Delightful Elephanta Caves Excursion Mumbai (Guided Half Day Sightseeing Tour)
3.5
Delightful Elephanta Caves Excursion Mumbai (Guided Half Day Sightseeing Tour)
By Yo Tours
What is Travelers’ Choice?
Tripadvisor gives a Travelers’ Choice award to accommodations, attractions and restaurants that consistently earn great reviews from travelers and are ranked within the top 10% of properties on Tripadvisor.
About
Lowest price guaranteeReserve now & pay laterFree cancellation
Ages 0-99, max of 15 per group
Duration: 4h
Start time: Check availability
Mobile ticket
Live guide: English
More
- Ferry Ride to Elephanta Caves
- Light Snacks tasting
- Bottled water
- Storyteller to make this experience engaging who can speak English and Hindi
What's not included- Entry fee to any historical site like caves
- Gratuities
- Entry/Admission - Elephanta Caves
- Start:
- Gateway Of India Mumbai, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, IndiaMeet us at the Entrance Gate of Gateway of India, Mumbai
End:This activity ends back at the meeting point. - Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 73045P142- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not recommended for travelers with back problems
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
- If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 73045P142
From
$33.42
per adult (price varies by group size)
Select date and travelers
Similar experiences
Itinerary
- Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001, IndiaMeet us at the Entrance Gate of Gateway of India, Mumbai
- 11. We will hop on a ferry from the Gateway of India to Elephanta Island, where we will enjoy a one-hour voyage with scenic coastline views. 2. Visit seven significant excavations in the area, which feature massive Shiva sculptures, Hindu mythology, and Buddhist caves. 3. Visit the three caves: the great Hindu cave, the Buddhist cave, and the main Shiva cave. 4. Ride the toy train to the plateau and marvel at the complex and astonishingly detailed reliefs and carvings illustrating Shiva narratives. 5. You will also receive complementary snacks from the locals during the trip.
About the operator
Don’t take it from us – here’s what people have to say about this operator:
- scotrokiwi9880 contributionsMountains, waterfalls, monkeys, goats and camelsPuja and Sultan picked us up from our Mumbai hotel. We had a great drive to Lonavala, even though it rained a lot. Sultan is such a great driver, so patient and kind and very capable! Puja is my soul sister! We connected on every level, and this made the jouney even more fun! Sadly it was raining and the clouds were very low, so our views at Tiger Point were hampered but this did not spoil our trip. We saw numerous beautiful waterfalls. We saw cows, and got held up by a huge herd of goats on the way and lots of monkeys. Even a camel! We stopped for chikki and guavas and shopped for pottery and i used my bargaining skills .. even Puja was impressed. 😁. Puja and Sultan feel much more like good friends to us now and we will miss them when we go home. Thanks to Sumir for arranging this trip for us at short notice. We highly recommend you use Magical Mumbai Tours when you come to India, you will not be disappointed!Written September 26, 2024
- scotrokiwi9880 contributionsBackstreets and alleyways great shoppinggWe had a great half day exploring Mumbai's Hill Road street markets with our wonderful guide Puja and our amazing patient driver, Sultan. Puja knows the area like the back of her hand! She showex me how to bargain and i got some great deals. H iughlt recommend this experience!Written September 26, 2024
- dianahQ3428TZ0 contributionsGreat Tour!We had a great time on this tour! Our guide Tanvi was personable, helpful, and informative. This was a great first thing to do on our trip because it have us an idea of what we wanted to see more of later on.Written March 2, 2024
- Happiness034002969320 contributionsStreet Food CrawlingWe had an amazing experience with Tanvi and Ayush on street food crawling 😊 they really made our day special..we had pav bhaji, vada pav, aam panna, bhel, pani Puri n gadbad ice-cream..all items were 😋 our guides were really sober and while leaving they waited for us until our cab arrived..cab was around 40 mins late..thank you for the great service and the care 👍Written February 23, 2024
- 297chandran0 contributionsVAST LAKEIt is very vast DAM LAKE. But tge recreational activities are inadequate and there are no good eaties available at the lakeWritten August 20, 2023
- RichardFree0 contributionsA waste of timeI had booked this tour prior to arrival in India as I thought that it would ease us in to our independent journey around India. Our guide was Nisar. He had been our guide for a street food tour the previous evening and our hearts sank when we discovered that he would again be our guide. A lot of his information was either irrelevant (the names of architects and how much they were paid) or incorrect (Gateway of India built for Queen Victoria - WRONG - she never visited India, it was built for George V) (Flora Fountain named after a member of the British royal family - WRONG - a Roman goddess) (the Indian Mint is a 'secret' building that nobody knows about - WRONG - it is shown on Google Maps). We spent a lot of time wandering around with no clear idea of where we were going and returned to the same place a few times. He took us to some shops when we mentioned a few things we had thinking about buying. We thought we did a good job of haggling the price down. However, our subsequent travels revealed that we had still substantially overpaid. The only positive was that Nisar took me to a kiosk where I got an Indian sim card. But overall it was a long, tedious day where we learnt little that we couldn't have found ourselves. Nisar claims to be doing guiding to support a large number of orphaned children. If that is true then he needs to seriously improve his knowledge and his organisation of the tour.Written April 18, 2023
- RichardFree0 contributionsFood good; avoid the guide!We booked this tour from the Booking.com website. Subsequently, discovered that this then went through the Viator website and the tour was through Yo Tours. On the plus side I had expected that only small tasting dishes would be included and that we would have to pay to have a more substantial portion. In fact over the course of the tour we had enough for a full dinner. On the downside our guide, Nisar, wasted time and we could have experienced a greater variety as well as having more information about the food. Nisar took us to the old railway station and spent a lot of time talking about the building. Unfortunately, his information was completely wrong. He said that Queen Victoria had lived there (she never visited India!) and only after independence was the building converted to a station (it was always a station!). We had booked a walking tour of Mumbai for the following morning and our hearts sank when we discovered that it was also with Nisar.Written April 18, 2023
- Steven C0 contributionsNasir is greatNasir was a great guide, very friendly and we enjoyed what he had to say. Gave a good insight into Mumbai including places we would not have visited.Written March 7, 2023
- Andras B0 contributionsGreat walk at sunsetAli met me as agreed earlier on Whatsapp. We walked around some of the historic areas and Ali gave good explanations. It was a very crowded night and Ali took extra care to make sure we didn’t get separated.Written February 12, 2023
- cathylT591XN0 contributions2 hours well spentA great tour to do if you’re short of time and want to get your bearings. Our guide Ali met us at our hotel and showed us around all the beautiful buildings of Mumbai. We skipped the gateway of India as it was opposite our hotel and we’d been. He did take us instead for local tea which was delicious. We had an added treat it being Sunday that we saw a Bollywood movie being shot, and witnessed a minor bike vs car accident outside the library, huge fun as the car driver had a mini meltdown, and Ali was there to translate.Written January 9, 2023
- Sightseer5194460 contributionsNight tasty walkActually, they asked me to replace this tour with the food tour. I accepted and didn't regret it. Really loved it. It actually was like a night tour plus a food tour. The guide was friendly and knowledgeable. It turned out to be really interesting and engagingWritten December 22, 2022
- 841liekeh0 contributionsTour started 2hours lateThe tour itself was fine and Nasir was friendly and told us a lot. But the guide was too late for almost 2 hours, so that was disappointing.Written December 20, 2022
- M747PVsarahb0 contributionsAverage experienceMy tour was with Rahul. Nice guy, but was 40 minutes late and the “90-120 minute tour” that was supposed to start at 5pm, went until 8:15pm. He had good information, but walked very slowly. Probably why we ended at 8:15pm. Also felt like we didn’t see that many interesting things other than the hotel and India Gate (which I had seen earlier that day).Written October 31, 2022
- SamanthaM41760 contributionsHassled for money, better off walking by yourselfMy partner and I did the free Mumbai walking tour on 5 Oct 2022 5pm (can’t remember guides name). We have done many walking tours around the world and this was the worst we have ever done. At the beginning the tour guide immediately informed us we would pay him at the end and the money is “for the children”. On the tour the main info we got was the name of a building, the year and the architect. An example includes the flora fountain who the guide said the architect was “david” (no last name). I fact checked and this was not even correct. When we asked questions he would either ignore, answer “yes/no” (to a non-yes/no question) or provide an answer that was so obviously false (e.g. the high court has only ever seen three cases). We would ask multiple times to ensure he understood but he was clearly not wanting to answer them. The other tour attendee answered our questions more than the guide so at least we got some info! This person also appeared frustrated with the guide. One of the few bits of info included a rumor from his dad about a building, and telling us multiple times how a post office can post items. The info gained was truly awful. Towards the end he asked us to take a video of us smiling saying how great the tour was - we did that to avoid confrontation, noting the absurdity given the tour was awful. At the end he showed us a to a restaurant, he sat next to me in a booth so I couldn’t get out and demanded we pay him. Before reading the below, note that In the booking/confirmation email, it stated the company would never force anyone to pay a fixed amount and that 500 rupees was a standard example. So before the tour My partner and I agreed 500 rupees each if the tour was standard, more if it was good. It was awful but we gave him 500 rupees for his poor attempt. He proceeded to get angry and demand more money (he started the convo with saying we need to pay an absurd amount, by the end he was only demanding 500 rps each). He called his boss and made my partner speak to the boss who demanded more money too. This happened more than once. I tried to tell him if he wants a set fee he should advertise that. He ignored me, only wanting to speak to my (male) partner. He kept saying the money was for the children but would also accidentally say it was for the “company”. When we called him out on that he said “oh yeah it’s for the children”. We have been in India a few weeks so are used to people asking for money but this is the worst we have experienced. He was very intimidating so once he finally left after 5 mins of demanding more money, we only left the restaurant once our Ola was right at the door. It might have been dramatic on our end but we really thought he would be waiting outside for us (he wasn’t - but that is the level of intimidation he used). Given the company wants to use intimidation tactics, they should at least put on a good tour!Written October 7, 2022
- Tommytravels990 contributionsFree walking tours MumbaiAkansha was excellent and very responsive in organising the tour. We learnt so much and thoroughly enjoyed the guided walk which included a great mix of past and present history. Thank youWritten March 23, 2020
These reviews are the subjective opinions of Tripadvisor members and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Contribute
Most Recent: Reviews ordered by most recent publish date in descending order.
Detailed Reviews: Reviews ordered by recency and descriptiveness of user-identified themes such as wait time, length of visit, general tips, and location information.
Popular mentions
3.5
10 reviews
Excellent
6
Very good
0
Average
0
Poor
1
Terrible
3
Ian C
5 contributions
Feb 2024 • Couples
Avoid - Yo Tours
Booked an early morning 09.00am tour as we had another tour in the late afternoon.
You Tours altered the start time after we were at the meeting point and expected us to wait 2 hrs for an alternative tour -They refused refund and just kept telling us it was due to cruise ships being in town -do not trust this company and book with a more reputable organization - it may cost a few dollars more but you get what you pay for in our case we got NOTHING for our money and Yo Tours ruined a day.
Booked an early morning 09.00am tour as we had another tour in the late afternoon.
You Tours altered the start time after we were at the meeting point and expected us to wait 2 hrs for an alternative tour -They refused refund and just kept telling us it was due to cruise ships being in town -do not trust this company and book with a more reputable organization - it may cost a few dollars more but you get what you pay for in our case we got NOTHING for our money and Yo Tours ruined a day.
Written February 21, 2024
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Lada Svechnikova
3 contributions
Feb 2023
The elephant caves were amazing very interesting!! Well worth the ferry crossing which is a bit long one hour !! well trained guide , Thank you
Written March 24, 2023
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Vacation53490807626
2 contributions
Mar 2023
Long ferry journey there and back. about a Kilometre of stalls on way up to caves which were extremely underwhelming. Would not reccommend
Written March 18, 2023
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
FRANCESCO Z
1 contribution
Mar 2023
great place to visit, guided by very experienced person all the time. To visit the caves half day is sufficient
Written March 16, 2023
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Daniel C
1 contribution
Mar 2022 • Couples
We didn’t get anything to eat or drink
You must tell people to bring cash money as the entrance fee cannot be done by credit card
You must tell people to bring cash money as the entrance fee cannot be done by credit card
Written March 26, 2022
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Sonam Sharma
Bangalore District, India13 contributions
Wonderful tour of Elephanta Caves, had great time on ride from gateway to caves and 3 hours excursion of various caves on island, guide was nice and shared a lots of nice stories, we also got local snacks for tasting at caves.
Written January 8, 2020
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Dear Guest, thanks for writing such a wonderful review, it helps us at Yo Tours keeping the motivation of continue doing the good work that we do and it is all because of wonderful guests like you. We would be happy to take you on a tour again in Mumbai or any other city in India where we operate. Happy traveling.
Written March 22, 2020
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
Ashish S
10 contributions
This was our first tour with Yo Tours and we simply delighted by the services and depth of the knowledge of our storyteller. Caves was the master piece to history representing Hinduism and Buddhism. We would able to understand every caves architecture and stories around each places with help of our amazing guide. this was our highlight of Mumbai. must have experience with excellent services.
Written December 28, 2019
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Dear Guest, thanks for writing such a wonderful review, it helps us at Yo Tours keeping the motivation of continue doing the good work that we do and it is all because of wonderful guests like you. We would be happy to take you on a tour again in Mumbai or any other city in India where w operate. Happy traveling.
Written March 23, 2020
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
No questions have been asked about this experience