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India tour

NorthCountryBoy said:
We went and it was pretty friendly, but not as much as Sri Lanka which is ridiculous. Locals wanted selfies with us when walking the streets etc. One of my mates went to Mumbai without a ticket and there were massive queues at their ticket office. He was marched to the front cos he was white/ a tourist

Hyderabad test currently £561 return/ 14 hours each way from Newcastle which is a great price.
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That's canny. It was nearly £700 each for us to Delhi from Heathrow (got a daughter lives in Wimbledon so gonna stay there for the night before flying). Sri Lanka was class, would deffo go back and I don't normally visit places twice.
 

Me and a few friends are planning on the 1st 2 tests

Fly into Hyderabad, then its short flight to Vizag for the 2nd on the coast

then after that maybe fly across to Goa for a week holiday or someit, or maybe to Mumbai and fly back from there.

I am a bit gutted by venues, makes it slightly a mission.

I'd love to go to the 5th test, looks a bucket list thing, but being the 5th test and so hard to get to, its hard to justify the money and time for what it will cost me, am not a wealthy man.

Hoping the main expense for first 2 will be flights and the rest will be dirt cheap.
 
MustardAndOnions said:
Me and a few friends are planning on the 1st 2 tests

Fly into Hyderabad, then its short flight to Vizag for the 2nd on the coast

then after that maybe fly across to Goa for a week holiday or someit, or maybe to Mumbai and fly back from there.

I am a bit gutted by venues, makes it slightly a mission.

I'd love to go to the 5th test, looks a bucket list thing, but being the 5th test and so hard to get to, its hard to justify the money and time for what it will cost me, am not a wealthy man.

Hoping the main expense for first 2 will be flights and the rest will be dirt cheap.
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I'm doing Dharamshala in the WC but breaking the journey up from Delhi with a train up to Shimla for an overnight stop (I've always wanted visit there so quite handy). Internal flights in India was cheap for me (Amritsar to Delhi). £54 each with luggage with Air India. If you're thinking of getting any trains then
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Paddy O'Dors said:
I'm doing Dharamshala in the WC but breaking the journey up from Delhi with a train up to Shimla for an overnight stop (I've always wanted visit there so quite handy). Internal flights in India was cheap for me (Amritsar to Delhi). £54 each with luggage with Air India. If you're thinking of getting any trains then
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is better than the Indian Railways app/site but costs a couple of quid extra per ticket.
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Thanks will bookmark that.
Sounds great, I’ll be interested to see how you get on

I must admit I’ve never really fancied traveling in India but guess it’ll be a experience
 
Dharamshala the place is a bit shite for anyone thinking of going. The accommodation options are very limited and the one I stayed in (one of the better rated ones on booking.com) was pretty grim. The town itself is on either side of a git big long road on a steep hill (with the cricket ground at the bottom of it) and no tuk tuks to help you get about. The altitude really knackers you too with the lack of oxygen. Throw in it took 3 days to get there and a lot of it on a boneshaker auld bus on terrible roads and it's not worth the effort imho unless you really want to tick it off.

Wouldn't bring your lass either. The blokes (particularly the youths) are sexist and arrogant. She'll be fed up with blokes staring at her constantly, not subtle either.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Dharamshala the place is a bit shite for anyone thinking of going. The accommodation options are very limited and the one I stayed in (one of the better rated ones on booking.com) was pretty grim. The town itself is on either side of a git big long road on a steep hill (with the cricket ground at the bottom of it) and no tuk tuks to help you get about. The altitude really knackers you too with the lack of oxygen. Throw in it took 3 days to get there and a lot of it on a boneshaker auld bus on terrible roads and it's not worth the effort imho unless you really want to tick it off.

Wouldn't bring your lass either. The blokes (particularly the youths) are sexist and arrogant. She'll be fed up with blokes staring at her constantly, not subtle either.
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Sounds more than shite
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Dharamshala the place is a bit shite for anyone thinking of going. The accommodation options are very limited and the one I stayed in (one of the better rated ones on booking.com) was pretty grim. The town itself is on either side of a git big long road on a steep hill (with the cricket ground at the bottom of it) and no tuk tuks to help you get about. The altitude really knackers you too with the lack of oxygen. Throw in it took 3 days to get there and a lot of it on a boneshaker auld bus on terrible roads and it's not worth the effort imho unless you really want to tick it off.

Wouldn't bring your lass either. The blokes (particularly the youths) are sexist and arrogant. She'll be fed up with blokes staring at her constantly, not subtle either.
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Good info, if I miss one game, it would probably be this one.
Are there hardly any rickshaws at all?
I was thinking of staying at Kangra which seems about 800 metres lower in altitude and 17 Kms away.
You would probably have passed through it, do you recall anything noteworthy?
Another thing, it could be really cold at 1600 metres in the Himalayas in early March.
 
El Oso said:
Good info, if I miss one game, it would probably be this one.
Are there hardly any rickshaws at all?
I was thinking of staying at Kangra which seems about 800 metres lower in altitude and 17 Kms away.
You would probably have passed through it, do you recall anything noteworthy?
Another thing, it could be really cold at 1600 metres in the Himalayas in early March.
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No cycle rickshaws (perhaps unsurprisingly given the slope it's on), no auto rickshaws, no tuk-tuks. Only white car taxis, plenty at the ISBT and often passing up and down the hill. We passed through Kangra when it was dark so didn't see owt, but there was a lot of roadworks.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
No cycle rickshaws (perhaps unsurprisingly given the slope it's on), no auto rickshaws, no tuk-tuks. Only white car taxis, plenty at the ISBT and often passing up and down the hill. We passed through Kangra when it was dark so didn't see owt, but there was a lot of roadworks.
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Cheers
 
What's the situation on tickets? I'm being talked into the 1st test as its not as hard to get to as first thought. But no signs of ways to get tickets on the India Cricket website.

Also, with a ground of 55k will it even sell out?
 
JackL said:
What's the situation on tickets? I'm being talked into the 1st test as its not as hard to get to as first thought. But no signs of ways to get tickets on the India Cricket website.

Also, with a ground of 55k will it even sell out?
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@El Oso a good person to ask.

But I'm sure they are horrendous at how late before they provide tickets for purchase.

From memory there were plenty of empty seats in 2016/17 and also in 2021(albeit that was COVID times, even though the Indians let fans in and sure was a massive spike in cases following it)
 
JackL said:
What's the situation on tickets? I'm being talked into the 1st test as its not as hard to get to as first thought. But no signs of ways to get tickets on the India Cricket website.

Also, with a ground of 55k will it even sell out?
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Download and register on the bookmyshow app. They'll be sold on there. You get a QR code that you show at the ticket office for collection.
 
JackL said:
What's the situation on tickets? I'm being talked into the 1st test as its not as hard to get to as first thought. But no signs of ways to get tickets on the India Cricket website.

Also, with a ground of 55k will it even sell out?
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I’d be very surprised if any day sold out. If it’s digital it should remove some of the shitshow of queueing for tickets.
 
mackembhoy said:
@El Oso a good person to ask.

But I'm sure they are horrendous at how late before they provide tickets for purchase.

From memory there were plenty of empty seats in 2016/17 and also in 2021(albeit that was COVID times, even though the Indians let fans in and sure was a massive spike in cases following it)
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Tests are often sold for a 5 day season ticket. It was sold out in Mumbai 2016, but can't remember the ground ever been more than half full.
Some office workers buy the five day tickets and use it for the odd session.
I was in Chennai in 2008 for the rearranged venue just after the Mumbai bombings and the ground (capacity 50 K or so) and it was almost empty. Until day 5, when Tendulkar and Yuvraj got 380 or so for 4 to win in the fourth innings. There was huge queues on the morning of day 5 and still only 30 K or so in the stadium.
In 2016 I arrived in Chennai on day 2 with @NorthCountryBoy and all tickets were sold out. Partly because half of the stadium was unavailable for sale due to the internal dispute between the Tamil Nadu Cricket Authority and the Madras Cricket Club, I think. Each owned half the ground or something ridiculous like that.

NCB got a 5 day ticket, and I paid, £9 for a £3 five day pass, four sessions in.
It was £15 for a 5 day pass for the best seats in Vizag and 10p a day in the cheapies in Bangladesh in 2010.
Don't worry about not having tickets.
Thankfully I'm away from TVs for this ODI shitshow, and don't know if Paddy has had any problems, but Test tickets aren't hard to get.
As Paddy says, book my show sounds right.
The grounds in Chandigarh, Vizag and Rajkot couldn't have been much more than 20% full. Often a lot less.
MustardAndOnions said:
Me and a few friends are planning on the 1st 2 tests

Fly into Hyderabad, then its short flight to Vizag for the 2nd on the coast

then after that maybe fly across to Goa for a week holiday or someit, or maybe to Mumbai and fly back from there.

I am a bit gutted by venues, makes it slightly a mission.

I'd love to go to the 5th test, looks a bucket list thing, but being the 5th test and so hard to get to, its hard to justify the money and time for what it will cost me, am not a wealthy man.

Hoping the main expense for first 2 will be flights and the rest will be dirt cheap.
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A bit belated, but easy to spend a week in Goa and fly to Rajkot from Mumbai for the third Test.
 
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