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Pricing & General Information for North America 2008• Prices PricesAll prices are expressed (unless otherwise stated) in £ per person based on two people sharing a twin/double room. We outline the included meal arrangements in the price panel for each holiday or hotel. We do not include drinks (except at breakfast) in our meal arrangements. Please note that our prices include all local and state taxes and service charges so the only extras you will have to pay for are drinks and optional gratuities. Your start date determines the price applicable to your holiday and prices vary according to season as indicated in the holiday price panels. If you travel out a few days before your Inntravel holiday starts, your holiday may fall within a different pricing period and incur additional charges. Please check with us when making your booking. You should arrive back in the UK by the last date shown at the top of the price panel. ‘With Flights’ prices for holidays starting in New England include return scheduled flights in World Traveller class from London Heathrow to Boston with British Airways. ‘With Flights’ prices for holidays starting in Canada include return scheduled flights in economy class with Air Canada from London Heathrow. 'Journey' prices include all the elements of the ‘With Flights’ holiday (including car hire) except for the Transatlantic flights and connecting flights between the city of Montréal and Québec City. 'Add On' prices include all the elements described in the price panels, and the cost of extending your car hire for the duration of the add-on holiday. ‘3rd+ person saving’ on the price panel expresses a reduction to be applied to the overall holiday price for any third and subsequent persons in your party. All party members must travel together for the reduction to apply; if the holiday includes a ferry crossing, hire car or taxi transfer, the party must travel in one vehicle. Single room prices are shown in holiday price panels and are expressed as the additional price per room for the whole fixed-itinerary holiday. For hotels, the price is expressed per night. Also, as all our prices are based on 2 people travelling together, we make an additional charge if you are travelling on your own, which we will tell you about at the time of booking. Please call for a quotation. If you are travelling with children, please call us for a quotation. Extra night 'from prices' are indicated on the pages detailing our inns in Nova Scotia and New England. These are based on 2 people sharing a twin or double room and usually only include breakfast, unless otherwise stated. These prices vary according to season (we quote the lowest) and apply only if you are staying at the inn as part of one of our fixed itineraries. This additional price also includes the cost of extending the hire of your car by an extra night. We supply full documentation to help you get the most from your holiday, including road maps, cultural background information, suggestions as to what to see and do. As your documentation pack is necessarily quite large to incorporate this wealth of information, we charge customers living outside Britain (including those in the Republic of Ireland) £20 per pack to cover the additional postage costs. Travel‘With Flights’ prices for holidays starting in New England include return scheduled flights in World Traveller class from London Heathrow to Boston with British Airways. Currently, there are daily departures at 1055, 1635 and 1935, arriving at 1300, 1845 and 2150 local time respectively. Return flights leave Boston at 0820, 1800 and 2115, arriving at 1940, 0515 (next day) and 0835 (next day). You can upgrade to World Traveller Plus and also to Club World - please contact us for prices. ‘With Flights’ prices for holidays starting in Canada include return scheduled flights in economy class with Air Canada from London Heathrow. Currently, there is a daily departure to Halifax at 1205, arriving at 1445 local time. Return flights leave Halifax at 2245, arriving at 0835 the next day. Daily flights to Montréal depart at 1005 and 1530 arriving at 1230 and 1755; return flights from Montréal depart at 1945 and 2235, arriving at 0730 and 1005, respectively. (Connections to and from Québec City take approx 50mins.) You can connect with the Heathrow flight from Manchester, Leeds-Bradford, Teeside, Belfast City, Edinburgh and other selected Scottish airports for just £70 per person. In the case of Manchester only, no extra charge is payable from 1 July-30 September 2008. You can choose to fly with Icelandair from the UK to Boston or Halifax, travelling via Reykjavik, with substantial savings on our ‘With Flights’ prices, depending on dates and availability. You can also break your journey for up to 7 nights in Reykjavik. Please call for details of flight prices and accommodation. Combining New England and Nova Scotia is easy - we pre-book tickets for the daily 3-hour ferry crossing between Bar Harbor in Maine and Yarmouth in Nova Scotia. If you start your holiday in Nova Scotia, you return to Halifax for your homeward flight, and if you start your holiday in New England, you fly back from Boston. At certain times of the year, the late departure of the ferry from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor means that you will need to add a night in either Bar Harbor or Wiscasset on the return journey to Boston. Eastern US Time and Eastern Standard Time in Canada (for Québec) is 5 hours behind British time, while Nova Scotia is 4 hours behind Britain. This means that Nova Scotia is one hour ahead of New England. Advance Passenger Information (API) As part of measures to ensure aviation safety and security, the US and Canada require all airlines to provide specific information about every passenger before their arrival in the country. This information includes full given names as shown on the passport, date of birth, nationality and passport number. Often these details are gathered at check-in, but some airlines require the information at an earlier stage. In these cases, and where we have booked the flights on your behalf, we will request the required information from you and submit it to the airline. Avis car hireCar hire with Avis is included in our prices (including add-on prices and extra night prices) for the duration stated in the price panel - a compact-size, 4-door car with automatic transmission (eg Chevrolet Cobalt). The only exception is in Québec where we use a local supplier. Avis is unable to provide manual transmission vehicles. Our rental arrangements in both the United States
and Canada include: • unlimited mileage • local taxes
and airport charges • third party liability • Loss Damage
Waiver • two named
drivers • your first tank of petrol (not Québec) Not included: • additional fuel • special equipment charges, eg child seats Other rental conditions: drivers must be over 25 and have held a full, non-endorsed driving licence for at least 1 year. A major credit card is required at the point of collection. For additional comfort and luggage space, we recommend upgrading
your vehicle, especially if you are travelling as a party of 3 or more.
Examples of possible upgrades (prices per car per day): Passports, visas, health requirements & insurance (written November 2007)Most British citizens (and some British Overseas Citizens and citizens of certain British dependent territories as listed at www.cic.gc.ca) can enter Canada without a visa provided they have a valid passport and do not have a criminal record. Please note that your airline will pass on your personal details to the Canadian immigration authorities prior to your arrival in Canada. In the US, the Visa Waiver Programme (VWP) enables most people described as British citizens to enter the US without a visa, provided that they hold a full, machine-readable passport (MRP). MRPs have two lines of text as letters, numbers and ‘<’ symbols at the foot of the personal information pages. If your passport does not have these two lines of text, it is not machine readable, and you should obtain a B2 holiday visa from the US Embassy (the process for which takes several weeks and usually requires you to attend an interview) or apply for a new passport. In addition to being machine-readable, all new passports issued on or after 26 October 2005 must incorporate a digital photograph, and all those issued on or after 26 October 2006 must contain biometric data. Biometric passports were phased in gradually by the UK Passport Agency throughout 2006 and are denoted by a rectangular symbol at the bottom of the passport cover. The situation may change, so you should check with us, or visit www.usembassy.org.uk for up-to-date information. (This website also lists the circumstances in which you must apply for a visa, for example if you have a criminal record.) All visitors to the US are photographed and have their index finger digitally scanned on arrival, and your airline will pass on your personal details to the US immigration authorities prior to your arrival in the US, including details of your country of residence and the address of your first destination in the US. Please check the validity of your passport. We recommend that your passport is valid for a further 6 months beyond your date of return from the US or Canada. It is our understanding that currently no specific visas are required for travel between the US and Canada if you are combining New England and Nova Scotia, provided that you fulfil all the requirements outlined above for each country. There are no reciprocal health agreements between the UK and the US or Canada. It is therefore all the more important that you have comprehensive travel insurance to cover you in the case of illness or an accident. We offer a personal holiday insurance policy specifically tailored to our type of holiday by Voyager Insurance, whose cover is among the most comprehensive available. As personal holiday insurance is so important, it is a requirement of our Booking Conditions that you take out adequate cover. We will therefore require you to take out our policy and pay the appropriate premium at the time of booking unless you provide us with details of equivalent cover you have already arranged. It is your responsibility to ensure that your policy offers adequate cover which is at least as comprehensive as the cover we offer. We do not check alternative policies. Making a bookingTo book your holiday, you can complete our online booking form, though if you wish to tailor-make the itinerary in any way, we recommend you call us on 01653 617793 instead so that our expert reservations staff can talk you through the numerous options available to you. (Please note that some calls may be recorded for training and quality control purposes.) When making a booking, please have the following to hand: Once we have made the requested reservations, we will send you a Booking Confirmation and Invoice confirming the principal elements of your holiday. We ask that you pay the balance 8 weeks before departure and will normally send your documentation 2-3 weeks in advance of your holiday. We will consult you if we cannot make any of the arrangements, unless it is a minor detail. Furthermore, we will refund your deposit in full if we are unable to arrange the holiday requested or offer an acceptable alternative. You can choose to pay by a variety of methods: bank or building society cheque (made payable to Inntravel Ltd), online transfer direct into Inntravel’s bank account (details are available on request), debit card (Visa Debit or Maestro) or credit card (MasterCard or Visa). We are currently unable to accept American Express cards. Because we are charged for credit card payments, we levy a credit card fee of 1.25% of the holiday price if you choose to pay by MasterCard or Visa. We do not levy charges for any other type of payment. Last-minute bookings are often possible, for which we may have to make an extra charge for secure ticket delivery. We recommend that you book as early as possible to get the holiday you want.
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