Umrah Packages from London

Umrah Flight Prices from London

Pilgrims fly from London Heathrow (LHR) / Gatwick (LGW) to King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah (JED). Direct and one-stop routings are typically operated by Saudia, British Airways, Emirates, Qatar Airways.

• Economy return fare
  £380 – £520
• Premium / Business return fare
  £720 – £1,100

Prices are indicative return fares from London. Peak season (Ramadan, school holidays) and last-minute bookings run higher. Fares are estimated separately from hotel/land packages.

Umrah Package Durations from London

Your flight route out of London

London Heathrow (LHR) is your home airport, so the pre-flight leg is short. Check in three hours before departure and there is no overnight positioning to pay for.

The non-stop options are British Airways and Saudia, LHR to Jeddah (JED) in roughly 6h 15m. First-time pilgrims underrate this: a single sector means one Ihram decision, one boarding, one arrival.

When the non-stop sells out or prices above the band below, we also quote EgyptAir via Cairo and Turkish Airlines via Istanbul, which on the same dates can come in materially cheaper.

Return economy fares from LHR to Jeddah typically fall between £405 and £725 per person. The low end shows up when you book 10–14 weeks out on midweek departures; the high end is what late bookers and school-holiday travellers pay.

London departures: how we work locally

Word travels fast between congregations at East London Mosque, Regents Park Mosque and London Central Mosque, and most London bookings reach us that way. A referral-led business cannot survive a hotel that looks nothing like its listing, so we inspect properties ourselves before selling them.

We regularly arrange group departures for households across Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest and Brent, including shared transfers to London Heathrow when several families are on the same flight. Larger parties usually pay less per person, because triple and quad occupancy spreads the biggest single cost in the trip.

You get a named consultant reachable in your own time zone, and support that continues while you are in Makkah rather than ending at payment.

Matching a Makkah hotel to your London budget

Arriving on a non-stop, you can be in your Makkah hotel roughly two hours after landing at Jeddah. That makes an early-hours arrival perfectly workable — and early-hours arrivals are often the cheapest seats out of your airport.

Spending at the upper end of £750–£3,000 buys proximity rather than luxury. The towers beside the Haram are five minutes from a gate; a comparable room a twelve-minute walk away costs a fraction of that, and the difference is usually two or three extra nights.

The properties London pilgrims book most often are Fairmont Clock Royal Tower, Pullman ZamZam Makkah, Conrad Makkah, Swissotel Al Maqam, Makkah Towers and Anjum Hotel Makkah — each page shows live rates, verified gate-to-lobby walking times and real guest feedback.

Every hotel page shows how long the walk to the nearest gate actually takes, including the crossings and ramps a map ignores.

The real cost of Umrah from London

Pilgrims in London usually see a headline price first and discover the extras later. Here is the arithmetic without the marketing.

A ten-night trip breaks down as £405–£725 in airfare plus £750–£3,000 in land costs per person. The land figure is where your choices actually change the total; the airfare is largely set by the market.

You are effectively buying walking distance. For pilgrims from London travelling with elderly parents that premium is usually justified; for a fit couple staying eleven nights, it rarely is.

What we never do is quote a figure that grows later. Visa fees, transfers, taxes and the Madinah leg all sit inside the number we send. If a quote elsewhere in the UK looks dramatically cheaper, check whether it covers the intercity transfer and how far the "near Haram" hotel actually is — those two omissions explain nearly every price gap.

Visa, vaccination and documents from London

British passport holders can apply for the Saudi eVisa online in minutes — approval usually lands within 24–48 hours and it is valid for one year with multiple entries. No agent stamp is required, so you can book flights before the visa is issued.

Most refusals and airport turnbacks trace to one of three things — passport validity, the ACWY vaccination certificate, or missing consent paperwork for a minor. None of them are hard to fix with four weeks' notice.

We do not charge a separate visa handling fee for travellers from the UK. If your application is refused for a reason outside your control, the land portion of your booking is refundable in full under our Buyer Protection terms.

When London families should travel

February half-term, the Easter break and late July through August are the busiest windows for UK departures, and airfares from your local airport can double in those weeks. October half-term and the January–early February lull are consistently the cheapest.

Because demand in Greater London is so predictable, the calendar matters more than the deal. Locked-in dates reward early booking; open dates reward patience and a willingness to move by a week and a half.

For Ramadan, ignore everything above. Supply near Masjid al-Haram is effectively sold out well in advance, so the only real strategy from London is to decide early and hold your rooms.