DEPOSITS & FINAL PAYMENT

Upon booking a tour with Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd, a 30% deposit is required to secure the tour and begin the necessary booking processes and ground preparations. An invoice will be sent to the client together with the payment instructions.

Final balance payment of the tour booked is required no later than 21 days before the tour starts. Bookings made within 21 days of the tour start date should be paid in full.

All payments made to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd should be free of bank charges and credit card transactions your charges. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris  Ltd is not responsible for any charges levied or charged by third parties and/or financial institutions and payable by the client as a result of credit card or other payment transactions in connection with the purchase of a tour and will not refund or return any fees charged by such third parties in connection with payments made by clients to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. 

BOOKING AGREEMENT

A booking is confirmed and these Terms and Conditions shall apply when Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd have received the applicable deposit from the client and the client has received written confirmation from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd of such booking. The client confirming the booking must be 18 years of age and above and agrees to provide full, complete, and accurate information as requested by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd to confirm the booking. Any client confirming a booking on any tours with more than one client named and booked on such booking represents and warrants to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd that:

1. They have all requisite consents and authority to make such a booking on behalf of all other clients named on the booking, and have communicated all necessary information to the other clients in order for them to give free and fully informed authorization to do so.
2. The information that they have provided regarding all clients is complete and accurate, and they have obtained all necessary consents and permissions to share such information with Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd for the purposes of completing the booking.

CANCELLATION POLICY

A client may cancel their booking by notifying Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. The applicable cancellation fees shall be determined with reference to the date on which the request to cancel is received by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd and are expressed herein after as a percentage of the total price paid for the cancelled tour.

(a) Cancellation received 30 days or more before the tour starts: No Cancellation Fees will be charged.

(b) Cancellation received 11–34 days before the tour starts: 30% Cancellation Fee will be charged.

(C) Cancellation received 3–10 days before the tour starts: 50% Cancellation Fee will be charged.

(d) Cancellation received within 48 hrs. before the tour starts: 100% Cancellation Fee will be charged.

(e) Tailor-made tours may be subject to alternative cancellation terms, which will be communicated to applicable clients at the time of booking.

TRAVEL INSURANCE

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd does not provide travel insurance therefore the client must obtain travel insurance from their home country with the minimum recommended medical, evacuation, and repatriation coverage covering all applicable dates of any travel with Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd and this insurance must cover personal injury and emergency medical expenses. It is strongly recommended that clients also extend their coverage to include cancellation and all other expenses that might arise as a result of loss, damage, injury, delay, or inconvenience occurring to the client. The cost of the tour does not include any insurance coverage for the client, and the client is required to obtain separate coverage at an additional cost to the tour price. When obtaining travel insurance the client must ensure the insurer is aware of the type of travel to be undertaken so that the insurer may properly cover travel on the applicable tour.

MEDICAL CONDITIONS

All clients are obligated to truthfully provide requested relevant medical information to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd upon booking their tour. Clients are responsible for assessing their own suitability and capability to participate in a tour with us. All clients should consult their physician regarding their fitness for taking part in the booked tour. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd recommends all clients seek their physician’s advice regarding necessary or advisable vaccinations, medical precautions, or other medical concerns regarding the entirety of the client’s travel with Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd does not provide medical advice.

Adventure tours provided by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd involve visiting remote or less developed regions of Tanzania, where medical facilities may not meet the standards of those found in a client’s home country. The condition of medical facilities in these areas varies and Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd makes no representations and gives no warranties in relation to the standard of such facilities or medical treatment in those regions. 

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd will strive to accommodate the special requests of clients, including (without limitation) dietary and accommodation requests, but such requests do not form part of these Terms and Conditions or the contract between the client and Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd and Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd is not liable for any failure to accommodate or fulfill such requests.

PRICES, SURCHARGES, AND TAXES

Due to the nature of the tourism industry in Tanzania and the prices of the resources on which it depends, the published price of any tour product is subject to change at anytime, before or after booking confirmation, up to 30 days before the departure of such a tour. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd reserve the right to impose surcharges on any tour products, but only for reasons arising from increases in accommodation costs, transportation costs, fuel costs, dues, taxes, or fees chargeable for services such as third-party supplier costs, currency and exchange fluctuations, park fees, increases in taxes, or government action which impacts the price of the applicable tours, but only where the increase in question is substantial enough to warrant the right to impose these surcharges. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd shall provide notice to the affected client as soon as reasonably possible upon learning of the necessity to impose a surcharge in accordance with this section.

Upon receiving notification from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. the affected client(s) may elect to either:

(a) Cancel the applicable to your booking without incurring any penalty; or

(b) Accept the change of price.

The client must notify Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. Of their election within 14 days of receipt of notice of the increase, or they shall have been deemed to have accepted the price change and have accepted liability for payment of the increase.

From time to time Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd may offer reduced pricing on selected tours. The reduced pricing applies strictly to new bookings. Bookings that have already been confirmed (which for these purposes shall mean bookings in respect of which payment of at least a deposit has been received by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd) are not entitled to the reduced pricing.

GUARANTEED DEPARTURES & CANCELLATION OF A TOUR BY KILIMANJARO AND BEYOND TOURS & SAFARIS LTD

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd guarantee all scheduled group tour departures that have been booked by a client shall depart as scheduled (subject to reasonable itinerary changes). Brochures and other printed materials displaying tour information and departure dates are subject to change, and such dates are excluded from this guarantee. A departure shall become guaranteed once at least one client has a confirmed booking. This guarantee is not applicable in Force Majeure situations.

If a tour is cancelled by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd before the agreed date of departure for reasons not arising from Force Majeure or the fault or negligence of or within the reasonable control of the client, the client shall have the choice of:

Accepting from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd a substitute tour product of equivalent or superior value, where such substitute is reasonably available; or

Accepting from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd a substitute tour of lower value if not of equivalent or superior value is reasonably available, and to recover from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd the difference in price between the price of the tour originally purchased and that of the substitute tour; or

Accepting from Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd a full refund of all monies paid for the canceled tour.

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd are not responsible for any incidental expenses or consequential losses that the client may have incurred as a result of the canceled booking such as visas, vaccinations, non-refundable flights or rail, non-refundable car parking, or other if loss of earning, or loss of enjoyment, etc. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd reserve the right to issue a full refund in lieu of the choices above, in its sole discretion. Where after departure a significant element of the tours as described cannot be provided, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd will make suitable alternative arrangements for the continuation of the tours. If it is not possible to provide a suitable alternative or the client reasonably rejects any suitable alternatives, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd will provide the client are fund of unused tour products or tour product portions.

CANCELLATION OF A TOUR BY THE CLIENT

If the client is prevented through reasons completely beyond such client’s control from proceeding with a tour as booked the client may, if possible, transfer his/her tour booking to a person who satisfies all the conditions applicable to the tour, provided that the client gives notice to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd of the client’s intention to transfer no less than 14 days before the date when the tour departure is due to take place. Where such a transfer is made, the transferring client and the transferee client shall be jointly and severally liable to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd for payment of the price of the tour (or, if part of the price has been paid, for payment of the balance) and for any additional costs arising from such transfer. For private tours, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd can also reserve the tour for a client should they decide to postpone the tour to a later date. The client, however, will be responsible for paying cancellation fees as per the cancellation policy and also for any unforeseen extra costs which arise until the client does the tour at a later date (i.e.–accommodation costs, transportation costs, fuel costs, dues, taxes or fees chargeable for services such as third party supplier costs, currency, and exchange fluctuations, park fees, increases in taxes, or government action which impacts the price of the applicable tours).

CANCELLATIONS AND CHANGES

The client acknowledges by booking a tour with Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd that the nature of adventure travel, especially in Africa, requires considerable flexibility and acknowledges that they will permit reasonable alterations to the tour and/or itinerary by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. The client acknowledges their understanding that the route, schedules, timings, accommodations, itineraries, amenities, and mode of transport may be subject to change without prior notice due to circumstances or events, which may include sickness or mechanical breakdown, incidents in the location where the tour will be operated, flight cancellations, strikes, events emanating from political disputes, entry or border difficulties, extreme weather, and other unpredictable or unforeseeable circumstances which are beyond there as on able control of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd and that Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd is not liable to any client for such changes or amendments.

​Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd shall not be liable to pay any discounts or refunds for missed or unused services which were missed or unused by the client due to no fault of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd, its suppliers, or representatives, which shall include any termination of the client’s participation in the tour due to the client’s own fault, negligence or breach of these Terms and Conditions.

Although Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd will strive to ensure that the tour you have booked goes as planned, we do not guarantee that we will abide by the agreed tour itinerary and we therefore reserve the right to amend the tour itinerary where doing so may be necessary or advantageous. We will strive to notify you of any changes prior to the tour departure. However, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd is not obligated to do so, nor shall not be liable to pay any refunds that may be claimed to result from such changes. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd are not in control of the management of the accommodation providers we use on our tours. Therefore, in some circumstances, we may be notified by our accommodation providers that our reserved accommodation is no longer available, due to reasons that are beyond our control, and not the fault or negligence of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. In such circumstances, we will provide alternative accommodation of at least the same standard or higher standard.

Where it may be absolutely necessary to amend the tour itinerary during the tour, the tour guide will arrange the best available alternative. The decision to do so will restore the tour guide and his/her decision is final. This is mainly applicable but not limited to mountain climbing products where the guide believes the client is not able to continue with the climb due to illness, injury, extreme weather, or other factors beyond the guide’s control.

RISK

The client acknowledges that the nature of our tour products is adventurous and may involve a significant amount of risk to clients’ health and/or safety. There are dangers inherent to adventure travel generally and the client acknowledges they have considered such risks to health and safety and are willing to assume it to the full extent legally possible, by confirming their booking of this tour. The client here by assumes all such risk and does here by release Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd from all claims and causes of action arising from any losses, damages or injuries or death resulting from these risks inherent in travel, including adventure travel specifically, visiting wild and remote areas, and participating in adventurous activities such as those included in the tour itineraries. Standards of hygiene, accommodation and transport in some areas where the tours take place are often lower than comparable standards than what the client may reasonably expect in their home country or region.

​ ​The client must at all times strictly comply with all applicable laws and regulations of Tanzania and the regions visited on the applicable tour. Should the client fail to comply with the above or commit any illegal act when on the tour or, if in the opinion of the Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd (acting reasonably), the client’s behavior is causing or is likely to cause danger, distress or material annoyance to others, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd may terminate that client’s travel arrangements on any tour immediately without any liability on Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd part and the client will not be entitled to any refund for unused or missed services or costs incurred resulting from the termination of the travel arrangements, including, without limitation, return travel, accommodations, meals, and/or incidentals.

​Clients agree that they are responsible for any costs incurred by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd, as a result of damage, destruction, theft, or excess cleaning fees caused or occasioned by the client while on tour. Clients agree to immediately report any pre-existing damage of this kind to the staff of the accommodation, transportation service, or facility (as appropriate) and/or a Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd representative as soon as possible upon discovery by the client.

​Client agrees to take all prudent measures in relation to their own safety while on any Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd tour, including, but not limited to, the proper use of safety devices such as seatbelts, harnesses, and helmets, and obeying all posted signs and warnings in relation to client health and safety. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd, nor its Third Party Suppliers shall not be liable for any failure on the client’s part to comply safety instructions or recommendations of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd or its Third Party Suppliers.

COMPLAINTS

Client agrees to bring any complaints regarding a tour to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd as soon as possible in order to provide Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd with the opportunity to address such complaint properly. Client agrees to inform the head guide or other designated Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd representative at the earliest opportunity. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd assumes no liability for complaints that are not properly brought to the attention of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd with sufficient notice for Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd to resolve or attempt to resolve any client complaints. Any complaint made after the completion of a tour must be received in writing by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd within 30 days of the end of the tour in question.

THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd make arrangements with accommodation providers, activity providers, airlines, coach companies, transfer operators, shore excursion operators, tour and local guides, and other independent parties (“Third Party Suppliers”) to provide you with the travel services and other services you purchase or which form the component parts of your product Tour. Third Party Suppliers may also engage the services of local operators and/or sub-contractors for the provision of travel services that form part of the tour(s). Although Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd take all reasonable care in selecting Third Party Suppliers, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd is unable to control Third Party Suppliers and does not supervise Third Party Suppliers and therefore cannot be responsible for their acts or omissions. The travel services and other services provided are subject to the conditions imposed by these suppliers and their liability is limited by their tariffs, conditions of carriage, tickets, and vouchers, and international conventions and agreements that govern the provision of their services. These may limit or exclude the liability of the supplier. Client acknowledges that Third Party Suppliers operate in compliance with the applicable laws of Tanzania and Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd does not warrant that any Third Party Supplier is in incompliance with the laws of the client’s country of residence or any other jurisdiction.

To the fullest extent permissible by law, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd is not liable and will not assume responsibility for any claims, losses, damages, costs, or expenses arising out of inconvenience, loss of enjoyment, upset, disappointment, distress or frustration, whether physical or mental, resulting from the actor omission of any party other than Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd and its employees. For clarity, neither Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd nor any carrier is liable for the acts or omissions, whether negligent or otherwise, of Third Party Suppliers or any independent contractors.

LIABILITY

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd are not responsible for any damages, expenses, losses, or claims which are attributable to the fault of any client, the unforeseen able or unavoidable act or omission of a third party unconnected with the provision of any services that for any part of the tours, or a force majeure event. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd shall have no liability for loss, Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd cannot accept responsibility for and in no event shall be liable for loss or damage of valuables or other articles left in or on facilities used by Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd such as hotels, home stays, vessels, expedition vehicles, or any other mode of transportation.

In the event that a loss, death, injury, or illness is caused by the negligent acts and/or omissions of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd or of the third-party suppliers of any services which form part of the Contract then Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd limits its liability, where applicable by all applicable International Conventions.

FORCE MAJEURE

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd shall not be liable in any way to the client for death, bodily injury, illness, damage, delay or other loss or detriment to person or property, or financial costs both direct and in direct incurred, or for Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd failure to commence, perform and/or complete any duty owed to the client if such death, delay, bodily injury (including emotional distress or injury), illness, damage or other loss or detriment to person or property is caused by Act of God, war or war like operations, pandemics, mechanical breakdowns, terrorist activities or threat there of, civil commotions, labor difficulties, interference by authorities, political disturbance, how so ever and where so ever any of the same may arise or because, riot, in surrection and government restraint, fire, extreme weather or any other cause what so ever beyond the reasonable control of Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd; or an event which Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd or the supplier of services, even with all due care, could not foresee.

IMAGES AND MARKETING

The client agrees that while participating in any Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd tour, images, photos or videos may be taken by other clients and/or Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd representatives or Guides that may contain or feature the client in part or in whole. The client acknowledges that they consent to any such images, photos and videos being taken and grants a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable license to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd, its affiliates, and assigns, to reproduce for any purpose whatever (including marketing and promotions), in any medium whatsoever, whether currently known or here in after devised, without any further obligation to the client or compensation payable to the client.

AMENDMENTS

Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd reserves the right to update and/or alter these Terms and Conditions at any time, and shall post the amended Terms and Conditions on the Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd Website. Any such amendment shall take effect 10 days following their posting to the Website. The latest Terms, as amended, may be accessed anytime on the Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd website, or will be sent to clients upon their written request to Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd. Clients shall be deemed to have accepted any amendments to these Terms and Conditions on the date that is 10 days after their posting on the Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd website. Kilimanjaro and Beyond Tours & Safaris Ltd recommends that all clients refer to the Terms and Conditions prior to their travel to familiarize themselves with the most up-to-date version of the Terms and Conditions.