Umrah packages from Multan
The short answer. From a smaller departure city the question that decides your travelling day is not the price, it is the routing: does the flight leave Multan, and if it connects through another city, is the whole journey on one ticket? One ticket makes the airline responsible for a missed connection. Two tickets make you responsible. Settle that first, then judge the package on the hotel, the room, the nights and the exclusions, which are the same wherever you fly from.
Why the routing question matters more here
A larger city gives you more direct choice. A smaller one more often means a connection, and a connection is where the two problems live:
The day gets longer. Not a little longer. Picture it at the pace of the oldest person travelling with you, with luggage, in Ihram.
The responsibility moves. On one ticket, a missed connection is the airline's problem and your bags are checked through. On two separate tickets, a delay on the first leg is yours to solve, and you may have to collect and re-check your luggage.
Neither is a reason to refuse a connecting package. Both are reasons to know which one you have bought.
What a smaller departure city changes
The airfare, the routing, and where documents are collected. That is the list.
The visa, the hotel in Makkah, how far it is from the Haram, how many share the room, the nights in Madinah, the transport between the two cities: none of it depends on Multan, and all of it is what you are actually paying for.
What is included in an Umrah package.
Our departures and rates
Live rates, with hotels named and the room each price belongs to, are on the Umrah packages page. The cost built up line by line is in the Umrah cost guide.
Booking from south Punjab, safely
Our office is in Saddar, Karachi. We work with families across the country, everything after the first conversation is handled remotely, and documents can be couriered to and from your city.
Away from a shopfront, three habits do almost all the work:
- One written message with the hotels by name, the room, the nights, the
exclusions and the cancellation terms, kept on your phone.
- Payment to the registered company, against a receipt. Never to a personal
account, whatever the explanation.
- A licence number you check yourself, not a logo on a visiting card.
How to verify an Umrah travel agency
Fewer local offices is not the risk. An agency that will not put it in writing is, and that is as true next door as it is across the country.
What to ask, in one message
- Does the flight depart Multan? If it connects, through where?
- Is the whole journey on one ticket?
- What time does it leave, and what time does that mean leaving home?
- Which hotel in Makkah, and how many minutes to the Haram?
- How many share the room at this price?
- Nights in Makkah, nights in Madinah?
- What is not included, and what are the cancellation terms?
Before you speak to anybody
- Passport expiry, for every traveller including children.
- The vaccination with the waiting period, started early, because it is the
one that decides whether your dates are possible at all.
Umrah health and vaccination requirements.
- Names spelled identically on passport, CNIC and NADRA.
Each of these costs nothing now and real money later.
Where to spend, and where not to
Spend on the distance from the Haram. On an Umrah the walk to the Haram and back is the day itself, several times over, and no other line in the package comes close in what it does to the trip.
Save in Madinah, which is flat, open and cheaper to be close in.
Choosing a hotel near the Haram and choosing a hotel near Masjid al-Nabawi.
If the dates can move
They are worth more than the budget. In Ramadan and the school holidays the close buildings go first and cost the most; in a quiet month the same money puts you much closer. December and winter Umrah and Ramadan Umrah packages.
Ask us
Tell us your dates, who is travelling and their ages. We will tell you the routing, whether it is one ticket, what the package leaves out, and whether another week would suit your family better. Our departures are on the Umrah packages page.