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Taking elders and children to Ahmedabad from Somnath

A calmer family cab plan from Somnath to Ahmedabad: seats, stops, and what to tell Madhuli Taxi before pickup.

Families do not fail the Ahmedabad trip on the highway. They fail it in the last lane, with an elder who needed the car closer and a child who needed a stop an hour earlier. Ahmedabad to Somnath is a full highway day, kinder if you land the evening before and start in the morning.

Ask for the Ertiga when five or six of you are travelling. Put the person who gets carsick in the front, and say so in the note. Say which terminal and the flight number. A vague 'Ahmedabad' pickup wastes the first hour.

The airport and the Sabarmati side of the city are the two pickup zones we hear most.

The Somnath driver can wait between gates. That is the point of a local desk. Send the hotel name and a mobile that someone in the car will actually answer.

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