Bus Ticket Booking

Yes, you can reschedule your booked bus tickets on MakeMyTrip and choose an alternate bus available on your required day of travel. You need to log in to your account, verify bus ticket details and choose an alternative operator/day of travel. To complete rescheduling, you may need to pay the difference in prices between the two fares, if any. For lower-priced rescheduled tickets, the difference amount will be refunded to your account.

You can cancel your booked bus reservations on the MakeMyTrip portal at any time before trip commencement. The amount of refund you receive for such cancellation, however, varies based on the time when you choose to cancel. It is thus advisable to go through the refund policy in detail before cancelling your bus ticket. For cancellations attributed to MakeMyTrip or the operator, 100% of the fare is refundable to customers.

Yes, you can book government-run buses on the MakeMyTrip portal as well. Also known as state-run buses, they are operated by most state governments in the country. Some popular government-run bus operators accepting booking on the online portal include the likes of TNSTC, KSRTC, MSRTC, OSRTC, HRTC, APSRTC, SBSTC, and WBTC. Alongside government-run operators, you can also make bookings across various city routes in India through private bus operators. An extensive choice of amenities is available for both these operator types.

It is quite simple to select your bus type preference when making your bus booking on MakeMyTrip. Once you have provided the source and destination of travel and provided the date of the journey, you will be directed to a list of buses available on the route for the day. On this page, you can pick your bus type preference from available options like AC buses, Non-AC buses, Volvo buses, Seater and Sleeper buses, etc. and select your bus accordingly.

No, there are no policies for providing refunds of booked bus fare to customers if they miss boarding the bus. Refunds can be initiated only if the customer has cancelled the ticket before the booked trip commences. In cases where the trips are cancelled or rescheduled by the operator, customers can get a refund of payment made towards the ticket fare.

When making your bus booking with MakeMyTrip, you can apply an available offer or discount while in the process of such booking with ease. Once all travel and passenger details are entered and boarding and dropping points selected, you can choose or enter your applicable offer right before proceeding to make payment under the ‘Apply Offer’ tab and save on your bus ticket booking.

The process to cancel or change/modify your online bus ticket reservation is simple with MakeMyTrip. Follow the steps below. Login to your user dashboard on the MakeMyTrip portal. Go to your bookings and open the bus booking you want to cancel or modify. If you intend to modify your booking, open the "Modify" page and choose from available modifications like passenger name, age, etc. For cancellation, you can choose the "Cancel Ticket" option and follow through with your cancellation procedure. Cancellation of your bus booking shall attract charges, either as cancellation fees or booking charges based on the operator, your cancellation time and remaining time for the scheduled trip. Once cancellation is complete, the refund shall be initiated to your account.

You can choose from numerous payment methods when opting for bus ticket booking online with MakeMyTrip. The top payment methods available on the online platform of MakeMyTrip include the likes of UPIs, net banking, credit cards and debit cards. Bus fare can also be easily paid through payment wallets. MakeMyTrip accepts payments from all banks, which makes online booking payment easy.

Yes, you can book a bus ticket for someone else through online bus ticket reservations easily with MakeMyTrip. When making the booking, follow the standard bus and seat selection process as guided online. When entering passenger details, all you need to do is enter the person's required details like name and age instead of your own to complete online bus ticket booking for your preferred person.

Finding the cheapest bus tickets online is easy and simplified with the hassle-free bus booking portal of MakeMyTrip. When making your bus booking on the portal, you simply need to apply the "Lowest to Highest Fare" filter. On applying the filter, you will be able to see buses with the lowest fares on your selected route. MakeMyTrip also provides various offers and discount coupons, which you can use to cut down on your bus fare and get the cheapest bus tickets online. To find the best offers, deals and discounts, you can book bus tickets online during the festive seasons.

Ideally, the best time to book bus tickets for cheaper fares with MakeMyTrip falls during festive seasons. During these times, operators seek higher bookings and thus provide attractive deals, discounts and more that travellers can utilise for cheaper bus bookings online with ease. You can also wait until the last moment of your planned trip schedule to book your preferred bus to get bus tickets at affordable rates. However, waiting too long on bus ticket booking can make it a challenge to find your most preferred seat on the selected bus as seat options become limited as the bus travel date approaches.

Yes, you can track the real-time location of your bus after booking with MakeMyTrip. Once your scheduled journey date arrives, the operator shares with you a live tracking link of your booked bus. You can use this link to track your bus journey with live movements. Such a live bus tracking facility makes it easy to board your bus on time and without any hassle. It also helps you prepare to deboard the bus when your travel destination arrives. Bus operators ideally send the live bus tracking links at least half an hour before the scheduled journey commencement.

Yes, you can find various deals and discounts that MakeMyTrip provides for booking bus tickets online. When making your bus booking online on the platform, you can explore the available offers and discount coupons once you have provided all required bus travel and passenger details and chosen your preferred seat and amenities. These offers and discounts vary based on the operator. You can choose the offer that best suits your travel booking and proceed with the payment. Once applied, the offer discount shall reflect on your payment details and reduce the payable fare by the applicable percentage. You can get exciting offers, deals and discounts especially when making bus bookings during festive seasons.

In case you lose your bus ticket, there is no need to worry since bus tickets booked with MakeMyTrip are always available online. You simply need to log in to your user dashboard and navigate to your "My Bookings" segment. There, you will find all the details related to your bus booking, including the booked bus ticket with booked passenger details. You can also access your journey details via the SMS sent to your registered mobile number and email ID on booking completion.

The process to know if your bus online reservation is confirmed is simple. Simply check the details of your booked bus ticket sent to you. With MakeMyTrip, bus tickets are booked only with confirmed availability of seats. You can, in fact, also select your preferred seat for booking your confirmed bus ticket with MakeMyTrip. You can thus block your preferred seat for booking and the seat is allotted to you on the day of the journey with all the bus and seat details sent to your mobile number via SMS for easy identification when boarding.

Yes, the option to book bus tickets for group travel or chartered buses is available with MakeMyTrip. The process of booking a chartered bus for your journey or making group travel bookings is the same as any other bus booking process. All you need to do is choose "Chartered Buses" as your preferred bus type when making a chartered booking. For corporate group travel bookings, you would be required to fill a form and proceed with your bus tickets booking online similarly to any other booking.

Yes, numerous private buses are available for online bus tickets booking with MakeMyTrip. If you want to travel in a private bus, you can choose private operators as your preferred bus operators to choose a bus from during the booking process. Under private operators, there are numerous bus types that you can select from for your preferred bus booking. The top ones include the likes of AC luxury buses, Volvo buses, Volvo multi-axle buses, express buses, sleeper buses, non-AC buses, seater buses and many more. The amenities available with private bus booking vary with the type of bus selected.

Booking a bus ticket for inter-state travel is easy with MakeMyTrip and is just like making any other bus ticket booking. All you need to do is fill in the city name of one state in the source segment of booking details and the city name of another state you wish to travel to in the destination segment. Then, select your journey date, enter the number of passengers and proceed to select a bus option. Under the available bus options and operators, you will be able to browse through all inter-state buses operating on the route across different time schedules.

The refund policy for online bus booking with MakeMyTrip varies based on the selected operator, the date and time of cancellation and applicable policy rules for the specific booking. Various operators provide easy and free cancellations of booked bus tickets up to a certain duration, like 24 hours before the journey or more for a complete refund. With the best operators, you can get free cancellations even up to 6 hours before journey commencement with 100% fare refunds. However, you must check the cancellation policy and applicable cancellation charges to get a refund. In case of trip cancellation comes from the operator, a full fare refund is provided to the customer and no cancellation charges are levied.

There is no time limit set by MakeMyTrip for advance bus ticket booking online. You can thus book bus services on the platform at your convenience. The booking, however, depends on seat availability with preferred buses and operators. As such, it is ideal to book your bus ticket with your preferred operator at least a week prior to the planned journey date.