Travel Tycoons Flexible Payment Plan
You can now spread the cost of your holiday even further by splitting it into smaller more manageable payments with our flexible deposits scheme.
1. Book with a small deposit today.
2. Clear the remaining balance 4 weeks before your holiday.
APPLICABLE TO ALL BOOKINGS
1. Your Contract
When making your booking we will arrange for you to enter into a contract with the applicable Supplier/Principal of the Travel Arrangements, as specified on your confirmation invoice. Your booking with us is subject to these Booking Conditions and the specific terms and conditions of the relevant Supplier/Principal(s) you contract with and we advise you to read both carefully prior to booking. The Supplier/Principal’s terms and conditions may limit and/or exclude the Supplier/Principal’s liability to you.
All bookings are subject to availability at the time of booking. We do not guarantee that any of the Travel Arrangements we advertise will still be available at the time of booking. We will inform you as soon as possible after placing an order if, for any reason, the Travel Arrangements you have sought to book with us are not available.
Unless you are paying for your holiday Travel Arrangements in cash, in which case see the paragraph below will apply, by clicking to book and entering your personal and payment details on our website/App, you are requesting us to make an offer to the Supplier/Principal to purchase the Travel Arrangements on your behalf. At this point we immediately re-contact the Supplier/Principal. Each Supplier/Principal will still require a short period of time to confirm that your chosen Travel Arrangements are still available. The order summary email sent to you is NOT contractual acceptance of the Travel Supplier/’s ability to provide these Travel Arrangements, it is an acknowledgement that we have received your offer, and should the Travel Arrangements be available as detailed on our website/App then, once you have a received your order confirmation, you have entered into a legally binding agreement to purchase these Travel Arrangements subject to the Supplier/Principal’s terms and conditions, and these Booking Conditions.
If you are paying for your Travel Arrangements in cash, by clicking to book, entering your personal details and requesting the “pay by cash” option on our website, you are requesting that we generate a barcode which will allow you to make a payment to us in relation to the Travel Arrangements you have selected. When we receive confirmation that you have made your cash payment, we will make an offer to the Supplier/Principal, as detailed in the paragraph above.
Your booking is confirmed and a contract between you and the Supplier/Principal will exist when we send you a booking confirmation email with a booking reference number.
As an agent we accept no responsibility for the acts or omissions of the Supplier/Principal or for the Travel Arrangements provided by the Supplier/Principal, unless we have sold those Travel Arrangements in such a way as to create a Multi-Contract Package (please see clause 2 for further information), in which case we will accept responsibility for those Travel Arrangements in accordance with Section B of these Booking Conditions.
2. Booking
When you make a booking, you will have the opportunity to review/confirm all the details of the booking before making payment. Once you have reviewed and confirmed these details and made payment of the appropriate sum, we will proceed to make the booking with the Supplier/Principal.
Please check that all names, dates and timings are correct on receipt of all documents and advise us of any errors immediately. Any changes to these details will incur the charges stated below. Please ensure that the names given are the same as in the relevant passport. The booking information that you provide to us will be passed on only to the relevant Supplier/Principal of your Travel Arrangements or other persons necessary for the provision of your Travel Arrangements. The information may be provided to public authorities such as customs or immigration if required by them, or as required by law. This applies to any special category (sensitive) information that you give to us such as details of any disabilities, or dietary and religious requirements. In making this booking, you consent to this information being passed on to the relevant persons. Certain information may also be passed on to security or credit checking companies. If you are travelling to the United States, the US Customs and Border Protection will receive this information for the purposes of preventing and combating terrorism and other transnational serious crimes. If you travel outside the European Economic Area, controls on data protection may not be as strong as the legal requirements in this country. If we cannot pass this information to the relevant Supplier/Principals, whether in the EEA or not, we will be unable to provide your booking.
Group Bookings: If larger groups want to be sure of sufficient availability for any Travel Arrangements they should call our contact centre. If two parts of the same group book online on two separate bookings and availability expires between the two bookings, we regret therefore that we are unable to cancel the first booking without applying cancellation charges (see clause 11 below).
In resort transfers: unless you have reserved a transfer separately during the booking process or subsequently, no flight or hotel booking includes a transfer. Please ensure that the hotel you have selected is accessible from the airport you have chosen to fly to. At times the hotel suppliers or airlines involved in your booking may offer a free of complimentary resort transfer. We will pass on this offer to you however the provision, delivery and services standards of this transfer are the responsibility of the hotel/airline provider and the third party involved in their delivery.
3. Payment
In order to book your chosen Travel Arrangements, you must make payment as outlined in this clause, or otherwise requested by the Supplier/Principal of the Travel Arrangements. You must also pay all applicable insurance premiums and booking fees.
Payment on booking
You are required to make full payment at the time of booking in the following circumstances:
1. when you make a flight only booking (for all airlines unless otherwise stated); and
2. When you make any booking within 14 days of your departure date; and
3. When you book for Travel Arrangements with a non-refundable hotel.
For all other bookings, you are required to pay a non-refundable deposit at the time of booking.
Instalment Payments
You can pay for your Travel Arrangements in instalments. We will tell you when you book with us how many instalments will be involved, the amount of each instalment and the payment due dates. This will be confirmed in your booking paperwork. Our administration fee of £4.95 (which covers our administration costs for managing multiple payments) will be payable in relation to each instalment and is clearly displayed when you make your booking.
Should you wish to pay for your Travel Arrangements in full at the time of making your booking you are entitled to do so and may be entitled to a discount for doing so.
Payments of instalments due must be received by Sunshine no later than the payment due date confirmed on your booking paperwork. Where you fail to pay us of your own accord, the last card added to the system will be automatically debited for the amount due. If this card fails and we hold other cards against your order, we will also attempt to debit the outstanding amounts from those cards. If you wish us to debit an alternative card, then please contact our customer service department or log on to manage your booking and make payment with the alternative card BEFORE the payment due date.
To increase security around payment collections, when you make a payment we store tokens (created from your card details so that we do not hold your card information) to make any subsequent instalment collections automatically. We will always attempt to collect money from the last card you used first.
Cash Payments
We may accept payment in cash and when this is an available option it will be displayed on our website/App and you will be able to select “Pay with Cash” at the checkout when booking your holiday. If you select to pay for your holiday in cash, a barcode will be generated and you will be provided with instructions via email so that so that you can make payment for your holiday in cash at a local participating retailer (the names and addresses of participating retailers can be found via our website/App). You will receive a receipt from the retailer in respect of any cash payments you make and this is your evidence of payment, so please keep this in a safe place. Provided you make your cash payment to a participating retailer and obtain your receipt, your cash payment is treated as a payment made to Sunshine.
Except where otherwise advised or stated in the terms and conditions of the Supplier/Principal concerned, all monies you pay to us for Travel Arrangements will be held on behalf of the Supplier/Principal concerned, with the exception of bookings covered by an ATOL. Any money paid to us in respect of a booking covered by an ATOL is held by us on behalf of and for the benefit of the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust at all times, but subject to our obligation to pay it to the ATOL Holder for so long as the ATOL Holder does not fail financially. If the ATOL Holder does fail financially, any money held at that time by us or subsequently accepted from the consumer by us, is and continues to be held by us on behalf of and for the benefit of the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust without any obligation to pay that money to the ATOL Holder.
Taxes
The local authorities in certain countries may impose additional taxes (tourist tax, etc), which have to be paid locally (e.g. at the hotel). You are exclusively responsible for paying such additional taxes.
4. Failure to make payment
Where you are paying by instalments, you have a legal obligation to pay us each instalment on the payment due date specified at the time of booking and in your booking confirmation. Should we be unable to collect an instalment from you on the date on which it is due, we will contact you to enable you to make payment. Should we be unable to contact you or to collect payment within a reasonable timeframe, we reserve the right to cancel the booking made on your behalf and you will forfeit all monies paid by you for such booking. In addition, if for any reason we do not receive payment, we may be required to notify the other Supplier/Principals who may take the decision to cancel your booking and charge the cancellation fees set out in their terms and conditions. In these circumstances you will be liable to lose all monies previously paid.
Rejected Orders booked within 3-7 days of departure: Because of standard banking procedures, once you have submitted an Order that you are paying for by credit or debit card and your payment has been authorized, your bank or card issuer will “ring-fence” the full amount of your Order. If your Order is subsequently rejected by our system or cancelled for any other reason, your bank or card issuer will not transfer the funds for the Order to us, and will instead release the relevant amount back into your available balance. However, this may take between 3 to 5 working days (or longer, depending on your bank or card issuer). You acknowledge and agree that we will not be responsible or liable to you in relation to this delay by your bank or card issuer in the release of funds back into your account.
5. Accuracy
We endeavour to ensure that all the information and prices both on our website and in any advertising material that we publish are accurate, however, occasionally changes and errors occur and we reserve the right to correct prices and other details in such circumstances. You must check the current price and all other details relating to the Travel Arrangements that you wish to book before you make your booking. Where the Travel Service or price has been listed incorrectly and the booking has already been confirmed, we reserve the right to cancel the booking and refund all monies paid to you.
6. Prices
We reserve the right to amend advertised prices at any time. We also reserve the right to correct errors in both advertised and confirmed prices. Special note: changes and errors sometimes occur. You must check the price of your chosen Travel Arrangements at the time of booking.
7. Insurance
Many Supplier/Principals require you to take out travel insurance as a condition of booking with them. In any event, we strongly advise that you take out a policy of insurance in order to cover you and your party against the cost of cancellation by you; the cost of assistance (including repatriation) in the event of accident or illness; loss of baggage and money; and other expenses, as well as ensuring you have cover for any activities you have booked, including additional cover for skiing/extreme sports/adventure travel and all other activities you have booked.
If you choose to travel without adequate insurance cover, neither the Supplier/Principal nor we will be liable to you for any losses howsoever arising, in respect of which insurance cover would otherwise have been available.
8. Special Requests
Any special requests must be advised to us at the time of booking e.g. diet, room location, a particular facility at a hotel etc. You should then confirm your requests in writing but we cannot guarantee that they will be fulfilled. The fact that a special request has been noted on your confirmation invoice or any other documentation or that it has been passed on to the Supplier/Principal is not confirmation that the request will be met.
9. Fitness to Travel and Medical Conditions
We are not a specialist disabled holiday company but we will do our utmost to cater for any special requirements you may have. If you or any member of your party has any medical problem or disability which may affect your trip, please provide us with full details before we confirm your booking so that we can try to advise you as to the suitability of your chosen Travel Arrangements. We may require you to produce a doctor’s certificate certifying that you are fit to participate in your chosen tour.
Acting reasonably, if the Supplier/Principal is unable to properly accommodate the needs of the person(s) concerned, we will not confirm your booking on the Supplier/Principal’s behalf or, if you did not give us full details at the time of booking, we will inform the Supplier/Principal who may cancel it and impose applicable cancellation charges, when we become aware of these details.
10. Changes and Cancellations by You
Any cancellation or amendment request must be sent to us by accessing your booking online and will be processed by our Amendments Team. Please ensure that you have received written confirmation of any changes to your booking prior to travel. Whilst we will try to assist, we cannot guarantee that the Supplier/Principal will meet such requests. Amendments and cancellations can only be accepted in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Supplier/Principal of your Travel Arrangements. The Supplier/Principal may charge the cancellation or amendment charges shown in their terms and conditions (which may be as much as 100% of the cost of the Travel Arrangements and will normally increase closer to the date of departure). In addition, you must pay us an administration fee as set out in the table below. We will notify you of the exact charges at the time of amendment or cancellation.
CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY ATOL STANDARD TERMS
When you buy an ATOL protected flight or flight inclusive holiday from us you will receive an ATOL Certificate. This lists what is financially protected, where you can get information on what this means for you and who to contact if things go wrong. (Civil Aviation Authority ATOL Standard Term 1.5)
We, or the suppliers identified on your ATOL Certificate, will provide you with the services listed on the ATOL Certificate (or a suitable alternative). In some cases, where neither we nor the supplier are able to do so for reasons of insolvency, an alternative ATOL holder may provide you with the services you have bought, or a suitable alternative (at no extra cost to you). You agree to accept that in those circumstances the alternative ATOL holder will perform those obligations and you agree to pay any money utstanding to be paid by you under your contract to that alternative ATOL holder. However you also agree that in some cases it will not be possible to appoint an alternative ATOL holder, in which case you will be entitled to make a claim under the ATOL scheme (or your credit card issuer where applicable). (Civil Aviation Authority ATOL Standard Term 1.7A)
If we, or the suppliers identified on your ATOL certificate, are unable to provide the services listed (or a suitable alternative, through an alternative ATOL holder or otherwise) for reasons of insolvency, the Trustees of the Air Travel Trust may make a payment to (or confer a benefit on) you under the ATOL scheme. You agree that in return for such a payment or benefit, you assign absolutely to those Trustees any claims which you have or may have arising out of or relating to the non-provision of the services, including any claims against us (CAA), the travel agent (tour operator), or your credit card issuer where applicable. You also agree that any such claims may be re-assigned to another body, if that other body has paid sums you have claimed under the ATOL scheme. (Civil Aviation Authority Standard Term 1.7B)