LIFE SMILE presents a few easy steps to plan your medical tour to India.

Healthcare Procedure Schedule: After the confirmation of the healthcare procedure schedule from your Doctor / surgeon or Hospital in response to your health care query to Life Smile, you can book a host of services offered by Life smile packages to make your healthcare tour convenient and comfortable as per your choices and preferences.

Travel and Tours: After the confirmation of the healthcare procedure schedule, Life smile would be pleased to plan your India tour itinerary, book your and accompanied person’s return air ticket with the airline of your choice and book a pre or post procedure luxury vacation tour to any exotic destination of your choice in India, Nepal or Bhutan. You can select the vacation tour from the extensive list of tours in all categories (Wildlife, City, Adventure, Spiritual, Beach, Backwaters, Himalayan tour etc.) or alternatively you can request Life smile to plan a personalized tour itinerary for your desired exotic destinations. You can ask Life smile for the price quotation of the desired tour.

Life smile would be pleased to inform you about the contact details of India Embassy in your country, VISA application formalities and the travel formalities to be fulfilled on arrival in India. Life smile recommends you to get a traveler’s insurance policy to cover yourself during your overseas travel.

Hotel Accommodation: Whether you plan to travel alone or with your family / friends for your medical tour to India, Life smile would be pleased to book, refer or advise you for a comfortable, convenient and good accommodation - hotel within close vicinity of your medical centre to facilitate quicker and least complicated transfers to and from the centre. The accommodation - hotel choice offered to you would be in good and safe locality of the city, close to the market and popular tourist spots, parks, restaurants, shopping malls, theatre, libraries, entertainment centres etc. You can select the category of hotel from the wide range of starred to budget hotels.

Life smile would be pleased to book an accommodation of your choice and preferences at Hotel / Lodging Inn / Resort / SPA / Luxury Apartment / Paying Guest / luxury Bungalow / Luxury Farmhouse / Bed and Breakfast in the city or on the outskirts of city for your comfortable and enjoyable stay in India. You can request Life smile for a list of good accommodation choices with their category (Budget to star) and tariff plans, for your comfortable stay at any city / town in India. Approximate Hotel tariff in India ranges from USD 24 (Budget) to USD 600 (5 star deluxe). Following are the approximate figures of Hotel tariff

HOTEL TARIFF:

City Transfers and Bilingual Assistant / Escort: Life smile would be pleased to offer you city transfers in a private luxury car especially offered for your best comfort and convenience. Life smile also offers the services of a bilingual assistant or an escort who would be your language translator, personal assistant and local city guide, for a prompt and pleasant help to any of your requirement throughout your stay in India. The Bilingual assistant would receive you at the Airport on your arrival in India, accompany you to your accommodation - Hotel, accompany you to the hospital for all your medical appointments, assist you with the hospital registration and admission formalities, medical tests, procedure period, discharge and hospital billing formalities, accompany you for all your local city tours and finally He / She would accompany you to the Airport on the day of your departure. He/she will happily accompany you to any other places you may want to visit: Entertainment parks, places of worship, restaurants, bars, cafes, shopping malls, gardens, exhibitions, clubs, places of interest, theaters, local events, museums, local souvenir stores etc.

The Bilingual assistance services are available with translation services for the all the major languages eg. - English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Russian etc. The cost of the service is:

Chauffeur driven Luxury Air conditioned car is provided for the city transfers, the cost of the service is:

Recovery Period Activities Plan: During the Post-procedure recovery period at your Hotel you can choose to involve in wide range of non-strenuous activities with you Doctor’s permission. Life smile would be pleased to provide you these services - short-term classes on individual basis, at the place of your accommodation - Hotel or in-group with a renowned institute or Teacher. You can select from the following:

Yoga
Meditation
Healing therapies: Reiki, Sujok, Magneto-therapy etc.
Advanced computer applications
Musical instrument
Painting
Singing
Dance
Indian temporary tattoo art (Mehandi / Henna)

Any of these classes provided on individual basis, the fee for each class (02 Hrs. session) is:

Library Membership: Temporary - Life smile would be pleased to door deliver you the Books, International magazines, International newspapers and periodicals of your choice.

Additional Services: In addition to the above-mentioned services Life smile would be pleased to offer you the following additional services as per your choice and requirements.

Personal Caretaker: Certified Nursing, Paramedical and caretaker personal (Bilingual): For pre-treatment and post-treatment recovery period at your accommodation on 24x7 or part time basis. Life smile can provide you the caretaker personal, a Bilingual certified nurse or a paramedical, cost of the service is:

Personal communication devices: Prepaid cellular phone, Internet ready Laptop computer on rental basis:

The rental of cellular phone does not include the actual applicable cost of the prepaid sim card call charges. The Laptop Computer rental does not include the internet connectivity charges. The sim card and internet connectivity can be availed at the applicable actual cost.

Personal Entertainment devices: Personal cassette player, MP3/CD Player, VCD/DVD Player etc.

Personal Chef: To serve you better as a personal choice of taste, hygiene or in case of pre treatment or post treatment recovery period dietary restrictions / requirement. In case you do not opt for a personal chef, Life Smile takes care to instruct the restaurant/Kitchen at your accommodation regarding the dietary restrictions / requirement (if any) as per your Doctor’s recommendations. The cost of the service is:

In addition to these services Life smile would be pleased to arrange for you any other specific service as per your requirement and preferences, you are welcome to write to Life Smile at:

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