Lovely experience! Super friendly host and they made us have amazing food along with the tour. We... read more
Lovely experience! Super friendly host and they made us have amazing food along with the tour. We... read more
Last year, we had visited this historical and religious city of Amritsar. The new developed... read more
The hostel is very well located, in a more quiet area, there is a park and supermarket at 3 mins walking distance as well as tasty food stands and restaurants selling local food. The cultural and historic centre (e.g. Golden Temple) is close by in TucTuc. The tours offered by City on Pedals are simply the best!! 100% recomendable place.
We stayed four nights at the hostel City on Pedals and had a wonderful time in Amritsar. We stayed in the air-conditioned room which is beautifully decorated and with lovely details, such as personal sockets, a fan and light. To insure privacy every bed has its own curtains, making the atmosphere cosy and welcoming. The mattress is very comfortable (and not as hard as beds usually are in India). The bathrooms are shared, there is hot water and they are cleaned a few times a day. In the spacious common kitchen (there are two) we found also drinking water (which was very handy as we didn't have to go out to buy water) and a good indian lunch was also cooked for everyone. Especially for those people who have sensitive stomachs, this is a nice detail.
Rishabh (the owner) is a very kind and calm person, and we had the feeling that his priority is to make people feel at home and happy in his hostel. He adapted all the tours we booked with him to our needs and went out of his way to do so. The tours by the City on Pedals team were excellent, the guide Rabia, explained cultural, historical and religious facts with great expertise (and fun! :) ). We absolutely loved the Village Tour and the Wagah Border Tour, as we were interested in the culture and history of the place. We also took the Heritage Walking Tour. The guide Rabia took us to places we would never have found on our own and gave us a colourful insight into the chaotic afternoon street life. A must see is also the Golden Temple of the Sikh (this tour was also really good!).
It was the best decision to go to Amritsar and we are really grateful to the City on Pedals team to have given us such a deep insight into the historic, cultural and religious context of this region in India.
J, I cannot be more thankful for this amazing review you have shared with the world about our team and the hostel. It is heartening to see such support for our new venture and I hope we have been able to give you a memorable experience.
Thank you so much for staying with us and taking nearly all our tours. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
Have a great India journey :)
We got up early to hit the streets of Amritsar before sunrise. Rabia was a fantastic tour guide, looking out for us on the road, and providing fantastic historical and anecdotal insight into the city. We weaved through the old town and stopped off at some delicious food stalls for breakfast, ones we never would have come across on our own. A must-do when in the city.
E & R, I am so happy to have had you take our tours and stay with us. The feedback that I got from R related to marketing and reaching out to world travelers with our backpackers hostel has been extremely valuable.
I hope we will get a chance to see you again in our city.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
I can not speak highly enough of Rishab and his staff (we had Rabia and Aman who were outstanding) for assisting our stay in Amritsar. We were part of a small group of travellers and I had communicated to Rishab via email previous to our arrival in Amritsar and he went out of his way to make sure all our questions and needs were understood and met. Our tour to the Golden Temple as well as assistance for other sightseeing in Amritsar was executed with great professionalism, from the information delivered at the Temple, to chaperoning people shopping and negotiating transport for us to and from our hotel. I honestly can not recommend City on Pedals enough and I am so grateful to Rabia for her incredible hospitality and knowledge and also to Aman for his passionate knowledge and service to the group.
L, This has been by far the biggest group we have ever had on our tours and I am so grateful to you for giving us the opportunity to show you around our beautiful city. Rabia has been talking about the time spent with you and your group every day since the tours.
I hope you have a great journey ahead and may be we will see you again soon in our city :)
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
Fantastic tour, well planned and carried out, fantastic guides, safety all the way, excellent bikes and equipment, excellent experience, you will go to places and see things you would never see as an everyday tourist , amazing old architectural buildings and places of interest in old city, nice breakfast stop and the best lassi in Amritsar, highly recommend this tour and the company very innovative and forward thinking operators,can not fault in anyway
J & J, it was a pleasure to show you around and to talk to you about your experiences after the tours. I am so glad to have gotten you with us and I hope this will make your Amritsar journey memorable.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
The guides and other staff were excellent, and went out of their way to cater for my needs as a professional travel and portrait photographer. I cannot recommend them enough. I loved all of the people I met on this very special tour.
B, I am so happy to have had you on our tours and to have been of help in getting you some good pictures.
I hope we will see you again in our city and have you stay with us at our upcoming backpackers hostel.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.
The city on pedals team is professional and very courteous. The guide Rabia was enthusiastic and engaging. I would definitely recommend this to both first timers as well as those who have visited Amritsar before. Little details like the hygiene covers for the hair along with the helmets, the option of a pollution mask are well thought of.
I would however have only couple of suggestions for the team :
1. The price can be re-worked from a 1,500 to around a 1,000
2. The map which was handed over at the end of the tour (which is btw a great idea) can be given earlier or the guide can use that as a reference point while on the ride so that the tourist has an idea of where we are meandering as we cycle
3. There can be information about the history of the town, Sikhism included as a part of the information imparted.
Look forward to exploring the food tour you'll offer the next time we are in Amritsar! :)
M, I am glad to have had you with us on our heritage tour. But mostly, I really appreciate your feedback and I have already jotted down the points to ensure we improve on these points. I hope we will see you again in our city and stay at our upcoming backpackers hostel.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you.