Holy Land Pilgrimage Notes, Payment Details, Cancellation Policy
Holy Land Pilgrimage Notes, Payment Details, Cancellation Policy Things Covered under Pilgrimage Costs: • • • • • • • • •
Accommodations on F/B basis (includes Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) Transportation in comfortable deluxe bus Guiding Fee for Qumri Pilgrimages All entrance fees on your itinerary Israeli and Palestinian Speakers Portage at all hotels Tips for restaurant and hotel staff Bus Driver Tips Farewell Dinner at our guide Iyad Qumri’s home
Things Not Covered under the Pilgrimage Costs: • •
Personal expenses such as phone calls, alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, laundry, and medical and travel insurance. Tip for our guide Iyad Qumri. A $10 tip (more or less) per day per pilgrim is suggested by us.
This Pilgrimage is limited to 35 pilgrims with a minimum of 20. Pilgrims will be accepted in the order in which registrations are received. Single rooms are in limited supply. There is a $540 supplement for a single accommodation. They will be available on a first request basis. Single pilgrims who would be willing to share a room with another pilgrim can make this known at time of registration. We will try to accommodate this request in an amenable manner. Please note that travel and international medical insurance are requirements for this Pilgrimage. Travel insurance is necessary to cover the cost of flight cancellations and trip cancellations for personal reasons. Our guide is unable to reimburse people who cancel. (Our travel agency recommends Travelex, a major Travel Insurance Company. A pilgrim can go to our travel agency’s website www.worldwidepilgrimage.com and click on Travelex Insurance to read the coverages and rules regarding existing conditions or call 800-228-9792 directly with questions about insurance. The whole cost of the trip needs to be covered…..i.e. the airfare and pilgrimage combined.) Our agent states, “It is important for everyone to remember to add the cost together for the land and air when they take out the insurance so that they will make sure they are covered for the dollar amount they are paying out for the pilgrimage.”
************ TO CONFIRM YOUR COMMITMENT IN ADVANCE OF THE DEPOSIT DATES, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO [email protected]. ************ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Your Passport must be valid for at least 6 months after your arrival date. If it is not, you will not be allowed into Israel. Payment Schedule for Land Portion of the Pilgrimage Tour: • A non-refundable deposit of $500.00 per person is due on April 30, 2018 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE $500.00 DEPOSIT IS NON-REFUNDABLE) • A final payment of $1850 for double occupancy and an additional $540 for single occupancy will be due by June 30, 2018. Make checks payable to: Mary B. Howe 10133 Gulf Blvd., Box 5 Treasure Island, FL 33706 Individual Cancellations: There is a $500 non-refundable deposit paid by each pilgrim. After full payment the cancellation policy is : • 120 days before departure: full refund (minus deposit) • 90 days before departure: half refund (minus deposit) • 60 days before departure: one/quarter refund (minus deposit) • There will be no refunds within 60 days of departure. • If Iyad Qumri, our guide, cancels the trip due to safety returns, there is a full refund. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Air travel arrangements and airfare are completely separate from the Land portion of the Pilgrimage tour. Please refer to the separate Air Reservation/Deposit Form from the travel agency. Payment Schedule for Air travel arrangements and airfare: • Note that a deposit of $200.00 per person is due with application and copy of passport to the travel agency named on the separate form by December 1, 2017. • Final payment is due by April 6, 2018. The actual cost of airfare will be made known in early fall of 2017 when airspace has been confirmed. Based on last year’s fares, airfare is estimated to be close to $1500.
Accommodations on F/B basis (includes Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) Transportation in comfortable deluxe bus Guiding Fee for Qumri Pilgrimages All entrance fees on your itinerary Israeli and Palestinian Speakers Portage at all hotels Tips for restaurant and hotel staff Bus Driver Tips Farewell Dinner at our guide Iyad Qumri’s home
Things Not Covered under the Pilgrimage Costs: • •
Personal expenses such as phone calls, alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, laundry, and medical and travel insurance. Tip for our guide Iyad Qumri. A $10 tip (more or less) per day per pilgrim is suggested by us.
This Pilgrimage is limited to 35 pilgrims with a minimum of 20. Pilgrims will be accepted in the order in which registrations are received. Single rooms are in limited supply. There is a $540 supplement for a single accommodation. They will be available on a first request basis. Single pilgrims who would be willing to share a room with another pilgrim can make this known at time of registration. We will try to accommodate this request in an amenable manner. Please note that travel and international medical insurance are requirements for this Pilgrimage. Travel insurance is necessary to cover the cost of flight cancellations and trip cancellations for personal reasons. Our guide is unable to reimburse people who cancel. (Our travel agency recommends Travelex, a major Travel Insurance Company. A pilgrim can go to our travel agency’s website www.worldwidepilgrimage.com and click on Travelex Insurance to read the coverages and rules regarding existing conditions or call 800-228-9792 directly with questions about insurance. The whole cost of the trip needs to be covered…..i.e. the airfare and pilgrimage combined.) Our agent states, “It is important for everyone to remember to add the cost together for the land and air when they take out the insurance so that they will make sure they are covered for the dollar amount they are paying out for the pilgrimage.”
************ TO CONFIRM YOUR COMMITMENT IN ADVANCE OF THE DEPOSIT DATES, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO [email protected]. ************ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Your Passport must be valid for at least 6 months after your arrival date. If it is not, you will not be allowed into Israel. Payment Schedule for Land Portion of the Pilgrimage Tour: • A non-refundable deposit of $500.00 per person is due on April 30, 2018 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THE $500.00 DEPOSIT IS NON-REFUNDABLE) • A final payment of $1850 for double occupancy and an additional $540 for single occupancy will be due by June 30, 2018. Make checks payable to: Mary B. Howe 10133 Gulf Blvd., Box 5 Treasure Island, FL 33706 Individual Cancellations: There is a $500 non-refundable deposit paid by each pilgrim. After full payment the cancellation policy is : • 120 days before departure: full refund (minus deposit) • 90 days before departure: half refund (minus deposit) • 60 days before departure: one/quarter refund (minus deposit) • There will be no refunds within 60 days of departure. • If Iyad Qumri, our guide, cancels the trip due to safety returns, there is a full refund. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Air travel arrangements and airfare are completely separate from the Land portion of the Pilgrimage tour. Please refer to the separate Air Reservation/Deposit Form from the travel agency. Payment Schedule for Air travel arrangements and airfare: • Note that a deposit of $200.00 per person is due with application and copy of passport to the travel agency named on the separate form by December 1, 2017. • Final payment is due by April 6, 2018. The actual cost of airfare will be made known in early fall of 2017 when airspace has been confirmed. Based on last year’s fares, airfare is estimated to be close to $1500.
