Finding a boat for forty people in Varanasi is easy. Getting forty people from a hotel through closed lanes to the right ghat, aboard, seated and back again without losing anyone is the actual job — and it is where most group bookings come apart.
So every group booking we take includes a coordinator whose only role that evening is your group. They meet you at the hotel or the road head, walk the group down together, handle boarding in order, count heads on and off, and stay reachable on a phone the whole time.
For groups up to 50 a single Bajra works. Above that we run two or more boats in convoy, moving together and holding position together, so the group stays a group rather than splitting into boats that lose sight of each other.
Fixed at booking. No festival surge, no per-head top-up at the ghat, no hidden charges.
Different groups need different things from the same river.
Mixed ages, so boarding assistance and covered seating matter more than speed.
Fixed itineraries, invoices, and predictable timings. We hold standing slots for regular partners — see contact for trade rates.
Catering, a sound system for a short address, and a clean start and end time. See corporate boat booking.
Jackets for every student, a strict supervisor ratio, no upper-deck standing and a documented head count at both ends.
A Bajra's licensed capacity is real, not a suggestion, and we hold to it — a boat rated for 40 carries 40. If your group is 46 you are booking two boats, and we would rather tell you that at enquiry than at the ghat.
River level also matters. Between July and September the Ganga runs high and fast, and the administration restricts large-boat movement on some days at short notice. We will still take the booking in monsoon, but we will tell you the risk up front and refund in full if the river is closed.




