Tiruchendur temple is one of the 6 padai veedu - Six abodes of Lord Muruga (others being Thiruthani, Swamimalai, Palani, Pazhamudhircholai, Thirupparankunram. So for someone from a family that chooses temples over beaches for a vacation, I had been to all the 5 padai veedu and a frequent visitor to Palani temple.
Tiruchendur is connected by train to Chennai daily. We decided to travel to Coimbatore to take the Nagercoil express till Tirunelveli and the Tiruchendur express from there. This is a fairly good travel plan for those from Kovai, Erode etc. We reached Tirunelveli early morning, there was a lot of autos- taxi people trying to get us to travel to Tiruchendur by taxi, the rates quoted were really high and will certainly recommend the train or the bus ( my return journey). The train arrived on time and we were at Tiruchendur by 8:30. We took an auto from the railway station and checked into a hotel near the temple. The hotels are fairly cheap with less than Rs 1000 for well maintained double rooms.
We were at the temple by 10am and it wasn't rush hour, so we had a fairly quick darshan.There will be people ( priests ) approaching you and something like Rs 500 they take you really close to the diety and give you special prasad too (not recommending since I am not sure if the temple actually endorses it but you can surely give this a try).
The temple is pretty special as it's close to the beach unlike Lord Muruga temples on top of hill. There is a cave of Goddess Valli which you can visit nearby.
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