Daily · 90 minutes · dinner & show included · from ₹1,900
The Dinner Cruise: An Evening on the River
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Sails daily — timings follow the sun
Daily · 90 minutes · dinner & show included · from ₹1,900
Sails daily — timings follow the sun
Everything included
The dinner cruise is our all-inclusive evening — the one where you stop planning and just board. Here's how the evening runs, all of it covered by your ticket:
Drinks from the bar and any plates beyond the buffet are chargeable — order them as you go, billed to your table.
The cultural programme
This is what sets the dinner cruise apart — not entertainment in the background, but a full programme performed on the middle deck while you dine. The evening opens with a short documentary on Lachit Barphukan, the general who turned the Brahmaputra itself into a weapon — watched on the very river he defended.
Then the stage comes alive: the devotional drums and cymbals of Gayan Bayan, and Sattriya, Assam's own classical dance born in its island monasteries — followed by the leap and whirl of Bihu, the folk dance every Assamese celebration ends in, and live singing that carries the boat home. Most guests come for dinner; they leave having seen Assam.
The buffet
Around thirteen dishes, cooked fresh on board every single day — no reheated catering. The spread is mostly pan-Indian and largely vegetarian, with chicken and fish anchoring the non-veg side. Dinner is served on the middle deck as the performances play, and the open upper deck stays yours whenever you want the night air between courses.
Eating Jain, vegan, no-onion-no-garlic, or managing an allergy? Tell us when you book and the kitchen will have you covered. Two honest notes: extra plates beyond the buffet and drinks from the bar are chargeable, and traditional Assamese cuisine is served on our private charters rather than the daily dinner cruise.
Timings
The dinner cruise generally sails 7:30 to 9:00 PM — ninety minutes with Guwahati's lights strung along both banks and the city glittering off the water. Check the live timing for your date on the booking page before you plan your night.
Unlike the sunset sail, this one doesn't chase a season: the programme and the buffet make it a year-round evening, though November to February brings the mildest air on deck.
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Our captains are licensed second-class masters, and the vessel runs regular third-party surveys, safety drills and pollution tests. Life jackets and buoys are aboard, first aid and fire systems in place, and every deck is railed. With women across our front-office and service crew and well-populated decks each sailing, solo travellers — women included — cruise with us comfortably every week. The ride itself is smooth; at most a gentle rock in a strong wind.
Getting there & boarding
The Brahmaputra rises and falls with the seasons, so we board from the Gateway of Guwahati terminal, Panbazar in winter and from Uzanbazar in summer. Your exact boarding point is always printed on your boarding pass — check it before you book your cab. On Google Maps, search "Alfresco Grand".
Please report at least 30 minutes before departure — the boat sails on schedule and cannot wait for late arrivals. Between November and January, Guwahati's evening traffic is at its heaviest; give yourself up to an hour.
Around 15 minutes from Guwahati railway station, 40 from Kamakhya station, and roughly an hour to an hour twenty from the airport, traffic depending. At Panbazar there's paid multilevel parking opposite the terminal and free parking at the ghat just before it; the Uzanbazar point has free parking.
Boarding is a short walk up to the ship, then one flight of stairs to the middle deck and two to the upper deck. Guests with limited mobility, wheelchairs or strollers should plan accordingly — please call us before booking and we'll do our best to help.
Good to know
Everything that makes the evening: the 90-minute cruise, a non-alcoholic welcome drink and veg snacks on arrival (one round of each), the buffet dinner, and the full cultural programme — the Lachit Barphukan documentary, Gayan Bayan, Sattriya, Bihu and live singing. Drinks from the bar and extra plates beyond the buffet are chargeable.
Around 13 dishes, freshly prepared on board every day — mostly pan-Indian, most of it vegetarian, with chicken and fish among the non-veg. Jain, vegan, allergy-aware and no-onion-no-garlic plates can all be arranged if you tell us when you book.
The dinner cruise generally sails 7:30 to 9:00 PM, giving you the river after dark with the city lit along both banks. Check the live timing for your date on the booking page — the widget on this page shows today’s confirmed sailing.
It's a full Assamese cultural programme: a short documentary on Lachit Barphukan, the devotional Gayan Bayan and classical Sattriya performances, high-energy Bihu folk dance, and live singing — all performed on the middle deck as you dine. It's the closest thing to a cultural evening in Guwahati that also happens to be on a river.
From ₹1,900 per person, with rates varying by deck and for children — see the booking page for current prices. That includes the cruise, the welcome drink, snacks, the performances and the buffet. Prices are fixed year-round, the same online, by phone, or at the counter.
In genuinely extreme weather the boat stays ashore. For the dinner cruise there's no refund in that case — but the evening goes ahead on board: the full performances and buffet happen dockside, so you still get the show and the meal. We'd rather be honest about this upfront than surprise anyone.
They're different evenings. The sunset cruise is 60 minutes of golden hour with à-la-carte food — perfect if you have one early evening. The dinner cruise is the complete package: 90 minutes, dinner and performances included. If you want the full Assamese cultural experience, dinner is the one.
Only have the early evening? The sunset cruise on the Brahmaputra is sixty minutes of golden hour — the winter favourite, à la carte on deck.
Want it all to yourselves? The private candlelight dinner is this evening's intimate twin — your own vessel, a decorated table, and the river for two.