RR Tours & Travels didn't start as a travel company. It started as a handful of drivers in Sikkandar Chavadi who knew every temple road in and around Madurai and got asked, often enough, to take visiting families a little further than the city limits. Over time, "a little further" became Rameshwaram, then Kerala, then full South India circuits — and the taxi stand grew into an office that plans trips as carefully as it drives them.
The early years were mostly word of mouth — a pilgrimage group would recommend us to a cousin's family, and that family would call us again for a wedding trip two years later. That pattern is still how a good part of our business works today. We didn't set out to build a large fleet; we set out to be the number people saved in their phone after one good trip.
Somewhere along the way we started keeping notes on things that mattered more than we expected — which hill roads close early for fog, which temple has a quieter entrance at 6 a.m., which hotel in Munnar actually answers its phone. None of that shows up on a brochure, but it's most of what a driver and a planner actually bring to a trip.
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A retired couple visiting Rameshwaram and a college group heading to Ooty need very different pacing. Before we suggest a route, we ask how much driving you actually want to do in a day.
For multi-day trips, the same driver stays with you the whole way where possible. It saves you re-explaining the plan every morning to someone new.
If a route you've asked for doesn't fit your timeline safely, we'll tell you that upfront and offer an alternative, rather than agreeing and running late.
If a trip realistically takes nine hours, we say nine hours — not a shorter number that sounds better on a phone call.
Every fare is explained before the trip starts, including what counts as extra — waiting time, hill charges, night driving.
A good number of our bookings come from people we've driven before. We try to remember that and not treat every call as a first-time negotiation.
Tell us the dates and the places, and we'll tell you honestly what's realistic.