A place surrounded by the beautiful Himalayas, a must visit in the itinerary of Kashmir. Needs a lot of development. There are no government buses or tourist packages locally available. The sledge pullers simply fleece you if you are not careful. A few hundred steps climb in the snow and sliding down is a thrilling experience but you need to bargain hard!

Sonmarg is an amazing place. Must go. However, I was surprised to see that there was no support and service from state government. Everything was left on to the mercy of brokers and event managers. In case of emergency, there is no support. Government can spend a bit to manage the large number of tourists. Be careful of touts who operates Sledge. They are touts. Firstly they told be Rs 200 per trip. Then, after half way, they said they had quoted 200 per point. Moreover, there was no point even. All touts. They were cheating everyone. There was no government official around. Bargain hard with snow bikers also. There is no fixed rate. But, a beautiful place to go. Must go. Overall, Kashmir is Beautiful. Don’t miss!

Driver cum guide I had a nice tour from Srinagar to Ladakh with Mr Ashiq, He is nice driver with good behaviour, Soft spoken and good knowledge of the highly adventures roads of Leh Ladakh, Good control on wheels, Always help with full responsibility. U will never feel like u are travelling with stranger and the most important thing is there are a lot of cheating on some places but he guide us very well. So at last I wanna say and highly recommended, if someone wants to explore this place (Leh, Ladakh) I will definitely suggest this driver cum guide. Mr Ashiq and his contact no is +91 9797726520

Sonamarg is a great tourist destination in Kashmir. My daughter really enjoyed the sledge ride and other activities. But irony is that there is no control over the local service providers who offer services like sledge, bike etc. Local vendors charge anything for their services, which required hard bargaining and make tourist annoyed and discomfort. I must request Govt of J&K to kindly note it and bring some regulations to control local service providers. The economy of J&K is mostly depend on tourism and if someone goes with dissatisfaction, it ll multiply to manifolds and it ll bring bad name to the state.

Spent two days in Sonmarg. It was a very pricturesque journey from Srinagar. Stayed in Snowland resorts. The place was nice , the rooms were clean and the staff were polite. They packed breakfast for us at our request on Day 2 as we had an early start. On day 1 , we took a pony ride to the Thajiwas glacier and it was quite an experience. Had to do quite a bit of bargaining with them though! The ride takes half an hour to reach the glacier and it was pretty crowded as it is peak tourist time this time of the year. On day 2 , we started by 6:30 am to zero point and it was the best decision we made. We beat the morning traffic and so we enjoyed our trip to and fro . We had booked our ride with Mr Ashiq (9797726520) . He is an excellent driver cum guide and made our trip memorable. Though the road to the zero point was very steep and scary, he reassured us and showed us all the important landmarks on the way. He had a good knowledge about the place and was more than willing to share it with us . He also helped us in renting winter gear and snow bikes at zero point. He and his brother Mr Shakeel apparently do package tours of Kashmir. Pity that we were not aware of it till we reached Sonamarg and read reviews about him when I was researching about the place. Would strongly recommend him to anyone planning a trip to this place.

Sonamarg totally lived up to its hype as India's own Switzerland. The lush green landscape is beautifully framed with mountains and rivers leading up into the stunning Thajiwas Glacier. It is also surprisingly not as crowded as I had expected it to be, so the experience really exceeded my expectations!

So my friends and I were on a road from leh and on our way from kargil to Srinagar we decided to do a pit stop at the supposedly beautiful Sonamarg for lunch. Now the downtown isn’t anything spectacular but more on that later. We finished a quick lunch and decided to embark on our journey onward to Srinagar. But to our dismay we were stopped by the local cops around 430 PM and weren’t allowed to leave Sonamrg. Apparently there is some rule for all tourists that post 3 PM they cannot leave Sonamrg citing safety as the reason. So any Yatris or tourists are almost compelled to stay in sonamarg without prior knowledge. After pleading to these cops who were frankly quite rude to the boys of our group, we had to spend the night in Sonamarg. Also very mediocre hotels were capatilizing on this situation and they doubled and tripled their hotel room rate. So after this not so pleasant experience Sonamarg is off my list. It’s a mediocre town and locals arnt too friendly.

This is a beautiful landscape with greenery on one end and river water on the other. Pretty good for a day trip on the way to Leh. Worth stopping by. But after my trip I found men showing usual interest almost like woeing. Connecting in insta and dropping whatsapp text. I checked with other 2 friends of mine how experienced the same. Getting a text like "Hello Dear" and miss you we all received. These are both married men and single men. So beware!! Otherwise place is safe to travel but need to be cautious.

We visited Srinagar and Leh. Mr.Shakeel engaged us with his queen Inova car(literally treated as a queen). I must say he is the best person who can take at most care when traveling with kids. A cool guy felt like a brother, who can explain the places, people, culture the localities n an on time person. He arranged everything right from pickup, room bookings, food, places to visit, shopping local items etc..it was a soothing experience on the go.He took us to his home, met their cute little family, he gave fresh apples apricots and pear from his home garden. This is what we expected to explore the kashmiri people their villages etc.. And wherever we go he ensured about our health and kids especially. He insisted to take water to keep us hydrated and made sure we have oxygen cylinder when in high altitude regions. I strongly recommend Mr.Shakeel for anyone planning to go with kids or senior persons Contact no. 9622709560

Shakil is an awesome driver and tour guide. We had a perfect vacation owing to his guidance and knowledge. He is extremely patient and also helps out if you are being harassed by touts trying to fleece you. Do reach out to him at ±919622709560 or +919797726520