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Home Services Destinations ContactTempo travellers, buses and cars on rent in Srinagar, arranged through our vetted partner network. Vehicles from 4 to 33 seats with a driver, for the Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonmarg circuit.
How we work here
Avante operates from Mumbai and has no office in Srinagar. Vehicles here come from local operators we have vetted, held to a published standard, with one coordinator and one bill from us.
Avante Travels operates from Mumbai, where we own our fleet and run our own garages. We do not have an office in this city, and we would rather tell you that here than let you discover it later.
What you get instead is our network. Vehicles come from operators we have vetted and worked with over time, held to a standard we publish rather than one we claim. One coordinator at Avante owns your booking, you get one bill from us, and thirty years of operating means we have the relationships to fix a problem rather than pass it on.
Do not risk a corporate event or a family trip on an unknown local vendor found through a search result. That is the whole argument for using us here.
Vehicles come from partners we have worked with over time, not from whoever answers the phone first on the day.
Every vehicle we send is under three years old and in the category you booked or higher. Occasionally we upgrade at the same price and do not charge extra for it.
An Avante person owns your booking from the first call to the final invoice. You do not deal with the local operator and you do not chase them.
However many operators are involved, your finance team gets one invoice from us rather than several from names they do not recognise.
If a vehicle falls short, that is our problem to fix rather than yours to absorb. Three decades of operating is what makes replacing it possible.
We have no office here and we say so on this page. You are buying the standard and the coordination, not a local branch.
Cars and SUVs
4 to 7 seats
The most common choice in the valley
Force Urbania
9 to 16 seats
Family and small group circuits
Tempo Traveller
14 to 26 seats
Group valley circuits
Mini Bus
19 to 33 seats
Larger tour groups
Valley roads are narrow, so smaller vehicles reach more places. A full coach is limited to the main routes. For a group above about 33 we would suggest two vehicles rather than one large one.
The bigger the vehicle, the less each person pays. A 13 seater on a day trip works out around ₹615 a head. A 49 seater on the same trip works out around ₹367. If your group sits close to the next size up, going up usually costs less per person, not more.
Travelling with elderly passengers or small children? Book one size above your headcount. The spare row means somebody can put their feet up and lie down, or the children have somewhere to play.
These are the runs we arrange most often out of Srinagar. Times assume a full vehicle with an 80 km per hour speed limiter and a halt, so they run longer than a mapping tool suggests. Plan for roughly 10 to 15 per cent more distance than the map says, an hour more on trips up to five hours, and two hours more beyond that.
| Route | Distance | Plan for | We suggest | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Srinagar to Doodhpathri | 42 km | 1 h 45 m | SUV | Get quote→ |
| Srinagar to Gulmarg | 50 km | 2 h 00 m | SUV or 14 seater | Get quote→ |
| Srinagar to Sonmarg | 80 km | 2 h 30 m | SUV or 16 seater | Get quote→ |
| Srinagar to Pahalgam | 90 km | 3 h 00 m | SUV or 16 seater | Get quote→ |
| Srinagar to Jammu | 265 km | 8 h 00 m | 16 seater | Get quote→ |
| Srinagar to Leh | 420 km | 12 h 00 m | SUV, summer only | Get quote→ |
Some venues and rural roads on these routes cannot take a large vehicle. Send us the exact pickup and drop addresses, including any unpaved or seasonal stretches, and we will confirm access before you book rather than on the day.
There is no Avante office in this city, so there is no local address or local number to publish. Bookings are handled from our Mumbai office and delivered locally by our network.
Our Mumbai office
No. Avante operates from Mumbai. Vehicles here come through our vetted partner network of local operators, held to our standard: nothing older than three years and in the category you booked or higher, with one coordinator and one bill from us.
Valley roads are narrow, slow and often busy. Distance is a poor guide to time in Kashmir, which is why we quote time rather than kilometres on these routes.
You could, but nobody sensibly does. It is around 2,050 km and 35 hours of driving. Fly to Srinagar and we arrange the vehicle there through our network.
No, it is a summer route. Snow closes the high passes for much of the year, so if Leh is in your plan the season decides your dates.
All our vehicles are speed limited to 80 km per hour, which RTO rules require. It is set in the vehicle and we cannot raise it. Factor that into your timings.
To secure your preferred vehicle, book as early as you can. We also take last minute bookings up to an hour before pickup, depending on what is free and where it is.
It happens in Kashmir and we plan buffer time for it. Your coordinator reworks the itinerary rather than leaving the local driver to improvise and you to find out afterwards.
April to October for the valley generally. Winter has its own appeal but restricts what is reachable, and the high routes close entirely.
