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Hi 👋🏻
Last time I travelled by train, I got a middle berth. I know you have also travelled once in a middle berth, and you know it is impossible to get your place unless it is 8:00 PM and everyone is preparing to sleep. So you just sit there, waiting, while the journey goes on and on.
At some point, I started thinking, I paid less for this ticket, but I am paying for it in another way entirely. I lost an entire day and arrived exhausted.
I have travelled both ways now. Flights cost more, trains cost less. But the time you lose and how you feel when you arrive is important too. Nobody thinks about that when booking.
If you have felt the same, this edition is for you.
Why does my trip feel exhausting before I even arrive?
The route you pick is more important than how far you are travelling.
Imagine planning Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, but booking flights in the wrong order. Delhi first, then Jaipur, then back east to Agra, then back to Delhi. That extra back and forth adds a full day of transit that did not need to happen. The correct order geographically is Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, one clean route with no doubling back.
Before booking anything, pin every destination on Google Maps. The efficient order usually becomes obvious once you can see it visually.
Rome2rio helps with this too. Enter any two cities, and it shows every transport option door to door with actual journey times, including transfers.
Is the train ever actually faster than flying?
For routes under 600 km, yes. A Delhi to Jaipur flight takes about an hour in the air. But getting to the airport, check-in, security, boarding, landing, and then reaching the city centre adds two to three hours on each end. The Vande Bharat Express covers the same route in about three and a half hours, station to station, with no airport run on either side.
The overnight train makes even more sense on longer routes like Delhi to Mumbai. The Rajdhani Express departs in the evening and arrives by morning. You sleep through the journey, skip a hotel night, and land in the city centre rather than an airport 30 to 50 kilometres away.
A simple rule: for anything under 600 km, check the train before assuming the flight is faster.
What should I check before booking a connecting flight?
Check which terminal your flights are using. Delhi airport has three terminals and they are not connected. If your first flight lands at T3 and the next one leaves from T1, you have to collect your bags, take a shuttle, and go through security again. That easily adds an hour or more. Mumbai has the same problem.
A 90-minute gap between flights looks fine on paper. In reality, by the time you land, get off the plane, take the shuttle to the other terminal, and go through security again, you might not make it. At Delhi and Mumbai, keep at least three hours between flights when terminals are different.
One more thing. If your two flights are booked separately, the airline will not rebook you if you miss the second one. So keep more time than you think you need.
How do I stop losing full days to moving between cities?
Instead of changing hotels every two days, pick one city and take day trips from there. If you are covering Rajasthan, staying in Jaipur and visiting Pushkar and Ajmer as day trips saves you two hotel checkouts, two checkouts, and the packing and unpacking that comes with each. Every hotel move takes at least an hour on each end of the day, before you have even started doing anything.
Less moving means more time actually being somewhere rather than getting somewhere.
Thank you!
No amount of smart planning can help you if the itinerary is too full. If every day has a journey in it, the trip will start feeling exhausting. Keep at least one or two days in the plan where you are not going anywhere at all. Those days end up becoming the best memories.
See you in the next edition!
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