Conference Plus Leisure (Bleisure) Extension, Golden Triangle

Experience My India runs 2 to 4 day leisure extensions that begin the moment your Delhi NCR conference ends, from Rs 20,000 per person (4 star, twin sharing) for a 2 day Taj Mahal weekend up to a 4 day Delhi, Agra and Jaipur loop. Built for delegates whose flight is already paid for: we collect you at your conference hotel, split the billing cleanly between corporate and personal invoices, and get you back in time for Monday. You are not unusual for wanting this. A GHA DISCOVERY report found 81 percent of Indian travellers extend business trips for leisure, against a 76 percent global average, and the Thomas Cook-SOTC India Business Travel Report says 68 percent of Indian corporates now formally permit trip extensions. India's Ministry of Tourism actively promotes exactly this pattern among MICE travellers. The awkward part was never the wanting — it was the logistics and the billing. That is the part we run for you.

Track A: 2 day Taj Mahal weekend (conference ends Thursday or Friday) Day 1. We collect you and your luggage at the conference venue. Either the Gatimaan Express from Hazrat Nizamuddin (about 1 hour 40 minutes) or a private sedan down the Yamuna Expressway (3 to 4 hours depending on Delhi traffic). Afternoon at Agra Fort (entry Rs 650 foreign nationals, Rs 45 Indians), then sunset at Mehtab Bagh, the garden across the Yamuna with the head-on Taj view photographers use. Overnight Agra, 4 or 5 star per your tier. Day 2. Taj Mahal at sunrise (entry Rs 1,100 foreign nationals, Rs 50 Indians, plus Rs 200 for the main mausoleum). Breakfast back at the hotel, then a stop at Sheroes Hangout, the cafe run by acid-attack survivors under the Chhanv Foundation — pay what you want, profits fund surgeries and legal aid. Return to Delhi by evening train or car, airport drop included. Honest note for day 1: if your conference overruns, the itinerary flexes. Agra Fort moves to day 2 after the Taj and you lose Mehtab Bagh, not the Taj itself. Track B: 3 day Agra plus Jaipur (the standard bleisure weekend plus one leave day) Day 1. As Track A day 1: venue pickup, Agra, Fort, Mehtab Bagh sunset. Day 2. Taj at sunrise, then drive to Jaipur (about 240 km) via Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's abandoned sandstone capital (entry Rs 610 foreign nationals, Rs 50 Indians), or via the Chand Baori stepwell at Abhaneri if you prefer fewer crowds. Evening arrival Jaipur. Day 3. Amber Fort in the morning (entry Rs 550 foreign nationals, Rs 100 Indians). We book the jeep ascent, not the elephant ride, on animal welfare grounds. City Palace, a Hawa Mahal photo stop, an hour in the Johari Bazaar if you want it. Evening Vande Bharat back to Delhi or a Jaipur airport drop for your onward flight. Track C: 4 day full loop with a spouse or family join-on Everything in Track B, paced over four days, with one addition that changes the trip: your spouse, partner or family fly into Delhi or Jaipur and join you the moment work ends. Day 3 adds an overnight option at Samode, a heritage village 42 km from Jaipur and directly on-route, and day 4 is an unhurried Jaipur morning before the return. The honesty that matters here: most corporate travel policies book single rooms and cover the employee only. Your companion's flights, their share of the room upgrade to double, and all their costs sit on the personal invoice. We price this transparently before you commit.

Every bleisure article tells you the friction is approvals and expense reports. They are right, and here is how we remove it. You get two invoices, cleanly separated: Corporate invoice (company GST number): Conference-leg hotel, venue, transfers — Yes, if we ran your offsite. Extension hotels, car, guide, tickets — No. Companion or family costs — Never. GST input credit — Claimable on the business portion only. Personal invoice (you): Conference-leg hotel, venue, transfers — No. Extension hotels, car, guide, tickets — Yes. Companion or family costs — Yes. GST input credit — Not claimable. Hand your travel desk the corporate invoice and keep the personal one for yourself. Delegates who submit a clean business-versus-leisure split get approvals fast; delegates who submit one blended bill wait weeks. Typical corporate pre-approval runs 5 to 10 working days, so ask before you book, not after.