The driver
Stays with the car all day
Hotel pickup at the time you choose, waiting at every stop for the whole package, and no re-booking between sights. Fuel, tolls, parking and the driver’s allowance are in the price.
Guide, vehicle and driver
A private tour with a guide and driver
One car, one driver and one licensed guide, on a single price agreed before you travel — ₹4,000 for a full day in a sedan with an English-speaking guide, ₹2,400 for a half day. The driver stays with the car and the guide comes inside the monuments with you, which is the one thing a taxi cannot do and a walking guide cannot either.
Full day · sedan
₹4,000
Full day · SUV
₹5,000
Half day · sedan
₹2,400
Price is
per group, not per head
Why the two together
What a guide and a driver each do, and why splitting them costs you the day
The two jobs are not interchangeable and most first-time visitors discover that halfway through the first morning. A driver cannot park at a monument gate and walk in with you — the car has to go to a car park several hundred metres away, and at Amber Fort or the Taj that is a different road entirely. A licensed guide, meanwhile, has no vehicle: they meet you at the gate and leave you there.
Booked separately, the gap between them is yours to manage: working out which gate the guide is at, where the driver can wait, and how you get between the two in forty degrees. Booked together, that is somebody else’s problem — the guide tells the driver which gate to collect from, and they have each other’s numbers.
It is also the one proposition in this category that is genuinely ours. The marketplaces sell a guide or a seat on a coach; the two specialists holding page one for guide hire in India sell a guide and leave the transport to you. A transport company that also holds licensed guides can sell the pair on one price, and that is this page.
The guide
Comes inside with you
A Ministry-of-Tourism Regional Level Guide, examined in the language you booked, admitted into the ASI monuments that turn unlicensed guides away at the ticket gate.
The price
One figure, agreed first
The guide fee plus the published rental package, added together and sent to you in writing. Per group rather than per person, so a family of four pays once.
The price
What a guided day with a car costs
English-speaking guide shown. Another language adds the difference from the rate card — Japanese and Mandarin are the dearest at ₹3,000 a day.
Half day
4 hours, 40 km included
₹900guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹2,400
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹3,100
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹3,700
Guide ₹900 plus the published 4 hr / 40 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
Full day
8 hours, 80 km included
₹1,500guide only
With a vehicle and driver
- Sedan (Swift Dzire / Honda Amaze) — 4 seats
- ₹4,000
- SUV (Ertiga / Innova) — 6–7 seats
- ₹5,000
- Innova Crysta — 7 seats
- ₹6,000
Guide ₹1,500 plus the published 8 hr / 80 km rental package. Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are not included.
Monument entry tickets are paid at the gate and are listed by monument on each city page.
Where it runs
Eight cities, and the circuits between them
Each city page carries this same bundle against that city’s own monuments and itineraries.
Delhi — guide and driverDelhiAgra — guide and driverUttar PradeshJaipur — guide and driverRajasthanUdaipur — guide and driverRajasthanVaranasi — guide and driverUttar PradeshAmritsar — guide and driverPunjabJodhpur — guide and driverRajasthanRishikesh — guide and driverUttarakhandHaridwar — guide and driverUttarakhandJaisalmer — guide and driverRajasthan
On a multi-city run, the car stays and the guide changes
Guide licences are issued per tourism region, so a Golden Triangle tour cannot legally use one guide throughout: Delhi and Agra are the Northern Region, Jaipur is Rajasthan. What we keep constant is the car and the driver, for the whole trip, and we change guide at the state line.
That is not a compromise — it is the better tour. Each guide is working on their own monuments, in the city they were examined on, rather than reciting a second-hand script about somewhere else.
Questions people ask
Guide and driver together
FAQs
₹4,000 for a full day of eight hours and eighty kilometres in a sedan with an English-speaking licensed guide, ₹5,000 in an SUV and ₹6,000 in an Innova Crysta. A half day of four hours and forty kilometres is ₹2,400, ₹3,100 and ₹3,700. Per group, not per person. Monument tickets are extra.
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One price for the guide, the car and the driver
Send the city, the dates, the language and how many of you there are. We come back with one figure, the guide’s licence card, and the pickup time.
We send the guide’s licence card before you pay anything. Nothing is charged to confirm.