India Luxury Vacation Review, Jaipur & Udaipur, Monkey Temple, Jantar Mantar, Lakes, Palaces, Markets & Cuisine

Thank you and everyone at this travel company for our tour of Jaipur and Udaipur.  You have renewed my faith in travel in India.  
The hotels were fabulous!  
The hotel in Jaipur was so relaxing and had everything we needed.  What stunning sunrise and sunset views and architecture!  I healed all my bug bites from staying with family!  The food was a nice variety of Indian dishes and European fare.  We loved the free puppet show each evening.  Our tour guide, was flexible, informed and moved at our pace.  We so enjoyed his walking us through the markets and guiding us as we tasted local street food.  Our driver was great - always on time, smooth and knowledgeable.  Jaipur was beautiful and so clean compared to other cities.  Amber Palace was lovely.  We enjoyed the temple with all the monkeys and the rooftop restaurant in Jaipur.  Our day at the city palace and Jantar Mantir was fascinating.  Our guide helped us find a couple items we were looking for.  The sales techniques are offensive but we are happy with our purchases.  
In Udaipur we stayed in a modern palace.  The hotel is pretty far from the city and everything else but stunningly beautiful.  I would not put people in this hotel who are over 60 as the stairs are daunting.  The views are amazing and there are hiking trails around the area.  The rooms are palatial.  We found the food to be less than at its best (a bit stale and fruit and yoghurt past their prime).  Dining outside with spectacular views helped.  We missed the temple on our first day due to flight delay but our guide, created an addition of two local temples which were quite fascinating.  The boat ride was gorgeous, the city palace, local Vishnu temple and evening cultural performance were lovely.  We had asked to not be taken to any sales sites unless requested and we were taken to an Art School which was somewhat interesting but we would rather not have gone.  The lakeside restaurant was great with wonderful food.  Again our highlight was walking through the local markets and neighborhoods. Our driver was great.  I felt he always had an eye out for our welfare.
These two cities were much more comfortable to our family from the Pacific NW.  We needed lessons on how to use the TVs in the hotels.  The large touring buses kept us up above the traffic with easy access for photos.  There was lots of room for each of us, our stuff and the guides.
We faced another flight delay leaving Udaipur but that's not your fault.  
All in all, Zicasso again has made this trip spectacular.  We feel supported and yet free.  Thank you!
All of the people at this travel company were great communicators and great resources.
We'll be back!
Thank you all!
Mary and C. S.