The place was over crawded during Diwali and I came to know it is always like this in Diwali, Holy and Christmas.
We have been cheated by a local guide who booked a desert safari night at Khuri 45 KM from jaisalmer via Royal Holidays. He charged as Rs. 1500 per person with 10.2% taxes. The name of Guide was famous in the town and they all know him with name Mahendra whose phone number is 0-9414265287. At the place we found i.e. 3 couple with 3 kids below age of 2.5 years, we left alone. The guy over booked at the place. They were having C grade facility which even in this peak season they charge Rs. 700 at maximum. There was no water no attach bathroom only common toilet. In total they were having 8 cottages and booked about 18 couples. It was a worst ever travel experience I have ever had. I do not want to get more in to the details but would defiantly like to draw attention of visitors that we were introduced to this guide by RTDC hotel there. Its shame that Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation person gave us this person’s contact. We were having no choice but to request a tent which they made temporary and any how we spent a night and left the place at 5.0 am but there was no water at all and no person there was listening to us.
Over all it’s a historical place to visit during off peak season. If you don’t like seeing historical monuments then the place is not for you. The desert are SAM and KHURI. KHURI is worst and SAM is bit ok.
JUST TO UPATE : January 4 2006
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I had registered a written complaint to Rajasthan Arts and Culture Tourism department of Rajasthan in Jaipur on this. They followed up with Tourism Reception Centre of the Jaisalmer and recovered me a refund of Rs. 5000/-
Moral of the story
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There is Rajasthan Tourism Reception Centre in every place of Rajasthan which is established to help tourist