Recently, Vaishno Devi Shrine board started “Shradha Suman Vishesh Pooja” which is a combination of hotel room reservation, with three meals, prasad and aarti darshan.

This facility allows a person to be a part of aarti at the shrine. The shrine board has coupled it with hotel booking as one package whereby, the tourist will not only book a place to be a part of aarti but also the stay. One can easily book this package online, by filling a form and putting in the required information. However, before doing so, you need to know the cost of package too. In a package, you will get a 2-bedded room with AC at Niharika as well as bhavan, 3 meals at Katra/bhavan for one person, aarti darshan and prashad. This is the basic package ‘A’ worth Rs. 16,000 and entitles for only ‘one’ person.

You can choose from ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ too, however, they entitle 2, 3 and 5 persons per package respectively. The cost is Rs.31,000, Rs. 46,000 and Rs. 75,000 respectively for the above stated packages. The difference in cost is because of number of persons involved and hence, as the accommodation gets bigger, so does the price. Finally, if you want to add more members from your ‘own’ family, you will need special permission of authorities of shrine board prior to making any bookings.

Also, do remember that if you plan to book this package on a festival or Navratas, you will need to pay Rs. 21,000  per person. Except for online booking, one way is to send the filled-in form via post along with details of DD to the shrine board.