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Your Obligation to Us
1. Paying for your arrangements
(i) Once you have
paid us an initial deposit of �100 per person plus the non-refundable
ticket cost we will issue a confirrnatior@invoice and the contract comes
into existence on the date it is sent to you.
(ii) The deposit is part
payment of the arrangements and the balance must be paid before the date
specified on the invoice which is normally no later than 6 weeks before
the departure date. Please note if we do not receive final payment by the
date specified then we reserve the right to treat your booking as
cancelled by you and cancellation charges will be applicable as detailed
in section 3 below.
(iii) Full payment is required for all bookings
made within eight weeks of departure.
2. if you change your
arrangements
If after the contract has been completed you want to
change your event/holiday arrangements we will do our best to meet your
requirements up to eight weeks before departure. If we can make the
required alteration eg to departure airport, date or duration, there will
be an administrative charge of �50 per person. Please note that changes to
the holiday within 8 weeks of departure or to schedule flights will result
in the cancellation of the original arrangements and charges will be
applicable as detailed in section 3 below. However no charge will be made
for amendments which involve solely the addition of insurance or
additional arrangements if extra clients are travelling to the same event.
All amendments must be notified to us in writing. Name changes made within
8 weeks of departure will also incur cancellation charges. Please note
that name changes cannot be made to schedule flight bookings and will
involve cancellation with 100% charges and a new reservation being made
for the new person at the applicable cost at the time of the change.
3. if you cancel your
arrangements
If you or any member of your party have to cancel
from the booking or cancel the entire booking once it has been accepted by
us, written notification must be sent to us by recorded delivery post and
charges will be applied from the date the letter is received according to
the scale below. The charges are applied as a percentage of the entire
cost excluding amendment charges event tickets and insurance premiums
which are non refundable in the event of cancellation. If seats on a
scheduled flight are reserved for you then 100% charges will apply to the
flight cost and the following scale will apply to any other arrangements
we have made for you.
| Period before departure
date
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Cancellation
charge
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| More than 56 days
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Deposit only
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| 42-56 days
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50%
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| 29-42 days
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75%
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| 15-28 days
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90%
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| 14 days or less
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100%
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IMPORTANT NOTE
It is a condition of booking that you take the
travel insurance we recommend or arrange insurance for your party with
comparable or better cover. If you have taken out insurance you may be
able to recover the cancellation charges, cheek your policy for details.
Our Commitment to You
1. If we change your arrangements The arrangements for the holidays are made many months in advance and occasionally it may be necessary to make changes to those arrangements. In the unlikely event of such changes arising we will endeavour to inform you as soon as reasonably possible. However occasionally we have to make a major change, this is one made before your departure involving a change of airport (except changes between Gatwick-, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted) or a change in flight times affecting attendance at the booked event. If your flight is part of a package holiday or on a seat only basis, a change in flight time by less than 12 hours from the original time confirmed does not constitute a major change. A change to the airline or aircraft type does not constitute a major change nor does a flight delay that takes place on the day you are to travel. Please refer to the section entitled 'flight delays' Mow. Should a major change arise we will of course notify you immediately and you will have the choice of either:-
a) accepting the changed
arrangements
b) purchasing another trip (subject to availability) from
us
c) cancelling your holiday and receiving a full refund of ail
monies paid.
In addition to this we will pay
you compensation in accordance with the scale below:-
Period of notification
Compensation per person of change before scheduled departure date More
than 56 days Nil 43-56 days Is 29-42 days �10 15-28 days �15 0-14 days �20
C)ur liability is limited to
offering the above choices and compensation in the event of a major
change. When the major change has been made as a result of unusual and
unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control the consequences of which
could not be avoided even with all due care, as detailed in the paragraph
entitled Force Majeure below, we cannot offer any compensation.
Force Maieure
We cannot
accept liability or pay any compensation where the performance or prompt
performance of our contractual obligations is prevented or affected by
circumstances amounting to force majeure. Force majeure means any event
which we or the supplier of the services in question could not foresee or
avoid. Such events may include but are not limited to war or threat of
war, riots, technical problems, civil strife, terrorist activity,
industrial action, natural or nuclear activity, adverse weather
conditions, fire and all similar events outside our control. We do not
operate the events and have no control over them, we cannot accept
liability for the cancellation of a booked event.
2. If we cancel your
arrangements
If we are forced to cancel your arrangements we will
inform you as soon as possible. We will offer you the choice of an
alternative event (if available) or a full refund of all monies paid to us
in respect of your arrangements. We will not cancel your arrangements
after the date specified on the final invoice for payment of the full
balance unless that balance has not been paid by you or unless it is due
to reasons beyond our control as detailed in the paragraph entitled 'Force
Majeure' above.
If we are forced to cancel your arrangements for any
reason after the date on which final payment is due then in addition to
the above options we will also pay you compensation as detailed in
paragraph 1 above. These compensation payments will not he paid to you if
the cancellation is due to reasons beyond our control and detailed in the
paragraph entitled 'Force Majeure' above.
3. Surcharges
After we
have confirmed your arrangements, we will only alter the price in the
event of government action, increases in transportation costs, fuel,
overflying or airport taxes or to reflect fluctuations in exchange rates.
If there is a surcharge payable there will be an administrative charge of
�0.50p per person. In exchange for this guarantee, we will not make
any,refunds in the event of a favourable variation to currency rates. The
rate of exchange is based on the conversion rate published in the
Financial 'rimes on July 1 st 1999.
Our
Responsibility
1. We
accept responsibility only for the acts and omissions of our own stafi. We
do not accept responsibility for the acts and or omissions of the
suppliers (or their staff andlor sub-contractors) of the various aspects
of the holiday eg the airline, the event organiser. This clause is subject
to force majeure and the other terms of these booking conditions.
2.
The liability of suppliers of arrangements in respect of air, sea, rail
and road carriers and providers of accommodation are limited by the
applicable international conventions and are subject to the company's
concerned conditions which are available on request.
Your Responsibility
The
flight details shown are for guidance only and are subject to change,
final details including airline and aircraft type will he confirmed on
your travel documentation, sent approximately 10 days prior to departure.
In the case of late bookings made within 14 days of departure we will
probably arrange for you to collect tickets at the airport on the day of
departure. The times shown on all tickets are local times and check in for
both outward and return flights is at least 2 hours prior to the departure
times on the travel documents. The company can accept no responsibility
for clients who arrive late for the cheek in and miss their flight as a
result nor can we accept responsibility for any loss by you of your flight
travel tickets, vouchers or coupons. All clients undertake to behave with
propriety and in such a manner as in no way to cause or be likely to cause
damage, distress, danger or annoyance to other clients, property and/or
any third party. The contract of any client in breach of this clause will
be terminated and neither we nor the providers of the services in question
will have any further contractual obligations to you.
Complaints
Should you
have any complaints about any aspect of the arrangements, you must inform
the relevant supplier of the service concerned and also our representative
is in attendance, thus giving us the opportunity to resolve any problems
immediately. If the problem cannot be resolved you must obtain a Complaint
Report Form from the representative for completion. In the unlikely event
that an amicable solution cannot be found, please ensure that you write to
our Customer Relations Department within 28. days of your return with full
and final details of any dissatisfaction.. We cannot accept any complaints
received outside of this period.
Passport and Health Information
This will be provided by us for British resident passport holders.
Non British passport holders and foreign residents must refer to the
embassy of the country they wish to visit to establish what if any
visas/inoculations they require.
Flight Delays
Airlines
do not offer compensation for delays and nor can we. However our travel
insurance does offer cover against flight delays that could prevent
attendance at the sporting event. We recommend that you purchase this
insurance policy as it is impossible to guarantee a flight will not be
delayed.
Your
Protection
We are
licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority, ATOL number 4233 and you will be
fully covered under the terms of the license for flights and packages. The
possibility of disruption over the start of the new millennium is well
publicised and you will no doubt be aware of the potential for problems.
Whilst we and our suppliers are doing everything possible to minimise any
disruption, we cannot guarantee this will not be experienced. Therefore we
cannot accept any responsibility for technical problems (or their
consequent effects) caused by the arrival of the new Millennium which are
not reasonably within our control.
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