Queues could be long, especially during festival seasons so ensure you have sufficient time. We had to wait for almost 1.5 hours for cable car / gondola service. There was a long queue for the darshan, and it could get super crowded so take care of small kids and your belongings. Return via cable car / gondola could also be a long wait so you can walk down.

Well, the temple was very crowded! But we were able to use the premium tickets from the Chandi Devi temple to get into the cable car without any wait. This was a real time saver. Once we went up, there were very long lines for the darshan(atleast1.5hours wait we were told). Therefore, we bought a special darshan ticket that took us hardly 5mnts, or so. What I'm trying to say here is that there are options if you are pressed for time or have elderly people visiting the temple. The cable car services are usually preferred by a majority of people visiting the temple. It carries the pilgrims directly from the lower station to the temple. It is convenient and you get great views of the city, river and the surrounding areas.

You can walk or use rope way to reach this hill top Devi Mata temple. Going in the rope way, one can have a beautiful view of the river Ganga.As we had combined tickets for Chandi Devi and Mansa Devi temple, we could go on rope car fast bye pasing the crowd. Also we took BIP darshan tickets for Devi darshan This Mata is considered very powerful.