About Gadi Ko Ticket.
We sell bus tickets in Nepal — online, over the phone, and across the counter at Prithvi Chowk in Pokhara. The platform is owner-run, the seat map you book from is the operator's real inventory, and there is no booking fee added to your fare.
Who runs Gadi Ko Ticket.
Anmoal Lamichhane owns and runs Gadi Ko Ticket. He is not a founder-figure on a page — he is the person the counter staff call when a coach breaks down at Mugling, and the person who answers when a booking goes wrong badly enough to need a decision.
He works from the Prithvi Chowk depot in Pokhara, which is also where the business has always operated from. That is deliberate. Every rule on this website — how long a seat stays held for you, what happens when a payment half-completes, who can cancel a ticket and until when — was settled first at a real counter with a real passenger standing at it, and only then written into software.
It also means there is a name attached to this platform. If the site takes your money and does not produce a ticket, that is one identifiable person's problem to fix, not a support queue's.
What we are trying to do.
Booking a long-distance bus in Nepal used to mean calling a depot, waiting for someone to write your name in a register, then turning up and hoping the seat was still yours. It mostly worked. It also lost a lot of people along the way — anyone who could not call during office hours, anyone travelling from outside the valley, anyone who simply wanted to see the seat before paying for it.
Gadi Ko Ticket exists to make that same journey bookable from a phone, at any hour, without removing the human on the other end of the line. You can still walk up to the counter and pay cash. You can still ring and have someone move your seat. The website is an additional door into the same business, not a replacement for it.
We are also deliberately narrow. The site does one job: help you find a bus, hold your seat while you pay, and put a ticket on your phone before you leave for the depot. There are no hotel upsells, no insurance add-ons, and no advertising, because none of those things make the bus arrive on time.
How we keep seats and fares honest.
The most damaging thing a ticketing site can do is sell a seat twice. Ours is built so that it cannot, and the guarantee sits in the database rather than in hopeful application code: a committed seat on a departure is unique at the storage layer, so two people pressing Confirm at the same instant cannot both win. The second one is told the seat is gone, immediately, instead of finding out at the door.
The seat map is live. What you see is the operator's actual inventory for that bus on that date — not a nightly copy. The counter at the depot, the operator's own dashboard, and this website all book against the same rows, so a seat sold for cash at Prithvi Chowk disappears from the website in the same moment.
A seat you pick is held for you for a fixed window while you complete payment, then released automatically if you do not. That window is short on purpose. Holding seats indefinitely for people who wandered off is how an eight-seat bus shows as full while half of it travels empty.
Fares come from the operator. Each operator sets the price for their own bus on each route, and that is the number you see and the number you pay. We do not mark it up, we do not add a booking fee, a convenience charge, or a card surcharge, and we do not run a different price for the website than for the counter.
How the site pays for itself.
Running this costs real money — servers, SMS credits, payment gateway charges, and the people who staff the counter and answer the phone. It is worth being plain about where that money comes from, because it explains what the site will and will not do to you.
Passengers pay nothing extra. Operators listing their fleet with us pay a flat commission on the online bookings we bring them; counter and cash sales are entirely theirs and we take no part of those. There is no setup fee and no monthly minimum, and if an operator refunds a booking our commission on it is reversed too. The full terms are on the operators page.
That model is the reason there are no adverts here and no data being sold on. The site earns when you actually travel, which means our incentive and yours point the same direction.
What we stand for.
The seat is really yours
A confirmed seat cannot be resold to anyone else. That is enforced at the database, not left to application logic to remember.
One price, shown up front
The operator's fare is the fare. No booking fee, no convenience charge, no different number at the payment step than the one on the search results.
A person, not a ticket queue
The number on this site reaches staff at the depot during opening hours. Same-day problems get solved by someone who can actually reach the driver.
Works on the phone you have
Tickets arrive by SMS as well as on screen, and the site installs as an app without a store download. It is built for patchy highway signal, not a desk.
How we got here.
One bus, one route
Pokhara to Kathmandu, departing from Prithvi Chowk every morning at 7:30. Bookings by phone call only.
Sunauli + Bhairahawa added
Daily departures down to the Terai. Fleet grew to four coaches, started taking SMS bookings.
First website
Static schedule page + a phone number. Got us through the pre-COVID rush.
Gadi Ko Ticket as it stands today
Full online booking, eSewa/Khalti payments, seat-level holds, SMS tickets, live GPS tracking. PWA-installable.
Worth knowing before you book.
Gadi Ko Ticket is a booking platform. The buses are owned and driven by the operators listed on the site, and each operator is responsible for its own vehicles, drivers, departure times and conditions of carriage. We are not a government body and we are not affiliated with one.
Departure times are the operator's scheduled times. Road conditions on the Prithvi and Mugling stretches, weather, and bandhs can move them, and we cannot guarantee an arrival time. Cancellation and refund terms are set per operator and shown on your ticket before you pay.
If anything on this page is out of date or does not match what you experienced, tell us — the contact details below reach us directly.
How to reach us.
Prithvi Chowk, Pokhara, Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal
At the counter · walk-up bookings, ticket reprints and cash refunds.
9715150506
By phone · a real person, in real time. Best for booking changes and same-day problems.
[email protected]
By email · complaints, suggestions and partnership enquiries. We answer within 48 hours.
