What ₹79,500 Actually Covers on an Umrah Package
Nine inclusions, one price, and the two things that are deliberately left out. A plain reading of what the fifteen-day package does and does not pay for.
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From the send-off in Rajasthan to the coach at Jeddah — what actually happens on a Madni departure, step by step.
People ask what a “group departure” really means in practice. It is a fair thing to want to know, particularly if you have never flown before. Here is the shape of it.
Everything is arranged in the Kote Gate office first: the ticket, the visa, the hotels in both cities, the meals, the coach for every Ziyarat. Your itinerary — flight timings, hotel details, the meeting point for your group — comes to you before the date.
In Rajasthan a caravan usually leaves with a send-off. Garlands, family, photographs at the door. It is not part of any package; it is simply how it is done here.
You meet the rest of the group at the departure airport — Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, Lucknow or Ahmedabad, whichever is easiest for your family. Bags, documents and check-in are handled together. Nobody stands alone at a counter trying to work out what a form is asking.
Everyone flies on the same flight. Seats are arranged so families stay together and elderly pilgrims are not separated.
Transport is waiting. From Jeddah it is the coach to Makkah and the hotel your itinerary named before you left home — not a hotel decided on arrival.
Three meals a day for the whole group. Air-conditioned coaches between Makkah, Madinah and every Ziyarat in the programme. Laundry done during the stay. And 18 Ziyarat sites in Makkah with 15 in Madinah, named before you booked so you know what you are seeing and why it matters.
This is the part that is hard to put on a price list, and it is the reason most of our pilgrims come back to us for the next journey or send their relatives.
Someone from the office travels with every caravan. Not a representative who meets you at the hotel — someone who was in the office when you booked, who is on the flight, who is on the coach, and who speaks the language at both ends.
On the way home each pilgrim carries five litres of sealed Zamzam. That part everybody remembers to ask about.
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