, 2022 08:11 PM 233 Views

Cause they are Famous in our Island and having great service team.The service provided by them is tremendous in all ways.They are too professional .We can even get multilingual support team if we asked for assistance.


They have many competetors in island and trying to make false image regarding their services.


AVOID Andaman Tour Travels ATT. *FRAUD*
Jan 06, 2022 01:04 AM 1401 Views

Summary:


Tour Agents: Praveen and Ameena. Please avoid/refrain from booking from this firm/agents as they will act very differently as compared to the time you decide on the package vs during your Tour. Overall, the experience with ATT had been the worst, lot of word-play in the Package deal, poor coordination and unsatisfactory response/action. Do not trust the Vouchers they provide against your bookings as they mean nothing to the Hotels since no real booking is made. (The rooms are offered only if available). Instead, they asked us to send screenshots of Chat/Emails/Package deal what was promised which should ideally be all available at their end. Even though we proved our point, the argument posed was that all the promises were verbal before you booked the package or they will look into it and make us spend the whole evening at the Hotel reception.


Details: We, a group of 6+ 2(Kids), planned a package with ATT for our Andaman Travel at least 2 months prior to the travel and ended up having the worst of our tour experience till date. Instead of us enjoying Andaman, we spent hrs on calls with Praveen/Ameena to explain them the difference between what was promised to what we were really offered in Andaman.


Below are the worst highlights to call out.


1st Day: Given a group of 6+ 2, the travel Agent expects you to fit in a 6 seater Vehicle with all your luggage as they would charge you extra in case you need to carry your luggage from Airport to the Hotels. The booking made for our 1st day in Port Blair was on a different date as to when we arrived. Poor coordination to start with leading to 2 Hrs delay.


2nd Day: There was no real booking made prior to our arrival. Instead of 3 premium sea-facing rooms as promised, we were offered 2 triple bed deluxe rooms. They initially lied to us saying Sea view rooms were not included in the package and later agreed that since they were not available they were not able to provide what was promised. All this happened because they don’t really do any bookings with the hotel and depend on room availability on the day of your arrival. Upon request and discussion worth 5 Hrs, they moved us to a downgraded Hotel and provided 3 Deluxe rooms. We requested a lot to at least provide us premium rooms(even though they were available) but Praveen wouldn’t even lift the phone or help us out.


3rd Day: Instead of roaming around in Havelock, we were moving rooms, transferring/Packing luggage.


4rth Day: We were promised scooters in the Package contract but were later asked to pay upon delivery. The contract clearly mentioned “Scooters will be provided.” the counter argument by Praveen was they always meant on extra charges(which is not mentioned in the package deal)


5th Day: Poor coordination with the Driver. The Package mentioned Museum visits, but they would plan the tour in such a way that the driver will pick you up post the Museum gets closed to eventually pull money out as you’d then request them to take you out to another spot.


6th Day: We were promised a 3-star property for our last day stay in Port Blair to which we were offered 1010 sized standard rooms. Upon complaint and discussion worth 4 hrs, we were offered a free dinner worth 1k as compensation. The rooms didn’t even have AC Remote, Telephone or Water heater.


Overall, they cheated us for about 25k on a package worth of 150k. Post our trip, Praveen agreed for only 3k worth of refund and hence is why I’m posting the truth online to help other enthusiast travelers to AVOID ATT for travel plans.


Please reach out if any questions.


Trustworthy partner
Nov 22, 2020 11:06 PM 874 Views

Thanks once again. my family had a tension regarding post covid situation in Andaman.But your team cleared everything and arranged everlasting trip. thank you team.


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PLEASE DON'T BOOK- FRAUD ADVISE
Sep 15, 2020 01:18 PM 937 Views

I booked holiday to Andaman with my family and I paid 57, 000INR. The travel agents will talk to you very nicely until they get the money. After that you can't expect any reply or calls from them. They will not return the money or arrange your trip. This is a fraud travel agent and it is better to be avoided.


Bengaluru/ Bangalore India
Very bad.
Feb 11, 2020 09:17 PM 1197 Views (via Mobile)

Very worst experience. I had been to Andaman last week. There was no coordination between travel agent and team who will take your booking. My advice is do not plan any vacation with these guys. If you already booked your vacation with these guys do not pay the complete amount till last day.


Netrakona, Dhaka, Bangladesh India
Bad Experience with Andaman Tour Travel (ATT)
Jan 28, 2020 08:27 PM 1715 Views

We 4 Bangladeshi tourists visited Port Blair city, Havelock Island, Neil Island, Jolly Bouy Island, Baratang Lime Stone Cave etc. during 15th January to 22nd January, 2020. We have made a deal with Andaman Tour Travel(ATT)/Garlic Holidays for 7 nights & 8 days. The package inclusions of all expenses relating to Hotel with breakfast(Port Blair/Havelock/Neil), all sight seeing entry fees & permits, tickets, cruise tickets, transports with driver cum guide. They clearly told that all expenses are included in the package except lunch, dinner, personal expenses & extra ride/activities.


Their services are not at all satisfactory. Some of the expenses are settled by them and some are not. The issues have discussed with them but no positive response received. At times, they did not receive calls. Their consultant Saranya and her Manager also did not respond properly. Before full payment, they are very polite & cooperative but after giving full payment they are not at all cooperative. In several cases, entry fees, cruise tickets, boat transport fare settled by us.


They are simply cheating with us. They can made several commitments before deal but not like to keep their commitments.


My suggestion not to make deal with Andaman Tour Travel(ATT)/Garlic Holidays to avoid bad experience.


Salem, India India
If I were to advertise Garlic tours based on my ex
Jan 24, 2020 03:04 PM 1158 Views

If I were to advertise Garlic tours based on my experience with them, this is how it would be.


Summary: For a perfectly spoil holiday with your family and loved ones, presenting you, garlic tours. We make sure we ruin our customers holidays by making uninformed changes in the itinerary, where drivers would drop you in the tourist venue and not come back to pick you up, where your hotels would be changed to cheaper one's without prior information, where you will requested to bear the expenses which the company promised which we will never refund. We are a bunch of incapable and money-minded swindlers. Also, we do not have our registered presence in google and other tours related sites because the victims might save future victims but we will still host a fancy website.


Tagline: Garlic tours, making sure you will have a pathetic holiday.


Pleasant tour from Andaman Tour and Travels
Jan 06, 2020 06:18 PM 972 Views (via Mobile)

After reading the review posted on this site, I had earlier requested for cancellation of my booking. But Krutika mam assured me that they will provide best service and really they provided best service that one can offer. I had recently visited Andaman from 29th Dec to 3rd Jan 2020. The vehicle were all in good condition amd clean, drivers were polite and come before time at each pick up point. As regards to Hotels, the rooms were very very clean and provided best services. The Hotel seven petals infact provided us ready made braekfast at 4.30 am ( as actual breakfast time is from 7.30) when we have to pick up our cruise at 6 am and again on last day provided breakfast at 5.30 am when our flight was at 7.30am. The hotel Exotica at Neil Island also was wonderful hotel with spaciuos room and delicious food. As regarding site seeing, provided everything as per itenerry. The only issue which I seen that there is no prior intimation from cordinator about who will come for pick up for next day but whatever time communicated on previous day, driver found present at Hotel or at jetty for pick up. Miss Krutika from ATT helped me to plan the tour fantastically and provided all support. Thanks to her specially for arrangement of such a wonderfull tour. Complete paisa wasool experience. I will certainly recommend this tour company to my friends and family


Thanks.


Worst service, Pathetic
Dec 04, 2019 02:00 PM 1053 Views

Worst travel agent I have ever seen in my life, no responsibility, no communication & co-ordination between their staff. They did not provide me at least 50% of the places they assured in Itinerary. Every day had to wait hours for pickup & call them several times & no one will pick the call & call back, after arriving Havelock in ferry we waiting for 2 hours for the driver to come and pick us, and he was not informed about our arrival. Really pathetic, better to through the money in water instead of giving this burgles. Not at all recommended. I wish to give them negative rating if available.


Worst mistake of my life!! Worthless nincompoops.
Dec 02, 2019 10:39 AM 1078 Views (via Mobile)

A bunch of lying, cheating mongrels, who did nothing right with planning and executing my trip. I booked the luxury package and got pathetic hotels that had leaky ceiling, torn bedcovers, poor service, and poori - channa masala for 4 consecutive days. We were three people in the room and only one towel was provided, extra towel took 2 days to arrive from the check in time. My hotel at Havelock island had no water heater and thus no hot water to shower. They refused to give us an extra mattress for the third person as my travel agent hadn't informed the hotel that we were three people checking in. My 63 phone calls to the said agent(Adarsh from Andaman tours and travels) went unanswered as he knew he had totally messed up. He only answered my call when I called from new or different numbers(which I had to borrow from hotel employees) which was really embarrassing and insulting. Vodafone connection doesn't work in Andaman, thus reaching an agent was very rare in the first place. They were prompt in collecting the money, which happened as soon as I landed in Port Blair. Vivek(another person from ATT) only let us sit in the cab at the airport after I made the final payment. After that reaching any coordinator was close to impossible. They would always ask me to call someone else during any problem and that number would be switched off 98% of the time. Don't even get me started on the driver's attitudes. Azad, Thopan and Shahnavaz were the driver's allotted to us in Port Blair and each one was insufferable. I was promised a dedicated cab for all days, but was only given pick up and drop off facility, where the driver even refused to stop for us to have a meal. Azad outright asked for extra money to stop at a restaurant for us to have lunch, or at a church for 10 mins. On my last day I accidentally left my sweater and shawl in the hotel room and only realized it after reaching the airport, when I asked the driver if he cud take me back(hotel was less than 7 mins away from the airport) to get it, he said he had another duty so he can't. So that is another loss. Bloody money hungry cheats. The places finalized in the plan were covered in 2 hours everyday and the rest of the day we had to spend in our hotel room. Three places that were promised were cancelled due to low tide and thus we couldn't see Ross island, North Bay and elephant island. No alternative plans were offered. No shopping time was inserted in the initial plan thus we had to take auto rickshaw to do this on our own. The tour coordinators(Praveen from garlic holidays and Adarsh from Andaman tours and travels) were of zero help during the entire ordeal they called a trip. If anyone is planning to travel. through them.I strongly suggest you run the opposite direction. They are very very very bad news. What is shocking is that all these things I have mentioned are only part of the issues face by my family and me. There were so many other problems with my ferry booking, seat allocation, sightseeing and false promises that I seriously have no time to pen down. My serious advice to one and all.stay away from Garlic Holidays and Andaman tours and travels for any of your travel needs and keep your friends and family informed as well.


Adventurous Trip to ANDHAMAN by 3 POWER GIRLS
Nov 12, 2019 08:13 PM 1094 Views

Right from the time of booking, it was only the Assuaring words from andhaman tours and travels yet, as we landed in port blair, our guide come driver was quite early to pick us up and drop at ocean green cruise routed to havlock, again shankar was ready to receive us, n drop at us moonlite, the instructions were clear to us n as per schedule the guide accompanied to every island .we being 3 girls never worried abt our safety n security coz the looks n Approchability of the drivers was modest, which has to b appreciated to d core.on next day we reached neil island thro mackruzz n halted at exotic resorts n was giude by biplov to all natural beaches where we cherished jetski, glass bottom coral reefs, n other rides ."Trust me, one has to visit Andhaman for completion of one's life birth thro this travels". n on next day Japanese bunker visit with deer n peacock touch thrilled us at ross island I would finally conclude that this is the most economical n safe trip to go thro ATT.our thanks with lot of gratitude to GARLIC HOLIDAYS.


If you want to spoil your trip then only choose
Nov 01, 2019 02:12 PM 1093 Views

Dear All,


If you want to spoil your trip then only deal with Andaman Tourtravel agency, Arun Is the manager and Pravin was the agent in my case.


I contacted them for Andaman Trip.


From the day one of interaction the agent Pravin is pushing me to deposit some token amount( 1000-2000). After lots of discussion/changes, I finally ok the itenary and send 3000/- Rs. To them through google Pay as token amount. But once he got the payment, his response changed, Oct 20th, I called them and Msg them, but no revert came from both. Oct-21 a what’s app msg came and he said give me 10mnt. 23rd Oct I got a reply on message, he was asking for balance money deposit, and I requested them that I’m not interested now please refund my amount After that no response, Later on 29th Arun the manager confirmed that I will get my money back tomorrow( 30th Oct)


Now both Arun and Pravin not taking my calls and not replying on my messages.


Terrible, Pathetic, Worst - Never book Garlic
Oct 30, 2019 06:16 PM 1141 Views

1) We left sick parents, little kids, a tonne of responsibilities behind to enjoy Andaman through your Garlic Holidays. You let us down big time.


2) We were kept completely in dark about network problems and felt miserable not being able to contact our loved ones back home. Again I blame you guys for our emotional trauma literally. Looks like you just don't care. You could have informed us and buying a bsnl sim was not a tough thing to do for us.


3) We were always trying to negotiate through phone( omg it was pure torture) with you guys.Arun and Amit and lost quality time we planned to spend with each other. The very purpose of holiday is lost.


4) The itinerary sent to us prior our holiday dint match the itinerary on ground. Lack of culture and ethics on your part.


5) We had to pay extra to book rooms in another hotel, apparently the hotel you booked for us was so shady. Its only fair you pay us back the amount.


6) Sea Princess we liked but that doesn't take away the bitterness we have towards your organisation.


7) Lastly I feel if you had taken a little more care( its very easy to please us), we would have recommended garlic holidays to so many people who often take our advice to make plans for their holidays. Am sorry we wont recommend till we get a reply and our amount back.its only fair.


Una, Himachal Pradesh India
Hell experience with garlic holidays(Andaman tour
Oct 30, 2019 05:48 PM 1114 Views (via Mobile)

I wasted my money and time both.they ensure you suffer to the best.nd never ever try another travel agent.as travel agent they should be aware of holidays of the destination.if monday is a holiday at limestone they plan to visit on monday.what an irony.i told them that we are 3 in number sent my id proofs nd they are booking queen side beds for a couple and my 10 year old son.what a common sense these people have.


Please don't waste ur money.i gave them 63k for 10 nights nd I got worst hotels where I was not able to sleep also properly.even comfort was not provided.i myself has to call again nd again to drivers nd co Ordinator .they were least bothered for our next day plan.


Worst,cheat and pathetic tourism -GARLIC HOLIDAYS
Oct 23, 2019 09:10 PM 1088 Views

I did book a tour for Andaman( 3D, 2N) via Garlic Holidays.


It was a pathetic experience I ever had with any tourism agency. 0% planning and commitment. They just need money and only money. They are nice until they get the money in hand, once they get it they just carry on with grabbing money from people contacting them. They just don't care about people who already paid.


Please don't fall prey for GARLIC HOLIDAYS.


Nice trip
Oct 17, 2019 07:00 AM 1060 Views (via Mobile)

It's very nice arrangement by MR.Arun , Mr.Adarsh , local coordinator Mithu & cab driver Amith.


It's really very busy place by tourists, cab drivers are very busy in that place, they will drop & give you time for pick up.


They showed more places which it's not in the package, once if you are preferring Garlic hotels, you must keep in touch with the local coordinator Mr.Mithu in Andaman every day, he can make proper planning & good arrangements.


Best Tour Providers
Aug 31, 2019 07:50 AM 1206 Views

Thanks for making my vacation good Garlic Holidays!.my trip was perfect because of them. I boooked a 6day/5night package. Guys was the one who helped me out and planned in such a way that made sure I visited all the place in andaman nicobar. The team was really helpful during the whole trip.; Especially thanks to guys for arranging a surprise scuba diving for me. it was amazing keep up the good team work. I recommend garlic holidays to everyone planing a trip to andaman.


Well organised Package
Aug 27, 2019 11:50 PM 1194 Views

My honeymoon trip to Andaman Islands was really great with garlic holidays. They have arranged a super 5 day 4 night paclage for me. The guys accompanied us were too friendly and caring and hence we enjoyed each moment of our trip. Really appreciate their great effort.


No words to say!
Aug 25, 2019 10:45 AM 1220 Views

I got the 5 day package to Andaman at an affordable rate. Starting from pickup to the end of the tour was well planned and for that I thank Mithu. When arrived at the airport, taxi driver Shanavas came and took me to the hotel. At night we had a candlelight dinner which was unforgettable. The guy Adarsh knows about almost all tourist spots in Andaman. Good job Garlic Holidays!


Awesome Experience!!!
Aug 24, 2019 10:21 PM 1135 Views

I selected the 3Day/2Night package. The Havelock Island, Neil Island, Elephant beach, what a beautiful places! Really exciting! Mithu and Adarsh, I really appreciate these guyz for the trip planning. I wanted to experience scuba diving but was a bit frightened. But Adarsh calmed me and helped me. Thank God for the good weather condition. Once again a thanks for Garlic Holidays.


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