Today was my last day in Delhi, India. My flight back to the UK was at 3.50am the next day, which meant I could either pay for another night and leave for the airport at 1am, or I could check-out of my room but stay in the B&B until about 8pm. The B&B owner offered me a late room check-out, at about 10pm, at the price of 25% of the daily rate. To simplify my life, I agreed.
I also asked him to help me arrange a taxi to the airport, which he said would cost Rs600, which was rather expensive to me. He justified it by saying its Rs300 each way and you got to pay for the return as well. Rather than choose his service, I googled for metered taxi in Delhi and found companies where you could pre-book it and they charge by the meter. I decided to go for this one instead.
I arrived at the airport at 11pm and was not allowed entry into the airport terminal. Apparently, one could only enter the terminal within 3 hours of one's flight. I had to go into the Visitor's Lounge instead, which was located opposite the terminal. Again, very disappointed with the visitor's lounge. It strongly smelled of ammonia (urine odour). Imagine, this is an international airport. The lounge had a Costa Coffee branch which charged UK prices for their drinks. And they sure didn't know how to make a Hot Chocolate as mine had too much chocolate in it.
In the airport terminal, I forgot to change my remaining Indian Rupees back into UK pounds before I had cross immigration, thus am left with 20 pounds worth of Indian Rupees. Will try and see if I can change it with some of my Indian colleagues here.
All in all, my trip to India has been very tiring and exhausting for me, due to the constant travelling, the endless hassles from touts/drivers and the smog-polluted environment. It was an experience for me, but I don't think I will be coming back to India anytime soon. And if I do, I will be visiting South India instead.
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