Bangalore to Thekkady Bus Rental — 27 to 50 Seater Coach Hire for Group Travel

Bus Packages for the Bangalore to Thekkady Route

Every quotation is built around what you actually need rather than a fixed menu. The four structures below describe how we typically shape bangalore bus booking enquiries on this corridor.

Corporate Package

Built for Bangalore IT and manufacturing teams running offsites at the Kumily resort properties, which handle groups well and are the reason this corridor gets the corporate volume it does. Includes GST invoicing, a Proforma Invoice for PO-based approval, a named driver for the full multi-day trip, and consolidated monthly billing for registered accounts. The same corporate offsite bus bangalore stays with your team across the drive, the Periyar day and any Munnar extension, with duty slips signed daily and reconciled against the final invoice. Our corporate travels desk manages the arrangement end to end, including a second vehicle where the group splits across activities.

Family and Group Tour Package

The most common private-hire booking on this route, and usually part of a wider Kerala circuit rather than a Thekkady-only trip. Munnar and Thekkady over five or six days is the standard shape, with Alleppey or Kochi added for a longer run. Planning is built around the Periyar boat: arrive in the afternoon so the ticketing step can be taken the day before, take an early trip the following morning, and allow two nights so a full boat does not cost you the experience. Luggage capacity is the quiet advantage over cars on a six-day circuit, and for extended families travelling with elders a coach with a single boarding point is far easier to manage than a convoy.

Budget Package

For groups where cost per head decides the booking — college trips, school excursions, association tours and community groups, which Periyar suits particularly well as a destination. Non-AC and standard AC 27 to 45 seater coaches, point to point, no frills, clean vehicle and a verified driver. The bus rate per km in bangalore for this tier is our lowest, and across a 580-kilometre one-way run the saving spread over forty passengers is substantial. The budget tier is about vehicle specification and nothing else. Maintenance schedules, driver vetting and ghat-route experience are identical across every tier we run, which on this particular road is not a detail we would compromise on.

Luxury and Volvo Package

Volvo and Benz multi-axle coaches with reclining seats, better suspension and proper sound insulation, for groups that want a ten-hour drive and a ghat at the end of it to be comfortable. On this corridor the difference is functional rather than cosmetic: suspension quality is felt far more on the Thoppur descent and the Kumily climb than on flat highway. This tier covers our volvo bus rental bangalore fleet and the wider volvo luxury bus range. Note that the largest multi-axle coaches take the Kumily ghat slowest of all, so we discuss size against comfort at the quotation stage rather than assuming bigger is better.

Our Bus Fleet in Bangalore

Our 45 seater bus rental bangalore and 35 seater bus rental bangalore configurations cover the bulk of bookings on this route, within a fleet running from 27 to 50 seats. We operate a complete range of group vehicles from the same Bangalore base, so if your headcount changes after booking we can usually move you up or down a category without restarting the process.

•     Bus — 27 to 50 seater, AC and non-AC, including Volvo and Benz coaches; the core vehicle for this route

•     Mini bus — 12 to 24 seater, for smaller groups and for resort approaches a full coach cannot reach

•     Tempo traveller — 8 to 18 seater, which takes the Kumily ghat comfortably

•     Force Urbania — 13 to 17 seater luxury van

•     Cars — 4 to 7 seater, from Etios, Dzire, Innova, Innova Crysta, Innova Hycross, Fortuner and Commuter through Corolla Altis, Camry, Audi A6, Audi Q7, BMW 5 Series, BMW 7 Series, Mercedes-Benz E Class, Mercedes-Benz S Class and Rolls-Royce Ghost

Tejas Tours and Travels does not operate sleeper bus services. All our coaches are seated configuration with pushback seats, which is why we plan this route as a daylight drive with an early start rather than an overnight run. On a road that finishes with a thirty-kilometre forest ghat, that is a safety position as much as a comfort one. For groups with elderly travellers, breaking at Madurai or Dindigul turns the journey into two easy halves and, in the Madurai case, adds the Meenakshi Amman Temple to the trip.

Billing Details — What Is Included and What Is Extra

We quote in writing before you book and the quote itemises everything, so there are no surprises at trip end. A 20 percent advance of the total fare confirms your booking.

Included in the Quoted Fare

•     Base fare and fuel charges

•     Driver allowance

Not Included — Billed Separately at Actuals

•     Toll charges and parking fees

•     Interstate tax and permit for the Tamil Nadu and Kerala crossings

•     Additional driver bata after 9:45 PM

•     GST as applicable

•     Final rental is calculated on total kilometres and hours from our garage to garage

The garage-to-garage basis is standard across the organised group transport industry in Bangalore. The meter starts when the coach leaves our garage for your pickup point and ends when it returns, and we factor this into the written quote, so the number you approve is the number you pay.

Three points are specific to this route. First, boat tickets, reserve entry, bamboo rafting and every forest department programme are booked by you with the department and paid on site. We arrange transport and time the day around what you have secured. No operator can obtain a boat ticket the department has not released, and anyone telling you otherwise is not being straight with you. Second, the Kerala interstate permit applies at the Kumily border and is quoted as a separate line at actual, alongside the Tamil Nadu permit. Third, on a Munnar and Thekkady circuit the hill running between and around the two is substantial, and our package quotes carry a stated allowance for it rather than leaving it to surface at settlement.

Tejas Tours and Travels does not provide passenger insurance cover. Passengers are advised to arrange their own travel insurance if required. Vehicle insurance and full statutory driver and vehicle compliance are maintained across the fleet. For the forest department programmes, the department operates its own arrangements and those are worth checking with them directly.

Other Popular Routes from Bangalore

Thekkady is one of several long-distance corridors we run coaches on. These are the routes groups book most often from Bangalore.

•     Bangalore to Munnar — 470 km. Kerala tea country, four hours north-west of Thekkady and by far the most common combination with this route.

•     Bangalore to Madurai — 448 km, nine hours. The Meenakshi Amman Temple, and the natural overnight halt if you are splitting this drive.

•     Bangalore to Kodaikanal — 460 km. The Palani hills, reached by turning north at Batlagundu on this same road.

•     Bangalore to Kochi — 550 km. Fort Kochi and the backwaters, west across the Ghats and a common end point for a Kerala circuit.

•     Bangalore to Wayanad — 280 km, six hours. Kerala permit required. The most frequent corporate offsite booking we handle.

•     Bangalore to Ooty — 270 km, six to seven hours. Through Mysore and Bandipur into the Nilgiris, with its own ghat considerations for a coach.

•     Bangalore to Mysore — 145 km, three hours. Srirangapatna, Mysore Palace and Chamundi Hills. The standard one-day corporate outing and school excursion.

•     Bangalore to Coorg — 265 km, five to six hours. Coffee estates, Abbey Falls and Dubare elephant camp. Book early for weekends.

•     Bangalore to Tirupati — 250 km, four to five hours. Our most frequent pilgrimage coach booking, usually a same-day return.

•     Bangalore to Goa — 560 km. Overnight and multi-day coach hire, heavily booked over New Year and long weekends.

Our Services from Bangalore and Mysore

Every service below runs from both our Bangalore and Mysore bases, so you can start a trip in one city and finish in the other without changing operators.

Our bus rental in bangalore fleet covers 27 to 50 seater coaches for rental bus booking and bangalore bus booking requirements, from single-day excursions to week-long Kerala circuits. For premium group travel, the volvo bus rental bangalore tier handles volvo luxury bus and luxury bus hire for conferences, weddings and large corporate movements.

Below coach size, our mini bus rental in bangalore fleet handles minibus rental, mini bus in bangalore and mini bus booking online enquiries for groups of twelve to twenty-four, which on this route is also the answer where a resort approach cannot take a full coach. For eight to eighteen passengers, luxury tempo traveller bangalore covers tt vehicle requirements with pushback seating and full air conditioning. Our cab rental bangalore service covers premium car rentals in bangalore, luxury car rental bangalore and everyday car booking, and the force urbania rent bangalore fleet handles urbania van rental and luxury urbania rental bangalore bookings, a combination of comfort and manoeuvrability that suits hill roads particularly well.

On the corporate side, corporate travels bangalore covers corporate bus service bangalore, corporate car rental bangalore and corporate transport services for companies needing managed travel, including the offsites that fill the Kumily properties through the season. Our employee transportation services bangalore division runs office bus service bangalore, staff transportation services and night shift bus service bangalore contracts across tech parks, with employee pick up and drop service, staff bus rental bangalore, tech park bus service and employee shuttle service Bangalore arrangements built around shift timings.

For education clients, school transportation services covers school bus service bangalore, school bus rental bangalore and student pick up and drop service, including school excursion bus rental bangalore and college trip bus rental — and Periyar is a genuinely good school ecology trip rather than a nominal one. Airport requirements are handled by airport transfer bangalore, covering bangalore airport bus, kempegowda airport taxi and airport bus booking with live flight tracking, including connections to Madurai and Kochi airports, which at roughly 140 and 190 kilometres are the nearest to Thekkady.

Longer journeys fall under outstation cabs bangalore, covering outstation bus booking, outstation car rental bangalore, outstation taxi bangalore and outstation vehicle booking for multi-day itineraries, with the Kerala permit arranged in advance on this route. For celebrations, wedding car rental bangalore handles wedding cars for rent, wedding car hire bangalore, marriage car rental bangalore and wedding bus rental Bangalore for guest movement as one managed booking. And for premium seven-seater travel, innova hycross rent bangalore covers innova hycross taxi and hycross car rental, where the hybrid drivetrain suits sustained hill driving well. Custom tour packages combining any of these vehicles across Thekkady, Munnar, Alleppey, Kochi and the wider Kerala circuit are available on request.

How to Book a Bus for Rent in Bangalore — Step by Step

Booking a bus for hire in Bangalore with Tejas Travels takes under five minutes. Follow these four steps.

Step 1 — Contact Tejas Travels

•     Call or WhatsApp +91 9980277773, or email info@tejastravels.com. Available 24 hours, 7 days a week.

•     Share your travel date.

•     Share your Bangalore pickup location — area, tech park or hotel name, such as Electronic City, Whitefield, Manyata, the BIAL airport area or MG Road.

•     Share your destination or full day-wise itinerary.

•     Share your total group size.

•     Share your preferred bus tier: Standard, Executive, Luxury, Volvo or BharatBenz.

•     Share the Kumily hotel or resort address if you have it, so we can confirm whether a full-length coach reaches the property gate.

•     For Thekkady, Munnar and other multi-day hire from Bangalore, provide the full itinerary so we can allocate a driver experienced on the specific ghat route.

•     For monthly employee commute contract hire, share the route and schedule details.

Step 2 — Receive Your Written Quote

•     Within 2 hours of your enquiry, Tejas Travels sends a written quote via WhatsApp or email.

•     The quote itemises every charge:

◦      Bus hire rate — per kilometre or flat local package

◦      Driver allowance — Rs 700 to Rs 1,250 per day depending on vehicle

◦      Applicable toll estimates

◦      Interstate permit costs — Tamil Nadu and Kerala on this route, Andhra Pradesh for Tirupati, Goa for the west coast

◦      Driver night halt charges for multi-day hire

◦      An explicit allowance for hill running on a Munnar and Thekkady circuit

◦      GST

•     No verbal-only pricing. Everything is in writing before you commit.

•     For MICE and corporate clients, a Proforma Invoice can be issued at this stage for PO-based approval.

•     Request comparison quotes for Standard versus Executive bus hire at the same time, and for two vehicle sizes if your group is near the 35 seater boundary.

Step 3 — Confirm Your Booking and Pay Advance

•     Review the written quote and confirm via WhatsApp or phone.

•     A 20 percent advance payment of the total fare confirms the booking and guarantees the specific bus on your date.

•     For large corporate bookings above Rs 50,000, and for the December to January peak, a higher advance may be required.

•     Payment options: UPI (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm), NEFT, IMPS or RTGS bank transfer, or credit and debit card via payment link.

•     Advance receipt issued within 30 minutes.

•     Your confirmation includes:

◦      Driver name and mobile number

◦      Vehicle registration number

◦      Departure time

◦      Pickup location confirmation

◦      Full billing breakdown — all sent to WhatsApp or email in writing

•     For Thekkady and Munnar over New Year, Diwali, long IT weekends and the summer holidays, book well ahead and pay the advance early. Volvo and BharatBenz coaches should be confirmed earliest of all.

Step 4 — Your Driver and Bus Arrive Early

•     Your assigned Tejas Travels driver arrives at the Bangalore pickup point 15 minutes before scheduled departure.

•     For large groups from Electronic City or Whitefield, the driver coordinates the exact pickup gate in advance.

•     The bus is clean, sanitised, fuelled and GPS-active, with the air conditioning checked before every outstation departure.

•     The driver calls you 30 minutes before arrival as a courtesy.

•     During the trip the driver handles all NH exits, toll payments, the Tamil Nadu and Kerala border permits at Attibele and Kumily, and rest stop coordination.

•     At trip end the balance is settled after deducting the advance.

•     Any additional kilometres or hours are billed at the pre-agreed rate.

Quick bus hire booking: WhatsApp +91 9980277773 with your group size, Bangalore pickup location, destination and travel date. Written bus hire quote in 2 hours.

Payment Methods — Bus for Rent and Hire in Bangalore

Tejas Travels accepts all major digital and traditional payment methods for both advance deposits and final settlement at trip end.

•     UPI — Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm and BHIM UPI. The fastest method, with instant confirmation. Recommended for advance deposits on bus hire.

•     Bank transfer — NEFT, IMPS and RTGS. For large corporate hire above Rs 15,000. IMPS is instant; NEFT can take up to 2 hours.

•     Credit and debit card — Visa, Mastercard and RuPay, via payment link sent to your registered mobile or email. Valid for both advance and full payment.

•     Net banking — All major Indian banks. Payment link via WhatsApp or email. Preferred for Bangalore MICE and corporate PO approvals.

•     Cash — Balance payable at time of travel, accepted at trip end. The advance must be digital for bus hire confirmation. A receipt is issued.

•     Corporate credit — For registered corporate accounts, with 30-day credit terms for signed corporate clients and monthly consolidated invoicing available.

A 20 percent advance confirms the specific bus on your date. For Thekkady, Munnar and other large peak-date Bangalore corporate hire bookings, a higher advance may apply, and Volvo and BharatBenz coaches should be confirmed well ahead with advance payment.

Cancellation Policy — Bus Hire in Bangalore

Tejas Travels maintains a fair, transparent and tiered cancellation policy for all bus hire in Bangalore. All terms are communicated in writing at booking confirmation.

•     More than 7 days before departure — No cancellation charge. 100 percent of the advance is refunded within 5 to 7 working days.

•     4 to 7 days before departure — 10 percent of the total trip fare. The advance is refunded less the 10 percent deduction.

•     48 hours to 4 days before departure — 25 percent of the total trip fare. The advance is refunded less the 25 percent deduction.

•     24 to 48 hours before departure — 50 percent of the total trip fare. The advance is refunded less the 50 percent deduction.

•     Less than 24 hours before departure — 75 percent of the total trip fare. Minimal or no refund depending on trip value.

•     No-show, where the bus is deployed and the group is absent — 100 percent of the total trip fare. No refund. The full fare is payable.

•     Cancellation by Tejas Travels due to breakdown or force majeure — No cancellation charge. 100 percent refunded within 2 working days, or an alternate bus is offered.

Special Cancellation Conditions for Bangalore Bus Hire

•     Multi-day outstation hire including Thekkady, Munnar, Goa and Shirdi — minimum 7-day notice for a full refund on overnight or multi-day Bangalore bus hire.

•     Weddings — minimum 7-day notice for a full refund. Cancellations within 3 days of a Bangalore wedding are non-refundable.

•     Peak dates — New Year's Eve, Diwali and Bangalore long weekends require a minimum 48-hour notice for a full refund.

•     Corporate contracts — monthly corporate commute contracts are governed by contract terms. Modifications with 48-hour notice are accommodated subject to route availability.

•     Force majeure — Bangalore bandhs, force majeure events and road closures attract a 100 percent refund within 2 working days regardless of notice period.

To cancel, call or WhatsApp +91 9980277773 with your booking reference. Cancellation confirmation follows within 2 hours, and the refund goes to your original payment method.

Refund Policy — Bus for Rent in Bangalore

All refunds are processed to the original payment instrument. No cash refund is issued unless the advance was paid in cash.

•     Cancellation 7 or more days before departure — 100 percent of the advance paid, within 5 to 7 working days.

•     Cancellation 4 to 7 days before departure — advance minus the 10 percent charge, within 5 to 7 working days.

•     Cancellation 48 hours to 4 days before departure — advance minus the 25 percent charge, within 7 working days.

•     Cancellation 24 to 48 hours before departure — advance minus the 50 percent charge, within 7 to 10 working days.

•     Cancellation by Tejas Travels for operational reasons — 100 percent of the advance paid, within 2 working days on priority processing.

•     Trip shortfall where actual kilometres are less than the minimum — proportional credit, settled at trip end.

•     Billing error or overcharge — the full overcharged amount, within 2 to 3 working days after verification.

•     Duplicate payment — the full duplicate amount, within 2 to 3 working days after confirmation.

Refund Timelines by Payment Method

•     UPI — Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm refunds go to the UPI-linked bank account within 3 to 5 working days.

•     Credit or debit card — refund to the originating card within 5 to 7 working days.

•     Bank transfer — refund to the originating account within 3 to 5 working days. The account is re-confirmed before processing.

•     Cash — cash refund at the Tejas Travels Bangalore office, or via IMPS within 5 working days.

For refunds, WhatsApp +91 9980277773 with your booking reference, advance receipt and refund reason. Confirmation within 24 hours.