The travel time between Mumbai and Delhi used to be over 30 hours, it has been reduced to around 22 hours, and a bus can make it around 27 hours now. The route is through Jaipur, Ajmer and Surat, with possibly a transfer or a seater to all of these.
The problem is that the coordinators cannot give you a location to the exact place. They will say the name of some hotel on the other side of the road, or some dhabha that will be impossible to spot on Google Maps. It is a pain getting to the right pickup point if you don't know it already, and this is made doubly complex by the fact that the Delhi people do not know the local places in Mumbai at all.
My bus got rerouted, which resulted in a lot of problems for passengers. The Uber fare from where you are to where the bus is can actually bridge the gap between a bus fare and an air ticket. Still, after all that it is totally worth it just to experience half of India rushing by. The sunrises and sunsets are spectacular, but unfortunately you have to wait till mid-day to see the Sun if you are on the wrong side of the Bus.
Here again, the sleepers are designed in such a way that there are twin seats on the right side, and single seats on the left. This means that solo travellers are always better off on the left, unless you make a strange ass booking and share a bay with a random.
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