Car travels in Lakshmipuram, doorstep pickup.

Lakshmipuram is the residential side of central Guntur — quieter than the shopping lines a few streets over, and where a lot of families actually live rather than trade. Bookings from here look different because of it: fewer single travellers, more groups of five or six with luggage and a temple or a wedding at the other end. The lanes are narrow enough that the car meeting you at the gate rather than the corner is the thing worth asking for.

Pickup tip — Give the house name or number and the cross lane. These streets look alike from the main road and a driver on the wrong one is two minutes and a phone call away rather than lost.