Some days are not a journey but a sequence of them: three meetings and a lunch, a morning in Colaba and an afternoon in Bandra, a visiting parent who should not have to think about cars. For those days the house gives you one car and one sarathi from morning to night. He waits where you are, keeps the cabin cool while you are inside, and knows where to park on a street that has no parking.
Eight hours and eighty kilometres inside Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane. The cabin is a quiet office between meetings; water and a charger in the door.
Twelve hours for a day that starts early and ends at a dinner. Extra hours, if the day runs on, at the published rate — and your sarathi tells you before one begins.
A visitor for a week, a family for a wedding, a crew on a shoot: the same car and sarathi each day, written as one figure.
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.
Arriving from abroad: the car that meets you at the airport stays with you for the day — the hotel, a SIM, a first look at the sea — and the figure is written in rupees before you fly. A day of the city: the Gateway and the museum in the morning, Crawford Market, a long lunch, Marine Drive at dusk; your sarathi suggests the order that avoids the traffic and the heat. A day of meetings: BKC to Nariman Point to Worli, the sarathi already at the next door. A day of shopping: Kala Ghoda, Palladium, Linking Road — the parcels go in the boot, you go on. A day you would rather not drive: a hospital, an elderly parent, a child's examination; the car waits as long as it takes.
For one or two people the Innova Crysta or the Hycross hybrid — tall, quiet, a boot for the parcels — or, if you would rather a sedan, the Toyota Camry hybrid of the Executive class. For a family or four with luggage, the Carnival. For a day that should be seen, a Marque car written for the day. The figures for eight and twelve hours in every class are on the rate card; nothing is added for waiting, tolls, parking or the sarathi's meals.
Reserve a car for the daySay the day and roughly the hours. A person replies with the car and the figure.