A Mumbai student plans a route around your flight, meets you at arrivals, and gets you back with time to spare.
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A local student walks out of arrivals with you — and the city stops being intimidating about four minutes later.
Every block is a different city. That's why it stays in your head long after the flight.
The Marine Drive crescent meeting the glass towers of the Worli Sea Link.
A rush-hour local at CSMT — then Banganga Tank, quiet enough to hear the temple bells.
Wooden Portuguese cottages in Khotachiwadi, in the shadow of BKC's high-rises.
Midnight street food on Mohammed Ali Road; speakeasy lounges in Bandra.
Victorian stone at CSMT, then the salt-crusted Sassoon Docks.
A mango sold like a business deal at Crawford; Malabar Hill's mansions behind the banyans.
Bollywood marquees in Bandra; the causeway to Haji Ali, out in the sea.
No haggling, no guesswork. Tell us about your layover and we handle the rest.
Send your arrival and departure times. We work out the real free window you have after immigration and bag-drop.
We pair you with a verified student buddy and a route shaped to your hours — and the things you're actually into.
Meet at arrivals, stash heavy bags in the airport cloakroom, and head out. You're back at BOM with a comfortable buffer.
If your inbound runs late, your buddy already knows before you've cleared the aisle. The route reshapes around the hours you actually have — and the buffer before your departure is never negotiable.
Not fixed packages — boarding passes for a day your buddy might build, shaped to your hours and what you're into. Tap a ticket for the full timeline.
The postcardMarine Drive sunsetFamous, iconic, cinematic — the South Mumbai story everyone shares back home.
Hyper-localSunday like a localLocal life, vada pav, sea, old-new contrasts — minus the tourist crowd.
Old BombayIrani cafés & stoneGothic stations, Art Deco facades, berry pulao at Britannia, chai at Kyani.
Leaving an airport in a new country with someone you've never met should feel like the safest thing you do all trip. Here's everything that makes that true.
Every buddy is a student at one of Mumbai's top colleges, passes government-ID and enrolment checks, and sits a face-to-face interview. There are no open signups — students join by invitation only.
You see your full plan — stops, timings, your buddy's profile — before you land, and you can share your live location with anyone back home for the whole detour.
A direct line to the Detour team runs through every trip, and we track each live detour from start to airport drop-off. If anything feels off, one message ends it.
Solo women can ask to be matched with a female student, subject to availability — just say so when you request your detour.
Known venues and planned transport. Every evening detour ends in a vetted cab back to the terminal — never a late-night local train.
Routes are built backwards from your departure with live traffic data. Whatever gets squeezed, it's never the time you need to make your flight.
Three things to sort before you land — each takes minutes when you know the trick. We wrote the guides so you don't have to dig.
Most nationalities need one to step outside. The e-Tourist visa is about US$25, applied for online — allow 4–7 days before you fly, and it never blocks you again.
Read the visa guide The time mathTake your layover, subtract 3–4 hours for immigration, the drives and the buffer. What's left is city time — and from about 6 hours, a detour is worth it.
See the 8-hour plan Solved at BOMThe airport cloakroom stores heavy luggage by the hour. Your buddy walks you there first, so you explore the city hands-free.
Luggage storage guideLeave your email and we'll send the one-page layover cheat sheet — visa steps, luggage storage, and how much time you really need.
I'm Gaurav. I kept meeting travellers who'd spent twelve hours inside BOM — twenty minutes from one of the most alive cities on earth — because leaving the terminal alone felt too risky.
It isn't, if someone from here walks out with you. That's the whole product. The first detours are free — write to me directly: admin@detourtrips.com
We're matching our first travellers right now. Explore Mumbai with a verified local student — our service is free, you just cover your own food and rides at local prices.