Bratati Saha

My wife and I booked Bratati for two days at the end of January 2019, based on the great reviews she’s got on TourHQ, and we are so pleased that we did. We exchanged several emails before our trip, with Bratati asking what we wanted to do and see, and checking what transport we would like, that sort of thing. I explained that we had two objectives for our visit to Kolkata/Calcutta. First was to visit places associated with my family’s ancestors and second to experience a little of what Calcuttan life is like in the present day. Bratati then went way beyond anything we might have expected and contacted the school where my great grandfather had been Principal in the 1890’s and arranged for us to visit and meet the current Principal and other staff (on a Saturday!) and made many other enquires on our behalf. The two days we spent with Bratati were terrific fun. She understood exactly what we were trying to achieve and went far out of her way to help us achieve our aims. Amongst other things, we hustled around from the school to St John’s Cathedral where she spoke to the archivist and got us to see the marriage and baptism records of some ancient relatives, to Howrah flower market on a bus, a rickshaw ride to lunch with a Bengali family, a tram ride through north Kolkata, showed us how to use the metro, got us into the Victoria Memorial on a busy Sunday skirting the long queues, took us into markets and the Jain Temple. She gave us restaurant recommendations in and around Park Street and got us to the Park Street Cemetary and made enquires about other cemeteries and the site of a great uncle’s accounting firm. As I said, Bratati went way beyond the “call of duty”, plus she did it with a smile, composure, patience and in excellent English! We cannot rate, and recommend, Bratati too highly!