BOOKING CONDITIONS Tabiller Holidays
YOUR CONTRACT IS WITH H.I.S. Europe Ltd, a Member of ABTA.
1. Your holiday contract
When you make a booking you guarantee that you have the authority
to accept and do accept on behalf of your party the terms of these
booking conditions. A contract will exist as soon as we issue our confirmation
invoice. This contract is made on the terms of these booking conditions,
which are governed by English Law, and the jurisdiction of the English
Courts. You may however, choose the law and jurisdiction of Scotland
or Northern Ireland if you wish to do so.
If you had not seen these terms and conditions when you made your
booking and you are not happy to proceed with the booking now that
you have seen them please return all documentation to us or to your
travel agent, within 7 days of receiving these booking conditions.
Your booking will be cancelled and your monies will be returned in
full, provided you have not commenced your travel. This clause does
not apply if your booking was made within 10 weeks of travel.
2. Your financial protection
The Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations
1992 require us to provide security for the monies that you pay for
the package holidays booked from this brochure and for your repatriation
in the event of our insolvency. We provide this security by way of
an ATOL number 5484 administered by the Civil Aviation Authority.
When you buy an ATOL protected air holiday package and flights ? change
as from H.I.S. Europe Ltd or ViaJapan Holidays you will receive a
Confirmation Invoice from us confirming your arrangements and your
protection under our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence number 5484.
In the unlikely event of our insolvency, the CAA will ensure that
you are not stranded abroad and will arrange to refund any money you
have paid to us for an advance booking. For further information visit
the ATOL website at www.atol.org.uk
The price of our air holiday packages includes the amount of £1 per
person as part of the ATOL Protection Contribution (APC) we pay to
the CAA. This charge is included in our advertised prices.
3. ABTA
We are a Member of ABTA, membership number J0629. We are obliged to
maintain a high standard of service to you by ABTA’s Code of Conduct.
We can also offer you an arbitration scheme for the resolution of disputes
arising out of, or in connection with this contract. Further information
on the Code and arbitration can be found on ABTA’s website www.abta.com
The arbitration scheme is arranged by ABTA and administered independently
by IDRS, part of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. It provides
for a simple and inexpensive method of arbitration on documents alone
with restricted liability on you in respect of costs. Full details
will be provided on request or can be obtained from the ABTA website.
The scheme does not apply to claims for an amount greater than £5,000
per person. There is also a limit of £25,000 per booking form. Neither
does it apply to claims, which are solely in respect of physical injury
or illness or their consequences. The scheme can however deal with
compensation claims, which include an element of minor injury, or illness
subject to a limit of £1,000 on the amount the arbitrator can award
per person in respect of this element.
The application for arbitration and Statement of Claim must be received
by IDRS within nine months of the date of return from the holiday.
Outside this time limit arbitration under the Scheme may still be available
if the company agrees, but the ABTA Code does not require such agreement.
For injury and illness claims, you may like to use the ABTA/Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators Mediation Procedure. This is a voluntary scheme
and requires us to agree for mediation to go ahead. The aim is to help
you resolve your dispute in a quick and cost effective way. Details
on request or from www.abta.com.
4. Your Holiday Price
1) We reserve the right to alter the prices of any of the holidays
shown in our brochure. You will be advised of the current price of
the holiday that you wish to book before your contract is confirmed.
2) When you make your booking you must pay a deposit of £25.00 per
person. The balance of the price of your travel arrangements must be
paid at least 12 weeks before your departure date. If the deposit and/or
balance is not paid in time, we shall cancel your travel arrangements.
If the balance is not paid in time we shall retain your deposit. All
monies you pay to the travel agent are held by him on our behalf at
all times.
The price of your travel arrangements was calculated using exchange rates calculated
by H.I.S. Europe Ltd on the 2nd of January 2009 in relation to the following
currencies:
Euro
US Dollars
Swiss Franc
Iceland Krona
3) The price of your travel arrangements is fully guaranteed and will
not be subject to any surcharges.
We will absorb and you will not be charged for any increase equivalent
to 2% of the price of your travel arrangements, which excludes insurance
premiums and any amendment charges. You will be charged for the amount
over and above that, plus an administration charge of £1.00 per person
together with an amount to cover agents’ commission. If this means
that you have to pay an increase of more than 10% of the price of your
travel arrangements, you will have the option of accepting a change
to another holiday if we are able to offer one (if this is of equivalent
or higher quality you will not have to pay more but if it is of lower
quality you will be refunded the difference in price), or cancelling
and receiving a full refund of all monies paid, except for any amendment
charges.
Should the price of your holiday go down due to the changes mentioned
above, by more than 2% of your holiday cost, then any refund due will
be paid to you. However, please note that travel arrangements are not
always purchased in local currency and some apparent changes have no
impact on the price of your travel due to contractual and other protection
in place.
5. If You Change Your Booking
If, after our confirmation invoice has been issued, you wish to change
your travel arrangements in any way, for example your chosen departure
date or accommodation, we will do our utmost to make these changes
but it may not always be possible. Any request for changes to be made
must be in writing from the person who made the booking or your travel
agent. You will be asked to pay an administration charge of £25.00,
and any further cost we incur in making this alteration. You should
be aware that these costs could increase the closer to the departure
date that changes are made and you should contact us as soon as possible.
Note: Certain travel arrangements (e.g. Apex Tickets) may not be changeable
after a reservation has been made and any alteration request could
incur a cancellation charge of up to 100% of that part of the arrangements.
6. If You Cancel Your Holiday
You, or any member of your party, may cancel your travel arrangements
at any time. Written notification from the person who made the booking
or your travel agent on your behalf must be received at our offices.
Since we incur costs in cancelling your travel arrangements, you will
have to pay the applicable cancellation charges up to the maximum shown
in clause 7.
Note: If the reason for your cancellation is covered under the terms
of your insurance policy, you may be able to reclaim these charges.
7. If We Change or Cancel Your Holiday
It is unlikely that we will have to make any changes to your travel
arrangements, but we do plan the arrangements many months in advance.
Occasionally, we may have to make changes and we reserve the right
to do so at any time. Most of these changes will be minor and we will
advise you or your travel agent of them at the earliest possible date.
We also reserve the right in any circumstances to cancel your travel
arrangements. For example, if the minimum number of clients required
for a particular travel arrangement is not reached, we may have to
cancel it. However, we will not cancel your travel arrangements less
than 5 weeks before your departure date, except for reasons of force
majeure or failure by you to pay the final balance. If we are unable
to provide the booked travel arrangements, you can either have a refund
of all monies paid or accept an offer of alternative travel arrangements
of comparable standard from us, if available (we will refund any price
difference if the alternative is of a lower value). If it is necessary
to cancel your travel arrangements, we will pay to you compensation
as set out in this clause.
In accordance with EU Regulation 2111/2005 we are required to advise
you of the actual carrier operating your flight/connecting flight/transfer.
We do this by listing carriers to be used or likely to be used as follows:
British Airways
Iceland Air
Air Malta
Iberia Airlines
Scandinavian Airlines System
Any changes to the actual airline after you have received your tickets
will be notified to you as soon as possible and in all cases at check-in
or at the boarding gate. Such a change is deemed to be a minor change.
Other examples of minor changes include alteration of your outward/return
flights by less than 12 hours, changes to aircraft type, change of
accommodation to another of the same standard.
If we make a major change to your holiday, we will inform you or
your travel agent as soon as reasonably possible if there is time before
your departure. You will have the choice of either accepting the change
of arrangements, accepting an offer of alternative travel arrangements
of comparable standard from us if available we will refund any price
difference if the alternative is of a lower value, or cancelling your
booked holiday and receiving a full refund of all monies paid. In all
cases, except where the major change arises due to reasons of force
majeure, we will pay compensation as detailed below
| |
IF WE MAKE A MAJOR CHANGE TO YOUR HOLIDAY |
IF WE CANCEL YOUR HOLIDAY |
IF YOU CANCEL YOUR HOLIDAY |
| Period before departure within which notice of Cancellation or
major change is received by us or notified to you |
Amount you will receive from us |
Amount you will receive from us |
Amount of cancellation charge |
| More than 84 days |
Nil |
Deposit Only |
75% of holiday cost |
| From 83 - 43 days |
£20 |
100% of holiday cost (+ £20) |
80% of holiday cost |
| From 42 - 29 days |
£30 |
100% of holiday cost (+ £30) |
85% of holiday cost |
| From 28 - 0 days |
£40 |
100% of holiday cost (+ £40) |
100% of holiday cost |
The compensation that we offer does not exclude you from claiming more
if you are entitled to do so.
Force Majeure This means that we will not pay you compensation if
we have to cancel or change your travel arrangements in any way because
of unusual or unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control. These
can include, for example, war, riot, industrial dispute, terrorist
activity and its consequences, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, adverse
weather conditions.
8. If You Have A Complaint
If you have a problem during your holiday, please inform the relevant
supplier (e.g. your hotelier) and our resort representative immediately
who will endeavour to put things right. If your complaint is not resolved
locally, please follow this up within 28 days of your return home by
writing to our Customer Services Department at 14 Charles II Street
London SW1Y 4QU giving your booking reference and all other relevant
information. Please keep your letter concise and to the point. This
will assist us to quickly identify your concerns and speed up our response
to you.
It is strongly recommended that you communicate any complaint to
the supplier of the services in question as well as to our representative
without delay and complete a report form whilst in resort.
If you fail to follow this simple procedure we will have been deprived
of the opportunity to investigate and rectify your complaint whilst
you were in resort and this may affect your rights under this contract.
9. Our Liability to You
If the contract we have with you is not performed or is improperly
performed by us or our suppliers we will pay you appropriate compensation
if this has affected the enjoyment of your travel arrangements. However
we will not be liable where any failure in the performance of the contract
is due to: you; or a third party unconnected with the provision of
the travel arrangements and where the failure is unforeseeable or unavoidable;
or unusual and unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control, the
consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all due care
had been exercised; or an event which we or our suppliers, even with
all due care, could not foresee or forestall.
Our liability, except in cases involving death, injury or illness,
shall be limited to a maximum of 1 times the cost of your travel arrangements.
Our liability will also be limited in accordance with and/or in an
identical manner to
(a) The contractual terms of the companies that provide the transportation
for your travel arrangements. These terms are incorporated into this
contract; and
(b) Any relevant international convention, for example the Montreal
Convention in respect of travel by air, the Athens Convention in respect
of travel by sea, the Berne Convention in respect of travel by rail
and the Paris Convention in respect of the provision of accommodation,
which limit the amount of compensation that you can claim for death,
injury, delay to passengers and loss, damage and delay to luggage.
We are to be regarded as having all benefit of any limitation of compensation
contained in these or any conventions.
You can ask for copies of the transport companies' contractual terms,
or the international conventions, from our offices (14 Charles II Street
London SW1Y 4QU Tel 020 7484 3310.
Under EU law (Regulation 261/2004) you have rights in some circumstances
to refunds and/or compensation from your airline in cases of denied
boarding, cancellation or delay to flights. Full details of these rights
will be publicised at EU airports and will also be available from airlines.
However reimbursement in such cases will not automatically entitle
you to a refund of your holiday cost from us. Your right to a refund
and/or compensation from us is set out in clause 6. If any payments
to you are due from us, any payment made to you by the airline will
be deducted from this amount. If your airline does not comply with
these rules you should complain to the Air Transport Users' Council
on 020 7240 6061 www.auc.org.uk
10. Prompt assistance in resort
If the contract we have with you is not performed or is improperly
performed as a result of failures attributable to a third party unconnected
with the provision of the services, or as a result of failures due
to unusual and unforeseeable circumstances beyond our control, the
consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all due
care had been exercised, or an event which we or our suppliers, even
with all due care, could not foresee or forestall, and you suffer
an injury or other material loss, we will offer you such prompt assistance
as is reasonable in the circumstances.
11. Passport, Visa and Immigration Requirements
Your specific passport and visa requirements, and other immigration
requirements are your responsibility and you should confirm these with
the relevant Embassies and/or Consulates. We do not accept any responsibility
if you cannot travel because you have not complied with any passport,
visa or immigration requirements.
12. Excursions
Excursions or other tours that you may choose to book or pay for whilst
you are on holiday are not part of your package holiday provided by
us. For any excursion or other tour that you book, your contract will
be with the operator of the excursion or tour and not with us. We are
not responsible for the provision of the excursion or tour or for anything
that happens during the course of its provision by the operator.
This brochure is our responsibility, as your tour operator. It is
not issued on behalf of, and does not commit the airlines mentioned
herein or any airline whose services are used in the course of your
travel arrangements. Please note that in accordance with Air Navigation
Orders in order to qualify for infant status, a child must be under
2 years of age on the date of its return flight.