CASH PAYMENTS AT HAAGA-HELIA UNIVERSITY PASILA, 01.09.2016 at ESN HELGA OFFICE HOUR
Take the opportunity and explore Riga, the capital city of Latvia, together with ESN HELGA and GOAT TRIP! 
ONLY 139 € with your ESN card (149 € without) incl. guided transfer/accommodation & breakfast for your 4 days experience
– What a budget trip! –
Come with us to Riga and enjoy activities like City Guide Tour, VIP Pub Crawl, AK Shooting Tour and many others…!
ATTENTION! This trip is limited to 50 students!
Signup until: 03.09.2016, 12 am
Payment via online-banking transfer: 03.09.2016, 12 am
Payment in cash until: 05.09.2016, ESN HELGA office hour
How can I safe my seat for the trip?
*Payment cash in HELGA LOUNGE office hours
Sign in first and go to ESN office hours with your confirmation ticket, personal ID, ESN Card and money.
*Payment via online bank transfer
Sign in first and choose banking transfer at the bottom of the page to fill out your banking details.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Cancellation before 03.09.2016 free of charge.
Cancellation until 10.09.2016 50% of total price.
Cancellation until 17.09.2016 70% of total price.
Cancellation after 17.09.2016 90% of total price.
No-show 100% of total price.
You want to insure yourself? Travel cancellation insurance is offered by Goat Trip as well. Please contact for more information.
Itinerary
MEETING: 22.09.2016 - Viking Line ferry terminal Helsinki 10:00
FERRY: Viking Line Helsinki – Tallinn 11:30 – 14:00
TRANSFER: Bus Tallinn harbor - Riga bus station 14:30 (15:00) - 20:00
ACCOMODATION: 3 nights in Latvia’s hostel award winner Seagull's Garret
22.09. - 25.09.2016
- mixed dorms, including continental breakfast
•TOP location within the old city center
•24/7 reception, common rooms, kitchen
•Free linen
•Free towel (if you need one)
•Free lockers
•Summer Terrace
MEETING: 25.09.2016 - Seagulls Garret Hostel 09:00
TRANSFER: Bus Riga bus station - Tallinn harbor 09:00 - 14:00
FERRY: Viking Line Tallinn - Helsinki 16:30 – 19:00
PRICE PER PERSON: € 149,- --> 10 Euro discount with ESN Card € 139,-
(1 € registration fee per ticket)
This trip is organized by Travel Agency Christian Ziegenfuss, sub-brand Goat Trip, in cooperation with ESN HELGA. All rights reserved.
Travel and safety information:
https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/latvia.html
Terms & Conditions by GOAT TRIP / Reisevermittlung Christian Ziegenfuss
By placing the reservation, the client signs a contract with Reisevermittlung Christian Ziegenfuß,sub-brand Goat Trip and accepts the following terms and conditions for package and group tours:
All itineraries, program, prices and other information are subject to change and should always be verified when booking the tour.
1. Terms of payment and pricing
1.1 All tours should be paid at least until 28 days prior to the planned departure either by cash, using accepted credit/debit cards or by bank transfer.
1.2 If the tour is booked less than 28 days prior to the departure, it should be paid immediately, at the latest within two days after placing the reservation. Exceptions can be made in order to the tour operator.
1.3 The tour operator reserves the right to cancel pending reservations with failed or delayed payments without further notification.
1.4 Tour price excludes costs for individual visas, optional programs, dining in restaurants, entrance fees for night clubs, additional travel services, bus or train connections in Finland unless mentioned otherwise in current itinerary.
Discounts for groups, students and children and special campaigns
Discounts always require an offer-mentioned proof such as a student card, association card.
Other special discounts are valid from the moment they are announced. Discounts do not apply to reservations placed before the discount campaign.
2. Terms of cancellation
Cancellation by the customer prior to departure / cancellation fees
2.1 The Customer may withdraw at any time prior to departure of the trip. The resignation shall be submitted to the tour operator at the address above / provided below. The customer is advised to declare the cancellation in written form.
2.2 If the customer withdraws prior the departure, the tour operator loses the right for the tour price. Instead, the tour operator, unless he is not responsible for the withdrawal, can require an adequate compensation for travel arrangements and its expenditures, subject to the relevant travel price.
The compensation shall be calculated from the date of receipt of the withdrawal of the customer as written within tour description.
In individual cases, these calculations can be changed by comprehend and explained reasons.
2.4 The customer has always the liberty to verify the tour operator, if the cancellation fees are less damage than the required package from him.
2.5 The tour operator reserves the right to require higher fees for specific compensation, provided by the tour operator that demonstrates significantly higher costs than provided.
2.6 The statutory right of customers to provide §651b according to BGB a substitute participant remains unaffected by the above provisions.
3. Transfers
3.1 A claim or rebooking by the customer after the contract for changing the travel date, destination, place of departure, accommodation or transport (Booking Changes), rebooking fees can be charged by the tour operator.
3.2 Rebooking desires of the customers received after the deadlines, may, if its implementation is at all possible, be carried out under the conditions and simultaneous re-registration only after withdrawal from the contract in accordance with Clause 5.2 to 5.5. This does not apply to rebooking requests causing only minor costs. Here, for example, be parked in the beginning of a stage of the cancellation scale
4. Unused capacity
If the customer doesn’t take services, which were offered to him properly, he can’t claim for reasons which are attributable to him (e.g. for early return or for other compelling reasons). He shall not be entitled to a pro rata refund of the price. The tour operator will seek reimbursement of expenses saved by the service provider. This obligation does not apply if it is totally irrelevant or if a refund is contrary to legal or regulatory provisions.
5. Cancellation due to not achieving the minimum number of participants
The tour operator can only withdraw from the contract for failure to achieve the minimum number of participants, if he
a) has put the minimum number of participants in each tour description and the date up to which the customer declaration must be received before the tour contract no later than specified, and
b) In the travel confirmation the minimum number of participants and the latest cancellation deadline clearly indicates or refers there to the relevant information in the tour.
A resignation shall be submitted no later than 7 days before the agreed departure to the customer.
Should already be apparent at an earlier date that the minimum number of participants is not reached, the tour operator shall without delay of his right to withdraw.
If the trip is not performed for this reason, the customer receives payments on the tour price paid back immediately.
6. Termination for behavioral reasons
The tour operator can cancel the contract without notice if the traveler sustained despite a warning by the tour operator disrupts or if he violates the contract to such a degree that the immediate cancellation of the Contract is justified.
7. Customer Responsibilities
7.1 Notice of Defects
If the trip is not provided under the contract, it may require remedy the customer.
The customer is, however, obliged to notify an event occurring Travel defect immediately to the tour operator. If he fails to do so culpably, a reduction in the price does not occur.
This shall not apply only when the display is visible futile or for other reasons unacceptable.
The customer is obliged to give his defects immediately to the tour guide at the resort for information. Is not there a tour guide at the resort, any travel defects are to give to the tour operator's domicile note.
Contact Details of the tour manager or tour operator will be provided latest by the travel documents.
The tour guide is asked to take remedial action if possible. However, it is not authorized to accept the customer's requirements.
7.2 Deadline before termination
If a customer wants cancel the contract due to a travel defect of the kind referred to in §651c BGB §651e BGB or for good, the tour operator apparent reason for unacceptability, he must inform the tour operator before a reasonable deadline for remedy. This shall not apply only if remedy is impossible or refused by the tour operator or if the immediate termination of the contract by a special, the tour operator recognizable interest of the customer is justified.
7.3 Damaged Baggage and Baggage Delay
Damage or delays in air travel organizers strongly recommends that the delay in place a Property Irregularity Report (PIR) of the relevant airline. Airlines usually refuse refunds from when the claim form has not been filled out. The damage notification must be submitted in luggage damage within 7 days within 21 days late and after delivery. In addition, the loss, damage or view the misdirection of baggage, the travel agent or the local representative of the organizer.
7.4 Travel documents
The customer has to inform the tour operator if he does not receive travel documents within the information provided by tour operator’s period.
8. Limitation of Liability
8.1 The contractual liability of the tour operator for damages other than bodily injury is limited to three times the price,
a) When the damage was caused neither intentionally or through gross negligence or
b) If the tour operator is responsible for the loss or damage incurred solely because of a service provider.
8.2 The tortious liability of the tour operator for damage to property not caused by intent or gross negligence is limited to three times the price. This maximum liability amount applies per customer and travel. Perhaps further claims related to baggage under the Montreal Convention remain unaffected by this limitation.
8.3 The tour operator is not liable for service disruptions, personal injury and property damage in connection with services that are only arranged as external services (e.g. outings, sports events, theater performances, exhibitions, transport services to and from the place of departure or destination), if these services in the travel and the booking confirmation are expressly and clearly identified stating the arranging contractual partner as external services that they are not part of the travel services of the tour operator discernible to the customer.
The tour operator is liable, however,
a) For services, which include the carriage of the customer from the advertised place of departure for the advertised destination, interim transport during the journey and accommodation during the journey,
b) If and insofar as the injury to inform, advise or organizational obligations of the tour operator has become the cause of a loss to the customer.
9. Exclusion of claims
Claims for non-contractual provision of the trip have to be made within one month after the contractually stipulated date of completion of the journey the customer. Claims may only be asserted against the tour operator at the address below I stated above. After the deadline, the customer can only assert claims if he's been prevented from meeting the deadline. This period also applies for the registration of luggage damage or delays in baggage in connection with flights in accordance with mentioned Clause., When the warranty rights from §§ 651c para. 3, 651 d, 651 e 3 and 4 BGB be invoked para.. A claim for compensation for damage to baggage is within 7 days to make a claim for damages for delayed luggage within 21 days of delivery claims.
10. Limitation
10.1 Claims under the §§651c to f BGB resulting from injury to life, body or health based on an intentional or negligent breach of duty by the tour operator or a legal representative or agent of the travel organizer, expire in two years. This also applies to claims for compensation for other damages based on an intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty by the tour operator or a legal representative or agent of the travel organizer.
10.2 All other claims under §§651c to f BGB expire after one year.
10.3 The limitation period under sections 10.1 and 10.2 commences on the day following the day of the contractual end of the tour.
10.4 Between the customer and the tour operator nego-payments on the claim or the circumstances giving rise, so is the statute of limitations suspended until the customer or the tour operator refuses to continue the negotiations. The limitation period shall expire no earlier than three months after the end of the suspension.
11. Passport, visa and health requirements
11.1 The tour operator will inform citizens of a state of the European Community in which the tour is offered about passport, visa and health regulations before conclusion of the contract, as well as possible changes before departure. Citizens of other countries have to contact their consulate for information. It is assumed that no peculiarities in the person of the customer and possible fellow passengers (e.g. double nationality, statelessness).
11.2 Customer shall be responsible for obtaining and carrying the officially required travel documents, any necessary vaccinations and complying with customs and currency regulations. Disadvantages from non-compliance with such regulations, e.g. as the payment of cancellation costs are to be borne. This does not apply if the tour operator has not informed inadequate or incorrect.
11.3 The tour operator is not liable for the timely issue and receipt of necessary visas from the respective diplomatic representation if the client has commissioned him to procure them unless the tour operator's obligations culpably violated.
12. Rights of the Agency
The Travel Agency has rights to cancel the connecting transportation to the harbor or the train station due to insufficient number of participants. In this case, payment for the transportation is refunded to the client. Form and timetable of the transportation are also subject to change. Possible changes are announced by e-mail or personal.
13. Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
13.1 The contractual relationship between the customer and the tour operator is governed by German law. This also applies to the entire legal relationship.
14. Departure time
14.1 Client is responsible for arriving to places of departure according to the current itinerary.
14.2 If the client is late for departure, there will be no refund for the missed tour, excursions or programs. If client is late for the return transportation, he/she will have to take care of this return transportation himself/herself.
14.3 Delayed transportation of any kind (train/bus or flight, car etc.) is not a valid reason for being late for the departure and is not subject to compensation
15. Terms of accommodation
If the client chooses accommodation options without any mentioned preferences, the room division of participants will be assigned by the travel agency. Participants and roommates can be of different gender or group than the client. If the client doesn’t agree with the decision of the Travel Agency, he is responsible to pay extra fees for amendments.
16. Correct travel documents
Client is responsible for making sure that he/she has required documentation for traveling (passport, visa, etc.).
Status: August 2016
