Coming home is not a transfer. It is two parents, three children, a grandmother, seven suitcases and a box of gifts — at two in the morning, after twenty hours. The house plans for all of it before you board.
Tell the house how many cases and how large. If one boot will not take them, a second car follows with a sarathi of its own, moving together and written as one figure.
The ages and weights, and the right seats come fitted and checked; a stroller at no charge for a child up to about three. The law asks that a child under fourteen be secured, and the house keeps it.
A seat they can reach without climbing, a hand at the door, a wheelchair met where the airline brings it, and a slower walk to the car. Parents arriving.
Your building's gate, the lane the map does not know, the floor with no lift — write it once, and the house keeps it in your room for every homecoming after.
December, the summer holidays and the weeks before Diwali are when Mumbai's families come home — and when the house is fullest. Reserve as early as you know the flights; every flight in the family can be met by name, and each arrives at one door.
Inside every written figure: the car, your sarathi, fuel, every toll, parking at both ends and GST. Nothing is added on the day, and no meter runs.
Reserve the homecomingTell the house who is travelling, and how many cases.