
Mysore to Kutralam Bus Hire for Groups of 26 to 50
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Distance
570 km
From Mysore
Time
About 14 hr
Via Sathyamangalam, Madurai and Tenkasi
Starting from
₹ 55600
4 days, 1,200 km, 27 seater

29 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC29 Seats
₹54,244 ₹65,538
+ ₹9638 (Taxes & Charges)

30 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC30 Seats
₹54,244 ₹65,538
+ ₹9638 (Taxes & Charges)
32 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC32 Seats
₹54,244 ₹65,538
+ ₹9638 (Taxes & Charges)

33 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC33 Seats
₹54,244 ₹65,538
+ ₹9638 (Taxes & Charges)
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40 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC40 Seats
₹73,168 ₹88,390
+ ₹12990 (Taxes & Charges)

45 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹78,988 ₹95,438
+ ₹14038 (Taxes & Charges)

49 Seater Bus A/C 2/3
NORMALAC49 Seats
₹66,184 ₹79,933
+ ₹11733 (Taxes & Charges)

50 Seater Bus A/C 2/3
NORMALAC50 Seats
₹66,184 ₹79,933
+ ₹11733 (Taxes & Charges)

27 Seater Bus A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC27 Seats
₹54,244 ₹65,538
+ ₹9638 (Taxes & Charges)

30 seater bus A/C Executive 2/2
LUXURYAC30 Seats
₹58,900 ₹71,176
+ ₹10476 (Taxes & Charges)

45 Seater Benz Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹84,808 ₹1,02,485
+ ₹15085 (Taxes & Charges)

Volvo Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹85,000
+ ₹15120 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
60 km
145 km
215 km
280 km
355 km
420 km
505 km
565 km
570 km

One gate
Tell the whole group to be at one gate, a college, an office or the railway station, by 4:45 am, so the coach can roll at 5. Some people like a proper Mysore breakfast before a long day, idli sambar with the idlis soaking in hot sambar, or kara bath, but it is easier for forty to eat on the road. Every suitcase goes into the hold; a small night bag stays with its owner for Madurai. The bus leaves on the Nanjangud road for a two day run of about 570 km to the falls.

Breakfast
Around seven the coach pulls into Chamarajanagar, 60 km from home, where roadside hotels used to coaches serve forty people in two shifts. Forty minutes covers idli, vada and coffee for everyone. The district is famous for BR Hills, MM Hills and Shivanasamudra, but all three lie on other roads; BR Hills alone is about 40 km away through K Gudi. Our bus turns south for Hasanur instead. The tank is filled and the coordinator counts heads before the forest.

Tea after the ghat
Twenty seven hairpins bring the coach down from the Dhimbam heights to Bannari, slowly and in a low gear. The ghat is closed to heavy lorries, those with 12 wheels or more, yet buses may use it, and the regular services between Sathyamangalam and Mysore go up and down all day. At the bottom, 145 km into the trip, the group has a quarter of an hour in Sathyamangalam for tea and a restroom before the long plains begin.

Restroom halt
By late morning the coach reaches Erode, 215 km out, and stops fifteen minutes on the NH544 bypass so the group can use the restroom. The city trades turmeric and cloth on a huge scale, and its bus stand links almost every town of Tamil Nadu. Students on a study tour might note the Vellode bird sanctuary and the Periyar memorial house in and around the city for a future visit. Karur, where lunch is booked, is about 65 km south.

Lunch
Forty people need an hour for lunch, so the coach stops a full hour at Karur, 280 km from Mysore. The hotel we use serves big groups in two sittings. Karur is the country's bus body capital, and your own coach may well have been built in a yard like the ones beside the road. The town is dry and hot from April to June, so water bottles get refilled here. After lunch the bus avoids the town centre and heads down NH44.

Tea
Dindigul comes at 355 km, and the coach pulls onto the highway shoulder for a fifteen minute tea; village roads around the town are narrow, no place for a full size bus. If the trip falls in January or February, the Kottai Mariamman festival brings big crowds into town. Dindigul biryani is famous, yet for forty people tea is the practical choice. The fort on its bare rock watches over the town. Madurai is roughly an hour and a half on.

Night halt
Day one ends in Madurai, 420 km out. Book a hotel with space for the coach, because the old streets near the Meenakshi temple cannot take a big bus; groups go to darshan by auto and settle the fare before getting in. On a normal day around fifteen thousand people visit the temple, so expect a line, and leave phones and cameras behind. Tomorrow the coach turns off at Thirumangalam onto the Kollam highway, NH744, for the falls.

Tea
Rajapalayam is the second morning's tea halt, about 83 km after Thirumangalam on NH744. Forty people take turns at the restroom in a quarter of an hour. The climate is semi arid, roughly 20 to 37 deg C through the year, so mornings are the pleasant part of the day. Spinning and weaving mills give the town its trade. Tenkasi is about 60 km further, and the falls just beyond it.

Last town
At Tenkasi, 565 km from Mysore, the coach makes its final stop before the falls, which lie only about 5 km away. Shops here are better stocked than in Kutralam, so anyone who forgot a towel or slippers should buy them now. Group members going home separately by train can use Tenkasi station, the closest to the falls. The highway carries on through Shenkottai and Aryankavu into Kerala, for groups extending the trip.

Group drop
After about 14 hours on the road across two days, the coach brings the group into Kutralam, also spelt Courtallam, on the second morning. It parks in the town lots, and the group walks to its stay. For forty people, rooms should be booked well before the date, because weekends fill up. Ask each person to carry a towel, a dry change and a plastic bag for wet clothes. The coach shuttles the group between the falls through the stay.
Need Mysore to Kutralam bus hire for a group of 45 for a bath in the falls? The falls run best from June to September, and a bus brings everyone for the season. Kutralam: we pick you up in Mysuru at hotels near Mysore Palace or Mysore railway station. Book it through our bus on rent in Mysore desk, open since 2009.
Route | One way | Kutralam and back | Time by bus |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Kutralam via Sathyamangalam, Madurai and Tenkasi | About 570 km | About 1,140 km | About 14 hr with stops |
The return run to Kutralam is about 1140 km on the road, billed as four days, 1200 km, at 300 km each day. Volvo and BharatBenz to Kutralam on request, at 400 km each day. The per km rate already pays for diesel and driver; the driver's day allowance is extra. Driver allowance is ₹700 to ₹1,000 each day; tolls and parking at actual, permits and GST extra. Kutralam one way: on request. Take the 33 seater: ₹44/km, so ₹55,600. Fuel and driver come with the Kutralam bus rate; AC and non-AC available.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 4 days, 1,200 km | 5 days, 1,500 km | 6 days, 1,800 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹44 | ₹55,600 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | |
₹44 | ₹55,600 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | |
₹44 | ₹55,600 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | |
₹60 | ₹76,000 | ₹95,000 | ₹114,000 | |
₹60 | ₹76,000 | ₹95,000 | ₹114,000 | |
₹65 | ₹82,000 | ₹102,500 | ₹123,000 | |
₹54 | ₹68,800 | ₹86,000 | ₹103,200 | |
₹54 | ₹68,800 | ₹86,000 | ₹103,200 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹700 to ₹1,000 a night, by size), tolls, parking, Tamil Nadu permit and 5% GST. Shared by 50, 5 days in the 50 Seater Bus is about ₹1,720 a person.
For the Kutralam falls, 29 travellers take the 29 seater bus and 33 the 33 seater bus. Forty going to Kutralam: the 40 seater bus. A full 50: the 50 seater bus. Lots of bags for a long holiday? One size up.
Kutralam with about 20? Look at the Mysore to Kutralam mini bus. Just a family? The Mysore to Kutralam tempo traveller. Other plans from Mysore: bus on rent in Mysore.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
A coach covers about 570 km from Mysore to the Kutralam falls, around 1,140 km for the return. With roughly 14 hours of driving, we run it over two days: forest, ghat and plains to Madurai, then NH744 by Rajapalayam to Tenkasi and the falls next morning. The route suits a full size bus throughout.
Under 35, the 33 or 35 seater; around 40, the 40 seater; 45 to 50, the 45, 49 or 50 seater. Sizes are on bus on rent in Mysore.
Yes, in the town lots. In peak season the bus parks a little away.
Yes, quoted when you ask. We quote one way drops in writing once we have your date.
Not included. Tolls, parking, permits and GST go on the bill at cost.
Yes, past 10 pm a night allowance is added. Plan the start time and it rarely comes up. That comes to ₹700 to ₹1,000, by size a night.
Sometimes. Whenever the Kaveri water issue between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu heats up, Mysore may see protests or a bandh, and coaches heading south are the vehicles most likely to be stopped at the city limits. Our office keeps watch on the news the evening before departure and, if a bandh is announced, agrees a fresh start time or date with the group leader.
Not the whole way. The plains from Kutralam to Madurai and Karur are fine at night, but the last part, the Dhimbam ghat and the Sathyamangalam forest, has had night closures with changing hours, and animals cross after dark. The driver also needs rest after a long day. We plan the return so the coach crosses the forest in daylight, usually with a night halt on the way.