Has anyone here been to Mumbai?

Strangely, there's no Mumbai threads that aren't about terrorist attacks. There's some stuff folded into various India threads but come on ILE, the is a world city!

Anyway, my gf and I will be in Mumbai for three days in November (at the tail end of Diwali). What's good to do? Whereabouts should we stay? Where should we eat? Where should we avoid?

no streetview??

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=mumbai+google+map&ll=19.060632,72.877164&spn=0.003118,0.004839&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&hnear=Mumbai,+Maharashtra,+India&gl=us&t=h&z=18

elephanta island is great. gandhi's house was bizarrely hard to find but had lots of interesting stuff including letters to tolstoy, hitler &c. leopold's is/was the classic tourist spot/restaurant & good for meeting ppl but i think it was hit in the attacks so i'm not sure what state it's in. there are loads of beautiful colonial era buildings in colaba incl some churches w/ graves of british military guys w/ their colourful deaths explained eg. pirates, & you should take a little train ride to/from the main train station (cst/victoria). mumbai is fun/interesting at night, can't recall place names but even just on the street getting approached by bollywood ppl asking if you'd like to play a westerner in an ice-cream advert or baked tanzanian drug dealers trying to teach you how to swallow bags of heroin. malabar hill has some nice parks (but the towers of silence are hidden away, so no morbid gawking there). the cricket club is fun to look round but i only got in as a guest of an elderly wealthy man who was keen on me getting naked so we cld go swim/sauna together. still got his email if yr interested. basically mumbai is so busy i think you'd have a great time winging it but otoh i can easily imagine spending three days in shock at babies sleeping on the streets &c.

The Independent is switching back to calling it Bombay. Amol Rajan's justification is interesting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03j467c

I have been to Mumbai (twice) it's awesome

I usually say Bombay when talking to Danes, when in India I've been told to adjust depending on who I'm talking too - but kind of got the impression Bombay was preferable to many because of the Sh1v S3na associations to Mumbai

More renaming going on - Gurgaon is now Gurugram thanks to RSS / SS and their allies in government . They have more in their sights, inevitably including Allahabad and Ahmadabad.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/6-cities-that-might-be-renamed-now-that-gurgaon-has-become-gurugram-253461.html

Most Indians I talked to in India called it Bombay.