Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Renting a car with a driver is the easiest way of going almost anywhere and is easily ar-
ranged through most travel agents, midrange or top-end hotels, or the airport's prepaid
taxi desks. Sample rates for non-AC/AC cars are ?1300/1550 to Mamallapuram (Ma-
habalipuram) and ?2700/3200 to Puducherry.
TRAIN
Interstate trains and those heading west generally depart from Central station, while trains
heading south mostly leave from Egmore. The
advance reservations office
(1st fl, Chennai Central loc-
al station; 8am-8pm Mon-Sat, 8am-2pm Sun)
, with its extremely helpful Foreign Tourist Cell, is
in a separate 11-storey building just west of the main Central station building. The
Passen-
ger Reservation Office
28194579)
at Egmore station keeps the same
MAP
hours.