Maharaja Tempo Traveller on Rent in Mumbai

Yes and no. It is not necessarily a physically bigger vehicle, but it is generally a higher capacity base vehicle modified to give fewer, wider seats. A 13 seater Maharaja may be built from a 20 seater tempo traveller. A 20 seater Maharaja may be built from a 26 seater. The vehicle is the same size outside. There is simply more space per passenger inside.

Two sizes in the tempo traveller: a 13 seater with one seat each side of the aisle, and a 20 seater with two on one side and one on the other. There is also a Maharaja luxury modified Urbania in 9 and 10 seater.

No seat in any of these vehicles reclines fully, and anyone telling you otherwise is overselling. The recline angle is broadly similar across categories. What a Maharaja actually gives you is width, armrests and space, not a flatter seat.

No. Maharaja vehicles come through our vetted partner network. We keep them under three years old and in the category you booked or higher, and we check the interior before it goes out.

On a two hour drive, probably not. On a six hour run to Shirdi or an overnight to Goa, most people say yes. The honest test is the length of the trip and who is travelling.

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, and see the route table above for realistic drive times.

From a point close to your boarding location wherever we can, not strictly from our garage. Our buses and tempo travellers sit in Kandivali and our cars in Andheri, and we would rather not bill you for the drive to your door. Tell us your pickup point and we will confirm how it is being counted.

The bigger the vehicle, the lower the cost per head. A 13 seater on a Lonavala day trip runs about ₹8,000, which is roughly ₹615 each. A 49 seater coach on the same trip runs about ₹18,000, which is roughly ₹367 each. If you are close to the next size up, it is usually worth going up.

Book one size bigger than your headcount. It leaves a spare row, so someone can put their feet up and lie down on a long stretch, or the children have somewhere to play. It is the single best piece of advice we give and it costs very little.

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.

Yes, because fewer people are travelling in the same body. Medium bags roughly match the seat count and large bags come to about 60 to 65 per cent of it, so at a lower seat count everybody gets more room for bags too.