Reservations
Step 1 - Reservation Request Form
Step 2 - Reservation Acceptance
& Tour Deposit/Payment Procedure
Thank you for traveling with Niños del Lago Travel. A deposit in the amount of $250USD per-person is required to secure confirmation for travel on your specific departure date. Please, DO NOT make any payment prior to receiving confirmation regarding your tour. (Please review Cancellation Policy, below).
Final payment(s) in-full for your trip are due 45 days prior to departure.
The total cost of tour is $925.00USD
#1 Deposit - $250.00 holds your place on the tour
Deposit is payable to Niños del Lago Travel (tour operator)
#2 Tour Payment - $350.00
Payment is payable to Niños del Lago Travel (tour operator) 45 days prior to departure
#3 Your Donation Portion of Tour - $325.00
Final payment to Niños del Lago - Guatemala 45 days prior to departure
(Payment is a direct donation from you to this US-registered 501C3 charitable organization. If you would like a tax-deductible receipt issued to you for your donation, please mention this at the time your donation is submitted to Niños del Lago - Guatemala.)
Payment Procedure - Niños del Lago Travel
#1 - Mail personal check or money order
payable to Niños del Lago Travel
Niños del Lago Travel
5021 Settler's Drive, N.E.
Salem, Oregon 97305-3395
(Please include a note with your name and tour date.)
#2 - Pay by Credit Card using PayPal
Go to www.paypal.com
Register with PayPal and send payment to
guatemala@ninosdellagotravel.org
(Please include a note with your name and tour date.)
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Payment for Donation portion of tour - Niños del Lago - Guatemala
#1 - Mail personal check or money order payable to
Niños del Lago - Guatemala
22796 Woods Creek Road
Philomath, Oregon 97370
(Please include a note with your name and tour date.)
#2 - Make your Donation by Credit Card at
Groundspring.org
Only registered 501C3 nonprofit organizations are accepted for membership within the Groundspring Community. When you make a donation to Niños del Lago via Groundspring.org, you can be assured of the legitimacy of the beneficiary while supporting education for the nonprofit community.
Receipt of your Donation (payment) will be acknowledged via email, usually within 48 hours.
If requested, a formal receipt for your donation will be issued after date of tour departure date.
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GENERAL TERMS & CONDITIONS
1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONTRACT
Upon purchase of the tour package, the terms and conditions set forth herein become a binding contract between the Purchaser and Niños del Lago Travel (NdL). Acceptance of this contract occurs when deposit is received by NdL at its office. Purchaser represents by tender of payment that the itinerary has been reviewed and that it meets Purchaser's expectations and request.
2. DEFINITIONS
a. The Tour Package purchased by the Purchaser from NdL consists of the itinerary prepared by NdL and included travel services. The itinerary is the written travel schedule listing scheduled daily activities and travel services purchased.
b. Confirmation of Travel Arrangements. Travel arrangements are not confirmed until NdL has received the required deposits and Purchaser has received formal confirmation from NdL.
c. Hotel Accommodations. It is anticipated that the hotel accommodations listed in the itinerary will be utilized; however, comparably classified accommodations may be substituted at the time the specific itinerary is prepared. Hotel accommodation classification standards used at the location involved do not refer to standards used at any other location.
d. Transfer refers to transportation from one location to another, generally between airport and hotel and, unless otherwise stated on itinerary, refers to a seat in a bus, van, car, or other vehicle. Determination of the appropriateness of vehicle shall be determined by the provider of the service.
3. RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT
To reserve space on any trip, we require a deposit of $250 per-person. Early reservations are essential to guarantee your accommodations on the date you wish to travel. Reservations made within 60 days of the departure require full payment. Final payments are due 45 days prior to departure. If final installments are not paid when due, NdL reserves the right to treat the reservation as canceled. Payment is via check, money order or bank/credit card via PayPal online payment service (at www.x.com).
4. PARTICIPATION
Purchaser is responsible for selecting a trip appropriate to his or her health, physical abilities and interests. The right is reserved to decline to accept or retain a person as a tour member for any reason that affects the operation of the tour or the rights and welfare or enjoyment of the other tour members, and a refund of recoverable land tour services is the limit of NdL liability.
5. PRICE OF THE TOUR PACKAGE
The Tour Package includes all the prepaid travel services represented in tour offering together with the charges by NdL for its services in preparing the itinerary.
a. Prices do not include airfare unless otherwise stated.
b. If the group falls below the minimum passenger requirement (8) the trip is subject to cancellation or re-pricing.
c. Price does not include charges for passports, visas, inoculations, laundry, liquor and beverages, cover charges, excess baggage charges, trip cancellation or interruption, accident and baggage insurance, or transportation not included in the itinerary, optional tours, any items of a personal nature, tips for personal services, any items not specifically listed as included and international departure taxes.
6. CANCELLATION POLICY
At the time we receive written notice that you must cancel your trip, the following fees will be charged:
More than 60 days before trip departure date: $100/30 - 59 days before departure date: $200/7 - 29 days: $350. Less than 7 days before departure date or no-show, 100% of trip cost. In the case when 100% of trip cost is forfeited, 50% of forfeit may be applied to a different departure date, upon approval and acceptance of NdL.
7. REFUNDS
a. In the absence of exceptional circumstances, no refunds are given for any unused prepaid services included in the tour package or any changes made in the itinerary while en-route, including changes in hotel accommodations, excursions, and transportation services.
b. Any refund for payments made to others as deposits and/or payments for add-on activities or
additional travel must be solicited directly from add-on providers. NdL is not responsible for contracts made with others.
8. CHANGES IN ITINERARY BY NdL
NdL reserves the right to make changes or cancellations in services where such changes are made necessary by circumstances beyond NdL control, including changing carriers and substituting similar hotel accommodations for those designated in the itinerary.
NdL may cancel any trip due to inadequate sign-up which makes the trip economically infeasible to operate. In such cases, a full refund of deposit/payments is the limit of NdL liability.
9. CUSTOM TOUR PACKAGES
On request, NdL can prepare custom itineraries for the Purchaser. In creating a custom tour package, NdL uses its knowledge and available information to assemble the custom itinerary, based upon the request and requirements communicated to it by Purchaser. The custom itinerary is to be reviewed by Purchaser upon receipt for compliance with Purchaser's requests and to inform NdL of any changes deemed necessary. Purchaser's failure to request changes in-writing constitute Purchaser's representation to NdL that the itinerary meets Purchaser's expectations and requests. Payment by Purchaser constitutes absolute confirmation that the itinerary meets traveler's requests and expectations. Changes in the itinerary by Purchaser, after confirmation of reservation to Purchaser or payment in full has been received by NdL, will result in a service charge of $25 for each change requested and may result in a change in the tour price.
10. WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
No guarantees or warranties, express or implied, are made that the tour package will meet all of the traveler's expectations.
11. RELEASE
NdL acts only in the capacity of agents in all matters of transportation and tour operation, and their liability is limited to the terms of land accommodation contracts. Group organizers, travelers and tour participants, individually and jointly, release NdL from any and all liability and responsibility, known or unknown, present or future, for any and all loss, injury to person, damage to property, or accident, or which may be the result of any delay or change of itinerary, or irregularity connected with the tour package purchased, which is beyond its control, including but not limited to acts of God, transportation problems, fire machinery or equipment malfunction or failure, government actions, wars, civil disturbances, labor disputes, riots, thefts, sickness, or weather, and which includes all expenses or damages, direct or consequential, claimed or sustained by group organizers, tour participants, or travelers, and waive NdL based on any claim of negligence by any of the suppliers of services included in the tour package. All baggage shall be carried at participant's own risk. Purchaser is solely responsible for obtaining necessary travel documents for the areas visited. This release is binding upon group organizers, tour participants, travelers, their representatives, heirs and assigns.
