Go Russia Booking Conditions
This is your contract with Go Russia and clearly lays out what you have agreed with us. Go Russia accepts bookings subject to the following conditions.
The company may agree specific terms and conditions as a result of special offers, promotions and other arrangements valid for your current reservation. These terms and conditions will be explicitly communicated to you and published on this website:
- Offer - early booking 2021, bookings received between 01/12/2020 and 15/03/2021 (inclusive), travel in 2021
- Offer - early booking 2022, bookings received between 01/12/2020 and 31/05/2021 (inclusive), travel in 2022.
If you buy a flight inclusive package and start from the UK, your holiday will be ATOL protected, since we hold an Air Travel Organiser's Licence granted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the UK. Our ATOL number is 6801. 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.
We accept bookings in several ways: over the telephone, email or via our website. You must pay a deposit which consists of 10% of your selected land-only travel arrangements (minimum 250 USD per person) plus the offered flight ticket quote (if you asked us to book flights for you). The person making the booking warrants that he/she is at least 18 years old and has full authority to enter into a contract on the basis of these conditions on behalf of all persons named on the booking and confirms that all such persons are fully aware of and accept these conditions. Clients booking over the phone, on the website, by email or facsimile will be deemed to have signed the Declaration on the booking form meaning that you (and any other person on whose behalf you book) agree to accept all of these conditions and you acknowledge that you have read the relevant trip dossier on our website (our brochure). You also warrant that the information given by you on the booking form is complete and true. A booking is accepted and becomes definite only from the date the Company receives initial payment from the customer. It is at this point that a contract between the Company and the client comes into existence.
Your booking is accepted on the understanding that (1) you realise and accept the risks and hazards potentially involved in adventure holidays and that (2) you are mentally and physically capable of undertaking your chosen trip. You must tell us if you have an existing medical condition or disability that might affect your travel arrangements before your booking. If, in our reasonable opinion, your chosen holiday is not suitable for your medical condition or disability we reserve the right to refuse your booking. You are responsible for bringing with you the proper clothing and equipment, which we advise you about in our trip dossier information. If you are unable, or choose not to complete an itinerary outlined for your travel arrangements, the Company is not liable to supply alternative itineraries, excursions, accommodations, services or staff for the period when the client is not present with the group. The outline itineraries given for each tour must be taken as an indication of what each group should accomplish, and not as a contractual obligation on the part of the Company. Please note changes in itinerary may be caused by local political conditions, flight cancellations, mechanical breakdown, weather, sickness border or other unforeseeable circumstances. It is a fundamental condition of joining any of our tours (including tailor-made travel arrangements) that you accept this flexibility and acknowledge that delays and alterations and their results, such as discomfort, inconvenience or disappointment are possible. At all times passengers are bound by local law and jurisdiction in their chosen destinations.
You must then pay the balance of the holiday price not later than 21 days before departure. If you book less than 21 days before departure, full payment must be made on booking. If any balance remains unpaid, your travel documentation will not be issued and we reserve the right to treat your booking as cancelled and apply the cancellation charges set out in Section 7 below. Monies paid to an agent acting on behalf of the Company, for tours operated by the Company, are held by the agent on our behalf at all times.
We understand that sometimes your travel plans may change and we will do our best to assist you in altering your arrangements after booking but cannot guarantee this will be possible. If alterations can be made all further costs incurred will be charged to you. Any request for changes must be made in writing from the person who made the booking or your travel agent. You should be aware that costs incurred in changing a booking could increase the closer to the departure date they are made and you should therefore contact us as soon as possible.
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. Cancellation charges as shown below will be applicable and are calculated from the day when the written notification is received by the Company or the agent. Cancellation charges displayed as percentage are calculated based on the price of the travel arrangements. The price does not include consular visa fees, visa support documents, insurance premium, credit card payment fees which cannot be refunded under any circumstances. We strongly recommend you to take out insurance against irrecoverable cancellation costs.
| Period before departure within which notice of cancellation received by us | AMOUNT OF CANCELLATION CHARGE |
|---|---|
| More than 21 days | Deposit Only |
| Between 21 and 14 days | 25% |
| Between 14 and 10 days | 50% |
| Between 10 and 7 days | 75% |
| 7 days or less | 100% |
| Period of notification given to you | AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION PER PERSON |
|---|---|
| More than 42 days | Nil |
| 15 to 42 days | 25 USD |
| 14 days or less | 50 USD |
We will not pay you compensation if we have to cancel or change your travel arrangements in any way because of war, riot, industrial dispute, terrorist activity, actions of government authorities, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, adverse weather conditions or other unforeseen circumstances that may amount to force majeure.
Any flights forming part of your trip will be subject the General Conditions of Carriage and Conditions of Contract of the airline concerned. Such flights will also be subject to international law which often limits the airline liability to passengers in respect of death or bodily injury, delay or damage to baggage. Any flight cancellations due to reasons of force majeure will be processed according to the airline ticket rules.
Our obligations, and those of our suppliers providing any service or facility included in the tour, are to take reasonable skill and care to arrange for the provision of such services and facilities and, where we or our supplier are actually providing the service or facility, to do so with reasonable skill and care. If you wish to make any claim you must show that reasonable skill and care has not been used. Standards of, for example, safety, hygiene and quality can vary throughout the transport and destinations that your holiday may involve. Sometimes these standards may be lower than those which would be expected to be found in the UK. The services and facilities included in your travel arrangements will be deemed to be provided with reasonable skill and care if they comply with any local regulations which apply or, in case there are no applicable local regulations, if they are reasonable when compared to the local standards and customs.
For claims which do not involve death or personal injury, we accept liability should any part of the tour arrangements booked with us not be supplied as described in the tour program and should we/ our suppliers fail to satisfy the obligations detailed above. If we have liability we will pay you reasonable compensation (limited to the price paid for the trip) if your enjoyment of the tour is adversely affected.
For claims which involve death or personal injury as a result of an activity forming part of your tour, we accept, and will only have liability should we/ our suppliers fail to satisfy the obligations detailed above. If we have liability, we will pay you reasonable compensation.
We shall have no liability where the cause of the failure to provide, or failure in, your travel arrangements or any death or personal injury you may suffer is not due to any fault on our part or our suppliers, because: a) the reason for the failure in the tour arrangements was the client’s fault; or b) such failures are attributable to the actions of someone unconnected with the tour arrangements; or c) such failures are due to unforeseeable circumstances which could not have been avoided by the Company or its suppliers even if all due care had been exercised.
If any international convention applies to or governs any of the services or facilities included in the tour arranged or provided by us, or provided by any of our suppliers, and you make a claim against us of any nature arising out of death, injury, loss or damage suffered during or as a result of the provision of those services or facilities, our liability to pay you compensation and/or the amount (if any) of compensation payable to you by us will be limited in accordance with and/or in an identical manner to that provided for by the international convention concerned (in each case including in respect of the conditions of liability, the time for bringing any claim and the type and amount of any damages that can be awarded). International conventions which may apply include: in respect of international air travel, the Warsaw Convention (including as amended by the Hague protocol 1955 and by any of the additional Montreal protocol 1975) or the Montreal Convention 1999, in respect of rail travel, the Berne Convention 1961, in respect of carriage by sea, the Athens Convention 1974, in respect of carriage by road, the Geneva Convention 1973; and, in respect of hotels, the Paris convention 1962.
You must, if we are adjudged to have, or if we accept, liability for a claim that you make, assign to us or our insurers, as we require, all your rights that you may have against any of our servants, agents or suppliers which is in any way responsible for the failure of your holiday or any death or personal injury you may suffer. You must also cooperate with us in any claim we choose to bring against any third party which we, in our discretion, deem to be so responsible.
Other than as set out above, and as is detailed elsewhere in these booking conditions, we shall have no legal liability whatsoever to you for any loss, damage, personal injury or death which you may suffer arising directly or indirectly from any aspect of your holiday.
The customers are responsible for providing the correct delivery address. If you provide us a self-addressed prepaid envelope we will use it for your documents delivery and we always recommend using Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery service. Otherwise we will endeavour to use the best available delivery option for sending your documents to the specified address. For passports delivery we normally use Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery service. All claims / refunds related to documents delivery will be handled according to the terms and conditions of the relevant delivery supplier.
Any independent arrangements that you make and which are not part of the tour are entirely at your own risk.
In respect of land-only clients (meaning those people not starting our tour from the UK), our responsibility does not commence until you have met our representative at the appointed time at the designated meeting point. If you fail to arrive there at the appointed time, we shall not be responsible for any additional expense incurred by you in order to meet up with the group.
You agree to abide by the authority and decisions of our employees, tour leaders, agents and suppliers during the trip. The decision of these people as to the conduct, itinerary and objectives of the tour is final and if, in their opinion your behavior or physical condition is detrimental to the safety, welfare and well-being of the group as a whole (which are the paramount considerations), or they consider that your general well-being will be put at risk by continuing with the holiday, you may be asked to leave the tour without the right to any refund for unused services. We also reserve the right to terminate your holiday if your behavior is likely in the opinion of us, our employees or our suppliers to cause distress, damage, annoyance or danger to our employees or any third party, or their property. In the case of ill-health we reserve the right to make such arrangements for your well-being as we deem necessary and to recover the whole of the costs thereof from you. If you commit an illegal act we shall cease to have responsibility to or for you.
To take part in one of our tours you must be covered by adequate insurance for the complete duration of your trip. Clients together with their personal property including baggage are at all times solely at their own risk. Clients are wholly responsible for arranging their own insurance. Clients not taking out our specially arranged travel insurance are responsible for ensuring that they are in possession of private travel insurance for the full duration of the tour in respect of at least medical expenses, injury, death, cost of repatriation, helicopter evacuation and cancellation of the travel arrangements and curtailment, with adequate cover. Clients making their own arrangements should ensure that there are no exclusion clauses limiting protection for the type of activities included in the tour. You should satisfy yourself that any travel insurance arranged through the Company is what you require and should arrange supplementary insurance if need to be. We reserve the right to cancel your booking at any time before departure if we are not satisfied that adequate insurance for you is in place.
In our website prices have been calculated in accordance with foreign currency exchange rates obtained on 31 January 2023. We reserve the right to change prices from time to time. The price can be varied due to changes in transportation costs such as fuel and fares, government action such as changes in VAT, and currency changes in relation to an exchange rate variation. In the case of any small variation, an amount equivalent to 10% of the price of your travel arrangements, will be absorbed or retained. Only amounts in excess of this 10% will be charged to you. If this means that you have to pay an increase of more than 10% of the price of your travel arrangements, you may cancel your travel arrangements and receive a full refund of all monies paid, except for any amendment and non-recoverable charges. Should you decide to cancel for this reason, you must exercise your right to do so within 7 days from the issue date printed on the surcharge invoice.
We provide assistance in processing visas and visa fees are included in the cost of most of our trips as detailed in the relevant tour dossier or your tailor-made program. Clients are responsible for arranging a visa to the travel destination and must be in possession of a valid passport and any visas required for the whole journey including correct entry and exit dates, and we accept no responsibility in the event that these are not secured in time for departure.
We normally operate small and medium-sized groups on our tours and state an average group size within the tour description. During high seasons (primarily, summer season) the group size may be more than the stated maximum and we always reserve the right to increase the group size above the stated maximum. We will make our best endeavours to split the group between the guides for your comfort however this might not always be operationally possible.
Any information or advice provided by the Company on matters such as permits, visas, vaccinations, climate, clothing, baggage, special equipment, etc. is given in good faith but without responsibility whatsoever on the part of the Company. The client accepts responsibility for obtaining all necessary travel information and documentation required for the trip.
You must notify us of any specific request at the time of booking. We will inform the relevant supplier but regret that we cannot guarantee that these requests will be met. The Client will not be specifically notified if a special request cannot be met. The Company does not accept bookings which are conditional on the fulfilment of any special request.
In addition to these general booking conditions, specific relevant destination information may be contained within the individual tour.
If you have a problem during your holiday, you must report this immediately to our local representative or agent and the relevant supplier. You must also obtain written evidence of the complaint while you are away. If your complaint is not resolved locally, please follow this up within 28 days of your return home by writing to us, giving your booking reference and all other relevant information. If you do not take these steps, you will deny us the opportunity of either resolving the problem on the spot or investigating if fully, and any entitlement you may have to compensation may be extinguished. We are also unable to consider any claim where the assistance or advice of our local representatives has been unsought, rejected or ignored.
We take full responsibility for ensuring that proper security measures are in place to protect your information. When you make a booking, you consent to all the information you provide being passed on to our suppliers, wherever they may be based. The information may also be provided to public authorities such as customs or immigration if required by them, or as required by law. Certain information may also be passed on to security or credit checking companies. Except where expressly permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998, the Company will only deal with the personal details you give to us as set out above unless you agree otherwise. We may make contact with you or members of your tour party by post, e-mail, or telephone for the purpose set out. We will also use your information to inform you of offers in the future or to send you brochures. If you do not wish to receive such approaches in the future then please let us know as soon as possible by telephone, letter or e-mail. If we do contact you by e-mail about our new brochures or special offers, you will also be able to unsubscribe from our database at this time.
Revised: 14 April 2023.