Pune - India

[JaiLai]

Anyone been here recently?

 

I have a family member living there who would like me to visit, would it be ok for 4-5 days?

 

What's the visa requirements like with a Brittish passort?

 

Any info welcome.

 

Thanks.

[VocalNeal]

Don't forget to visit the Osho Ashram?

[KittenKong]

https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_India

 

The relatively high cost of the e-visa puts me off visiting India and makes me more inclined to go to other places. I think that visa charges for tourists are very counter-productive, unless of course the intention is to restrict tourism.

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, KittenKong said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_India

 

Just learned what an extreme policy they have.

Cashing in on (e-)visa from most of the world.

Freedom of movement for Nepal and Bhutan only

Really not inviting.

 

[henry2109]

4 - 5 days for Pune? No, there is really not much to see. Give it 1 day. If you are interested in a special experiance, visit Osho Ashram for a few days. Otherwiese, I suggest you fly over Mumbai and spend 3 days there.

[Mahseer]

On 10/4/2017 at 7:44 AM, KittenKong said:

 

The relatively high cost of the e-visa puts me off visiting India and makes me more inclined to go to other places.

It's not only e visas that are expensive. I just picked up a 3 month double entry visa for 6,800baht. 

[JaiLai]

What would a single entry tourist visa cost?

 

Thanks.

[Mahseer]

1 hour ago, JaiLai said:

What would a single entry tourist visa cost?

 

Thanks.

Depends on nationality. Brits 6,700 for single/double good for 6 month stay, Thais pay 1,700 for same. 

[Mahseer]

e visa are $25-75 and good for double entry and 60 days total but not accepted at Wagah land border.

[asanee]

Cost of visa very often simply reflects what YOUR country charges citizens of the receiving country, thats ''tit for tat''. You as Brits are still spared many of the burocratic hooples British also enforce on Indian visitors.

But after this: yes, in tourist bisnis its often said that their tourist office spends millions to get people to visit, and then this being nicely offput by their 19th century visa restrictions, of course being drawn by their ''be fearful of every visitor, esp. if they are Paki or former coloniser''. The process was modernised into e-processing just a year or so ago.

 

[norfolkandchance]

9 hours ago, asanee said:

Cost of visa very often simply reflects what YOUR country charges citizens of the receiving country, thats ''tit for tat''. You as Brits are still spared many of the burocratic hooples British also enforce on Indian visitors.

But after this: yes, in tourist bisnis its often said that their tourist office spends millions to get people to visit, and then this being nicely offput by their 19th century visa restrictions, of course being drawn by their ''be fearful of every visitor, esp. if they are Paki or former coloniser''. The process was modernised into e-processing just a year or so ago.

 

The PC brigade will be after you

[mogandave]

I can’t speak to Pune, but I visit India regularly, food is good, everything else blows.

You’re visiting a family member, that should be enough to doo fo a few days.

Fly into Mumbai and book a car?


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[JaiLai]

25 minutes ago, bahtboy said:

everything else blows.    What on earth does this mean?

I would assume it means - everything else is shit, no?

[mogandave]

I would assume it means - everything else is shit, no?

Exactly