Himalaya & North India desk
Handles Ladakh, Spiti, Kashmir and Uttarakhand. Knows which passes open in which week, which permits take three days, and when a nine-year-old will struggle with altitude.
About us
A travel desk that picks a side
Anyone can show you four hundred hotels. Choosing the eleven places worth going to this month is the harder, more useful job — so that is the one we do.
Why we built this
TravelAidNow started as an international travel service, largely for travellers heading to and from Europe and Latin America. Indian travellers kept arriving on that site and asking a different set of questions. Not "which hotel in Lisbon" but "is Ladakh open in March", "do I need a visa for Vietnam", "is Bali worth it in the monsoon", "where can I take my parents that is not exhausting".
Those are questions about timing and judgement, not inventory. A search box answers none of them. It shows you Kashmir in January at a tempting price and quietly does not mention that half the valley is shut.
So we built a separate site for India, in Hindi and English, with the search box deliberately removed. What is left is a list of places that are genuinely good to travel to in the next few months, the dates we can actually service, and a phone number that a person picks up.
The rule we hold ourselves to
If a destination is not at its best in the next ninety days, it does not go on the site — however profitable that booking might be. Goa disappears in July. Ladakh disappears in December. Kerala appears when the monsoon breaks. The list shrinks and grows through the year, and that is the point.
14
Destinations in India
14
International destinations
91
Open departure dates
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Desk hours, seven days
The desk
Who you actually speak to
Not a call centre script. The desk is small, and everyone on it has travelled the routes they sell.
South & islands desk
Kerala, Andaman, Coorg, Hampi. Knows which backwater stretches are worth the money, which beaches have currents in which month, and which ferries get cancelled.
International desk
Japan, Vietnam, Bali, Thailand, Georgia, Dubai, Singapore, Sri Lanka. Files visas, tracks embassy processing times, and books the flights that connect sensibly out of Indian metros.
Trip coordination
Once you travel, one named person stays on WhatsApp for the whole journey, in your timezone, from departure until you are home.
Refundable hold
₹500 confirms your window and comes back in full if we cannot deliver the dates you picked.
A person on the call
Every booking is handled by a travel expert who has been to the region, not routed to a call centre script.
Season-checked inventory
Destinations are delisted when they go out of season. We would rather show you twenty good options than two hundred bad ones.
Quotes that do not move
Transfers, taxes and permits are inside the quote. The number you approve on the call is the number you pay.
Travellers
What people say after the call
Reviews collected after trip completion.
“I had booked Meghalaya in July with someone else two years ago and it rained the entire week. This time the site actually explained why October was the right month, and it was — waterfalls still full, roads fine, no landslides. The double decker trek was brutal and worth it.”
“We were nervous about the monsoon tail but the agent laid out the daily pattern honestly — clear mornings, wet afternoons — and planned the days around it. My mother is 71 and never once felt rushed. The Ayurveda centre was a real clinic, not a spa.”
“They talked me out of a six-day Spiti loop and into eight. Annoying at the time, correct in hindsight — we hit a road block near Nako and still made Kunzum without cutting anything. The driver had done the route dozens of times and it showed.”
“The ₹500 thing felt odd at first — I assumed it was a gimmick. Then the call came in about twenty minutes and the person actually knew Bali, not just a package sheet. Split three nights Ubud, three nights Uluwatu on their advice and it was exactly right.”
“Booked for the saffron bloom and they were upfront that it could not be guaranteed to the day. It bloomed two days into our trip. Even if it hadn't, the chinars alone were worth it. Houseboat for two nights, hotel for three — good call.”
“The only agent who explained the SDF properly instead of burying it. Total cost matched the quote to the rupee. Tiger's Nest was hard but the guide paced it well and we made it up in three and a half hours.”
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The list changes every month. This is what is worth booking today.
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