Retiring room

IRCTC retiring room charges calculator

Railway retiring room and dormitory charges, worked out the way IRCTC’s own terms work them out: the station’s 24-hour tariff, the hour slab, the extension slot, the service charge, GST, and what comes back if you cancel.

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Railway retiring room charges: how the tariff is worked out

Every retiring room has a 24-hour tariff, fixed for that station and that room type — AC or non-AC, single or double — by the railway that runs the station, and shown on IRCTC’s booking page when you pick the station. That is the figure the calculator asks for, because it is the one thing no rule can tell you. Everything after it is IRCTC’s terms. A stay shorter than a day is a percentage of the 24-hour tariff, in three-hour steps: a quarter for up to three hours, forty percent for up to six, half for up to nine, sixty percent for a 12-hour slot, and so on up to the full tariff for 22 to 24 hours. Most stations book in 12- and 24-hour slots; hourly booking is allowed only in the daytime block, 9 am to 9 pm, and only at the stations that offer it. A booking longer than a day is made in one transaction as two slots — 12 plus 24, 24 plus 12, or 24 plus 24 — and the terms treat the second slot as an extension carrying a quarter more. Then IRCTC adds its own service charge: a small fixed sum per room or per bed, higher for a booking over 24 hours, with GST on that charge alone. The most a room can be booked for is 48 hours.

IRCTC retiring room cancellation charges, and the refund

The refund is a share of the room charge, counted in days before the check-in date, and the check-in date itself is left out of the count. Cancel two or more days before and twenty percent is deducted; one day before, half; cancel on the check-in dateand nothing comes back. IRCTC’s service charge is never refunded, whichever row you land in. Cancellation is done on the booking site from your booking history, and the terms say it is permitted up to the check-in date. If the train itself is cancelled, the refund still follows the same table — the room is a separate booking from the ticket, and the terms do not tie one refund to the other. The calculator shows all three figures for your booking, so the decision to cancel today or tomorrow is made with the numbers in front of you.

Railway dormitory charges

A dormitory is a shared hall, booked by the bed rather than by the room, and it is the cheapest way to sleep inside a station. The bed has its own 24-hour tariff on the booking page, and the charge is worked out from it in exactly the same way as a room: the same hour bands, the same extension rule for a stay over a day, the same refund table. What differs is IRCTC’s service charge, which is half the room’s. Beds are booked against the passengers on the ticket, one bed each, and a room and a dormitory bed cannot be mixed in a single booking. Switch the calculator to Dormitory bed for the figure.

Railway station waiting room charges

The ordinary waiting room — upper class and second class, at almost every station — is free to anyone holding a valid ticket for that day, and is not booked at all. What is charged for is a bed or a room: the retiring rooms and dormitories this page is about. The third thing, at the biggest stations, is a paid air-conditioned lounge run by IRCTC — seating, wifi, charging and refreshments by the hour, sold on IRCTC’s lounge pages and not through the retiring room site. A search for “railway rest room booking” or “IRCTC rest room” is almost always a retiring room by another name, and the calculator above is the answer.

IRCTC retiring room booking: who can book, and for how long

A retiring room is booked against a train ticket, not on its own. The PNR must be confirmed or RAC — a waitlisted ticket does not qualify — and the station must be on the journey: the terms allow one at the source station and one at the destination station against one PNR. Beds are limited to the passengers on the ticket, and the person checking in must be at least 12 years old. Booking opens 60 days ahead and stays open until a few hours before the train, on rr.irctc.co.in with an ordinary IRCTC login. Late check-in is allowed up to 1hour after the train actually arrives, which matters on a delayed train; the room is held to the slot you booked, not to the train’s time. Nothing on this page books a room or reads a PNR — the calculator only prices the stay.

IRCTC retiring room availability, and the station list

Retiring rooms exist at selected stations only, and the list is not fixed — rooms are added, refurbished and handed to IRCTC to run, and a printed list of stations goes stale within a year. The live list, and the availability for your date, is on the booking site: pick the station and it shows the rooms, the tariff and what is free. That is where the 24-hour tariff for the calculator comes from, and it is also the honest answer to “retiring room availability without PNR”: you can look, but you cannot hold a room without a ticket. For the charge at a station you have not booked yet, read its tariff off that page and bring it here.

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Last updated 16 September 2026.