Hajj 1448 AH · UAMA × Hisar Tour
Most Hajj pages tell you a starting price and stop. This one shows you what that number is made of — the room, the Mina camp, the flight — so you can tell the difference between a package that is cheaper and a package that has simply left things out.
If you are trying to work out what Hajj actually costs from the United States, the honest answer is that the advertised number is the least useful part of any quote. Two packages advertised $2,000 apart can be the same package in a different room, and two packages advertised at the same price can be four kilometres apart in Mina.
So this page does something the rest do not: it takes Hisar Tour’s published 2027 pricing apart and shows you the components Nusuk actually charges for — the room, the Mina camp, the flight — using the real figures from our own package pages. Then it tells you which tier suits which kind of pilgrim, and what you should budget on top.
Booking and payment happen on the Saudi government’s Nusuk Hajj platform. Hisar Tour, the travel arm of the United American Muslim Association, provides the group flights, the imams and murshids who travel with you, the pre-departure seminars, ground services and support. We do not take payment for the Hajj package, and neither does anyone else who is being straight with you.
The 2027 tiers
Five tiers, ordered by price rather than by how much we would like you to spend. Every figure is per pilgrim in a shared quad room with the round-trip group flight already included.
$10,400per pilgrim, quad room · incl. group flight
≈ SAR 39,000 · ≈14–15 nights
Departs from JFK, IAD, ORD, IAH, LAX, YYZ
Get a Gold Shifting quote$11,200per pilgrim, quad room · incl. group flight
≈ SAR 42,000 · ≈14–15 nights
Departs from JFK, IAD
Get a Platinum Shifting quote$11,200per pilgrim, quad room · incl. group flight
≈ SAR 42,000 · ≈14 nights
Departs from JFK, IAD, ORD, IAH, LAX, YYZ
Get a Silver quote$11,500per pilgrim, quad room · incl. group flight
≈ SAR 43,000 · ≈13 nights
Departs from JFK, IAD, ORD, IAH, LAX, YYZ
Get a Gold quote$12,300per pilgrim, quad room · incl. group flight
≈ SAR 46,000 · ≈11 nights
Departs from JFK, IAD
Get a Platinum quoteStarting prices are Hisar Tour’s published 2027 planning figures, based on real 2026 room rates. Hotels may be substituted with comparable properties. The binding price is the one shown inside Nusuk when sales open, and Nusuk may publish different numbers. SAR conversions use the pegged rate of 3.75 SAR to the dollar.
How Nusuk prices a package
A Nusuk Hajj package is not one price. It is three components added together, and every tier is just a different combination of them. Once you can see the components, comparing quotes becomes straightforward.
Your bed in Makkah and Madinah for the nights of the package. This is the largest single component and it varies by hotel, by how close that hotel sits to the Haram, and by how many people share the room.
Roughly 60–70% of a typical package.
Where you sleep during the ritual days. Two camps are used, and the difference between them is both a real cost and a real walk.
Roughly SAR 8,000–11,000 depending on which camp.
Round-trip from your departure city to Jeddah or Madinah, travelling with the group and the murshid. Included in every price on this page.
Roughly SAR 10,000, about $2,670.
Why this matters when you compare quotes. An agency quoting $9,000 has almost certainly removed one of these three — usually the flight, sometimes the Mina camp upgrade. An agency quoting $16,000 has usually moved you from a quad to a double and put you in the closest hotel. Neither is dishonest. But unless you line up all three components, you are not comparing the same thing.
Room types
Every headline price on this page — and on almost every competitor’s page — is for a bed in a room of four. Here is what the step up costs, using the published figures from our own 2026 Gold package as a worked example.
| Occupancy | Room cost (SAR) | Approx. USD | Difference vs quad | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quad — 4 sharing | 27,500 | $7,333 | — | The base rate every advertised price uses. Fine for solo pilgrims and for groups of friends or relatives travelling together. |
| Triple — 3 sharing | 33,000 | $8,800 | +$1,467 | A family of three, or two who want a spare bed. The most common upgrade. |
| Double — 2 sharing | 38,000 | $10,133 | +$2,800 | Couples, and anyone travelling with a parent who needs privacy or help at night. The most requested room type. |
A couple who assume the advertised price is per person for a double are out by roughly $5,600 across two pilgrims. That is not a hidden fee — every operator quotes quad, because every operator’s competitor does. But it is the single most common budgeting mistake we see, and it is better discovered in July than at checkout.
If you book a quad and are not travelling as a group of four, you will be placed with other pilgrims. Preferences are accommodated where possible but are not guaranteed. Tell us at enquiry stage if this matters to you — for some pilgrims it is fine, for others it is worth $1,467 to avoid.
Mina
During the three days of Tashreeq you stay in Mina and walk to the Jamarat Bridge and back each afternoon. Nusuk packages use two camps. The gap between them is the most underestimated line in the whole booking, and unlike most things in Hajj it has an exact price.
The closest camp to the Jamarat Bridge. Around 5,000 pilgrims and the highest service level. The daily stoning becomes a short walk.
SAR 11,000 in the 2026 season. On the 2027 tiers it appears as an upgrade of roughly +$1,240, and is built into Platinum.
A large, well-equipped camp taking up to 44,000 pilgrims, with everything needed for the Mina days. The standard camp on the Gold and Silver tiers.
SAR 8,000 in the 2026 season — the reason those tiers cost less.
Put plainly: about $800 to $1,240 separates a 400-metre walk from a 4-kilometre walk, twice a day, for three consecutive days, in May heat, immediately after the night at Muzdalifah. For a pilgrim in their thirties that is a fair trade for the money. For a parent in their seventies it is usually the most important line item on the whole invoice, and the one families regret saving on.
The decision
Four questions decide it. Answer them honestly and the tier chooses itself.
Gold Shifting — $10,400. Quad room, Rotana Makkah before the Hajj days, Razana Rawda near the Jamarat. You will walk and you will move hotels once. For a fit solo pilgrim, the best value on the list.
Gold or Silver, double room. One hotel throughout, Zone A in Makkah, no mid-journey move. Add roughly $2,800 per person for the double. Silver’s Sheraton sits 570 m from the Haram by footbridge.
Platinum. Shortest trip, Hyatt Regency facing King Fahd Gate, Maden 40 m from Masjid an-Nabawi, premium Mina camp. It is the most expensive tier and for this situation it is the one that works.
The real number
The package is the large number. It is not the only number. Here is everything else, so the total does not surprise you in Makkah.
A realistic planning habit: take the tier price, add your room upgrade, then add a personal allowance on top. Families who do this in July are not the ones making difficult decisions in February.
Departures
Group flights are normally routed through a single connection to Jeddah or Madinah. Tier availability by city is confirmed at booking.
Most pilgrims outside these six cities fly to the nearest gateway and join the group there. Two things worth knowing:
The process
Hajj from the United States is bought on one platform only. Knowing the sequence — and that it runs in two stages months apart — is most of what separates the families who get the package they wanted from the families who do not.
One prior cycle is a pattern, not a schedule. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announces the real dates through Nusuk.
On fraud. Saudi authorities have prosecuted people running fake Hajj campaigns. The package is paid inside the Nusuk eWallet and nowhere else. No legitimate organisation will ask for your Nusuk password, or take package payment by transfer, cash or card. If someone does, that is the end of the conversation — and please tell us, so we can warn the community.
Who you would be travelling with
Every operator says they listen. These are the specific things that changed after we debriefed the 2026 groups:
Questions
Hisar Tour’s published 2027 starting prices run from $10,400 to $12,300 per pilgrim for a bed in a shared quad room, with the round-trip group flight from North America already included. Triple and double rooms cost more — see the occupancy section above for what the step up actually costs. On top of the package, budget separately for Qurbani, personal spending, vaccinations and any travel to your departure airport. These are planning figures; the binding price is the one Nusuk publishes when sales open.
Three reasons, and only one of them is about quality. First, occupancy — many advertised prices are for a double room, ours start at quad. Second, what is bundled — some quotes exclude the flight, the Mina camp upgrade, or Qurbani. Third, hotel and camp position, which is a genuine cost difference. When you compare two Hajj quotes, line up occupancy, flight inclusion, Makkah zone and Mina camp distance before you compare the totals. Any two of those four being different makes the headline numbers meaningless.
Nusuk. Since 2022 the Hajj package for US and Canadian pilgrims is bought and paid for inside the Saudi government’s Nusuk Hajj platform, from your funded eWallet. No travel agency can sell you a Hajj package outside it. What Hisar Tour provides is the group flight arrangement, the imam and murshid who travel with you, the pre-departure seminars, the ziyarat programme, the transport at the Mashair sites, and support on the ground. If anyone asks you to pay for a Hajj package by transfer, cash or card outside Nusuk — or asks for your Nusuk password — that is fraud.
A shifting package in a quad room, with the standard Mina camp, booked early. On the 2027 tiers that is Gold Shifting at $10,400. The savings come from three real trade-offs: you share a room with three others, you change accommodation partway through, and you walk roughly 4 km to the Jamarat on each of the three days of Tashreeq rather than a few hundred metres. For a fit pilgrim travelling alone, that is a perfectly reasonable set of trade-offs. For someone bringing an elderly parent, it usually is not.
Yes. Every quoted starting price includes the round-trip group flight from your departure city, priced at roughly SAR 10,000 (about $2,670). You can instead select “own ticket” at Nusuk checkout and arrange your own flights, which removes that amount from the package but also separates you from the group and the murshid at both ends of the journey. For a first Hajj we do not recommend it.
The package itself is paid from your Nusuk eWallet, and the balance has to be there before you can complete a booking. What you can do is fund the eWallet gradually across the months between registration opening and booking opening — historically a four-month window. That is the practical equivalent of a payment plan, and it is the main reason to register early rather than waiting for packages to appear.
Qurbani unless you add it at checkout, personal spending and gifts, meals taken outside the package, passport issue or renewal fees, vaccinations, excess baggage, room upgrades beyond quad, and your own travel to the departure airport if you are not local to it. Saudi government health insurance is included, as is daily catering at the hotels.
Six North American gateways for 2027: New York (JFK), Washington (IAD), Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX) and Toronto (YYZ). The Platinum and Platinum Shifting tiers run from JFK and IAD only; Gold, Gold Shifting and Silver run from all six. Group flights are normally routed through a single connection to Jeddah or Madinah.
Hajj 2027 is 1448 AH. The ritual days are expected to fall on 14–19 May 2027, with the standing at Arafah on Saturday 15 May, subject to the moon sighting. Nusuk had not opened for 1448 at the time of writing. In the previous cycle, account registration opened on 7 October 2025 and booking and payment opened on 1 February 2026 — so expect a similar shape, registration in late 2026 and booking in early 2027. Nothing is confirmed until the Ministry announces it.
Cancellation terms are set by Nusuk and by the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah, not by us, and they change depending on how close to the season you cancel and whether the Hajj permit has already been issued. There are processing fees on withdrawing funds from the eWallet. Ask us for the current published terms before you fund the wallet rather than after — and do not rely on figures quoted by third-party blogs.
Hisar Tour is the travel arm of the United American Muslim Association, a New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) founded in 1980, and operates from 970 Clifton Avenue, Clifton NJ. It works within the Seera Group family and shares in Seera Mawasim’s 1st Place award for Excellent Service from the Ministry of Hajj, now in the fourth year of that partnership. 381 pilgrims travelled with Hisar Tour in the 2026 season; more than 2,000 across previous years. You can read the reviews and watch pilgrim testimonials in six languages on hisartour.com.
That is the normal position, and it is the conversation worth having now rather than during the booking rush. Send your details through the form on this page or message us on WhatsApp with who is travelling, roughly what you can spend, and whether anyone in the group has mobility or health needs. You will get a straight recommendation, including when the answer is a cheaper tier than you were expecting.
بسم الله
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