Tickets, Hotel and all that!

We booked our tickets after doing research on all the options available. We used the Jet Airways online booking facility to book the tickets. I used my Jet privilege number and ended up getting a good deal on the web fares. The Bangalore - Delhi - Leh tickets cost us Rs 20K per head. This was the best fare I could manage across all airlines. The Delhi-Leh ticket alone costs Rs 15K for a return flight. Our next best option was costing Rs 22K per person where we had to fly a low cost airline upto Delhi. We actually flew Jet Airways all the way!

We booked ourselves in Hotel Spic N Span in Leh. I did the booking over phone from Bangalore and the fellow on the other side was quite friendly. He booked us for our entire duration of 8 days and agrreed to check us out for a day in the middle whenever we wanted to go on a trip and spend the night else where. He also agreed to arrange for taxis and permits that we might need to go to some of the places near the border. Sounded good. The hotel was a bit expensive by leh standards. Around Rs 2.5K per night. However, he agreed to give us the room on the top floor, which apparently had good views of the snow-clad peaks from the window.