Taking elders and children to Palitana from Somnath
A calmer family cab plan from Somnath to Palitana: seats, stops, and what to tell Madhuli Taxi before pickup.
Families do not fail the Palitana 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. Palitana is a stairway at dawn. Bhavnagar is the night halt that makes the climb possible.
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. Ask for a 4 am drop if Shatrunjaya is the reason for the trip.
Velavadar can follow in the cooler months, not on the climb morning.
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.