Saju Chacko, Greenridge Hotel, Munnar drove to Kolkata for TTF 2019 in July 2019

 

Friend and IndianRoadie  Saju Chacko is a hotelier by profession and  Director, Greenridge Hotel in the beautiful hill station of Munnar in Kerala. He has been driving to Kolkata from Munnar around July/ August every year for work at the Travel and Tourism Fair (TTF) ever since 2015. 

In 2019, he was booked at Hotel Ivory Towers on Shakespeare Sarani, near Park Circus crossing in Kolkata. 

Met him on Sunday, 2019-07-14 evening and again on Thursday, 2019-07-18 evening. 

He reached Kolkata on Saturday, 2019-07-13 afternoon driving his XUV500 all alone via Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Chandipur-on-Sea. 

He left Kolkata early on Friday, 2019-07-19 for the return drive back home via Barkul, Nellore, Naidupeta, Kolar, Bangalore, Mysore, Ooty. 

I am always happy to be his virtual companion on the road, guiding him all along. 

Thank you Saju for the beautiful authentic produces of Munnar as gifts. 

Eagerly awaiting your return to Kolkata in July 2020 again. 

P.S: Thanks to Saju for extending a warm invitation with special offers to IndianRoadie members/ followers from Kolkata and rest of WB, BR, JH, OD, AP to drive to Kerala and be his guests at his hotels in Munnar and Alleppey. 

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* TTF 2019 

* Greenridge Hotel 

* Munnar 

* Kerala Tourism 

Munnar to Kolkata drive by Saju Chacko for TTF 2018 by Mahindra XUV500 in June - July 2018

This Cheetah (Mahindra XUV500 bearing the registration number KL-16K-2545) keeps prowling from Gods Own Country (Kerala) to Sweetest Part Of India (West Bengal) and back around the same time every year for 4 years in a row.

The initial inspiration for undertaking the hectic sales & marketing work related trips on road was sowed into hotelier friend Saju Chacko, the owner of two such Cheetahs by none other than me, Deep Banerjee (the founder of this forum), when I myself drove Kolkata to Munnar in March 2015 for the first time and stayed in his cozy hotel.

In the present edition of the drive, the itinerary so far has been as follows:
2018-06-28 Munnar - Tirupati.
2018-06-29 Tirupati - Vijaywada.
2018-06-30 Vijaywada.
2018-07-01 Vijaywada - Rajahmundry - Vizag.
2018-07-02 Vizag.
2018-07-03 Vizag - Ferry crossing on Chilka Lake - Cuttack.
2018-07-04 Cuttack - Kolkata.

Saju strictly follows the IndianRoadie philosophy/ diktat of NoPlannedNightDriving.

He drives without a hitch knowing jolly well that IndianRoadieOnRoadAssistance is just a call away.

Saju and his team of four more friends have been hosted in a safe, comfortable, affordable and conveniently located boutique IndianRoadiePreferredHotel in east Kolkata.

We keep interacting on the phone and WhatsApp for precision planning of his trips pan-India for quite a few weeks every year. I personally met him on 2018-07-04 evening to help him plan out the finer details of his work schedule for the few days of his stay in Kolkata.

The cute dirty Cheetah was IndianRoadieStickered and photographed while peacefully resting outside the hotel on Wednesday 2018-07-04 late evening. 

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* TTF 2018 

* GreenRidge Hotel 

* Munnar 

* Kerala Tourism