Vellora plans mystery getaways — surprise trips composed around your budget, travel style, pace, and preferences. You control the dates, the spend, the interests, the pace, the must-haves, and the dealbreakers. Vellora chooses the destination, composes the flights, stays, activities, and dining, and signs off before any supplier is contacted. The destination is revealed through your Vellora dossier the morning you fly.
Two minutes of intake. You commit and pay the planning fee before we seal the dossier; nothing to book until you accept the composition. Or write the team — a human reads every note.
Anchor
Budget, dates, travel style, pace, interests, must-haves, dealbreakers. The plan starts from you.
Anchor
Vellora composes the destination against your answers. The surprise is the design, not a guess.
Anchor
Composed, then read end-to-end by a human. Nothing leaves the desk until both sides agree.
Why travellers trust Vellora
Vellora composes and books your trip end-to-end. You stay in the loop at every stage — and the destination stays a surprise until you’re ready to fly.
Budget, travel style, pace, interests, trip length, preferences, exclusions, and dealbreakers. The plan starts from you — every meaningful input stayed editable.
Vellora composes the destination against your answers, then signs off by hand. The destination is the surprise; the way you travel isn’t.
Fewer handoffs. Human judgment. Intentional composition. Three pricing lines, every assumption listed beside the number, refreshed nightly.
Every estimate is refreshed nightly and revealed at the end of the guided flow. Three pricing lines every time — Supplier trip cost (flows to suppliers), Vellora planning fee (15% / $99 minimum), optional Human concierge add-on ($299).
How a Vellora mystery works
You name how you travel. Vellora names the destination and composes the journey. The full picture comes together against the planning scope and travel standard you picked. The destination reveals at departure through the Vellora dossier.
01 · Tell us how you travel
You start with the things only you can answer — your dates, your soft budget, the destination hint (if any), your travel style, your pace, interests, must-haves, and dealbreakers. Thirteen short prompts, every input explained in plain language. Three independent choices stay front and centre: trip length (weekend, voyage, or grand), Planning scope (Basic · Curated · Extensive), and Travel standard (Value · Comfort · Premium · Luxury).
02 · We compose the journey
Vellora picks the destination against the inputs you give — the budget, the travel style, the pace, the season, the dealbreakers. Every line is composed in proportion to the Planning scope and the Travel standard you picked, then reviewed by a human before any supplier is contacted. The estimate refreshes nightly, with every assumption listed beside the number.
03 · Your getaway comes together
The composition takes shape — flights, hotel or boutique stays matched to your standard, a small folio of anchor activities, and dining reservations paced against your day. Each line lands in one of three named states — Recommended · Requested · Booked/Confirmed — so the difference is always visible. Nothing leaves the desk until a human has signed off.
04 · The reveal
The destination stays sealed until the morning you fly — governed by a server clock, never by a client-side guess. You don’t see the destination, the named hotels, or the day-by-day detail until departure morning; Mara continues composing behind the curtain and does not pre-leak it. When the clock crosses zero, your Vellora dossier opens in your dashboard: the destination, the full itinerary, the supplier confirmations, and the concierge’s intake notes — all in one place. Mara is in your chat from the moment your deposit lands through the morning you’re home, working hours 9am–9pm in your trip’s time zone.
The seal, set in gold
Personally composed. Human reviewed. Every booking falls into one of three states — Recommended · Requested · Booked/Confirmed.
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Trip scope · the third axis
Two independent choices shape every Vellora trip — Planning scope (Basic · Curated · Extensive) and Travel standard (Value · Comfort · Premium · Luxury). The trip length below is a third axis: a weekend, a voyage, or a grand composition. Choose a length first; Vellora composes the rest against the planning scope and standard you pick in the guided flow.
Three trip lengths · composed across 4×3×3 combinations of scope, standard, length.
One region · one city
≈ $600 – $900
A short trip — a 36-hour frame, a single destination you reach in one transit.
The dossier
The revealRecommended · Requested · Booked/Confirmed. Every line in your booking lands in one of those three states — never “guaranteed availability” on a supplier we have not yet contacted.
Recommended
A suggestion
Requested
Asking the supplier
Booked/Confirmed
Locked
The shape of your trip — Planning scope, Travel standard, the order summary — stays private until the morning you fly, then unlocks in your dashboard as the Vellora reveal.
The reveal
In the weeks before you fly, you’ll see the shape of the trip — not the names. Five quiet checkpoints. Every line on the order summary lands as Recommended · Requested · Booked/Confirmed; the destination opens in your dashboard the morning you leave.
What the seal is made of
A Vellora trip is composed, not generated. Hotels are vetted against published standards, supplier ratings, seasonality, and weather-on-the-ground data — then a real person signs off on the composition before anything leaves the desk.
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Frequently asked
We tell customers the price, the pricing model, and how the surprise is composed — even when the answer is “we don’t know yet.”
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Vellora's 14-day refund covers the Vellora planning fee — full refund inside the window, full credit on the Vellora side. After that the planning fee becomes Vellora credit (12-month validity). The supplier trip follows the supplier's calendar — Vellora doesn't add a fee on top.
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Vellora does not add a Vellora change fee on date swaps. Mara (plus the human concierge, if added) settles most changes in plain language; the customer always sees a written quote before any card change. Once suppliers are booked, supplier change/cancellation charges may apply and are passed through.
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Personally composed. Human reviewed. Estimates vary by party, dates, standard, scope — the assumptions are listed beside every number. Three pricing lines, transparent end to end.
Tell us how you travel — the budget, the pace, the dealbreakers — and the composition lands in your dashboard, every line named as Recommended · Requested · Booked/Confirmed. Real hotels, real flights, Mara in your chat from deposit to home. The destination is the surprise; the way you travel isn’t.
Two minutes of intake.
Tell us appetite, pace, a soft budget — Vellora composes the first draft.
Estimates vary by party size, ages, rooms, nights, dates, departure airport, airfare, lodging, dining, transport, activities, supplier charges, taxes/fees, and upgrades. Estimated, refreshed nightly — never a flat rate.
Estimate, refreshed nightly · Updated
Plan My Mystery Getaway →You commit and pay the planning fee before we seal the dossier; nothing to book until you accept the composition. Or write the team to start with a note.
Vellora · Mystery getaways, personally composed · Estimates refreshed nightly
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