9 hours in Chennai

Fredi1966

Hi
on the 19th December i arrive in Chennai from Port Blair with Jetairways at 14:20 my next fligth starts at 23:45 to Singapore
Is it Ok to take a cab to the city for a short trip to the City?
Any Tipps?
thanks
Fredi 1966

Nick-H

IIRC, you need to check in for the international flight three hours before departure?

So you have to be there at 8.45.

The traffic will be quite heavy at that time. You'd need to allow an hour or more from central Chennai, departing between 7pm and 7.45pm.

If you get out of the airport by 3.00, that still gives you four hours. That's time enough to eg visit Mylapore, see the temple, wander around the market, have a snack.

I'm always very conservative about time needed to get to airports, although stuff like on-line checkin can, airline permitting, reduce that huge hunk of wasted time before takeoff.

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the museum is nice, if you like museums.

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Nick-H

It is a lot further from the airport, though, which is why I suggested somewhere further South --- apart from my usual bias towards Mylapore

And a museum is being inside one building only.

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Hi My husband and i will arrive in Chennai on Wednesday night for a week as we may move there at the end of the year,at present we are a scottish couple who have lived in Suzhou [ China } for 3 years and have really enjoyed expat life and I will be really sad to leave so am hoping to have as good an experience in India so any info or good and bad points would be really helpful I am coming with an open mind and hopefully look forward to meeting new people and new experiences,one question I really enjoy accupuncture and massage so was hoping to continue it there are there such things locally that you know of in locally I dont mean getting it in 5 star hotels but by local people.Thanks for any info that you can give.

Nick-H

You will have many opportunities to experience these treatments at all kinds of levels.

Suggest you start looking around once you arrive here.

There are a number of threads by people moving to Chennai: I'm sure you'll find useful information on other stuff on the board too. Welcome to Indiamike! :