Private, fully customisable Ooty trips - 2-day escapes from Bangalore or Coimbatore to 19-day South India grand tours. By starting city: Ooty packages from Hyderabad · Ooty packages from Bangalore · Ooty packages from Chennai · Ooty packages from Coimbatore
Ooty is the queen of the Nilgiris, and the journey up is half the point: the Nilgiri Mountain Railway climbs from Mettupalayam through forest and tea to over two thousand metres, a UNESCO-listed line that takes five slow, lovely hours. The town itself spreads around its lake and botanical gardens, with Doddabetta - the highest point in the Nilgiris - a short drive up for a view over the whole blue range. Coonoor, half an hour down the line, is the quieter half: Sim's Park, Lamb's Rock and Dolphin's Nose, with tea estates on every slope between. The hills work in every direction - Mysore's palace sits below to the north, Wayanad's forests and Coorg's coffee to the west, and several of our longer routes run the full southern circuit through all of them. Trips run from two-day escapes out of Bangalore or Coimbatore to nineteen-day South India grand tours. Every one is private: your dates, your cab, your pace, and the toy train booked ahead when you want it.
4 days / 3 nightsThe palace city and the queen of hills, joined by the Bandipur road.
4 days / 3 nightsBoth hill queens on the shortest possible road.
4 days / 3 nightsThe queen of hills and the princess, back to back.
4 days / 3 nightsSlow Nilgiri days, ending at the feet of the Adiyogi.
4 days / 3 nightsIsha first, then two full Nilgiri days and the tea country.
4 days / 3 nights from ₹11,500 per person. Two nights covers Ooty town, the lake, the gardens, Doddabetta and the toy train leg to Coonoor. Three nights adds Coonoor's viewpoints and tea estates, or Mysuru on the drive.
5 plans: 4 Days Ooty Mysore Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,500); 4 Days Ooty with Isha Adiyogi Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,500); 4 Days Ooty Kodaikanal Bliss from Coimbatore (4D/3N, from ₹11,999); 4 Days Ooty Kodaikanal Twin Hills Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,999).
Fixed-date group departures leave from Hyderabad and Bangalore: the travel, the stays, the meals listed and a trip captain in one price.
From Chennai and Coimbatore every trip is planned privately around your dates, and each city page says how to reach Ooty from there and what it costs.
Every trip on this page covers the places below; a private trip can drop one and add another.
A private trip runs the same plan at your own pace; a group departure follows it to the minute.
Ooty packages start at ₹11,500 per person: ₹11,500 for 4 days. That covers the stays, the local travel, the sightseeing and activities each trip page lists; the journey from your city is quoted with the trip so you can pick the train, bus or flight.
What moves the price is the room category, the season and the group size. Weekends, long weekends and the December fortnight cost more than a mid-week date, and a group of four to six brings the per-person price down because the car and the rooms are shared. Entry tickets and anything not named on the trip page stay out of the fare, so the number you see is the number you pay.
Kodaikanal is the other Tamil Nadu hill station, six hours south, and the two together make the classic five to six day Nilgiri circuit.
2 trips on this page, from ₹11,999 per person: 4 Days Ooty Kodaikanal Bliss from Coimbatore (4D/3N, from ₹11,999); 4 Days Ooty Kodaikanal Twin Hills Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,999).
Mysuru and the Bandipur forest road sit between Bengaluru and Ooty, so the palace and a safari fit the journey rather than costing a day.
1 trip on this page, from ₹11,500 per person: 4 Days Ooty Mysore Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,500).
The Isha Yoga Centre and the 112-foot Adiyogi sit 30 km west of Coimbatore, at the foot of the ghat road up to Ooty, so half a day there costs nothing in travel time. The Dhyanalinga is open to everyone and free.
2 trips on this page, from ₹11,500 per person: 4 Days Ooty with Isha Adiyogi Bliss (4D/3N, from ₹11,500); 4 Days Ooty Isha Yatra from Coimbatore (4D/3N, from ₹11,999).
Families and couples take the private trips: the same places at your own pace, with the room category and the car chosen for your group.
October to June is the season. October to February is cold and clear (5 to 20°C at night in December and January), March to June is the summer season when the rest of the south escapes the heat, and the flower show fills May. July to September brings heavy rain and the fewest crowds.
Woollens from December to February, when nights hit 5°C and frost is possible, and a light jacket the rest of the year. Comfortable shoes for the gardens and Doddabetta, a rain jacket in July and August, and sunscreen, because the sun at 2,240 m burns even when the air is cold.
Ooty is about 900 km from Hyderabad and has no airport or railway station of its own, so every route goes through Coimbatore or Mettupalayam. By train, overnight services leave Kacheguda or Secunderabad for Coimbatore (about 15 hours) and Ooty is 85 km further, roughly three hours up the Nilgiri ghat; the classic finish is the morning Nilgiri Mountain Railway from Mettupalayam, four and a half hours through Coonoor. Flying to Coimbatore takes about an hour and a half, with the same three-hour drive up. By road it is 15 to 16 hours. Our fixed-date departures from Hyderabad travel overnight and cover the whole journey, so nothing has to be booked separately.
Coimbatore is the gateway to Ooty: 85 km and about three hours up the Nilgiri ghat by road, or the morning Nilgiri Mountain Railway from Mettupalayam, 35 km from the city, which climbs through Coonoor to Ooty in four and a half hours. The Isha Yoga Centre is 30 km west of the city, on the way for anyone adding it.
Ooty is about 270 km from Bangalore, six to seven hours by road through Mysuru and Bandipur, which is why the fixed-date group trips leave on Friday night and reach Ooty for breakfast. Self-drive is straightforward; the last stretch is 36 hairpin bends.
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