Visas
Applying for a Schengen visa from Kerala
Appointment timing, the financial documents that actually get checked, and the mistakes that cost people their travel dates.
Kerala · Since 2016
Great journeys
begin here
Holidays across the globe, air tickets, Holy Land pilgrimage, and the visa paperwork behind them — arranged by people you can sit across a desk from.
- Working since 2016
- Six offices across Kerala
- Quoted in writing before you book
Fare conditions set out before you pay.
Three countries, three sets of entry rules. Start the paperwork early.
How we arrange pilgrimage travel
Rules and appointment waits change without notice. We confirm before you pay.
Visa desk +91 90726 53010
What we do
Six things, done properly
Most travel goes wrong in the joins — between the ticket and the visa, between the hotel and the transfer. We handle the whole chain, so there is one place to call when something moves.
Holiday & tour packages
Itineraries across Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and India — built around your dates and your group, not a fixed departure list.
See packagesAir ticketing
Domestic and international tickets, group fares, reissues and date changes.
Book a ticketHoly Land
Jordan, Israel and Egypt as one sequenced journey, with the visas handled in-house.
Plan your pilgrimageVisa & passport
Tourist, business, pilgrim and transit visas. Your file is checked before it is filed.
Visa servicesCorporate & MICE
Managed business travel, incentive groups and conferences, on one invoice.
For businessesHotels & insurance
Hotels worldwide, and cover that matches the itinerary rather than sitting beside it.
Talk to usNot sure which you need?
Most trips touch three or four of these. Tell us the plan and we will sort out which.
Start with a question
Why people come back
A travel company you can walk into
Anyone can show you a fare on a screen. What is harder to find is someone still there when the airline reschedules, the consulate asks for one more document, or your mother-in-law decides to join the trip.
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Everything quoted togetherFlights, hotels, transfers, visas and insurance in one written quotation, so you see the real cost of the trip rather than a headline fare.
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Nothing booked until you approve itYou get the plan in writing first. No booking is made against your name until you have said yes to it.
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Documents checked before they are filedMost visa refusals come from an incomplete file, not an unwelcome applicant. We go through yours first.
Where we plan
Fifteen countries we know well
Not a brochure list. These are the routes our counters run most often, which means we know which hotel is worth the extra, and which day trip is not.
Three destinations
The Middle East & pilgrimage
Close enough for a long weekend, and the ground the Holy Land route crosses.
Four destinations
Europe & Türkiye
Longer and costlier, and the trip people remember longest. Visa lead time usually decides the dates.
Somewhere else in mind? Ask — and if it is outside what we can arrange properly, we will tell you that too.
Talk to a consultantJourneys
Where our travellers are going
Every one of these is planned around your dates rather than a fixed departure. Pick a starting point and we will shape it from there.
Signature route
Holy Land — 10 Days
The full Holy Land circuit, sequenced so the pilgrimage sites fall in a sensible order and the long transfers land on the right days.
The route
Amman · Nazareth · Sea of Galilee · Capernaum · Bethlehem · Mount of Olives · Jerusalem · Jericho · Dead Sea · Taba · St. Catherine · Cairo
Most requested Glory of Europe — 14 Days
Rome and the great European churches with the Swiss Alps in the middle — a two-week route that does not rush the days that matter.
Italy · Switzerland · Germany
Good first trip Singapore — 3 Nights, 4 Days
A short first international trip that works well with children — compact distances, reliable transport and English everywhere.
Singapore
Cruise — 4 Nights, 5 Days
Three countries without repacking. Meals and entertainment sit inside the cruise fare, which makes budgeting far simpler.
Singapore · Malaysia · Thailand
Why there are no prices on this page
A real price depends on your dates, your group size, the airline and the hotel category — a figure printed here would be wrong for almost everyone who read it. Send us the details and you will get a written quotation with the inclusions and exclusions set out line by line.
Holy Land Pilgrimage
The journey that carries the most weight
For most families this is not a holiday. It is the trip they have saved for, planned around and waited on. It deserves to be arranged by someone who understands that.
Sequenced so the days make senseAmman and the crossing, then Galilee, then Bethlehem and Jerusalem, then Cairo. The long transfers land where a group can absorb them.
Three countries, one set of paperworkJordan, Israel and Egypt each set their own entry rules, and they do not move together. We assemble and check every file before it is filed.
A group leader who speaks MalayalamLocal guides at the sites, and someone travelling with the group who speaks the language your family speaks.
Service times checked, not assumedSites close for worship, on particular weekdays and on holy days in three calendars. We build the itinerary around that.
Air ticketing
The cheapest fare on screen is not always the cheapest trip
A fare that saves you three thousand rupees and costs you a night in a transit terminal is not a saving. Neither is one that charges for the bag you were always going to carry.
Domestic and international, booked from the same desk.
- What the fare actually containsBaggage, seat selection, meal, change fee, and whether a connection is protected if the first leg runs late — before you pay, not when you reach the counter.
- Group and corporate faresSeparate handling for groups, where a block booking usually beats fifteen individual tickets.
- Reissues and date changesPlans move. We handle the reissue rather than leaving you with an airline call centre.
Sama Travel in short
Where we are, and what we handle
2016
EstablishedRegistered on 1 June 2016 and trading continuously since
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OfficesCounters you can walk into, not a call centre queue
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StatesAcross Kerala and Telangana
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ServicesFlights, holidays, Holy Land pilgrimage, hotels, visas, passport help and insurance
How it works
From first call to coming home
Four steps, and you know what happens at each one. No stage where your money has moved but your plan has not.
Tell us the shape of the trip
Dates, how many people, roughly what you want to spend, and anything that cannot move. Call in, walk in, or send it on WhatsApp.
We come back with a written plan
Usually within the same working day. Routing, hotels, what is included, what is not, and where you could spend less or more.
You approve it, then we book
Nothing is issued against your name until you have said yes. Documentation and visa filing start at the same time.
We stay with it while you travel
Schedule changes, reissues and on-ground problems come back to us, not to you standing at a counter in another country.
Travel guides
Notes from our counters
The questions we answer most often, written down properly. Rules change, so treat these as orientation and confirm the current position with us before you plan around them.
Air Ticketing
Why the cheapest fare on screen is often not the cheapest trip
Baggage, seat selection, self-transfer risk and change fees — where the real cost of an air ticket hides.
Holidays
A family's first trip abroad: choosing the right destination
Flying time, visa effort, food, and how much walking a group can realistically manage in a day.
Find us
Six offices, six doors you can open
Walk in with your passports and walk out with a plan. Or call the branch nearest you and we will start it over the phone.
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Kochi Head Office
First Floor, Mulloth Building, MG Road, Ravipuram, Kochi – 682015, Kerala -
Thrippunithura
First Floor, Gate B, SN Junction Metro Station, Thrippunithura – 682306, Kerala -
Thrissur
First Floor, C J Towers, Ikkanda Warrier Road, Thrissur – 680001, Kerala -
Kottayam
Second Floor, Mannakulathil Towers, LBS Road, Kottayam – 686002, Kerala -
Kannur
First Floor, Umbai Tower, Opp. Training School, Caltex Junction, Kannur – 670002, Kerala -
Thiruvananthapuram
Above Dhanlaxmi Bank, Sasthamangalam P.O., Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Start planning
Tell us where you want to go. We will do the rest.
Send us your dates, your group and a rough budget. You will get a written plan back with the options set out clearly — and a person whose name you know handling it.