Corporate
Team offsite transport from Bangalore
The offsite is the most common corporate booking out of Bangalore and the one where the vehicle choice changes the mood of the whole trip. Twenty engineers heading to a Coorg resort will spend five or six hours each way in that vehicle, and whether they arrive fresh or stiff depends on whether they were in recliners with standing headroom or on fixed bench seats. The other thing offsite planners routinely get wrong is resort access — a good number of Coorg and Chikmagalur estate properties sit at the end of a plantation track that a mini bus cannot use.
What this trip actually involves
- InvoicingGST invoice against your company name and GSTIN, issued before or after the trip as your process requires. Purchase order references carried on the invoice
- Resort accessMany Coorg and Chikmagalur estate resorts are at the end of a narrow plantation track. Send the resort name and we will confirm whether a 17 seater or a mini bus can reach the porch
- Driver presentationUniformed driver, vehicle cleaned before pickup. Say if it is a client-facing trip and we allocate accordingly
- Multiple pickup pointsWhitefield, Electronic City, ORR and north Bangalore in one run adds real time. Two vehicles from two zones usually beats one vehicle doing a city circuit
- Standby at the venueVehicle and driver stay with the group for the duration, charged per calendar day plus bata. Local sightseeing during the offsite is included in the day
- Alcohol and cleaningNot a problem, and drivers are used to it. A cleaning charge applies only for actual soiling, and it is stated rather than added quietly
Cost per person
Round-trip fare divided by the vehicle's seat count. Fill fewer seats and each person pays proportionally more.
Bangalore to Coorg — 265 km, 5.5 – 7 hours
| Vehicle | Seats | Round trip | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo Traveller 12 | 12 | ₹11,900 | ₹992 |
| Urbania 13 | 13 | ₹24,300 | ₹1,869 |
| Urbania 17 | 17 | ₹28,900 | ₹1,700 |
| Mini Bus | 25 | ₹22,600 | ₹904 |
No interstate permit — the route stays within Karnataka. Driver allowance included; tolls and parking at actuals. Minimum running 300 km per day for round trips out of Bengaluru. Point-to-point fare for this route: sara.cab.
Bangalore to Chikmagalur — 245 km, 5 – 6 hours
| Vehicle | Seats | Round trip | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo Traveller 12 | 12 | ₹10,900 | ₹908 |
| Urbania 13 | 13 | ₹22,200 | ₹1,708 |
| Urbania 17 | 17 | ₹26,400 | ₹1,553 |
| Mini Bus | 25 | ₹20,700 | ₹828 |
No interstate permit — the route stays within Karnataka. Driver allowance included; tolls and parking at actuals. Minimum running 300 km per day for round trips out of Bengaluru. Point-to-point fare for this route: sara.cab.
Bangalore to Sakleshpur — 220 km, 4.5 – 5.5 hours
| Vehicle | Seats | Round trip | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo Traveller 12 | 12 | ₹9,900 | ₹825 |
| Urbania 13 | 13 | ₹20,100 | ₹1,546 |
| Urbania 17 | 17 | ₹23,900 | ₹1,406 |
| Mini Bus | 25 | ₹18,700 | ₹748 |
No interstate permit — the route stays within Karnataka. Driver allowance included; tolls and parking at actuals. Minimum running 300 km per day for round trips out of Bengaluru. Point-to-point fare for this route: sara.cab.
Bangalore to Kabini — 215 km, 4.5 – 5.5 hours
| Vehicle | Seats | Round trip | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo Traveller 12 | 12 | ₹9,700 | ₹808 |
| Urbania 13 | 13 | ₹19,700 | ₹1,515 |
| Urbania 17 | 17 | ₹23,400 | ₹1,376 |
| Mini Bus | 25 | ₹18,300 | ₹732 |
No interstate permit — the route stays within Karnataka. Driver allowance included; tolls and parking at actuals. Minimum running 300 km per day for round trips out of Bengaluru. Point-to-point fare for this route: sara.cab.
Bangalore to Mysore — 145 km, 3.5 – 4 hours
| Vehicle | Seats | Round trip | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo Traveller 12 | 12 | ₹6,740 | ₹562 |
| Urbania 13 | 13 | ₹13,780 | ₹1,060 |
| Urbania 17 | 17 | ₹16,400 | ₹965 |
| Mini Bus | 25 | ₹12,860 | ₹514 |
No interstate permit — the route stays within Karnataka. Driver allowance included; tolls and parking at actuals. Minimum running 300 km per day for round trips out of Bengaluru. Point-to-point fare for this route: sara.cab.
Itinerary options
Two-day offsite
Bangalore → Coorg or Chikmagalur → Bangalore
Friday morning departure from one or two office points, breakfast halt on the highway, resort by early afternoon. Vehicle on standby through the offsite for the plantation walk or the local sightseeing block. Sunday afternoon return. Two calendar days of vehicle and bata.
Day offsite
Mysore or Kabini and back
Single-day version for teams that cannot take a weekend. Early departure, activity, evening return. Works for Mysore, Kabini, Sakleshpur and Nandi Hills; does not work for Coorg or Chikmagalur without the day being unpleasant.
Recommended vehicles
Tempo Traveller 12
The best cost per person of anything on this site. If the group is eight or more and the budget matters more than recliner seats, this is the answer.
Urbania 13
The most-booked Urbania. Thirteen recliners, standing headroom and a real boot — the default choice for corporate offsites and wedding-party transport.
Urbania 17
Maximum seats without moving to a bus. Seventeen recliners for large corporate groups and wedding convoys that must stay together in one vehicle.
Mini Bus
For groups above seventeen, where splitting into two Tempo Travellers costs more and separates the party.
Questions we get asked
Will you invoice our company with GST?
Yes. Give us the company name, GSTIN and any purchase order reference at booking and the invoice is raised against them. We can issue before the trip if your process needs the invoice for approval, or after if it needs actuals.
Can a 17 seater reach our Coorg estate resort?
Often not. A good number of Coorg and Chikmagalur estate properties are at the end of a narrow plantation track with a tight final turn. Send us the resort name before you book and we will check it, because discovering this at the gate at four in the afternoon is a bad way to start an offsite.
Which vehicle for 25 people to Coorg?
Either a mini bus, or a 17 seater Urbania plus a 13 seater. The split usually wins: it costs a little more, but two vehicles reach resorts a mini bus cannot, and twenty-five people in recliners for six hours arrive in a better state than twenty-five on bench seats.
How do you handle pickups from Whitefield and Electronic City in one trip?
We would advise against it. Those two points are on opposite sides of the city and a single vehicle doing both adds well over an hour, most of it sat in traffic by whoever was picked up first. Two vehicles from two zones usually costs about the same per head and saves everyone the morning.
One last thing
The one question worth asking your team before booking: is anybody going to need to work on the drive? If yes, that pushes you to an Urbania — individual USB charging, reading lights and a seat you can open a laptop on. If nobody is working, a Tempo Traveller does the same job for meaningfully less per head.