
Mysore to Tuticorin Force Urbania for 8 to 16 People
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Distance
560 km
From Mysore
Time
About 11.5 to 12 hr
Via Chamarajanagar, Karur and Madurai
Starting from
₹ 50800
4 days, 1,200 km, any size

8 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC8 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

9 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC9 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

10 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC10 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

12 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC12 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

13 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC13 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

15 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC15 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)

16 Seater Urbania
LUXURYAC16 Seats
₹49,588 ₹59,900
+ ₹8800 (Taxes & Charges)
Start
60 km
145 km
215 km
280 km
355 km
420 km
470 km
560 km

Pickup at your door
At half past five the Urbania collects your group from home, a palace side hotel or the railway station, and leaves by the Nanjangud road for Chamarajanagar. Travelling in the Dasara weeks of September or October? Then expect heavy crowds in Mysore and diverted traffic on the main exits, and we will start a little earlier to get clear. Tuticorin is a two day trip with a night in Madurai, kinder for elders. Put seniors in the front rows, where the ride is gentlest, and keep their medicines handy.

Breakfast
At Chamarajanagar, 60 km out, the Urbania stops for breakfast; plan thirty minutes so elders can eat without hurrying. Idli, vada and coffee are served near the bus stand. The Suvarnavathi dam is about 16 km from town, a pleasant spot, but a detour for another day. Everyone should use the restroom here, because the stretch ahead climbs through forest and down a long ghat, with nowhere sensible to stop for a good while. The driver fills diesel in town, since the forest road and the ghat have no pumps at all.

Tea at Sathy
Just where the ghat flattens out, the Urbania passes Bannari, home of Bannari Amman, worshipped here as the goddess who brings rain. Every Panguni, in March or April, her Kundam fire festival draws lakhs of people and slows this stretch badly, so on those dates we start earlier. A few minutes later, at the 145 km mark, the group stops in Sathyamangalam for fifteen minutes of tea. Farming and buses are the town's business, with services all day to Erode and Coimbatore.

Short halt
Erode, 215 km from Mysore, is a short halt for tea and the restroom. Coconuts and coconut oil are traded here in huge volumes, so a can of cold pressed oil is a useful buy for the kitchen at home. Bhavani, about 12 km away, has the Sangameswarar temple at Kooduthurai, where the Kaveri and Bhavani rivers meet; elders often ask to see it, and it fits better on the return. From March to June the heat is fierce and the windows stay shut. Lunch is at Karur, 65 km on.

Lunch
Karur is lunch, 280 km from Mysore, at the halfway point of the whole trip. Forty five minutes gives elders time for a full meal and a rest before the afternoon drive. Three rivers, the Amaravathi, the Kaveri and the Noyyal, run past Karur, though in this dry country the Amaravathi bed is often wide sand. Karur is a big centre for bus body building, and textiles from its mills are sold in town. We eat on the highway side, away from the busy bus stand in the middle of town, to keep the stop quick.

Tea
Dindigul, 355 km out, is the tea stop before Madurai. Coffee and a restroom break take a quarter of an hour. Oranges, pineapple and guava grow around here, and Dindigul's vegetable market is the biggest in the state, so the fruit carts by the road are fresh. Silk sarees come from the looms of Chinnalapatti, about 11 km off, and the Dindigul shops also stock Sungudi cotton. The rock fort stands on its rock above the town. Madurai is about 66 km ahead, so the group reaches the hotel before dark.

Night halt
Madurai is the night halt, 420 km from Mysore. Choose a hotel with lifts and ground floor rooms if the elders find stairs hard. The Meenakshi temple stays open until about 10 pm; by custom, devotees go in through the southern tower and see the goddess before the other shrines, and phones are left outside. For a light dinner, coconut rice is easy on a tired stomach. Autos charge by the km, so fix the fare before getting in. Next morning we leave after breakfast for the last 140 km.

Tea on NH38
Aruppukottai is the morning tea stop on day two, about 50 km down NH38 from Madurai. The town is known for cotton spinning mills and for jasmine, which is grown in the fields around, so the flower stalls are full early. The Meenakshi Chokkanatha temple here dates to a 13th century Pandya king. Elders should drink water at this stop; the climate is dry and hot, with rain only from October to December. The highway goes on through Ettayapuram, and Tuticorin is 90 km ahead.

Hotel drop
The Urbania pulls into Tuticorin, or Thoothukudi, before noon on day two, after about 11.5 to 12 hours of driving from Mysore. The driver hands down the luggage at the hotel entrance. Summers on this coast are very hot with occasional heavy rain in the northeast monsoon, so rooms with AC are worth the extra. The bakeries sell Thoothukudi macaroons made with cashew, a soft sweet elders enjoy. For local outings and the run back to Mysore, the same Urbania and driver remain with you.
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Route | One way | Tuticorin and back | Time by Urbania |
|---|---|---|---|
Mysore to Tuticorin via Chamarajanagar, Karur and Madurai | About 560 km | About 1,120 km | About 11.5 to 12 hr with stops |
The whole trip to Tuticorin and back means about 1120 km driven and 1200 km billed for four days. One way on request. Every Urbania is AC only. Extra: ₹700 each day to the driver, plus tolls, parking fees, permits and GST. A 12 seater at ₹40/km makes it ₹50,800. The rate includes fuel, the driver and AC.
Vehicle | Rate per km | 4 days, 1,200 km | 5 days, 1,500 km | 6 days, 1,800 km |
|---|---|---|---|---|
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 | |
₹40 | ₹50,800 | ₹63,500 | ₹76,200 |
Totals are the km fare plus the day driver allowance. Extra: night driver allowance (₹700 a night), tolls, parking, Tamil Nadu permit and 5% GST. Shared by 16, 5 days in the 16 Seater Urbania is about ₹3,970 a person.
For Tuticorin, the per km rate is the same on every size; pick by seats. 9: 10 seater Urbania. 12: 12 seater Urbania. 13: 13 seater Urbania. 16: 16 seater Urbania.
On a budget? See the Mysore to Tuticorin tempo traveller. Just a family of four? The Mysore to Tuticorin cab works. Every size: Force Urbania on rent in Mysore.
Cancellation: no charge more than 72 hours before pickup; see the cancellation policy for the rest.
Count on about 560 km each way, close to 1,120 km for the full return. The Urbania leaves Karnataka at Chamarajanagar, drops down the Dhimbam ghat to Sathyamangalam, then runs the long plains stretch past Karur and Dindigul to a night in Madurai before taking NH38 to the port. Driving time comes to about 11.5 to 12 hours with halts, split into two easy days.
Yes. Share the date and group size and you get it in writing.
Driving after 10 pm adds a night allowance to the driver, as per the quote. Night bata: ₹700.
Not included. GST, tolls, parking and any permit are charged at actual.
Yes, over two days. The Urbania seats recline, and we stop every two hours.
For 8 or 9 people, the 10 seater. See every size on Force Urbania on rent in Mysore. For 16, the 16 seater. Ten to 13 people to Tuticorin fit the 12 or 13 seater.
It is the one hard stretch: 27 hairpin bends coming down from the Hasanur side to Bannari, about 85 km after Mysore. We cross it in the morning, before the heat, and the driver takes the bends slowly. Give the person a front seat by a window, a light breakfast at Chamarajanagar and a lemon or a sweet to suck. After Sathyamangalam the road is flat all the way to Tuticorin.
Yes. Each person has their own seat, the AC keeps the van cool, and there is room to move to the back for a nap. We halt about every 70 km in the first half of the day, at Chamarajanagar, Sathyamangalam, Erode and Karur, so children never sit too long. Carry snacks and a change of clothes in a hand bag, because the main luggage is packed at the back.