Luggage storage / Left luggage in Delhi

dave1986

Hi there.

Im looking to leave a large bag in Delhi (containing kite-surfing equipment) for around 2 or 3 weeks.
We were planning on leaving the bag in Delhi airport but have now found that this facility is no-longer available due to security reasons.
We were reading about secure places in Train stations but have not yet found any.

Does anyone know of any storage faciiies or hotels which have safe luggage storage?

Thanks

Dave

wichy

We left our luggage at the luggage room of Hare Krishna Guest House at Main Bazaar. It's big enough, and costs next to nothing - I think you could try it too :-)

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delhiwala

as far as I know hotels allow only resident guests to use their left luggage facility...

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wichy

Some hotels im Main Bazaar let use there left luggage room for non-guests - it's just another brunch of business and it situated not inside the hotel We use it twice, everytime we left our bags for about a month, and everything was OK :-)

LilBoy BigTown

Do they atleast scan the luggage, or has the lure of lucre totally discolored their vision?

wichy

And does any of train station luggage room do this?

LilBoy BigTown

As far as I know, they don't and I agree with you. This is something that must be enforced without any leniency.

But hotels doing it is insanity. It will cost them a lot more than they could ever hope to make, and it isn't money I am talking about.

wichy

As for Hare Krishna Guesthouse left-luggage room - it situated not inside a hotel, it's at some of small alleys of Main Bazaar, about 2-3 minutes walk from the hotel

I left my luggage in India sooo often, in hotels, train stations and just left-luggage rooms - and it never have been checked. Perhaps at the airports they check it - don't know, but even at close secured Taj they never check my bags before take it to luggage room

LilBoy BigTown

Last year when I was at the railway station in Chennai, (a day before Independence Day when apparently security is stepped up India wide) there were a couple of constables putting luggage through the x ray machines.

It was a joke, half the suitcases and bags were too large to go into the machine. The guy was simply putting the bags from one end and taking it out from the other, not looking at the monitor even once.

Security at most places (not all) in India is simply window dressing.

I think I have gone way off topic. So lets get back to OP's query.

steven_ber

New Delhi stations cloak room can be very very busy, I've seen queues 20-30 people long, and with the speed these cloak room staff deal with things, that could be a long wait.

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delhiwala

Nice to know ! Thanks wichy.