HAVE YOU ever imagined going out for Valentine’s Day on a cruise liner? And then spending a week on Lakshdaweep islands?
The big tour operators in the city had, in fact, started offering tailor-made tour packages for newly-married couples during the busy marriage season which coincides favourably with the Valentine’s Day on February 14.
About 40 young Lucknowites who tied the knot early this month in the city are availing themselves of the two-night-three days-and-four-nights-five-days cruise packages being offered by city’s tour operators to spend their Valentine’s Day on board a cruise liner on the high seas off Mumbai.
An interesting aspect of the dream of newly married couples also includes their curiosity to find out where their cabins were located in a liner as most tour operators have an entire layout of a liner shown on demand in their offices which makes it easy to pinpoint the exact area where the couples could get their cabins booked for the honeymoon.
In any conventional passenger liner, the cabins in the lower decks experience high vibrations which is not the case with cruise liners which are designed to make the ride much more smoother on the high seas. This is also the reason why tourists don’t mind staying in lower cabins.
The typical domestic cruise circuit for those couples not owning a passport is the Mumbai-Goa-Mumbai and Mumbai-Lakshadweep-Mumbai. And the most preferred accommodation for couples from the city on the cruise liner had been found to be the affordable window cabin which is the lowest on a liner being 10-ft above waters while providing an exotic view of the sea, says Vivek Pandey, Area Manager of Delhi Express Travel Ltd.
{{/usCountry}}The typical domestic cruise circuit for those couples not owning a passport is the Mumbai-Goa-Mumbai and Mumbai-Lakshadweep-Mumbai. And the most preferred accommodation for couples from the city on the cruise liner had been found to be the affordable window cabin which is the lowest on a liner being 10-ft above waters while providing an exotic view of the sea, says Vivek Pandey, Area Manager of Delhi Express Travel Ltd.
{{/usCountry}}Another 15 couples among newly-married couples from the city who are passport holders are already on honeymoon trips to south-east Asian tourist circuit comprising Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. These couples are not part of cruise packages in the south-east Asian circuit. The rich couples from the city still prefer to spend their honeymoon in Switzerland, he said.
“We tailor tour packages for couples or families as per their budget in the city.
There are many conducted tour packages, which do not suit every traveler in the city. The popular destinations among Lucknowites remain Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and also Mauritius,” S K Saxena, Manager, Travel Corporation of India (TCI), Lucknow adds.