Recreation & Leisure
Group leisure and weekend trips from Bangalore
Leisure trips are the bookings where the group argues about the vehicle for longer than about the destination, and usually for the wrong reasons. The real questions are whether the resort road takes the vehicle, whether the season means the waterfall is actually running, and what the trip costs each person once it is divided up. These pages are organised by the kind of trip rather than by destination, because a trekking group and a family reunion going to the same place in Coorg want completely different things from the same vehicle.
Trips in this category
Long Weekend Hill Trips
The long weekend out of Bangalore is a mass migration, and the vehicle decision is really a traffic decision. Everyone leaves at the same time on…
Waterfall Circuit Tour
Waterfall trips are the only bookings on this site where the season decides whether the trip is worth taking at all. Shivanasamudra in March is a…
Senior Citizen Group Tours
For a group of senior travellers almost every assumption behind a normal itinerary needs revisiting, and the vehicle specification that matters is not the one on…
Family Reunion Travel
A family reunion is the hardest group to specify a vehicle for, because it is three groups travelling as one. There are grandparents who need a…
Which vehicle for this kind of trip
Ertiga
The smallest vehicle on this site, and the entry point for group travel. Below six people a sedan is cheaper; at six the Ertiga is the only vehicle where nobody sits sideways.
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.
Tempo Traveller 17
The workhorse for temple groups and school excursions. Seventeen seats at the lowest per-head cost available anywhere in the fleet.
Mini Bus
For groups above seventeen, where splitting into two Tempo Travellers costs more and separates the party.
Before you book
One thing worth deciding before you book rather than in the vehicle: who is paying for tolls, permits and parking. They are charged at actuals on top of the vehicle fare, they add up over a weekend, and a group that has agreed how to split them in advance never has the awkward conversation on the way home.