
Bangalore to Thalassery Tempo Traveller for Groups of 9 to 20
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Distance
315 km
From Bangalore
Time
About 6.5 hr
Via Channapatna, Hunsur and Iritty
Starting from
₹ 21600
3 days, 900 km, 12 seater
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12 Seater Tempo Traveller A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC12 Seats
₹23,198 ₹27,986
+ ₹4086 (Taxes & Charges)

8 Seater Tempo Traveller Executive A/C 1/1
LUXURYAC8 Seats
₹28,536 ₹34,428
+ ₹5028 (Taxes & Charges)

9 Seater Tempo Traveller Executive A/C 1/1
LUXURYAC9 Seats
₹26,790 ₹32,314
+ ₹4714 (Taxes & Charges)

10 Seater Tempo Traveller Executive A/C 1/1
LUXURYAC10 Seats
₹26,790 ₹32,314
+ ₹4714 (Taxes & Charges)
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13 Seater Tempo Traveller Luxury A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC13 Seats
₹28,536 ₹34,428
+ ₹5028 (Taxes & Charges)

14 Seater Tempo Traveller Luxury A/C 2/1
NORMALAC14 Seats
₹30,282 ₹36,543
+ ₹5343 (Taxes & Charges)
15 Seater Tempo Traveller Luxury A/C 2/2
NORMALAC15 Seats
₹30,282 ₹36,543
+ ₹5343 (Taxes & Charges)

16 Seater Tempo Traveller A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC16 Seats
₹30,282 ₹36,543
+ ₹5343 (Taxes & Charges)

17 Seater Tempo Traveller A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC17 Seats
₹32,128 ₹38,757
+ ₹5657 (Taxes & Charges)

18 Seater Tempo Traveller A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC18 Seats
₹32,128 ₹38,757
+ ₹5657 (Taxes & Charges)
20 Seater Tempo Traveller A/C 2/2
NORMALAC20 Seats
₹33,100
+ ₹5832 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
60 km
145 km
175 km
240 km
270 km
315 km

Group pickup
Pickup is at 5 am from one or two points close together. With fifteen people and wedding luggage, loading takes time, so the driver comes a little early. The tempo traveller loads at the gate, since at about 2.55 m it will not fit a basement. Keep the children's snacks in the front and gift boxes on the last row. Thalassery is about 315 km away, roughly six and a half hours of driving.

Tea halt
Channapatna, 60 km out, is the first stop, for tea and restrooms at a hotel with room for the van. Toy workshops here let visitors watch toys being cut, turned and polished with lac, and children can make one in a paid session; the children will look, so keep it to fifteen minutes and promise toys on the way back. The expressway bypasses the town, so the van uses the exit.

Breakfast together
The tempo traveller leaves the expressway where it meets the Mysore ring road, about 145 km out, and breakfast is at a hotel nearby that seats the whole family together, away from the city traffic. Idli, dosa, vada and coffee come fast. Sweet shops on the way out sell Mysore pak, a classic gift for the hosts. Families coming back through Mysore on a Tuesday should know the zoo is shut that day. After diesel, the van picks up the Hunsur road at Hinkal.

Restroom halt
Ten minutes at Hunsur, 175 km into the trip, is for restrooms and a cup of tea. At about 800 m, the town already feels a shade cooler than Bangalore. From here the van turns away from the Kushalnagar highway onto the state road south, and soon the fields give way to coffee estates and pepper vines. Children can doze; Virajpet, the next stop, is a little over an hour ahead, and the ghat comes after that.

Spices and coffee
At Virajpet, 240 km from home, the main road is lined with shops selling Coorg coffee, pepper and honey, and many families do their buying here. Hotels have restrooms, and everyone should use them, because the Makutta ghat that follows is forest with no stopping. The town was founded in 1792; legend says many people of old Periyapatna moved here in Tipu Sultan's time. Ask the children to sit facing forward once the van starts down the bends.

Kerala lunch
Iritty, 270 km out, is the family lunch stop and the first Kerala town after the ghat, sitting on the Bavali river. We phone ahead so the hotel is ready for fifteen: Kerala meals with rice, fish fry, or porotta with egg curry. Iritty lies roughly the same distance from Kannur, Thalassery, Mahe and Taliparamba, so it is a handy junction. Forty minutes here, then about 45 km of easier road to the coast.

Drop at hotel or hall
At Thalassery the van stops at the hotel or wedding hall and parks close by. For dinner, order Thalassery biryani; it is cooked with small grained kaima rice, not basmati. Young cricket fans may like to know the town had a cricket club by the 1830s and is called an early home of the game in India. Relatives flying in can use Kannur airport, about 24 km east. The driver stays near the family for local runs.
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Route | One way | Thalassery and back | Time by tempo traveller |
|---|---|---|---|
Bangalore to Thalassery via Hunsur, Virajpet and Iritty | About 315 km | About 630 km | About 7.5 hr with stops |
The van covers about 630 km there and back, billed as 3 days, 900 km. The spare km take care of Muzhappilangad, Kannur and wedding runs in town. AC and non-AC vans available. Tolls, parking, the Kerala permit and GST at actual. Need only a drop? One way costs ₹2 more per km. Fuel and driver sit inside the tempo traveller rate, and the driver gets a daily allowance on the bill.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 3 days, 900 km | 4 days, 1,200 km | 5 days, 1,500 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹28 | ₹27,000 | ₹36,000 | ₹45,000 | |
₹24 | ₹23,100 | ₹30,800 | ₹38,500 | |
₹24 | ₹23,100 | ₹30,800 | ₹38,500 | |
₹30 | ₹28,800 | ₹38,400 | ₹48,000 | |
₹32 | ₹30,600 | ₹40,800 | ₹51,000 | |
₹34 | ₹32,700 | ₹43,600 | ₹54,500 | |
₹34 | ₹32,700 | ₹43,600 | ₹54,500 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹500 to ₹700 a night, by size), tolls, parking and GST. Shared by 20, 4 days in the 20 Seater Tempo Traveller is about ₹2,180 a person.
Nine people with luggage go comfortably in the 12 seater tempo traveller. Thirteen, with bags behind: 13 seater tempo traveller. Fifteen or sixteen: 16 seater tempo traveller. A full wedding party of twenty: the 20 seater tempo traveller.
Only six or seven of you? The Bangalore to Thalassery cab is enough. For elders, a Bangalore to Thalassery Force Urbania is the smoother ride.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
Thalassery is roughly 315 km away, or 630 km there and back. The tempo traveller uses the Mysore expressway and ring road, then the Coorg road through Hunsur and Virajpet, the Makutta ghat and Iritty. Driving time is about 6.5 hours; with a tea halt, breakfast, a shopping stop and lunch, a family should allow about eight.
At ₹24/km, 3 days and 900 km come to ₹21,600. On top: ₹500 a day driver allowance, tolls, the Kerala permit and GST.
Yes. It is a forest ghat with bends; the driver takes it slowly. There are no shops on it, so stop at Virajpet first.
The 20 seater. Everyone sits, and the bags fit at the back. All sizes are on tempo traveller on rent in Bangalore.
Yes. Runs between the hall, hotel and homes use the spare km in the 900. Anything over is added at the same rate.
By 9 am. With lunch in Hunsur or Mysore, you are home by about 5 to 6 pm.
Come between October and March. Coorg is dry then, the ghat is easy, and the evenings by the sea are pleasant. North Malabar's theyyam performances run from about October to May, a striking sight for children. April and May turn hot and sticky on the coast, and June to August rain makes the ghat slow and sometimes closes it.
Suitcases ride behind the last row with gift boxes laid flat on top. Hang wedding outfits in covers from the seat backs so they arrive uncreased. Children's snacks, medicines and a spare set of clothes stay at the seats. Tell us how many bags there are; fifteen people with wedding luggage often need the next van size up.