7 comments

1. Sangam Ghimire9 January, 2014 at 11:10 PM

   What is the fare of the bus ? Please provide the details.

2. Rajan Thapa Magar10 January, 2014 at 1:05 AM

   Wow! That’s wonderful.

3. Samundra Shrestha25 February, 2014 at 9:36 AM

   I don’t remember the actual fare of the bus. But its around Rs. 1250. I find seats to be very uncomfortable maybe this could be a personal feeling. Rs. 1250 is the price you pay for fare+peanuts (yes peanuts is what they called lunch :P).

   And if you have to pay extra for regular meal (Daal, Bhat and Tarkari) and it won’t come cheaper either. It costs me Rs. 250 for meat+regular meal. Which is far more than what I expected to be.

   The Wifi is poor and bandwidth is very less and they power down WIFI and battery charger time to time.

4. Tezentamu29 May, 2014 at 3:25 PM

   This sounds fun 🙂 I think I have to give it a go next year lol

5. Pratik KC24 August, 2014 at 11:27 AM

   Here is my experience of the ‘Mansarowar Metro Deluxe’ bus. Hope this helps with what to expect and what to not.

   I took this bus from Kathmandu to Nepalgunj. I went to Kathmandu ticket counter one day before departure. It seemed that tickets were in high demand so I could only manage a second-last seat. So the journey began and they served a bottle of mineral water and a pack of low-quality potato fries. The wifi was off. When I asked the staff about it, I got a reply that it will be on after crossing Thankot. I had to wait. It was then on but without internet and the wifi kept itself turning off again and again. It was frustrating and I can say that the internet hardly worked any more than 3 or 4 minutes during whole journey (I know because I set my device to automatically connect when available without going into sleep mode). The bus stopped at a ‘restaurant’ where they served below-average food but priced expensive.

   Here is the worst part – the son of owner of the metro bus and his 3 or 4 friends were traveling on the bus – totally drunk and the owner’s son bragging about his ‘bau ko property and hami sanga metro bus chha’ type of thing. One of them urinated on mineral water bottle that kept rolling inside bus aisle which was disgusting. Then the owner’s son kept his foot on top of our seat so his foot actually bumped a passenger sitting on my side – extremely disrespectful. I could have ignored this point as an isolated incident but then thought how the actual management and customer service would be if people like them are the owners who run this service.

   Here is the summary and bottom line –

   1. The bus looks luxurious and it is little more comfortable than the regular ones for sure (can’t say that for last seat though).

   2. Staff are not trained and do not expect politeness or any different service than you’d get on those regular local buses

   3. Stops at restaurant where you get low quality food but have to pay expensive (doesn’t care about customer service but supports the hotel/bus-staff commission setup).

   4. The biggest marketing ‘Wifi’ bus is a hoax: the wifi doesn’t work 99% of time.

   So, if you expect a little luxury and are happy to pay more to sit inside a good-looking bus go for it. You can also choose this if it boosts your ego (some people think they’re superior if they’re using more expensive option regardless of service in return) then choose it. If you were looking for a real luxury bus with real internet connection then this is a biggest hoax.

6. Bikash13 February, 2015 at 11:26 AM

   What is the contact number

7. jit chand thakuri1 December, 2015 at 1:09 AM

   pratik kc bro is right, once upon a time I also travelled , wifi is just for name sake ,