The rest of the world, booked by the same desk.
The office that takes families to Makkah takes them to Istanbul, Baku, Kuala Lumpur and Skardu as well. The same visa desk, the same ticketing, the same people answering the phone when something goes wrong at the other end.
International tours.
Group departures and private itineraries. Where a price is shown it is per person on the dates named; everything else we quote to yours.
Inside Pakistan.
The north, mostly, and mostly in the months it is worth going. Shorter trips, smaller groups, and no visa to wait for.
What a tour price is actually made of
A holiday quote hides the same way an Umrah quote does, and in the same four places. Knowing which one a cheap number has cut is the whole skill of comparing two of them.
- The airfare, which moves more than everything else put together and which is the reason the same week costs differently in March and in July.
- The hotel and where it is. Twenty minutes further out is a real saving and a real cost, and on a four day trip it is two hours of your holiday spent in traffic.
- What is actually included. Transfers, entrance tickets, a guide who speaks Urdu, and how many meals. This is where two quotes that look alike stop being alike.
- The visa, which for most of these is a separate job with its own fee and its own timetable. We do that part too, and the visa pages say what each country needs.
We would rather show you the breakdown than win on a headline number. If another agent is cheaper, bring us their quote and we will tell you honestly which of the four they have taken out.
How a tour booking runs
You tell us the dates and the people. How many adults, how many children and their ages, and whether anybody needs a wheelchair, a particular diet or a seat near the front. It changes the hotel and sometimes the airline.
We quote in writing. The itinerary day by day, the hotel named, what is in and what is not, and what the visa will cost on top.
The visa goes in first. Nothing is bought until it is through, because a ticket bought before a visa is a ticket you may be arguing about later.
You travel, and somebody here stays reachable. A flight moves, a hotel is wrong, a child is unwell. You call this office, not a queue in another country.
Before you book.
Both. The group departures are cheaper because the cost is shared and the dates are fixed. A private itinerary goes wherever you want, on your dates, at your pace, and costs more for exactly that reason. Most families who travel with children or with elderly parents end up taking the private one, and are glad they did.
No, and anybody who tells you it is has folded it in somewhere else. The visa is a separate fee set by the consulate, not by us, and it is not refundable once the application is lodged. We file it for you and the fee is shown separately so you can see what it is.
Two to three months ahead for summer and for the Eid holidays, six to eight weeks otherwise. The limit is rarely the hotel. It is the visa appointment calendar, which in June, July and August runs further ahead than people expect.
Yes, and we do it without being asked. Hotels are chosen with that in mind, restaurants are checked rather than assumed, and the itinerary is built so that Jummah is not something you are rushing back for.
You call us. We hold the booking, so we are the ones who can move it, and we are in the same time zone as the airline’s Pakistan desk. That is the practical difference between booking through an office and booking through a website.
Where would you like to go?
Tell us the place, the dates and who is coming. We will send the itinerary and the real number.
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