CONDITIONS OF BOOKING

1. Enquiries and application:
· General Tour Enquiries: We shall send you on demand our offer - free of charge and unbinding - along with prices and conditions.
·  Specified Tour Enquiries (based on certain  requested hotels) offers  can only be given after receipt of registration fee (not refundable)

2. Booking:
Together with your booking order in writing, we should like to have exact indications from you regarding: Number and nature of participants (pupils, students, teachers), age, sex, transport facilities (e.g. whether the group will come with its own bus etc.), dates and times of arrival and departure. Subsequently you shall receive from us our confirmation of your booking and the invoice. By our confirmation your booking becomes  valid  and binding for both parties.

3. Prices:
Our prices quoted in this brochure are per person and they are based on minimum group sizes. In the case of al lower total of participants, price modifications (without previous notice) are left to our discretion. In the case of change of dates (or other important changes) we shall have to quote the costs of losses and charge them to your account.

4. Payment:
  Payments should be effected by bank transfer to our account:

· Bank details for EUR account in Germany
Account No. 02617651 (BLZ 37080040) at the Dresdner Bank, Bonn, Germany
IBAN: DE71 3708 0040 0261 7651 00, SWIFT Code: DRESDEFF370

· Bank details for US $ account in the USA
US $ Account at the Dresdner Kleinwort Dresdner Bank AG New York,
Account No. 203 075 00 , 1301 Avenue of the Americas New York NY10019-6118

A non refundable deposit is due upon receiving our invoice (unless stated otherwise in our confirmation). The total of the remaining sum must be paid into our account (as given above) at the latest 6 weeks before the group arrives (If not stated otherwise in our  confirmation).

 5. Cancellations:
Notice of cancellation must be given in writing. The following cancellation  fees are then due: The deposit will be kept if reservations and initial  planing have  already been made. In case of cancellation within less than 8 weeks before the arranged start of the tour, we shall have to charge in addition to the sum mentioned above all costs imposed on us by our  partners.

6. Supervision:
 Each  group must be accompanied by a group leader - he must supervise and be responsible for the group. Our courier/escort shall assume no supervision  responsibilities.

7. Tour escort:
Organisation für Internationale Kontakte (OIK) strongly advises to book student escorts or professional tour escorts for round trips and other programmes costs to be given upon request. Student escorts are less experienced and cheaper than professional tour escorts. All escorts have to be booked et least 6 weeks in advance so that OIK can find a suitable escort for your group. OIK shall not be liable for any detrimental effects arising from the fact that no OIK tour escort was with the group.

8. Insurance
Insurance against illness, accident, liability and theft is not included. However groups must be insured, please make sure that no uninsured group is coming. OIK offers inexpensive insurance rates for groups on request.

 General conditions:
All arrangements for transport, accommodation and services are made by Organisation für Internationale Kontakte (in the following OIK) as agents only and neither OIK nor any other organisation collaborating with OIK is liable for any injury, loss, damage, deviation, delay or curtailment however caused or the consequences there of which may happen during any tour.
Notice is given that the liability of the railway, bus or other companles  and persons providing transport, accommodation, service or any holiday or tour is governed by the law of the country in which the event giving rise to liability takes place, and that such liability is subject to the conditions and regulations upon which ticket coupons or vouchers are issued. OIK reserves the right:

a) to alter or vary prices (i.e. owing to changes of rates of exchange or changes of railway or other rates), routes or itineraries if conditions make it in their opinion advisable to do so, without previous notice
b) to cancel any tour in case of force majeure, in which case any deposit will be returned or
c) to  exclude any participant from further participation in a tour -  in which case proportional refund would be made, subject to the original condition of booking.

Should any disagreement arise which cannot be settled by mail, the legal seat for both parties is Bonn. Although this programme was compiled with utmostcare information is subject to alteration without notice. Additional conditions apply for music and  sports groups (to be sent on request).


Booking Procedure

General  Remarks