ON THE RATE CARD
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Toyota Innova Crysta · up to 6 guests
By the hour, within Mumbai
Airport
Carried in every hour
Beyond the city
Beyond the hours reserved
Waiting beyond the free period
Same-day rate
We price your time, not the road. Within Mumbai the car is yours by the hour — two at the least — and the meter never runs.
No surge, no negotiation, no surprise at the end. The card below is reviewed from time to time, and the figure that counts is always the one written to you on WhatsApp on the day — this page tells you what to expect; the written quote tells you what it is. Every figure on this page is inclusive — your sarathi, the fuel, every toll, the parking at both ends and GST are inside it — and it is written down before you travel. What lies outside a fare is short, it is printed here, and you are always told before it begins.
Two hours at the least; four for Command, Limousine and Marque. Across the city and back is usually two; a morning of errands, four; a day, eight. Not sure? Reserve the shorter and the clock simply runs on, in half hours.
Within the city a car is reserved by the hour, never by the kilometre: two hours at the least, ten kilometres carried in every hour, and beyond what you reserved the clock runs in half hours, at the figure shown. The airport is the one fixed fare, because it carries the wait, the entry and the parking. A journey that begins or ends at an airport is always an airport transfer.
Toyota Innova Crysta · up to 6 guests
Innova Hycross ZX(O) hybrid or Toyota Innova Invicto · up to 6 guests
Toyota Fortuner or Fortuner Legender · up to 6 guests · the car that is sent when arrival should be felt
High ground when the monsoon closes a road, and the presence that opens a gate. The escort car of Indian protocol — chosen for the ghats, the hill roads, and the arrivals that are watched.
Kia Carnival Limousine · up to 6 guests, four large cases
Mercedes E-Class or S-Class, BMW 7 Series, Range Rover, Audi A8, Toyota Vellfire · and for a wedding morning, a Rolls-Royce or Bentley
For a wedding party there is also the Force Urbania, sixteen reclining seats, when a family must move together. These cars are not held on a rate card because they are not held in a yard. Each is found for the occasion, its papers verified before it is offered, and its figure given to you in writing before you commit to anything.
Between 11 PM and 6 AM, a Night Care rate of 20% — it funds your sarathi's night-duty allowance, and it is still below the city's own 25% night tariff. On notified festival days, a Festival Care rate of 25% — in 2026, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 25 September and 6 and 8 November, when the city closes roads and a three-hour journey becomes six. A car reserved with less than twelve hours' notice, a same-day rate — 20% for Signature and Premium, 25% for Command and Limousine — because a car found at short notice is taken from a day already planned.
Only the highest of the three is ever charged on one journey, never two together, and each is already inside your written figure before you pay. No journey is ever priced by demand, by the weather, or by how urgently you need it.
A Mercedes for a wedding morning. A specific model your father loves. A convoy, a colour, a request no rate card imagines. If it moves on four wheels in Mumbai, ask the house — quoted in writing before you confirm, like everything else here.
Airport fares are fixed by zone — western suburbs (Andheri to Dahisar) · central Mumbai (BKC, Powai, Dadar, Worli and Lower Parel) · South Mumbai (below Mahalaxmi), Thane or Navi Mumbai. If your address sits on a boundary we charge you the lower zone. We track your flight, not the clock — waiting is complimentary for forty-five minutes after a domestic landing and a full hour after an international one, and the airport parking for that wait is inside the fare.
Your sarathi, the fuel, every toll on the route, parking at the pickup and the drop, GST, fifteen minutes of complimentary waiting (forty-five after a domestic landing, sixty after an international one, with the airport's parking for that wait), an umbrella and towel when it rains, sealed water, charging for every seat, and the cabin set to your preferences before you sit down — along with everything on the list further down, which costs nothing and is never itemised.
No surge pricing, ever. No booking fee, no convenience fee, no charge for a sarathi you decline, and no charge at all if we cancel. No fee for a stop we did not expect that fits inside the complimentary one, and nothing for the walk to your door. No charge for a child seat, a laptop tray and socket, a blanket, an umbrella, a power bank or the medicine box — they are the house, not extras. An accessible car is found for the occasion and quoted in writing, never surcharged.
A fare is for the journey that was quoted — the route, the class, the number of guests — not for an unlimited day. Outside it: waiting beyond the complimentary period, by the minute at the rate shown for your car; airport parking beyond the complimentary wait, at what the airport charges (about ₹900 an hour as things stand); a pickup, a destination or a stop that was not in the quote, re-priced at the per-kilometre rate and told to you before the car turns; hours and kilometres beyond a package; and, rarely, putting the cabin right afterwards — those figures are published in our terms, shown to you with photographs, and never raised while you are still in the car. Your sarathi tells you before any of it begins; where he has not, it is not charged.
The cabin decorated for your day — birthdays, anniversaries, proposals, a first job.
2 hours within Mumbai, decorated — from ₹7,500
Additional hours at the standard package rate.
Every registered guest has one celebration journey each year on the house — book it 48 hours ahead.
Coordinated arrivals, decorated cars, and one person holding your run sheet.
4 hours, decorated — from ₹9,900
Full day (12 hours) — from ₹16,500
Multi-car fleets quoted in writing. Half the fare holds the date.
Décor is included in the prices above — flowers, ribbon and cabin lighting in the colours you choose. Anything more elaborate is quoted before you confirm, never after.
Journeys beyond the city — Pune, Nashik, Lonavala, Shirdi, Alibaug and the rest — are billed garage to garage, with three hundred kilometres and twelve hours a day. The car leaves our garage for you and returns from where it left you, and both directions are counted, because both are driven. For a day's journey the figure includes the tolls, the parking, the permits and your sarathi's meals. Every one is quoted as one fixed figure in writing before you confirm, and once given, that figure does not move.
A night away. Where the journey keeps your sarathi away overnight, his room and his meals for each night are yours — a clean room of decent standard at or near where you are staying, arranged by you — or, if you would rather not arrange it, a night-halt allowance is added to the written figure before you confirm. Overnight parking at the destination is likewise at actuals, on the receipt. We would rather print this than have you meet it on an invoice.
Rest is part of the journey. On any drive beyond three hours your sarathi stops for up to twenty minutes in every three — water, a washroom, a wash of the eyes, a walk around the car — and sooner if he judges he must. Those stops are for your safety before his; they are counted inside the day, not added to it, and they cannot be waived, by you or by him. A sarathi drives no more than twelve hours in a day, and no more than eight through the night, without a second sarathi quoted in writing.
Everyone knows the road to Lonavala. These are the ones the road does not advertise — a day, or a night, from your door, in a car that knows the way and a sarathi who will not hurry you back. Distances are from Andheri, and approximate; the sea and the hills decide the rest. Each is quoted in writing, for the day you name.
About 170 km · a long day, or better, a night
A lake held between the highest hills in Maharashtra, a British-built dam that sounds like the sea, and a sky with no city under it. In the rains the Randha falls; in November the water is glass. Umbrella Falls after a wet night is worth the whole journey.
About 280 km · September into October only
For a few weeks a year a bare tableland above Satara turns into a carpet of small wild flowers — a thing that has to be seen on foot and quietly. Permits are limited by the day; the house arranges them with the car. Go once in your life.
About 220 km · February to April, before dawn
A fishing village on the Konkan where, at first light, the villagers release the season's olive ridley hatchlings towards the sea. You will stand on the sand with a handful of others and watch something very small go somewhere very large. A night in Harihareshwar or Diveagar on the way back.
About 130 km · a day
A Portuguese fort on a headland south of Alibaug, a lighthouse, a village that still speaks a creole four centuries old, and a beach almost nobody is on. Kashid is next door for lunch; the fort is for the hour before sunset.
About 150 km · a day
The old tribal capital in the Palghar hills — a palace nobody visits, the Dabhosa waterfall that drops three hundred feet after the rains, and Warli painting where it began, on the walls it was painted for. Quiet in a way that Mumbai cannot buy.
About 130 km · June to September
A road cut through the Sahyadri where, in the monsoon, the clouds come down to the tarmac and waterfalls fall onto the road itself. Flamingos on the Pimpalgaon Joga reservoir in the season. Best at seven in the morning, before the weekend arrives.
About 120 km · a day, or a night by the river
The Kundalika, released from the dam each morning, and a valley of rice paddy on the way to it. For those who want water without the sea — and for those who simply want to sit by a river with a book while the car waits.
About 130 km · a day
A lake above Igatpuri that supplies half of Mumbai's water and that Mumbai has never seen. Hills on three sides, a road that ends at the water, and — in winter — a stillness that makes the phone feel ridiculous. Vipassana country; leave early, come back late.
We do not promise the road. In the rains a ghat can close, a river can rise, and a plateau can be shut for the day — where that happens we say so before you leave, and the journey moves or the fare returns, your choice. What we do promise is the car, the sarathi, the figure in writing, and that you will not be hurried home.
If you are not certain exactly where you are going — which gate of the hospital, which tower of the office park, which lane the house is down — he parks, walks, finds it, and comes back for you. You are set down at the door, not somewhere near it. There is no charge for the time that takes, and you will never be left standing in a road with your phone out.
Coffee, something to eat, an errand at a chemist, a charger left behind. Name the shop and the thing; he goes in, you stay where you are. You pay what the shop charges, on the receipt he hands you — the house adds nothing to it. The first ten minutes of his time are ours. He will not buy alcohol, tobacco or prescription medicine, and the choice of shop and of item is always yours.
Bags carried, a door held, a hand from the seat to the step for a parent who no longer trusts the kerb. It is offered gently, once — and if your guest would rather manage alone, he walks beside them and says nothing. Dignity is not a service; it is the manner of every service.
No car in this fleet takes a wheelchair without it being folded. A folding chair travels with us and your sarathi will stow it and fetch it. A powered chair, or one that cannot be folded, we cannot carry honestly — and we would rather tell you here than at a kerb.
Four classes, and no more. We do not run a small car, and we never will — not because a small car is a lesser thing, but because it is not what this house was built to do. The cars above are the ones India actually sends for someone: the Innova that carries ministers and boards, the Carnival that carries a family to a wedding, and by request the marques that carry a bride. Every one arrives on commercial plates with its papers verified, driven by a sarathi of ours — never a stranger.
A reservation is held once the written fare is settled — the way a fine hotel holds a room. A secure link reaches you from the house against your quote, carrying the figure you were quoted and nothing else; UPI, card, net banking or bank transfer, whichever suits. Then the car is yours, and nothing is asked of you at the end of the journey — not a payment, not a rating. An invoice with our GSTIN follows the same evening.
Journeys beyond the city, the Command, Limousine and Marque classes, weddings, events and multi-day bookings are held with half the fare, and the balance seventy-two hours before the first journey. Companies that travel with us regularly are invoiced monthly, on account, after three completed journeys — and we offer it before you have to ask.
Every quote is written, and every quote expires: twenty-four hours from the moment it is sent, two hours for a journey inside the next day. A lapsed quote is simply written again. The link always comes from our own number, always in writing, and always to an account in the name Unlyra — never a personal UPI, never a link in an email, and never on a call. Our sarathis never handle money; anyone in a car who asks otherwise is not us.
Within Mumbai, for the Signature and Premium classes: cancel or move a journey more than twenty-four hours before pickup and there is no charge at all, as often as you need to. Inside twenty-four hours, half the fare; inside twelve hours, or if nobody comes to the car, the full fare — by then the car is bought, the sarathi is rostered, and the morning is gone whether you travel or not.
For the Command, Limousine and Marque classes and every journey beyond the city, the windows are forty-eight and twenty-four hours. Weddings, events and multi-day bookings hold with an advance that returns in full more than seven days out, and may be moved once within sixty days.
A flight that moves is not a cancellation. We watch your flight; if the airline delays or advances it, we re-time around it at no cost, and if the airline cancels it, the fare returns in full. Every refund owed reaches the account it came from within seven working days. The whole of it, on one page →
Waiting beyond the complimentary period is charged by the minute at the rate shown for your car, and your sarathi will always tell you before the clock starts. If we keep you waiting more than ten minutes past the booked time, a fifth of the fare returns to you as wallet credit — half of it beyond forty-five minutes — up to ₹2,500 on a single journey, save where flood, storm or closed roads conspire beyond anyone's hand. Complimentary waiting is counted until you reach the car; thirty minutes after the booked time — sixty after a landing — with no word from you, the journey is recorded as not taken and the fare stands. One gift to a journey. Gifts are personal to a guest and to a household: where several profiles share an address, a payment card or a phone, we treat them as the one guest they are — kindly, and in writing.
WHAT THE GIFTS INCLUDE
We would rather tell you the edges of a gift than let you discover them. Everything below is small print only in the sense that it is short.
Something small waits on the seat of your first journey — one to each guest, on one verified number or address. It is an object, not a credit: it carries no cash value, cannot be exchanged or transferred, and there is nothing to redeem. A second profile does not earn a second one; duplicates are quietly set aside.
One each calendar year to every registered guest — Signature or Premium class, within Mumbai, up to two hours or 40 km, booked 48 hours ahead, subject to availability, and not on notified festival days. Further celebration journeys are priced on this page, above.
More than ten minutes past your booked time and a fifth of the fare returns to you as wallet credit; beyond forty-five minutes, half. Up to ₹2,500 on a single journey, one gift per journey, and up to ₹5,000 to any one guest in a year. It is personal to the guest kept waiting — never transferable, never cash — and no more than a quarter of any single fare may be settled with it. Valid twelve months. It covers delays that are ours, not a road closed by flood, storm, procession or the police, and not a notified festival day, when no clock can be promised.
If you are uncomfortable at any point, say so and we stop. You pay nothing for the distance already travelled, however far we have come — that is a safety promise and we do not argue it, on the road or afterwards. It is there for your safety, not for a change of plan: where a journey is simply ended early, we charge only the distance driven, and we will always tell you which of the two we have recorded.
Held securely for thirty days and returned free anywhere in Mumbai. Beyond the city we will send it wherever you are, at the courier's cost and nothing of ours added.
Any firm or front desk considering us has its first journey at fifteen per cent off the written fare — on the Signature class only, within Mumbai, once for each company or property. No contract, no obligation, and no call afterwards unless you want one.
Where a benefit is claimed on inaccurate details, a duplicate profile, or a payment later reversed, it is void and we may set its value against a future journey. We may vary or withdraw a courtesy going forward, never retrospectively — anything already promised to you stands.