UMRA with BESTur!
Bestur Turizm
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How to Perform Umrah with BESTur? Our guests register to our program after seeing the visuals of the hotels they will stay in (even their rooms if they wish) and liking them.
After the official procedures begin with the receipt of the documents required for registration, we first deliver to our guests the gifts they will use in the holy lands by hand or by cargo.
Depending on the situation of the guests, we organize the "UMRA INFORMATION SEMINAR" on the Saturday before the departure date, at the mosque close to our head office or in the meeting room of our two-storey office, depending on the participation rate. Information is provided about Saudi Arabia, Mecca and Medina, including their history and present.
UMRA INFORMATION SEMINAR also provides information on how to perform Umrah, what ihram means, how to enter ihram, the differences between men's and women's ihram, the prohibitions of ihram and what to pay attention to while in ihram.
UMRA INFORMATION SEMINAR also shares information about the clothes to be worn according to the season, where to go in Mecca and Medina, information about the Umrah program to be applied in Mecca and Medina and the hotels to stay.
After our seminars, the flight departure date and flight time determined by our information technology unit and where and what time to meet are conveyed to our guests both by voice and via e-mail or WhatsApp, and they are informed about the flight movements.
DEPARTURE AIRPORT PROCEDURES:
Our guests, who are ready at the port on the determined flight day and time, first receive their passports accompanied by our airport officials, then carry out the baggage procedures and become ready for passport control.
The daily departure schedule of the tour they are participating in is also delivered to them at the time of document delivery at the airport.
The exit fee stamps that our guests must purchase are also purchased and pasted on their passports in advance, ensuring their easy passage through police control.
After the briefing before departure, accompanied by our expert instructors who join the flight with them, they pass through passport control with our attendant and board their plane departing from Istanbul.
After a 3 hour and 25 minute flight under normal weather conditions, our guests who go to Medina first get off the plane and are directed to passport control with the sign of our instructor staff. After passport control, they collect their luggage and exit the airport.
At the check-out exit, with the sign of our Medina officer waiting for them, they get into the latest model vehicles that will take them to their hotel and leave the airport with the participation of all the guests, our instructors explaining Medina and saying salawat.
SETTLEMENT IN MEDINA HOTEL, MEDINA:
Predetermined room keys are delivered to our guests in the hotel lobby. Our guests receive their room keys and go to their rooms. The luggage they brought with them is taken to their rooms by the hotel staff and delivered to them.
Our guests who enter their rooms, after freshening up their ablutions and making preliminary preparations, are ready in the lobby at the time determined by our Medina staff, taking care not to keep other guests waiting for this first move of the group. Accompanied by our instructors, we move towards Ravza, chanting salawats.
The first salute is held collectively with men and women in front of the Green Dome, and the mosque and its surroundings are introduced. Then, accompanied by our lady attendant, the ladies move to the greeting section reserved for them, while the men, together with our teacher, head towards the "Babü's Selam", the greeting gate, and enter the greeting.
When the greetings are over, we return to the hotel and start the first evening's rest.
Within the framework of the tour program that our guests receive at the airport before departure, on the day of the Medina Travel Program, tours of Medina are made with the explanation of our expert instructors, accompanied by our staff.
During the days of stay in Medina, the Date Garden program is among the programs that all our guests look forward to. In this program, our guests are not only helped to purchase dates, but also an "UMRA INFORMATION SEMINAR" is held for the second time to help them perform Umrah more consciously. style="text-align: center;">During the days they stay in Medina, our guests try to perform their five daily prayers in the Harem.
They try not to disrupt their busy prayer schedule in Mecca by buying their souvenirs in Medina.
Health etc. during the days you stay in Medina. In case of problems, our guides and instructors, whose phones are registered in the tour program given to our guests twenty-four hours a day, strive for the comfort of our guests.
DEPARTURE TO MECCA:
Green dome after the morning prayer on the day of departure to Mecca. They gather in front of the Prophet (pbuh) and bid farewell to him.
Our guests, who learn how to put on ihram and how to make the intention in Umrah seminars, make their preparations when the day of departure to Mecca arrives, and they take their luggage to the front door at the determined time and give the hotel staff the opportunity to place it in the vehicles.
Our guests, who leave the hotel by vehicle, first come to the place where the Zulhuleyfe Mikat Masjid is located, where they prepare for the intention of ihram by performing the two-rakat ihram prayer.
After all our guests, who try not to keep each other waiting, are ready, the intention of Umrah is made together, accompanied by our group teacher, and They move to the vehicles accompanied by talbiyes.
As the vehicle moves, our guests, who travel accompanied by talbiyes, salawats and takbirs until they reach Mecca, are also re-informed about both Mecca and the prohibitions of ihram, umrah and ihram, with the explanations of our teachers.
After a journey lasting 6 - 6.5 hours, we enter Mecca accompanied by takbirs and talbiyahs.
SETTLEMENT IN THE MEKKE HOTEL, MEKKE:
When arriving at the hotel, our guests are welcomed by our Mecca staff and go to their rooms by taking the room keys delivered to them. Their luggage is taken to their rooms by the hotel staff and delivered to them.
Our guests, who freshen their ablution in their rooms and relieve their travel fatigue by paying attention to the ihram prohibitions, are ready in the lobby at the time determined by our staff, taking care not to keep the other guests waiting for the group's first departure in Mecca.
Accompanied by our teachers, they leave the hotel towards the Kaaba to perform the Umrah mission.
When they arrive in front of the walls of the Kaaba, our teacher informs them again and explains how to enter the Kaaba. Our guests, who act in accordance with this information and description, enter the Kaaba and see the Kaaba clearly, pray a lot and try to reach the reward of the one who sees the Kaaba for the first time with worldly eyes. When they finish the tawaf by praying a lot, they perform the two-rakat tawaf prayer in a suitable place behind the Makam-i Ibrahim.
Our guests, who drink plenty of zamzam and rest for a while, this time move on to the second movement of Umrah, sa', which is the act of walking on the hills of Safa and Marwa. With the completion of the sa'y movement, which consists of four goings and three comings, accompanied by our teachers, all our male guests head to the barber to shave, which is the condition for exiting ihram, while our female guests return to their rooms to cut their hair a little, which is the condition for exiting ihram. They make trips to Mecca with the explanation of our teachers.
During the days they stay in Mecca, our guests try to perform their five daily prayers in the Harem.
They circumambulate the Kaaba a lot to evaluate it at every opportunity they get. After the night prayers, they participate in the mass circumambulation that takes place every evening, accompanied by our teachers. After these tawafs, the prayers of the hatims that have been recited until then are made together with hands pointing towards the sky.
Our guests who want to perform Umrah for the second time are assisted.
Our teachers are at their service day and night so that they can perform Umrah comfortably. They are found. Within the framework of the program, performing Umrah again with the collective intention of Ci'rane or Ten'im is also included in the Mecca programs. In case of problems, our guides and instructors, whose phones are registered in the tour program given to our guests twenty-four hours a day, make every effort for the comfort of our guests. They collectively perform their last circumambulation accompanied by our teachers and at the appointed time, they take their luggage to the front door so that the hotel staff can pick it up and place it in the vehicles.
After a 1-1.5 hour Mecca-Jeddah journey, they arrive at Jeddah airport. After their journey accompanied by our guides and instructors, they pass through the police control after the airport baggage is delivered and the Zamzams are placed in the luggage.
Our guests arrive at our country after a flight of approximately 3 hours and 25 minutes.
After returning to our country, our guests are called by the public relations department and report any problems, complaints or satisfaction they encounter in the tour program and share information so that our company can provide better service in subsequent tours.
In addition, our guests returning to the country are called by the accounting department and provide the invoice information to be issued in their name, and the invoices issued in their name are delivered to them via e-mail or cargo.…
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