Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 14: Raj Singh, the founder and CEO of Antara Luxury River Cruises, which operates the Ganga Vilas, declared that the 51-day trip from Varanasi to Dibrugarh is fully booked up to march 2024. Fresh bookings will be only available after April 2024.
The longest river cruise will cost between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 per day. The total cost of the journey will be approximate Rs 20 lakhs per passenger, he added. Singh further said that The 62-meter-long vessel is entirely built in India and cost Rs 68 crore.
“We manufactured it at half the cost of what it would have cost abroad,” he added.
The Ganga Vilas cruise comprises of three decks, 18 suites, a capacity of 36 guests, and all necessary facilities.
Throughout the trip to Dibrugarh, only vegetarian Indian cuisine and non-alcoholic beverages will be served to the passengers. Also, guests will be served only local meals and seasonal vegetables, and there will be no non-vegetarian food or alcohol on board.
In 51 days, the trip will travel 3,200 kilometres along with 27 river systems in five Indian and Bangladeshi states. PM Modi announced that the MV Ganga Vilas river tour is a live example of the country’s development of interior waterways.
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The luxury cruise will stop in 50 tourist destinations, including world heritage sites, national parks, river ghats, and important towns such as Patna in Bihar, Sahibganj in Jharkhand, Kolkata in West Bengal, Dhaka in Bangladesh, and Guwahati in Assam.
