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A dedicated vehicle and a professional driver for 30 days, from ₹35,000 a month with 2,500 km and 8 hours a day included.
Short answer
A car with a driver for a month in Manali starts at ₹35,000 for a sedan and runs to ₹60,000 for an Innova Crysta. Every rate covers 30 days with one dedicated vehicle and the same driver throughout, 2,500 km and 8 hours a day included — about 83 km a day, or roughly ₹14.0 per included kilometre on the sedan. Fuel, the driver and GST are in the rate.
Kilometres beyond the included allowance and hours beyond eight a day are charged at the published extra rate. Tolls, parking, state permits and the driver night allowance are at actuals. One vehicle and one driver for the full month, not a rotating fleet.
The same published monthly package applies in every city we serve. Each rate covers 30 days with one dedicated vehicle and driver, 2,500 km and 8 hours a day.
| Vehicle | Seats | Included | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sedan (Swift Dzire or similar) | 4 | 2,500 km · 8 hrs/day | ₹35,000 |
| SUV (Ertiga or similar) | 6 | 2,500 km · 8 hrs/day | ₹50,000 |
| Innova Crysta | 6 | 2,500 km · 8 hrs/day | ₹60,000 |
Fuel, the driver and GST are included in the monthly rate.
Kilometres beyond the included 2,500 and hours beyond 8 a day are charged at the published extra rate.
Tolls, parking, state permits and the driver night allowance are charged at actuals.
One vehicle and one driver for the whole month, not a rotating fleet.
The rate is the same everywhere. What differs is how a car actually gets used here.
Hotels and homestays through the season, holding a vehicle for airport and station transfers and guest excursions. Adventure and trekking operators on the same basis. Apple orchard business through the harvest, which is a freight-and-people mix. And an unusually large number of long-stay remote workers, who have made Old Manali and Vashisht a semi-permanent community and want a car without owning one in the hills.
The included 2,500 km goes a long way here because hill distances are short and slow. Solang is 13 km, Vashisht 3, Naggar 22, and a full day to the Atal tunnel and back is under 100 km. Ninety minutes of driving covers 25 km. So the hours matter more than the kilometres, and the Kullu airport and Chandigarh runs — 50 km and 305 km — are what consume the allowance.
The Mall is pedestrian in parts and Old Manali across the river is narrow and steep. The Beas divides the usable town. Kullu airport at Bhuntar is 50 km down the valley; the nearest railhead at Joginder Nagar is further. The Atal tunnel has replaced the Rohtang route to Lahaul for most of the year.
An SUV, almost always. Hill gradient, winter surface and the Solang and tunnel roads make ground clearance a practical requirement rather than a preference, and the Ertiga or Innova is what local operators use. A sedan is workable only for valley-floor running in summer.
Two peaks: April to June, which is the big one, and late December through January for snow. A monthly hire across either should be arranged well ahead because the whole valley fleet is committed. The Rohtang pass needs a permit and carries a daily vehicle cap, and it is shut by snow for a large part of the year — the tunnel is not a substitute for it if the pass itself is the destination.
A sedan is ₹35,000 a month in Manali, an SUV ₹50,000 and an Innova Crysta ₹60,000. Each covers 30 days with one dedicated vehicle and driver, 2,500 km and 8 hours a day included, with fuel, the driver and GST in the rate. Kilometres and hours beyond those are charged at the published extra rate, and tolls, parking, state permits and the driver night allowance are at actuals.
The included 2,500 km goes a long way here because hill distances are short and slow. Solang is 13 km, Vashisht 3, Naggar 22, and a full day to the Atal tunnel and back is under 100 km. Ninety minutes of driving covers 25 km. So the hours matter more than the kilometres, and the Kullu airport and Chandigarh runs — 50 km and 305 km — are what consume the allowance.
An SUV, almost always. Hill gradient, winter surface and the Solang and tunnel roads make ground clearance a practical requirement rather than a preference, and the Ertiga or Innova is what local operators use. A sedan is workable only for valley-floor running in summer.
Two peaks: April to June, which is the big one, and late December through January for snow. A monthly hire across either should be arranged well ahead because the whole valley fleet is committed. The Rohtang pass needs a permit and carries a daily vehicle cap, and it is shut by snow for a large part of the year — the tunnel is not a substitute for it if the pass itself is the destination.
Hotels and homestays through the season, holding a vehicle for airport and station transfers and guest excursions. Adventure and trekking operators on the same basis. Apple orchard business through the harvest, which is a freight-and-people mix. And an unusually large number of long-stay remote workers, who have made Old Manali and Vashisht a semi-permanent community and want a car without owning one in the hills.
The Mall is pedestrian in parts and Old Manali across the river is narrow and steep. The Beas divides the usable town. Kullu airport at Bhuntar is 50 km down the valley; the nearest railhead at Joginder Nagar is further. The Atal tunnel has replaced the Rohtang route to Lahaul for most of the year.
Yes. A monthly hire is one vehicle and one driver for the full 30 days rather than a rotating fleet, which is most of the reason people take a month rather than booking day by day — the driver learns the routes, the timings and the access arrangements in Manali. If the driver needs a rest day or falls ill we provide a replacement for that period and tell you in advance wherever possible.
Tell us the dates, the vehicle and roughly how far you expect to travel each day. We confirm the car, the driver and the monthly rate before it starts, and there is no advance payment.
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