Reach a person, not a form that goes nowhere
WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach us and it is how most bookings happen. A message sent between 6 am and 11 pm is normally answered within five minutes by the person on the bookings desk, not by an automated reply, and a fare quote follows within the hour once we know your dates and group size. The phone line is answered around the clock, because trains arrive at Nagercoil Junction at 2 am and flights land at Trivandrum after midnight, and a guest standing outside a station needs a voice, not a voicemail. Email is fine for group and corporate bookings where you need a written trail, but expect a reply the next working morning rather than in minutes.
Two things that make the conversation quicker. First, tell us the dates before you tell us the places; availability decides everything else. Second, if you already have a quote from someone else, send it. We will tell you honestly whether ours is higher, and why, and sometimes we will tell you theirs is a fair price and to take it. We do not haggle, because the fares are printed on the vehicles page and a rate that moves for one guest is a rate that cannot be trusted by the next.
Send your dates, get a price
Name, WhatsApp number and when you are travelling. We work the rest out on the call.
How to find the office
The office is in Kanyakumari town, a short walk from the bus stand towards the Amman temple. It is a small ground-floor room with the fleet board on the wall, not a showroom, and you will usually find the day planner there rather than a receptionist. Parking outside is roadside and tight; if you are arriving in your own car, the public car park near the Gandhi Mandapam is easier and a five-minute walk.
From Nagercoil Junction it is 20 km, about 35 minutes by taxi or an hour by the frequent town buses that terminate at the Kanyakumari bus stand. From Trivandrum airport it is 95 km and roughly two and a half hours; our airport transfer fare is listed under taxi routes. Most guests never visit the office at all, and there is no need to. Everything from the quote to the final balance can be handled on WhatsApp, and the confirmation you receive there is the document the driver carries.
If you do come in, come in the evening. Between 5 pm and 8 pm the next day’s assignments are being made, the drivers drift through to collect their sheets, and you can meet the one who will be driving you.
What to send us so we can quote fast
Five things get you a written fare within the hour. Your travel dates, including the arrival time and train or flight number if we are collecting you. The number of people, counting children, because a family of five with luggage is an Innova, not a sedan. Your pickup point and, for multi-day tours, the towns you want to sleep in. A list of the places you want to see, or the name of one of our tour packages if it already fits. And whether anyone in the group has trouble with stairs or long walks, because the ferry queue and the Padmanabhapuram Palace tour both involve standing and we will plan around it.
What we send back is a fare built from the printed per-kilometre rate, with the daily minimum, night allowance and anything excluded stated in plain words. It will name the vehicle class, though not the exact car, and it will say what the 20 per cent advance is on a multi-day tour and that local trips are paid on arrival.
If your dates fall in April or May, or over the Chithra Pournami full moon, tell us early. Those weeks book out and a quote sent on Thursday may not hold on Saturday. In the wet months from June to September the opposite is true and we can usually confirm the same day.