Mustseeindia.com is primarily a travel and tour planning website with comprehensive information related to most destinations across India. This is not to be confused with other travel sites which are basically aggregators or ticketing websites. The travel domain in India is extremely crowded at present and all players seem to be doing the same thing, provide travel ticketing through their portal. The founders of mustseeindia.com stress the fact that there are hardly any sites [ with wider India coverage ] that can take the place of travel, trips and tour planning. They differentiate that the pain point solved here is the users difficulty in doing online search via various means for planning vacations and getaways.
Coming to the site itself, the core service has three flavors:
(1) Search from 250+ tourist destinations across the country
(2) Plan one’s trip from start to finish using a single website source, no hassle to jump at different sites
(3) Share trip pictures and reviews
The site has a neat and pleasant layout with nice navigational touch. The menu presents three ways to jump into navigating the destinations namely:
(1) Weekend getaways: These cover the locations for 1-2 day trips in and around major cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad
(2) Theme travel : Locations divided based upon themes like hill stations, romantic, beaches, adventure and historical
(3) Destinations : Apart from these, the third option lists all possible travel locations across the board.
For every destination or location, the possible places of visit are listed in the Info section, maybe like historical, adventure trips, religious etc. Along with it the attractions, with detailed information are listed. For many places the timings and admission rates are also listed. Additionally, map and pictures are also presented in a neat fashion. Finally user submitted information and photos are tied up to select places. The site registration is free, one can have a login account, especially to share photos and reviews from travelled places. The social aspect comes to fore through the commenting and photo upload features.
I found that the site was quite comprehensive in collecting and presenting the information related to locations and explanation, background etc. It was also and informative and helpful. Travel enthusiasts would find this site a great companion and helper. It has a balanced mix of Web 2.0 features and does not go overboard. And with crowdsourcing the site should develop as an exciting alternative to other social-networking cum aggregation sites.
Do take a look at mustseeindia.com
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