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Poolparty posted:Become a Bollywood superstar. If you start practicing the dance moves now you should be ready for your trip to stardom in December. You actually can get onto a film in Mumbai as an extra fairly easily if you're a presentable Westerner. I did it last year. They paid me 1000 rupees (about $16) with access to a buffet for a looooong day. OP, you did well to choose Mumbai over Chennai. Bandra is a fun area to stay, north of the center.
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Blinkman987 posted:Fun fact-- if you apply for your eVisa on the earliest day possible, that'll set your last possible date of entry to the day after you're scheduled to arrive. Sure hope your airline isn't experiencing labor strikes! Welcomings to India! Indian bureaucracy is a mess of a clusterfuck of a shambolic gathering of fuckfacery. I thought Indians were remarkably friendly, with the exception of Indian bureaucrats. They could make Gandhi believe in killing.
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Blinkman987 posted:The reason I'm in Mumbai is that it works with my itinerary on getting to Cambodia. Neither Goa nor Chennai offered flights that hit the right time/cost combo. I also found a reasonable number of activities in Mumbai. I won't really mind the nuisance. I've lived in enough cities to have at least an idea of what to expect. Goa will probably be the next city I visit in India. Is the city super touristy? That's the vibe I got from it. Mumbai is cool - my favorite place in India. Goa isn't a city, but a small state. It was Portuguese until recently, and a lot more liberal than the rest of India. It's touristy, yes. They have booze and beef and beaches there. TheImmigrant fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Nov 30, 2015 |
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Blinkman987 posted:Has anybody used Uber there? I plan on buying a sim-- I've read that it's a bit of a pain to set up-- and running that for my visit. Yeah, I used Uber all the time last year in Hyderabad. Most annoying part is that drivers usually call you for directions (addresses are inexact in India), and Hinglish takes getting used to. And yes, SIM cards are a huge pain in the rear end to get. You'll need local help for that.
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tekz posted:I would recommend getting a registered cab from the airport. The prices are fixed and there's less of a chance of getting robbed/ripped off by the driver because their names, addresses and the date and time they picked you up are on file. Auto rickshaws are banned from Old Mumbai though. They are great for Bandra and Juhu - they actually use the meters there. In Hyderabad, I could never get them to turn it on.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I feel like my india experience was largely getting swindled for amounts of money that was literally a few cents in a way that made me angry but was almost no actual financial loss. In my memory, my India experience can be reduced to being searched by redundant security guards at the entrances to banks, my office, shopping malls, grocery stores, government offices, airports, again at airports, train stations, and my apartment complex. And getting malaria.
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