
Mysore to Padmanabhaswamy Temple Bus Hire for Groups of 26 to 50
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Distance
615 km
From Mysore
Time
About 15.5 hr
Via Gundlupet, Thrissur and Kollam
Starting from
₹ 69500
5 days, 1,500 km, 27 seater

29 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC29 Seats
₹67,630 ₹81,747
+ ₹12047 (Taxes & Charges)

30 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC30 Seats
₹67,630 ₹81,747
+ ₹12047 (Taxes & Charges)
32 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC32 Seats
₹67,630 ₹81,747
+ ₹12047 (Taxes & Charges)

33 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
NORMALAC33 Seats
₹67,630 ₹81,747
+ ₹12047 (Taxes & Charges)
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40 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC40 Seats
₹91,210 ₹1,10,238
+ ₹16238 (Taxes & Charges)

45 Seater Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹98,485 ₹1,19,047
+ ₹17547 (Taxes & Charges)

49 Seater Bus A/C 2/3
NORMALAC49 Seats
₹82,480 ₹99,666
+ ₹14666 (Taxes & Charges)

50 Seater Bus A/C 2/3
NORMALAC50 Seats
₹82,480 ₹99,666
+ ₹14666 (Taxes & Charges)

27 Seater Bus A/C 2/1
LUXURYAC27 Seats
₹67,630 ₹81,747
+ ₹12047 (Taxes & Charges)

30 seater bus A/C Executive 2/2
LUXURYAC30 Seats
₹73,450 ₹88,795
+ ₹13095 (Taxes & Charges)

45 Seater Benz Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹1,05,760 ₹1,27,857
+ ₹18857 (Taxes & Charges)

Volvo Bus A/C 2/2
LUXURYAC45 Seats
₹1,06,000
+ ₹18900 (Taxes & Charges)
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615 km

One boarding point
The bus picks up the group at one place, usually the city bus stand, the suburban bus stand or a hotel near the palace, at 6 am. Forty or more people should be seated ten minutes early, with one coordinator holding the name list. Big suitcases go in the hold under the floor; the overnight bag for Thrissur stays inside. The bus leaves on the Nanjangud road, NH766, and does not enter the old city. A box of Mysore pak, the ghee and gram flour sweet, goes well with tea on the road.

Restrooms and diesel
Gundlupet, the town people call the flower pot of India, is 60 km out and the last chance for restrooms before the forest. Keep fifteen minutes, since forty people at one tea counter takes time. The town is also called the Land of Tigers because Bandipur National Park is only about 17 km away, and the reserve road ahead bans stopping and closes from 9 pm to 6 am. Diesel goes in here. At the junction the bus stays on NH 766 towards Kerala, not NH 181 to Ooty.

Group breakfast
Sulthan Bathery, 115 km from Mysore, is the breakfast stop once the bus clears the Muthanga range of the Wayanad sanctuary. The town is the transport hub of the district, and the driver picks a hotel with space to park a coach. Allow forty minutes for a group of forty. Pepper, cardamom and local coffee sell in the Bathery market if anyone wants them. Kozhikode is about 95 km ahead, and the bus goes down the Thamarassery ghat in low gear, so this is the time to move elders to the front.

Lunch for forty
Kozhikode, 210 km out, is the lunch stop, and the bus uses the bypass rather than the busy centre. A hotel that can seat forty in one go keeps the halt to forty five minutes. India's first UNESCO City of Literature has plenty to see, but for a bus group the practical buy is banana chips fried fresh and Kozhikodan halwa, packed in boxes for the coach. On the return, heavy goods vehicles are barred from the Thamarassery ghat by day, so lorries crowd it at night. Thrissur is about 120 km south.

Night halt
Thrissur, 330 km from Mysore, is the night halt for the bus. The NH544 stretch from Vadakkencherry to Mannuthy just before the city was Kerala's first six lane national highway, so the evening run in is quick. Choose a hotel with coach parking outside the centre, because the Thekkinkadu Maidan area around the Vadakkumnathan temple gets packed, above all on Pooram day in April or May. Dinner and breakfast for forty work out smoothly when ordered ahead. The bus leaves early next morning for the last 285 km.

Highway halt
Kochi, 405 km from Mysore, is a twenty minute halt for tea and restrooms on day two. A full size bus keeps off Fort Kochi and Mattancherry, where the lanes are tight; on our bus trips big groups are dropped on the main road. Karimeen, the pearl spot that is Kerala's state fish, is the lunch to order if the group stops longer. The Biennale art show has run in the city since 2012 and draws crowds in its season. NH66 now carries the bus south towards Alappuzha, about 55 km on.

Highway tea
Alappuzha is 460 km into the trip, and the bus halts on the highway for fifteen minutes, as the canal side roads in town are narrow. Kuttanad, south and east of the town, is fed by the Pamba, Meenachil, Achankovil and Manimala rivers, and the FAO listed its farming below sea level as a world agricultural heritage system in 2013. Coir products from the town are the buy. Kayamkulam is about 45 km south on NH66, and Kollam follows, 85 km from here.

Last group halt
Kollam, 545 km from Mysore, is the last group halt, twenty minutes for tea and cashews. The bus stops on the highway side, not in the narrow town roads. Neendakara port sits at the mouth of Ashtamudi lake, where fishing and coir retting keep the banks busy. Varkala is about 30 km south of Kollam and often joins a temple tour on the way back. From here the bus has 70 km left, and the coordinator can remind everyone of the temple dress code.

Arrive at East Fort
The bus needs about fifteen and a half hours of driving with these halts, spread over two days. Big buses park in the open ground near the temple, a short walk from the East Fort gate of Sree Padmanabhaswamy. Entry is for Hindus only. Men wear a white dhoti with angavastram and no shirt, women a sari, and dhotis can be rented near the gate. Bags and phones go into the cloak room, so leave them on the bus. A hotel that serves a banana leaf sadya for forty after darshan saves time.
Need Mysore to Padmanabhaswamy Temple bus hire for a temple group of 45 to Thiruvananthapuram? One bus for your group, with a night halt near Kochi on the way down. We pick you up in Mysuru at Mandakalli airport or any hotel in the city. We have run bus on rent in Mysore since 2009.
Route | One way | Padmanabhaswamy Temple and back | Time by bus |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Padmanabhaswamy Temple via Gundlupet, Thrissur and Kollam | About 615 km | About 1,230 km | About 15.5 hr with stops |
Padmanabhaswamy Temple and back from Mysore is roughly 1230 km on the road, billed as five days, 1500 km, at 300 km each day. Take the 33 seater: ₹44/km, so ₹69,500. For the Padmanabhaswamy trip, fuel and driver are in the rate; AC and non-AC available. For the Padmanabhaswamy trip, Volvo or BharatBenz on request at 400 km per day. One way on request. Add driver allowance (₹700 to ₹1,000 per day), tolls, parking, permit fees and GST.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 5 days, 1,500 km | 6 days, 1,800 km | 7 days, 2,100 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹44 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | ₹97,300 | |
₹44 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | ₹97,300 | |
₹44 | ₹69,500 | ₹83,400 | ₹97,300 | |
₹60 | ₹95,000 | ₹114,000 | ₹133,000 | |
₹60 | ₹95,000 | ₹114,000 | ₹133,000 | |
₹65 | ₹102,500 | ₹123,000 | ₹143,500 | |
₹54 | ₹86,000 | ₹103,200 | ₹120,400 | |
₹54 | ₹86,000 | ₹103,200 | ₹120,400 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹700 to ₹1,000 a night, by size), tolls, parking, Kerala permit and 5% GST. Shared by 50, 6 days in the 50 Seater Bus is about ₹2,060 a person.
Temple groups going to Thiruvananthapuram usually fill the 40 seater bus or the 50 seater bus. About 30 devotees for Padmanabhaswamy fit the 33 seater bus; 29 or fewer, the 29 seater bus.
Under 26 people? The Mysore to Padmanabhaswamy Temple mini bus is cheaper. A family of 12 can take the Mysore to Padmanabhaswamy Temple tempo traveller. All sizes are on bus on rent in Mysore.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
A coach from Mysore covers about 615 km to Thiruvananthapuram and the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, so roughly 1,230 km for the round trip. It runs NH766 to Kozhikode by Gundlupet and Sulthan Bathery, then south along the coast through Thrissur, Kochi, Alappuzha and Kollam. Driving time is about 15.5 hours, split over two days with a night halt in Thrissur.
Driving past 10 pm adds a night allowance for our driver, as per the quote. Night bata: ₹700 to ₹1,000, by size.
Buses drop near the fort and park at the nearby lots.
Yes, quoted when you ask. Send the date and pickup point, and the one way quote comes in writing.
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.
No. Toll and parking receipts are added at actual, and GST goes on the final bill.
Yes, tourist buses use it every day. The rules from June 2026 bar multi axle trucks, containers, tankers and trailers between 6 am and 8 pm while hairpins 6, 7 and 8 are widened, so the day runs freer and trucks bunch up at night. We take the ghat in daylight and keep the Kuttiady road in mind if the churam is blocked.
Yes, with the night in Thrissur nobody sits more than two to three hours at a stretch, and every halt has restrooms. Elders take the front rows, which ride better on the ghat bends. At the temple, the bus parks in the open ground nearby, so the walk to the gate is short, though the queue inside can be long on festival days.