Multi-day
Tours by cab
One car and one driver held for the whole trip, three days or fifteen, counted on the odometer across the whole of it rather than day by day. The usual model in this trade bills 250 or 300 kilometres a day whether the car moves or not. Ours has no per-day minimum on any class, so a day you spend on foot in one town adds the allowance for that day and nothing per kilometre.
- From
- ₹12.00a kilometre in a sedan, before toll and GST. Every class and every charge is on the rate card.
Before you start counting days
Each of these comes off the rate card or off the way this page is scoped, so none of it has to be taken on trust.
250 km
the minimum, counted once for the trip and never once a day
9 pm
you know the car and the driver by
15 days
the longest trip this page quotes as one duty
What a trip reaches in the days you have
Grouped by how long the car is out rather than by direction, because on a tour the days are the thing already fixed and the route gets worked around them. Open the length you are working with. Everything in it is a shape that comes in often, and the office prices whichever one you send rather than the nearest match to it.
Three daysThe first morning and the last are mostly road, so one base and one region is the honest shape for it.
- Shimla
- Haridwar and Rishikesh
- Nainital
- Amritsar
- Jaipur
- Agra
Five daysThree towns with a night in each, or one base and a standing day in the middle where the car does not move at all.
- Jaipur, Pushkar and Jodhpur
- Shimla and Manali
- Amritsar and Dharamshala
- Haridwar, Rishikesh and Dehradun
- Nainital and Jim Corbett
- Agra and Ranthambore
A weekLong enough to stop going out and back. The trip becomes a loop, and it can finish at a different gate from the one it started at.
- Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur
- Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur
- Shimla, Manali and Dharamshala
- Jammu, Katra and Srinagar
- Haridwar, Rishikesh and Nainital
- Agra, Ranthambore and Jaipur
Ten days to a fortnightFifteen days is the longest we write up as one duty. Two states or three, several days on which nobody drives anywhere, and one reading of the odometer at the end of the lot.
- Rajasthan, Jaipur down to Jaisalmer
- Udaipur, Mount Abu and Ajmer
- Himachal, Shimla across to Dharamshala
- Jammu, the valley and Leh in season
- Varanasi, Ayodhya and Prayagraj
Five days of a Rajasthan run
One duty off the board, day by day. The standing day is left in because it is the one that decides what a long trip actually costs.
- Day 1
Pick-up, and the longest drive of the trip
The first day exists to put the party in the first town by evening rather than to show them anything on the way, so it usually has the most road in it of the five.
- Day 2
Jaipur, and the car never leaves the city
Out at nine, back for lunch, out again at four. Barely any distance covered, so what this day puts on the bill is the allowance for the day and the parking. The minimum on the card is counted once for the whole tour rather than once for each day of it, so a short day inside a long trip adds only what it runs.
- Day 3
Jaipur to Jodhpur, with Pushkar in the middle
A long leg broken by a stop that was in the outline from the start. The stop costs the kilometres it adds and nothing else, because there is nothing else in the arithmetic for it to cost.
- Day 4
Somebody wants to add Ranakpur
Said to the driver at breakfast, on the board in the office by ten, and the extra distance goes on at the same class rate the whole trip is already running on. He turns left where the plan said straight on and that is the end of the matter.
- Day 5
Udaipur to home, and one reading of the odometer
A long last day, which is what a five day Rajasthan run costs you at the end of it. The trip is totalled once off the odometer instead of day by day against a figure fixed in advance, and the tolls arrive with the FASTag statement rather than as a round number.
Nothing above is a package and there is no code for it in the office. It is one duty written up the way the office writes them, and yours is written from the outline you send.
The classes that go out for a fortnight
An extended family going to Rajasthan together travels in one vehicle or it does not travel together, so the class matters more on a long trip than on a short one. Every one of these is quoted off the same published card whether the car is out for three days or fifteen.
Sedan
Maruti Dzire, Honda Amaze, or similar
- Seats
- 4
- Per km
- ₹12.00
Compact MPV
Maruti Ertiga, Kia Carens, or similar
- Seats
- 6
- Per km
- ₹14.00
Full-size MPV
Toyota Innova Crysta, or similar
- Seats
- 7
- Per km
- ₹19.00
Tempo traveller
Force Traveller 12/17/25, Force Maharaja 20, Force Urbania 17, or similar
- Seats
- Up to 25
- Per km
- From ₹26.00
Effective . Driver allowance is charged per calendar day and is on the rate card with everything else.
What the fare covers
In the quoted fare
- Fuel and running cost
- Whatever the trip burns.
- The chauffeur
- His driving charges for the duty.
- Maintenance, insurance and air conditioning
- The vehicle is insured and serviced, and the AC runs.
- The same car and the same driver, first morning to last
- The vehicle does not change between cities and neither does the man driving it. His name and his number reach you the evening before the trip starts.
- The kilometres the trip actually runs
- Counted on the odometer across the whole trip and totalled once at the end rather than reset every morning. No class carries a minimum for a day, and the floor on the card is counted once for the whole tour.
Charged on top
- Driver allowance₹300 to ₹800 a day
- Per calendar day the car is held, including the day it comes back.
- The driver's night halt
- On a multi-day trip where there is no driver accommodation at the hotel. We tell you before the trip which it will be.
- Toll
- At actuals, and the FASTag statement is shared with the bill.
- Parking
- At actuals, with the receipt.
- State entry tax
- Where the trip crosses a state border. At actuals, and named on the quotation before you confirm.
- Hill entry and green tax
- Levied by the local authority on the way in. At actuals, and named on the quotation before you confirm.
- Inter-state permit
- For a tempo traveller or a coach crossing a state line. At actuals, with the receipt on the bill.
- GST5%
- Shown as its own line on the quotation and on the invoice.
Kilometres run on the odometer across the whole trip and are totalled once at the end, rather than reset every morning against a figure somebody decided in advance. A day inside one town adds what it runs and nothing is added for the distance it did not. The minimum on the card, 250 kilometres, is counted once for the whole tour rather than once for each day of it, and a trip of this length passes it on the odometer without help. The count starts where we pick you up and stops where we drop you.
The figure on your quotation is the figure you pay. Everything payable at actuals is a named line on it, with a number against it, before you confirm. Nothing is added afterwards.
What a party asks before two weeks on the road
Is it the same driver for the whole trip?
Yes. One driver takes the trip from the first morning to the last and he does not change at a state line. His name and his number reach you the evening before the first pick-up, so the person you ring on day nine is the person you have been travelling with.
Do I pay for 250 kilometres a day even if we only drive sixty?
No. There is no per-day minimum on any class, so a sixty kilometre day adds sixty kilometres and you can check that against the rate card. The floor the card does carry is 250 kilometres, counted once for the whole tour rather than once for each day of it, which a trip of this length passes on the odometer without help. What also runs on a slow day is the driver allowance, a published figure for each calendar day the car is held, and it sits on the quotation as its own line before you confirm anything.
Where does the driver sleep?
In the driver room, at hotels that keep one, and that costs you nothing. Where the hotel has none, his night halt is a separate line on the bill, and the office tells you before the trip which of the two it is going to be rather than after.
Can we change the plan halfway through?
Yes, and people do it all the time. Tell the driver, he tells the office, and the extra kilometres go on at the published per kilometre rate for the class. Nothing is re-quoted from scratch and nothing is negotiated on the roadside.
Do we have to feed the driver?
No. The driver allowance is what covers his food and his own costs on the road, it is published per calendar day on the rate card, and it is on your quotation as its own line. Anything you give him beyond that is between you and him and nobody in the office will ask about it.
Can the trip start from a city other than the one your office is in?
Yes. The fleet runs on an all India permit and a duty can begin at your own address, so the quotation is worked from where you actually start rather than from where we sit. Tell us the pick-up address with the enquiry and the kilometres are counted from it.
Do you arrange the hotels as well?
No. We quote the car, the driver and the kilometres, and that is what the bill covers. Hotels, flights and the planning of the trip itself sit with Flydiaries, which is our sister brand under the same owners and a separate business with its own people.
Hill entry and green tax, inter-state permits, toll, parking, state entry tax and the driver’s night halt where a hotel keeps no driver room are payable at actuals with the receipt, and each of them appears as a named line on the quotation before you confirm. A route that crosses four states attracts more of them than a route that stays in one.
Sending an enquiry is not a booking and does not hold a vehicle. We price the trip, send you a fixed all-inclusive figure in writing, and nothing is reserved until you confirm that figure.
Tell us where you want to go, and how long you have.
A fixed, all-in figure and the vehicle class, usually the same day, 9 am to 9 pm.
Written quotes 9 am to 9 pm, seven days. The line itself is answered at any hour.