TESTIMONIALS
FEEDBACK FROM INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
"One of the highlights of our trip was the excellent Heritage tour that you gave my family and me...I am happy to recommend you and the Bombay Heritage Walks with enthusiasm to anyone who visits the Mumbai area."
Prof. Howard Gardner, Harvard University, USA January 2012
"My friend and I would like to thank you for a very pleasant afternoon we could enjoy with our guide. He really had lots of interesting information for us, it was a nice group altogether, and we will always recommend this walk to our friends!"
Regine Proebsting, Germany 1st April 2010
"It was the best tour we took in Mumbai. I thoroughly enjoyed the walk....I would highly recommend your tours to others."
Joan Sourapas, U.S.A. (18th March 2010)
"I wanted to use this opportunity to compliment you on the organisation of these walks, your guides were very well informed and excellent public speakers!"
Dr. Alicia Schrikker, U.K. (9th February 2010)
We enjoyed the heritage walk very much and would like to thank you and especially our guide for this very interesting insight into Mumbai! the city seemed to chaotic, the buildings and streets without any splendour - this walk definitely changed my mind.... Without this tour I wouldn't have recognized all the different architectonic styles or beautiful buildings and areas."
Isabel Specker, Switzerland (2nd January 2010)
Taking a Bombay Heritage Walk through the historic district was a wonderful introduction and a terrific starting point for my own further exploration of Mumbai's fascinating Gothic and Art Deco cityscape. My guide was extremely knowledgeable and very friendly, giving me the key information I needed to gain an appreciation of what I was seeing in an easy to understand manner, bringing much of the colour and excitement of Mumbai's past into the present with her anecdotes and insights. More than just a historical walking tour, my Bombay Heritage walk was an enlightening experience and one of the major highlights of my time spent in fascinating Bombay.
Richard Lambert, New Zealand 5th August 2009
We've both done a number of walking tours, both in India and elsewhere, and would say that the BHW Combo tour was the best walking tour that we have done ever. My husband and I are both history, heritage and architecture buffs and our tour (and tour guide) fulfilled all our expectations and more!
Dr. Nayantara Pothen, Sydney, Australia Research Officer, College of Arts University of Western Sydney Nov 2008
This is a just a short note to convey our deep appreciation of the wonderful tour guides we had. We had a great time and learnt a lot. They (BHW Presenters) were both very well informed women and we really appreciated their excellent preparation."
Prof. Manju Parikh, Ph.D. College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, MN, USA June 2008
"Our experience with Bombay Heritage Walks was overwhelmingly positive. Our guide was superb. He had a real knowledge of the history and the architecture, and he was passionate and patient in explaining it to us."
David Morawetz, Australia, 9th June 2006
"My private heritage walk was one of the highlights of my trip to Mumbai. The route was extremely interesting and the level of information was just right for me as we had identified at the outset where my interests lay. Your presenter is very personable, enthusiastic and knowledgeable…. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience."
Vicky Robinson, U.K. 15th May 2006
"Thank you for the wonderful experience i had on my heritage walk. I was able to see things that ordinarily you would not get access to see....I certainly learnt a lot more than my guidebook told me....I have been impressed by your service from start to finish..."
Ms. Melanie Waring, U.K. 18th April 2006
“Thank you for organizing the tour for me yesterday. (Your presenter) did a fabulous job and I thoroughly enjoyed the walk and the history/architecture lesson! I will definitely recommend your organization to any friends that travel to Mumbai in the future.”
Anna Zichterman, U.S.A. (12th June 2006)
FEEDBACK FROM MEMBERS OF THE EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY IN MUMBAI
We really had a great time. We are expats living in Mumbai and did already some sightseeing in Mumbai and India. But the heritage walks gave us a lot of new insights we were not aware of. In our daily hectic life with working and travelling through Mumbai the heritage walk helped us to change our perspective in different direction...
Annette Gross, German expat, Mumbai (24 Feb 2013)
Fantastic walk yesterday thanks. Brilliant guide and a very interesting route JAMIE STEVENSON
British expat, New Delhi (9 Dec 2012)
“The presenter was simply excellent - kudos to your company for finding such capable individuals. I will recommend the tour to all my friends.”
Georgios Drossinos, Greek expat, Mumbai (6th April 2010)
“It was overall an excellent walk! I highly recommend it to anyone visiting Bombay for the first time.”
Jandyr Santos, Embassy of Brazil in New Delhi (1st February 2010)
“We were very happy that we took this walk. Enjoyed it a lot. Our guide, was very knowledgable about the history, development and architecture of Mumbai and managed to bring this across to us in the most effective & pleasant of ways. It was a joy to explore the old Mumbai with him....our compliments for the tour, for the guide, the accompanying material he had with him and his presentation skills.”
Martijn Maas & Tanja Verhoeven, Expats from the Netherlands, Mumbai (25th August 2009)
“It was a pleasurable experience, very exciting, very well presented in a responsive way. Definitely I will do the same tour again with other guests from abroad.”
Rosemarie Knecht, German expat, Mumbai (9th November 2009)
FEEDBACK FROM LOCAL MUMBAITES
It was a wonderful and memorable walk.... We enjoyed it so much, that we did not want it to end..(the keepsake memento) was very well prepared. Lots of information…(the presenter) did answer a lot of questions. And we were perfectly satisfied. Special thanks to him.
Neha Doshi (Mumbai 19 May 2012)
(The presenter) was well informed and had a lot of passion. It was a pleasure spending the morning with him...this is really a great service being done to Mumbai. Keep it up!!
Rohan Parikh, Mumbai (July 2012)
“I want to let you know that the walk was very nice. While some of it may have been information I already had as a "Bombay boy", I can't but acknowledge that I got newer perspectives about the city and life around me.”
Somasekhar Sundaresan, Mumbai (3rd January 2010 )
This was an amazing experience we had. My guests from UK are very pleased and I am very much impressed with the identification of importance of the Indian Heritage and the enthusiasm seen in young people. (Our guide) was excellent and not even for a moment we felt out of sync.
K.S.Bansal, Mumbai (27th April 2009)
“The Heritage Walk was a wonderful experience! All of us have learned a lot about all the buildings we routinely pass by. It was also interesting to learn about the various architectural styles. The beautiful buildings were brought alive. The introductory talk about Bombay was also very interesting.”
Urvashi Rustomfram, Mumbai (April 2008)
FEEDBACK FROM TOURING STUDENT GROUPS
“I would like to begin by first saying how much we enjoyed the walk...We began with some historical information....which provided an excellent context for the rest of the tour. The tour was taken at our own pace, and we were given the time to look around particular points of interest in greater detail ...Structurally, the tour was excellent, and our guide was very friendly and answered a lot of our questions, I will definitely be recommending the tours to anyone planning on visiting Mumbai!”
Isobel Burton, Student traveller, UK (July 2012)
“We thoroughly enjoyed our walk. Our guide was outstanding. He was knowledgeable, had a great sense of humour, was able to answer all of our questions as well as hold the attention of 8 American teenage girls, not an easy task!”
Pankti Sevak on behalf of The Brearley School Travel Study Program to India New York City, USA (8th July 2009)