Standard Terms and Conditions
All prices displayed are in AUD. Prices are subject to currency adjustment either up or down until booking is paid in full. You may pay in full at the time of booking to lock in your exchange rate, otherwise your final payment may be subject to change based on currency fluctuations. You are making a booking with Absolute Travel Enterprises Pty Ltd t/as Ski Travel Company (ABN: 28 166 129 282).
QUOTES: Any quote or saved itinerary provided by a Ski Travel Company consultant is subject to change and is not confirmed until payment is received and a Ski Travel Company confirmation is provided to you. No accommodation, transport or other products will be held for you until this time. Any prices displayed on the Ski Travel Company website (www.skitravelcompany.com.au) or in the Ski Travel Company booking engine are only applicable to online bookings and may differ from similar quotes provided by a Ski Travel Company consultant.
PAYMENT: The Ski Travel Company accept payment via VISA or MASTERCARD or DIRECT DEPOSIT. Full payment is charged at the time of booking unless otherwise specified, in which case a deposit is charged followed by an automatic charging of your registered credit card when final payment is due, usually 60 days prior to departure. Prices are subject to currency fluctuations until booking is paid in full.
CANCELLATIONS: Minimum cancellation fee is 20% of total booking cost will be payable for cancellations at any time. Any charges passed on by our suppliers will also be payable. Typically cancellations within 80 days of departure will incur additional charges or fees as levied by the hotels, apartments or operators which in many cases can be as high as 100%. Please note all deposits are non-refundable. If you wish to cancel you are advised to contact our support centre.
AMENDMENTS: If you want to change any details of your itinerary (such as eg travel dates or different hotel), we will do our best to help, but cannot guarantee that the changes can be made. You should call our Support Centre on (02) 9810 1000 in normal business hours (AEST). An amendment fee of $50 will be payable per change, as well as any additional costs passed on to us by our suppliers as a result of the change. The price of your new arrangements will be based on the prices that apply on the day you ask for a change. These prices may not be the same as when you booked the products or services. In some cases amendments may not be possible.
COSTING & RESERVATIONS are subject to availability and actual pricing at the time of booking. Actual prices are displayed in our booking engine and may be subject to change without notice. Costs within the Ski Travel Company booking engine are expressed and processed in AUSTRALIAN dollars. Prices may change on a daily basis due to exchange rate fluctuations and are not final until bookings are paid in full.
AIR FARES: Any airfares quoted include taxes but may or may not include checked baggage, meals or entertainment depending on the conditions of the fare. All airfare prices are subject to change until the day of payment and ticketing. Increases in fares and taxes are beyond the control of Ski Travel Company and are not negotiable.
NO FEES ARE CHARGED for online bookings made on www.skitravelcompany.com.au. STC support staff are available to take phone reservations in normal business hours (AEST). Any verbal quote provided by STC is an estimate only of the price.
TRAVEL INSURANCE: We strongly recommend that all travellers be insured to cover against cancellation, personal liability and theft of your personal belongings (including ski/snowboard equipment). Ski Travel Company clients are entitled to a 20% discount on their insurance with NIB, when purchased via this link
PHOTOS AND INFORMATION: Any photos and descriptions provided by the Ski Travel Company should be considered as an example only and may differ from the actual product you have purchased. While we make every effort to provide accurate and correct information, Ski Travel Company will not be held liable for any errors or omissions relating to the description or display of products within our website or booking engine.
PASSPORTS & VISAS: A valid passport (with a validity of at least 6 months after return date) is required for all persons departing from Australia and non-Australian a valid Australian re-entry visa to return. Australian passport holders require an entry visa for some countries. Non-Australian passport holders must check on their own individual visa requirements. It is the sole responsibility of any traveller to ensure they have the valid passport and visa requirements for the country they will be travelling to.
ENTRY TO THE USA: All nationals and citizens of Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries, including Australia, are required to obtain a travel authorization prior to initiating travel to the United States. This requirement commenced January 12, 2009. Authorization may be obtained online through the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), an internet application administered by the Department of Homeland Security.
As of September 9, 2022, a fee of $21USD will be charged to submit an ESTA application. VWP travelers should be aware that unauthorized third-parties have established websites, which charge visitors an additional or higher fee for information and for submitting ESTA applications. These websites are not endorsed by, associated with, nor affiliated in any way with the U.S. government.
To find out more details please visit the US Embassy website here http://canberra.usembassy.gov/visa_waiver_prog.html or to apply for the Visa Waiver Program go to https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov
ENTRY TO CANADA. An Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) is a new entry requirement for visa-exempt foreign nationals flying to or transiting through Canada. The authorization is electronically linked to your passport and is valid for five years or until your passport expires, whichever comes first. To find out more details and apply please see the Official Site: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/eta.asp. We recommend applying for the ETA prior to booking.
LIABILTY CLAUSE: The Ski Travel Company does not accept any liability of whatever nature for the acts, omissions, or default (whether negligent or otherwise) of those properties/suppliers providing services in connection with your reservation pursuant to a contract between them and yourselves and over whom we have no direct and exclusive control. The Ski Travel Company, its respective servants, agents and employees shall not be liable for any death, injury, damage, loss, property (including baggage), additional expenses, accident, delay or irregularity, whether in property, person or otherwise resulting directly or indirectly from delay, changes in accommodation, breakdown in equipment or vehicles, weather, strike, sickness, theft, cancellation of or changes in itinerary, or other causes beyond their control. The Ski Travel Company reserves the right to alter the price, cancel or withdraw any property, component, service or tour.
Ski Travel Company Privacy Policy
The information we collect:
When you make a booking or enquiry via the Ski Travel Company web site or sign up for our newsletter, we need to collect information about you to process the transaction and fulfil your order. This information includes, but is not limited to, details such as your name, your contact details (email, phone, fax) and your credit card details. When you submit a request via our email support forms, we also collect your name and email so that we may respond to your request or query as quickly as possible.
How we use the information:
When you submit a booking request, we use the collected information in several ways:
- Personal identification and verification
- To complete your reservation
- To allow us to contact you for customer service, if required
- To make improvements to the Ski Travel Company web site
If you have opted to sign up for the newsletter offered by our website, you will occasionally receive updates from us about special rate offers, newsletters and any noteworthy changes to the website. You may opt out of receiving this information at any time.
We may disclose your information to third parties (such as our hotels) only for the purpose of completing your transaction with us, providing the above services to you and for the purposes of associated administration.
Unless otherwise prohibited by law or our contractual obligations, we may disclose personal information if required to do so by law, court order, or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable. Such situations may include: to perform, maintain or enforce contracts with our customers; to protect the rights or properties of Ski Travel Company, our business affiliates, our customers, or others; or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing, or who may be threatening to cause, interference with or damage to our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise; or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.
Like most web sites, there is certain information we automatically track, including the URL that you just came from, the browser you are using and your IP address. This data is utilized to improve the services of Ski Travel Company and does not include any personally identifying information.
Our commitment to data security
While being transmitted over the Internet, your credit card details are protected using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. Credit card details are only used to pay for accommodation booked through our service. These details are stored securely at all times, are not used for any other purpose and will never be provided to any un-authorised third parties.
Cookies
We may, from time to time, use “cookies” to store your preferences, record session information and collect information on how you visit and access our Web pages. We collect information on the Web pages visited by our customers in order to help us to continue improving our services.
“Cookies” are pieces of information that our Web page transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard and many Web sites use them to provide useful features for you.
We use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies, including from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook, for measurement services, better targeting advertisements, marketing purposes and to improve the performance of the website. This takes place from the website and in some of our advertisements on third party websites. These cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies allow us to display our promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the Internet and provide more relevant content. We may also share information about your behavior on the Sites with third parties (including operators of third-party websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized for you.
Opt Out of Google Analytics
To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can opt out here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Reviews
When you leave a review on the site, we collect and store the data submitted in the review form as well as your IP address to help with spam detection. The review may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service. The Akismet service privacy policy is available here: https://akismet.com/privacy/.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it to store an avatar. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your review, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your review.
When does Ski Travel Company send you emails?
After you have made a booking, you will receive a confirmation message with all the information about your booking. After your stay at the hotel, we may send you a guest review survey, which we appreciate to be filled in by you. This completed guest review may be uploaded onto the relevant hotel’s information page on the Ski Travel Company website for the purpose of informing (future) customers of your opinion of the service (level) and quality of the hotel. To the extent that you have “Opted in” you may receive from time to time our newsletter or other information.
If you have any suggestions or remarks about this privacy statement, please send an email to info@SkiTravelCompany.com.au We are at all times entitled to change the way we collect, transmit and process the personal information and such other information as we may deem necessary. This Privacy Statement may therefore be amended from time to time in order to reflect the latest changes.
Opting out of promotional information
We at Ski Travel Company work hard to provide our clients with the best possible rates in all our products. From time to time, we will send our members newsletters, updates and specials for hotels in certain areas. You will only receive this correspondence if you have chosen to do so and we hope that you will find these items informative and useful. However, should you choose to not receive them in the future, you will have the ability to unsubscribe from the mail database by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email.
How to contact us
This policy may be revised from time to time, as new features are added to the site or the legislation changes. Please check back periodically for updates and additions. If you have any concerns or queries about the Privacy Policy of Ski Travel Company or would like more information, please contact us on info@SkiTravelCompany.com.au. We will attempt to respond to all reasonable concerns or inquiries within three business days of receipt.
CUSTOMERS – If you have a question about an existing or new booking, please see contact details on the About Us page.
Last Updated 19 July 2023