Bengaluru · Mysore · Coorg · 4 nights / 5 days · family
Karnataka Coffee Country — 4 Nights
Mysore for the palace and Coorg for everything else — coffee estates, waterfalls, and hills that smell of pepper vine after rain. Five days from Bengaluru with your own car and driver, and no part of it more than four hours behind the wheel.
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Highlights
- Mysore Palace, and the Sunday-evening illumination if your dates land right
- Srirangapatna and the Tipu Sultan sites on the road from Bengaluru
- Two nights in Coorg among the coffee estates
- Abbey Falls, Raja's Seat at sunset, Dubare elephant camp and the Talakaveri source
- Private air-conditioned car and driver for all five days
Day-by-day itinerary
Day 1 — Arrive Bengaluru
Land, check in, and take the afternoon at your own pace. Lalbagh, Cubbon Park, the Bull Temple, or simply a long lunch — Bengaluru rewards not being in a hurry.
Day 2 — Bengaluru to Mysore
About three hours, with Srirangapatna on the way — Tipu Sultan's fort, the summer palace at Daria Daulat Bagh, and the Gumbaz. Afternoon at Mysore Palace, and Chamundi Hill for the view before dark.
Day 3 — Mysore to Coorg
Three hours west into the hills, gaining coffee as you go. Afternoon for Abbey Falls, and Raja's Seat for sunset — it's touristy and it's still the right thing to do on your first evening in Madikeri.
Day 4 — Coorg, all day
Dubare elephant camp in the morning, then a working coffee estate, Talakaveri where the Kaveri rises, and the Namdroling monastery at Bylakuppe on the way back — a full Tibetan settlement in the middle of Karnataka, and completely unexpected the first time you see it.
Day 5 — Coorg to Bengaluru
Five or six hours back, so an early start. We'll time it to your flight.
Included
- Hotels for every night of the trip, on twin sharing, with breakfast each morning
- A private air-conditioned car with a driver for the whole trip — every transfer and every sightseeing stop
- Your driver is with you 8am to 8pm each day
- All toll charges, interstate permits, parking fees and driver allowance
- All applicable taxes on the above
- A single point of contact in Delhi before, during and after the trip
Not included
- Flights or trains to and from the start and end points
- Lunches, dinners and snacks, unless a meal is listed in the inclusions
- Entrance fees at monuments, parks, boat jetties and viewpoints — these are paid at the gate
- Personal expenses: tips, laundry, phone calls, room service, porterage
- Optional activities, and any upgrade you decide to take on the day
- Travel insurance
- Anything not written into the inclusions list above
Best time to go: October to March. The monsoon months are green and cheap, but Coorg's roads get slow
Things to carry
- · Photo ID for every traveller, including children — hotels ask for it at check-in
- · A light rain jacket or a compact umbrella
- · One warm layer: hill station evenings drop to 12–15°C even in summer
- · Walking shoes with grip, not new ones
- · Mosquito repellent
- · Any regular medication, plus motion-sickness tablets if you are prone to them — the ghat roads have a lot of bends
- · A power bank — long drive days and few charging points at the viewpoints
Cancellation policy
More than 30 days before departure: we retain ₹3,000 per person and refund the rest. 30 to 15 days before departure: 25% of the package cost. 14 to 8 days before departure: 50% of the package cost. 7 days or less, or no show: 100%.
Festival dates and a few resorts carry stricter terms of their own. If any part of your booking is on non-refundable terms, we tell you in writing before you pay anything — it will never be a surprise at the cancellation stage.
Refunds go back to the account you paid from, within 7 to 10 working days of the cancellation being confirmed.
Flight tickets, once issued, follow the airline's own rules and are refunded only to the extent the airline refunds us.
More questions, answered
- Are flights included?
- No. The price covers everything on the ground from the moment you land to the moment we drop you back. We can book your flights alongside the package if you'd rather have one invoice — just say so when you enquire.
- Is the car ours for the whole trip?
- Yes. Same car, same driver, from arrival to departure. It isn't a shared coach and it isn't a series of separate transfers. Your driver is with you 8am to 8pm each day.
- What if there are four or six of us?
- The price drops per head, and not by a little. The car and the driver cost the same whether two people are in it or six, so a group of six pays roughly a third less each than a couple does for exactly the same trip. Tell us your group size and we'll send the real number.
- Can we change the hotels?
- Yes, within reason. Tell us what you want and we'll price it. The categories on this page are the ones we hold rates in, but we're not locked to a fixed list.
- How do we pay?
- Part now to confirm the booking, the balance before you travel. You get a proper GST invoice, not a WhatsApp message with a UPI ID.
- Can we start from Mysore or Mangalore instead?
- Yes. Tell us where you're flying into and we'll reshape the route. Mangalore actually makes the Coorg drive shorter.
- Is Coorg good in the monsoon?
- It's spectacular and it's cheap, and the waterfalls are at their best. The trade-off is leeches on the estate walks and slower roads. Plenty of people prefer it.