Booking Details

Our Rationale

We work hard to create great trips, to be fair with our hotels and other suppliers, and to provide excellent service to our customers. Our deposit, cancellation, and supplement policies are designed to accommodate everyone's needs: our suppliers', our customers', and ours. Thanks for your understanding.

Deposits & Payments

Registering for an Adventure requires a $500 deposit payable by check or any major credit card. The remaining amount due must be paid by check 60 days prior to the trip departure. If you wish to pay the remaining balance by credit card there will be a 3% administrative fee. Please note we reserve the right to treat your reservation as cancelled if your final payment is not made when due. If you sign up for a trip 45 days or less before the departure date, the entire trip price must be paid by credit card with the 3% fee on the remaining balance.

Cancellations

If you cancel your reservation with 46 days or more advance notice, you can apply all payments made to another Adventure in the same calendar year or the year following. If you cancel with 45 or fewer days advance notice you forfeit all payments made. For all Trekking & Hiking Adventures, your $500 deposit and subsequent payments are nonrefundable and non-transferable seven days after we send you the Pre-Departure Packet (usually in January each year or immediately if you sign up after that) because of fixed costs we incur when you sign up. Please do not ask us to make exceptions. We make decisions based on you signing up in the first place: we assign guides and vans based on tour numbers; we tell hotels how many rooms we need; and our tours are often full and a cancellation often means we have lost the opportunity to give your spot to someone else. Remember you have the option to get travel insurance and if you choose not to purchase this, you are taking a risk. We reserve the right to cancel an Adventure but in this case you will receive a full refund.

Supplements

1) If you are traveling solo, you are never required to pay a "single supplement". We will find you a roommate and will give you a free single room if we cannot find one for you. However, you may optionally reserve a single room for a per-night supplement. Please see each location page for the supplement cost. 2) You may rent a bicycle on biking trips and most Skating Adventures for an additional $25 per day (25 Euros per day in Europe). These fees reflect our costs of renting the bicycles. 3) Our Tibet, Peru, Patagonia, and South Africa trip prices do not include internal airfare that we will book for you and bill to your account. 4) Sleeping bags are available for rent on our Trekking Adventures for $75 per trip.

Discounts

1) If you have a group of friends who would like to join you, at five or more persons booking together you will all receive a 10% discount. 2) Children aged 14 and under will receive a discount of 15% if they stay in a room with their parent (s). Age is determined as of the start date of the adventure. 3) Those interested in attending our Hilton Head Skate Camps without receiving instruction but while accompanying someone receiving instruction can do so for $1100.  Discounts do not apply to Private Adventures.

Meals and Drinks

We include dinners and breakfasts on all tours except when indicated. Lunches are generally not included except on certain days of Trekking Adventures. We do not include desserts or drinks (either alcoholic or non-alcoholic) on any Adventures, although all group wine tastings are included on Wine Adventures.

Insurance

We highly recommend trip cancellation insurance to protect yourself against unforeseen circumstances. Every year there are unfortunate incidents with dozens of travelers that make it impossible for them to join our Adventures. Many of these people lose their trip and airline payments. Even if you do not think this will happen to you, it can! If you choose not to get travel insurance and know your payment is non-refundable, you are taking a risk! One company we recommend is TripInsurance.com.

Pre-Departure Information

After we receive your deposit we will send you an electronic packet with detailed arrival and departure information, suggestions for making travel arrangements, packing list, invoice, insurance information, information about the area we will be visiting and liability waiver.