...to visit India - if you really want to save money.

Foreigners are fleeing the country in unprecedented numbers. There was a line at the hotel last night of at least 30 people checking out early. Almost like a riot at the check-in desk. The hotel is a ghost town (90% empty) and the local merchants are in serious trouble for lack of business. The airlines are reporting up to 80% cancellation rates for flights into India, and this is the tourist season. The government keeps finding unexploded bombs and weapons caches all over the place, and they also keep finding boats coming into Indian waters with angry young men and weapons on them. They are setting up anti-aircraft guns and military checkpoints everywhere around Mumbai and Delhi, and I expect that it will be a royal pain to get through airport security next week. Everyone here is concerned that “26/11” will be the start of “India’s 9/11”. I had to go through three checkpoints to go to work and five checkpoints to get back into the hotel today - and they were setting up additional checkpoints this evening. The threat of war with Pakistan and the fear of additional attacks on locals and foreigners is palpable. Zombie Lady isn’t helping matters much with her presence and rhetoric- if anything it is making things worse.

So if you want a luxury hotel experience really cheap, and some seriously cheap saris - and you don’t mind tanks and soldiers pointing AK-47s at you every 50 feet or so - this is the time to come to India. It really is a cool place.

Bargain Basement!!!! Check it out before it gets nuked. You only live once, after all...