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Study Tours Booking Procedure and Conditions
PRICE
The basic price quoted in the brochure / website is per person sharing a double room. It normally includes return flights/Eurostar train journeys (except where specifically stated otherwise), accommodation with private facilities, all breakfasts, excursions by private coach or as specified, services of the lecturer (and normally a tour manager – depending on group size), all entrance fees, study notes, gratuities and VAT. Each tour description states how many meals are included.
Not included in the price is transport between your home and the place where the tour starts/finishes, nor travel insurance.
AGE AND FITNESS
We do not have an upper age limit on our tours, but all of them require a certain degree of physical fitness. All our tours involve a fair amount of standing and walking, often across uneven ground, over cobbled streets, or up steps.
Participants should be able to walk or stand for at least thirty minutes without aid or requiring a rest. If you are in any doubt as to whether a particular tour is suitable for you, please ring us to check before placing your booking.
INSURANCE
We strongly recommend that you have adequate travel insurance cover. It would be useful if you could let us have the relevant details in the booking form.
ON-LINE BOOKING PROCEDURE
After you complete the on-line provisional tour booking form, you will be sent a supplementary booking form to complete (asking for additional information needed to fully process your booking) which you will need to send back to us along with the requested deposit. Your provisional booking will be held for up to seven days until we receive payment of the deposit. Please contact us if you have not received the supplementary booking form within seven days.
We will then confirm your booking and times of travel. The final balance is payable at the latest eight weeks before the tour. About two weeks before the tour we will send you the flight tickets and final programme.
PRINTED FORM BOOKING PROCEDURE
Please fill in the booking form and send it to us with your deposit. We will then confirm your booking and times of travel. The final balance is payable at the latest eight weeks before the tour. About two weeks before the tour we will send you the flight tickets and final programme.
BOOKING CONDITIONS
Once you have signed the supplementary booking form and paid the deposit, there will be a firm contract between you and Art Pursuits Abroad Limited.
A list of what is included in the price of the tour is given in the tour description.
You must have a passport which is valid at the time of travel. Non-European nationals may have to obtain a visa.
If you have to cancel your booking, then we will normally make a charge to offset costs incurred on your behalf. Charges vary according to the period of notice given. Up to 57 days before the tour the deposit is forfeited. Thereafter, a percentage of the total cost of the tour will be due:
- Between 56 and 29 days: 40%
- Between 28 and 15 days: 60%
- Between 14 days and 3 days: 80%
- Within 48 hours: 100%
We take as the day of cancellation that on which we receive written confirmation
of cancellation. Your travel insurance policy may cover you for at least
some of your losses due to cancellation.
If you want to make a change, we shall endeavour to try to satisfy your
requirements, but we shall make a charge in addition to any direct cost
involved.
We do our utmost to provide the tour programme as confirmed, but we reserve
the right to modify or cancel the tour and any of its ingredients if unforeseen
circumstances arise.
We also reserve the right to cancel the tour if there are insufficient
bookings up to eight weeks before departure.
If we have to cancel the tour, we will offer a full refund.
PAYMENT
Payment to Art Pursuits Abroad can be made by cheque, BACS or bank transfer. We do not accept credit card payments.
FINANCIAL SECURITY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
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