Unless uou have a sustainable interest in laundry systems or a professional interest in social housing, dhobi ghat and slum visits are about as uncool as you can get.

Though if curiosity drives uou to witness the lives of slum-dwellers, try to engage with a tourism initiative run by an organisation aimed at developing the infrastructure and facilities of the place you visit.

Mumbai's high-end hotels can be painfully expensive - especially if you aim for anything above entry-level rooms. I buck this forum's trend by being a lower-end traveller, but as a treat (or when a client is paying👍 ) a particular favourite, bang on Marine Drive, is the Intercontinental - surprisingly small scale and comfortably intimate.

High-end won't give you absolute immunity from picking up some intestinal bug: avoid breakfast buffets. Eating out, go for populsr, high-volume, places.

Worrying about brushing your teeth or somehow ingesting water as you shower, is going to ruin your trip. Just don't !