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| Type of tour: | Guided |
| Level: | Easy |
| Duration: | 8 Nights |
| Distance: | 19 Miles/day average |
| Dates: | August 4, 2012 |
| Tour price: | €1496 |
| Start city: | Budapest, Hungary |
| End city: | Budapest, Hungary |
On this tour of the Hungarian Danube, you will cycle along the most beautiful sceneries with breathtaking panoramas of the Danube Bend and enchanting lakes of Tata. Take a canoe tour in the idyllic Szigetköz and visit the picturesque Baroque town of Szentendre, medieval castles at Visegrád and Tata, Hungary’s biggest cathedral in Esztergom, and Benedictine Monastery at Pannonhalma. You will enjoy superb comfort at very nice hotels, all with special atmosphere and beautiful surroundings, lovely swimming pools, saunas, massages, and masterpieces of the Hungarian cuisine. You will also see many beautiful faces and colours of the Danube, maybe even blue!
Hotels
A great feature of this tour is the nice accommodation. You stay in castles, mansions, historic buildings selected for their antique or unique atmosphere, quiet and beautiful location, lovely wellness possibilities, kind hospitality, and high standards. Small intimate 3-or 4-star hotels are also used.
Food
Hungarian cuisine and wines form an important part of this tours. You will have buffet breakfasts, gourmet dinners in small but outstanding restaurants or wine cellars, where you can taste the finest local specialities and wines. Drinks are offered during cycling, along with picnic lunches featuring typical home made Hungarian food always at beautiful spots.
Routes and sights
This tour visits lovely historic towns, castles, museums, churches, thermal spas, with cycling along the most beautiful and quiet routes, through unspoilt woods and nature reserves with picturesque landscapes. You will ride along quiet country lanes, cycle and forest paths, or river embankments, with very low or no car traffic.
Guiding
All the tours are led personally by the 2 owners of the local company. They will make you thoroughly acquainted with our history, life, flora and fauna. One of them will cycle with the group, showing the way and the sights, and helping you if you have any kind of trouble. The other drives the support minibus, providing full technical background and catering service en route. They both speak fluent English (and Hungarian).
Back-up van
The comfortable, air conditioned minibus, is available for the whole group at any time. It provides the opportunity to cycle only along the nicest and most quiet areas of the routes, avoiding unpleasant conditions such as car traffic, rain or steep hills. The minibus also ensures that you can have flexible cycling distances every day. Of course you luggage will also be transferred.
Group size
The groups range from 6 to 15 people. Because of the small size, you can enjoy charming small hotels, intimate restaurants and secret places where the crowd can’t get in. The atmosphere is more friendly and will provide personal attention.
On this tour of the Hungarian Danube, you will cycle along the most beautiful sceneries with breathtaking panoramas of the Danube Bend and enchanting lakes of Tata. Take a canoe tour in the idyllic Szigetköz and visit the picturesque Baroque town of Szentendre, medieval castles at Visegrád and Tata, Hungary’s biggest cathedral in Esztergom, and Benedictine Monastery at Pannonhalma. You will enjoy superb comfort at very nice hotels, all with special atmosphere and beautiful surroundings, lovely swimming pools, saunas, massages, and masterpieces of the Hungarian cuisine. You will also see many beautiful faces and colours of the Danube, maybe even blue!
Hotels
A great feature of this tour is the nice accommodation. You stay in castles, mansions, historic buildings selected for their antique or unique atmosphere, quiet and beautiful location, lovely wellness possibilities, kind hospitality, and high standards. Small intimate 3-or 4-star hotels are also used.
Food
Hungarian cuisine and wines form an important part of this tours. You will have buffet breakfasts, gourmet dinners in small but outstanding restaurants or wine cellars, where you can taste the finest local specialities and wines. Drinks are offered during cycling, along with picnic lunches featuring typical home made Hungarian food always at beautiful spots.
Routes and sights
This tour visits lovely historic towns, castles, museums, churches, thermal spas, with cycling along the most beautiful and quiet routes, through unspoilt woods and nature reserves with picturesque landscapes. You will ride along quiet country lanes, cycle and forest paths, or river embankments, with very low or no car traffic.
Guiding
All the tours are led personally by the 2 owners of the local company. They will make you thoroughly acquainted with our history, life, flora and fauna. One of them will cycle with the group, showing the way and the sights, and helping you if you have any kind of trouble. The other drives the support minibus, providing full technical background and catering service en route. They both speak fluent English (and Hungarian).
Back-up van
The comfortable, air conditioned minibus, is available for the whole group at any time. It provides the opportunity to cycle only along the nicest and most quiet areas of the routes, avoiding unpleasant conditions such as car traffic, rain or steep hills. The minibus also ensures that you can have flexible cycling distances every day. Of course you luggage will also be transferred.
Group size
The groups range from 6 to 15 people. Because of the small size, you can enjoy charming small hotels, intimate restaurants and secret places where the crowd can’t get in. The atmosphere is more friendly and will provide personal attention.
Day 1: Arrival in Budapest
Your hotel is right at the woods on the top of the Buda hills, in a wonderful and quiet environment. You will meet your tour guide, have information about the tour, and dinner in the hotel.
Overnight in Budapest.
Day 2: Budapest to Szentendre (22 miles/36 km)
You cycle down the Buda hills to the Danube and through Margaret Island, one of the finest parks of Europe. Passing through Old-Buda, you stop at the ruins of a third century Roman town, Aquincum, where you take a walk among the charming Baroque houses and Serbian Ortodox churches. Enjoy the lovely restaurants, cafés, and souvenir shops of Szentendre, the town of artists, with a picturesque Mediterranian atmosphere. You can visit a unique exibition of a famous ceramist, Margaret Kovács, or the Marzipan Museum. You stay in a nice and peaceful family hotel with a small swimming pool and gourmet food.
Overnight in Szigetmonostor on Szentendre Island.
Day 3: In the Forests of Börzsöny (22 miles/36 km)
You ride through tiny little villages on the island of Szentendre, before crossing the Danube by ferry. From there you take an old narrow-gauge railway up into the Börzsöny Hills. After cycling in very beautiful woods among the hills, you arrive at a nice glade with a lovely hotel. You stay the night in the hotel that features individual character, a gorgeous outdoor swiming pool, Scandinavian sauna and cooling pool, massage, and a bowling alley. It is an ideal place of relaxation.
Overnight in Kospallag- Nagyirtaspuszta.
Day 4: Visegrad in the Danube Bend (23 miles/37 km)
Cycling among the hills, you arrive at a monastery that is a miraculous pilgrimage place founded in 1352. It belongs to the only original Hungarian monastic order, the Paulaner. You ride along the river, among fascinating sceneries of hills and a view of the fortification at Visegrád, where King Matthias had his Renaissance royal palace that was famous throughout Europe in the 15th century. You walk around the ruins of the 13th century Citadel. The panorama of the Danube Bend is really breathtaking from here, and from our hotel, which has an exceptional location.
Overnight in Visegrad- Feketehegy.
Day 5: Stop in Esztergom, and then to Tata (21 miles/34 km)
The day begins as you head to Esztergom, which used to be Hungary's capital, and it is still the center of the Catholic Church of Hungary. You will visit the largest cathedral of the country and, after crossing some hills in the untouched woods, you ride to Tata. The hotel where you stay is surrounded by a nice wood. Number of recreational possibilities such as a beautiful swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, fittness room make your stay here as pleasant as possible.
Overnight in Tata.
Day 6: Tata (11 miles/18 km)
You have a leisure cycling route that passes through beautiful parks around romantic lakes of Tata. Other highlights of the day include a visit to the medieval Castle with interesting exhibitions, an English Park, old watermills, nice Baroque houses and many little interesting sights. After you move to another enchanting area, the Szigetköz, you can swim in a lovely thermal bath, and visit a 400-year-old Renaissance castle. It is one of Hungary’s most beautiful castle hotels. Antique furnitures, chandeliers, stoves, the Baroque "Sala Terrena", chapel, and the English garden with century old trees make the atmosphere here quite unique.
Overnight in Hedervar.
Day 7: Szigetkoz (22 miles/36 km)
This is the largest island of the country, embraced by the Danube and Moson Danube Rivers, and is a paradise for cyclists, bird watchers, and fishermen. You cycle through charming little villages, along idyllic landscapes, and take a canoe tour in one of the peaceful branches of the Danube, watching beautiful birds such as herons, egrets, buzzards, cormorants, kingfishers, mallards, swans, storks, or tits. After this you ride back to enjoy the luxury of our hotel for another night.
Overnight in Hedervar.
Day 8: Pannonhalma (12 miles/19 km)
After a short bike ride in the beautiful Szigetköz, you arrive in Pannonhalma. The Benedictine monastery, a great symbol of Hungary's 1,000-year tradition, was founded in 996, and became part of the World Heritage in 1996. You will have a guided tour to see the most valuable parts: late Romanesque-early Gothic basilica, 15th century cloister, and Neoclassical library. You will taste some very good local wine with a delicious lunch in a lovely cellar. You then arrive to Budapest, where you can have a nice rest in the hotel, and have a farewell dinner.
Overnight in Budapest.
Day 9: Departure
You still can enjoy the friendly atmosphere of the hotel in the morning, returning home with nice memories for a lifetime.
August 4, 2012
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Day 1: Hotel Normafa, Budapest
www.normafahotel.com
Hotel Normafa sits on the top of Svab-Hill 15-minutes from downtown and is newly modernized. It features Normafa Grill, one of the most popular restaurants in Buda with its summer grill garden.
Day 2: Rosinante Fogado, Szigetmonostor on Szentendre Island
www.rosinante.hu
Rosinate is located in a peaceful conservation area on Szentendre Island, with a building built at the end of the XIX century that retains elements of an old romantic hunting lodge.
Day 3: Szent Orban Erdei Hotel, Kospallag-Nagyirtaspuszta
www.szentorban.hu
Szent Orban Forest Wellness Hotel in Nagyirtaspusztz is located in the hear of the Danube-Ipoly National Forest, offering guests a log hotel or air-conditioned main building.
Day 4: Hotel Silvanus, Visegrad-Feketehegy
www.hotelsilvanus.hu
Hotel Silvanus offers rooms with views over the Citadel or Danube Bend and a Danube Bend Restaurant.
Day 5: Hotel Gottwald, Tata
www.gottwald.hu
Hotel Gottwald is located in a beautiful environment surrounded with a forest on the southwestern shore of the Oreg-Lake in Tata featuring a sauna, bubble bath and an array of sports facilities.
Day 6 and 7: Hedervar Kastely Hotel, Hedervar
www.kastelyszalloda.hu
Hedervar Kastey Hotel is a beautifully restored, 470-year-old Renissance castle.
Day 8: Hotel Normafa, Budapest
Day 1: Hotel Normafa, Budapest
www.normafahotel.com
Hotel Normafa sits on the top of Svab-Hill 15-minutes from downtown and is newly modernized. It features Normafa Grill, one of the most popular restaurants in Buda with its summer grill garden.
Day 2: Rosinante Fogado, Szigetmonostor on Szentendre Island
www.rosinante.hu
Rosinate is located in a peaceful conservation area on Szentendre Island, with a building built at the end of the XIX century that retains elements of an old romantic hunting lodge.
Day 3: Szent Orban Erdei Hotel, Kospallag-Nagyirtaspuszta
www.szentorban.hu
Szent Orban Forest Wellness Hotel in Nagyirtaspusztz is located in the hear of the Danube-Ipoly National Forest, offering guests a log hotel or air-conditioned main building.
Day 4: Hotel Silvanus, Visegrad-Feketehegy
www.hotelsilvanus.hu
Hotel Silvanus offers rooms with views over the Citadel or Danube Bend and a Danube Bend Restaurant.
Day 5: Hotel Gottwald, Tata
www.gottwald.hu
Hotel Gottwald is located in a beautiful environment surrounded with a forest on the southwestern shore of the Oreg-Lake in Tata featuring a sauna, bubble bath and an array of sports facilities.
Day 6 and 7: Hedervar Kastely Hotel, Hedervar
www.kastelyszalloda.hu
Hedervar Kastey Hotel is a beautifully restored, 470-year-old Renissance castle.
Day 8: Hotel Normafa, Budapest
The bikes available are very good quality Merida hybrid bikes. They have comfortable seats, shock absorbing seat posts, 24-gears, mudguards, suspension fork, rack, panniers, and a water-bottle.
The bikes available are very good quality Merida hybrid bikes. They have comfortable seats, shock absorbing seat posts, 24-gears, mudguards, suspension fork, rack, panniers, and a water-bottle.
Hungary is a rather flat country with some hilly areas. The selected routes follow mainly flat and sometimes slightly undulating routes where longer downhills outnumber short uphills. On hard uphills, you take the bus. The tours are designed for everybody who can cycle 10-40 miles (16-65 kms) a day at a leisure pace.
Approximately 80% of the tour is on quiet roads, 10% on dedicated bicycle paths and 10% on dirt or gravel roads. This tour is appropiate for hybrid bikes.
This tour is rated Easy and is for cyclists of all ages and fitness levels.
Hungary is a rather flat country with some hilly areas. The selected routes follow mainly flat and sometimes slightly undulating routes where longer downhills outnumber short uphills. On hard uphills, you take the bus. The tours are designed for everybody who can cycle 10-40 miles (16-65 kms) a day at a leisure pace.
Approximately 80% of the tour is on quiet roads, 10% on dedicated bicycle paths and 10% on dirt or gravel roads. This tour is appropiate for hybrid bikes.
This tour is rated Easy and is for cyclists of all ages and fitness levels.
Tour Start and End
Nearest airport: Budapest, Hungary
Nearest train station: Budapest, Hungary
For your convenience we can arrange transfers in Budapest between your hotel and the airport or stations. If you need such a service, please tell us the exact details of your arrival/departure latest 30 days before your tour start.
A single trip/car for up to 4 people costs:
- Airport to hotel: € 30
- Rail station to hotel: € 17.
Alternate option includes taking an Airport Shuttle Bus or taxi. For taxis and the hotel address in Budapest, the tour company is more than happy to help arrange before your arrival.
Tour Start and End
Nearest airport: Budapest, Hungary
Nearest train station: Budapest, Hungary
For your convenience we can arrange transfers in Budapest between your hotel and the airport or stations. If you need such a service, please tell us the exact details of your arrival/departure latest 30 days before your tour start.
A single trip/car for up to 4 people costs:
- Airport to hotel: € 30
- Rail station to hotel: € 17.
Alternate option includes taking an Airport Shuttle Bus or taxi. For taxis and the hotel address in Budapest, the tour company is more than happy to help arrange before your arrival.
Hungary, a small, landlocked country in Central Europe, has much to offer visitors. Its capital, Budapest, is referred to as both the "Pearl of Danube" and "Little Paris of Middle Europe." Overlooking the Danube River, the two communities of Buda and Pest were connected by the Chain Bridge in the 19th century forming Budapest. Highlights of the city include Castle Hill on which Buda Castle sits, Hungarian State Opera House, Fisherman's Bastion and Hungarian Parliament Building. Hungary also boasts Lake Balaton, Europe’s largest freshwater lake. A major outdoor destination for locals and tourists, the fifty-mile lake offers countless trails for cycling and hiking along with a wide-range of water sports. Vineyards surround the lake where you can enjoy Hungary’s famous white wines while tasting Hungarian goulash and strudel.
More on bicycling in Hungary >
Hungary, a small, landlocked country in Central Europe, has much to offer visitors. Its capital, Budapest, is referred to as both the "Pearl of Danube" and "Little Paris of Middle Europe." Overlooking the Danube River, the two communities of Buda and Pest were connected by the Chain Bridge in the 19th century forming Budapest. Highlights of the city include Castle Hill on which Buda Castle sits, Hungarian State Opera House, Fisherman's Bastion and Hungarian Parliament Building. Hungary also boasts Lake Balaton, Europe’s largest freshwater lake. A major outdoor destination for locals and tourists, the fifty-mile lake offers countless trails for cycling and hiking along with a wide-range of water sports. Vineyards surround the lake where you can enjoy Hungary’s famous white wines while tasting Hungarian goulash and strudel.
More on bicycling in Hungary >
Tradnatura Sport is a small family company, owned by two Hungarian: Marietta and Peter. Based in Budapest, Tradnatura features fully guided and supported, all inclusive cycle tours, which offer an enjoyable experience with perfect comfort. All their tours are designed and led personally by Marietta and Peter, who will show you the nicest places of Hungary by leisure cycling in small groups.
Tradnatura's special strengths include personal attention and service, fully guided all inclusive tours, accompanying support van for the whole group, a guide cycling with the groups and very comfortable bikes. Cycling in small groups, their tours have a family feeling, cycling past castle hotels with special atmosphere, historic sights and scenic routes.
Tradnatura Sport is a small family company, owned by two Hungarian: Marietta and Peter. Based in Budapest, Tradnatura features fully guided and supported, all inclusive cycle tours, which offer an enjoyable experience with perfect comfort. All their tours are designed and led personally by Marietta and Peter, who will show you the nicest places of Hungary by leisure cycling in small groups.
Tradnatura's special strengths include personal attention and service, fully guided all inclusive tours, accompanying support van for the whole group, a guide cycling with the groups and very comfortable bikes. Cycling in small groups, their tours have a family feeling, cycling past castle hotels with special atmosphere, historic sights and scenic routes.
TRADNATURA SPORT- TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We would like to treat you and all our clients on a fair way. Before you make your booking, please make sure that you read carefully the Tour Descriptions, Geneal Information, and these Conditions! All the tour bookings and contracts made between our clients („you”), and TradNatura Sport Ltd. („we” or „us”), will be subject to the terms set out in these conditions.
Making a reservation
Please contact us first to check availability of the tour you have selected. We will reply by e-mail (or fax / phone, if you prefer) as fast as we can. If we have confirmed that we have free places, you need to send us the completed and signed booking form together with the deposit / total cost of your trip to make your reservation secured. The client who signes the booking form (must be over 18) will be responsible for all payments due in respect of the booking made. We will send a confirmation / invoice upon receipt of deposit / full payment. The contract between you and us will come into effect from the date of our confirmation / invoice. After we have received your final payment, we will send you detailed arrival and local information about your holiday.
Payment
We can accept payments by bank money transfer. (We are not able to accept cheque, money order, or credit cards.) According to the EU bank rules, you are kindly asked to pay your bank costs on your side, and we will pay our costs on our side. Our tour prices are calculated in EURO. Should you prefer paying in any other currencies, please ask us about the prices, before paying anything. In this case we will calculate the prices for you, according to the current exchange rates of the time when you are paying. A deposit of 10% of the total holiday cost per person is required to garantee your booking. The balance is due no later than 60 days before the start of your tour. If it’s is not received by this date, we reserve the right to cancel your booking without sending any reminder, and apply the cancellation charge shown below. If your booking is made less than 60 days before departure, you have to pay the total cost of your holiday at the time of your booking.
If you alter your booking
If you want to change any details of your holiday after your booking has been confirmed, you have to do it in writing. We will do our best to help you. If you wish to change your holiday within 60 days of departure, we will have the right to apply the cancellation charges set out below. If you decide to change or cancel any details of your holiday after the tour commences, we cannot accept liability for any additional costs, and there will be no refund for any unused elements of the tour.
If you cancel your booking
If you wish to cancel your holiday after it has been confirmed, you must send us a written cancellation, signed by the same person who has signed the booking form. The date of your cancellation will be the time when we receive it, and the following cancellation charges will be due:
Cancellation more than 60 days before tour start Deposit only
Cancellation between 60 and 42 days before tour start 25% of total price
Cancellation between 41 and 28 days before tour start 50% of total price
Cancellation between 27 and 14 days before tour start 75% of total price
Cancellation between 13 and 0 days before tour start 100% of total price
If you are unable to come on your booked holiday, you can transfer your booking to another suitable person, but a new booking form must be completed for the replacement person. Should this change cause any additional cost, it has to be covered by you or the other person.
If we alter your holiday
Sometimes, we may find improvements to our plans, and make small changes to everyone’s benefit. If rearly we may have to alter an itinerary due to unforeseen circumstances, we will endeavour to offer alternative arrangements maintaining our quality standards. In the unlikely event of any significant alteration of your tour, you will be notified as early as possible, and if these changes are unacceptable for you, we will offer an alternative holiday, or a full refund of all your money you have paid us.
If we cancel your holiday
We require a minimum of 4 guests to run any tours. If we need to cancel your trip we will inform you no later than 30 days before departure. If the guests are less than 6, we may send only one guide to lead the group, instead of cancelling the tour. You will be advised of this prior to departure. We also may cancel your tour, if we are forced to do so by unusual or unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. In both cases we will do our best to offer you a suitable alternative tour. If this is not acceptable to you, you will receive a full refund of your money that you have paid us. We cannot refund any incidental costs you may have incurred by your booking (air tickets, insurance, etc.), in case of any kind of cancellation or alteration of our tours.
Accommodation
Our tour prices are based on accommodation in twin or double bedded rooms. If you request a single room, you have to pay a single room supplement. If you wish to share your room, we will try to find a suitable room-mate for you, but we cannot guarantee to find a suitable person. If we cannot find anybody, you have to pay the single room supplement.
Passport or visa
You must have a valid passport to enter and leave Hungary. If you are a national of any countries of the European Union or Switzerland, your Identity Card is enough, but only if your nationality is in your ID card.
So, British, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic nationals need to have a passport, as well as citizens from the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. (A Visa is required only for stays longer than 90 days.) If you are from any other countries please check with the local Hungarian Embassy or Consulate, or we can also help.
Fitness and Health
People taking part in our tours do so at their own responsibility, and we suppose that they are in good health. If there is any doubt about your fittness or ability of participation in an activity holiday, please consult your doctor.
Travel and Health Insurance
We strongly recommend that you have an adequate travel and medical insurance to cover unexpected costs due to tour cancellation or interruption, accident, illness, injury or loss, and ensure that your policy covers you for the sport activities you will do on our tours. Such insurance is not included in our holiday prices.
Special requirements
We are very happy to satisfy all your special requirements you may have, such as: extra nights in Budapest, any special dietary, non smoking room, extra wishes connected with bikes, bringing your own bike, and arranging your transport to your hotel in Budapest. Please help us, and send us all these demands when you make your booking, or possibly not later than 60 days before your arrival. Of course we will do our best to arrange everything for you, but later it may be difficult or not possible!
Responsibilities
We can not be held liable for anything caused by unusual or unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, that is known as „force majeure”, and we cannot cover any extra costs caused by any such cases. Touring by bicycle could carry some risk. We cannot accept any liability for death, accident, injury, illness, or any other inconveniences suffered by you, and for any loss or damage to your luggage or property on our holidays, unless it is caused by a negligent act or omission of us. All persons taking part in our tours must agree to observe local laws and traffic rules, and you are asked to abide by the safety advices given by your tour leaders (us). When you book, you must inform us about any medical conditions that may affect your ability or other people on the tour.
Price guarantee
We will not increase the price of your holiday once your booking has been confirmed, except due to changes of exchange rates, or increases of accommodation or other costs. Should the increase be more than 10% of the holiday price, you will have the right to cancel your tour, and receive a full refund of all money you have paid us. Once your holiday has been paid in full, no increases of the price will be done.
Complaints
We do our best to make your holiday most enjoyable. However, should you have any complaint during your tour, please notify us as soon as it arises, and we will make every effort to resolve the problem. If you are still not satisfied, please write us within 28 days of your tour end. This contract is governed by Hungarian law.
TRADNATURA SPORT- TERMS AND CONDITIONS
We would like to treat you and all our clients on a fair way. Before you make your booking, please make sure that you read carefully the Tour Descriptions, Geneal Information, and these Conditions! All the tour bookings and contracts made between our clients („you”), and TradNatura Sport Ltd. („we” or „us”), will be subject to the terms set out in these conditions.
Making a reservation
Please contact us first to check availability of the tour you have selected. We will reply by e-mail (or fax / phone, if you prefer) as fast as we can. If we have confirmed that we have free places, you need to send us the completed and signed booking form together with the deposit / total cost of your trip to make your reservation secured. The client who signes the booking form (must be over 18) will be responsible for all payments due in respect of the booking made. We will send a confirmation / invoice upon receipt of deposit / full payment. The contract between you and us will come into effect from the date of our confirmation / invoice. After we have received your final payment, we will send you detailed arrival and local information about your holiday.
Payment
We can accept payments by bank money transfer. (We are not able to accept cheque, money order, or credit cards.) According to the EU bank rules, you are kindly asked to pay your bank costs on your side, and we will pay our costs on our side. Our tour prices are calculated in EURO. Should you prefer paying in any other currencies, please ask us about the prices, before paying anything. In this case we will calculate the prices for you, according to the current exchange rates of the time when you are paying. A deposit of 10% of the total holiday cost per person is required to garantee your booking. The balance is due no later than 60 days before the start of your tour. If it’s is not received by this date, we reserve the right to cancel your booking without sending any reminder, and apply the cancellation charge shown below. If your booking is made less than 60 days before departure, you have to pay the total cost of your holiday at the time of your booking.
If you alter your booking
If you want to change any details of your holiday after your booking has been confirmed, you have to do it in writing. We will do our best to help you. If you wish to change your holiday within 60 days of departure, we will have the right to apply the cancellation charges set out below. If you decide to change or cancel any details of your holiday after the tour commences, we cannot accept liability for any additional costs, and there will be no refund for any unused elements of the tour.
If you cancel your booking
If you wish to cancel your holiday after it has been confirmed, you must send us a written cancellation, signed by the same person who has signed the booking form. The date of your cancellation will be the time when we receive it, and the following cancellation charges will be due:
Cancellation more than 60 days before tour start Deposit only
Cancellation between 60 and 42 days before tour start 25% of total price
Cancellation between 41 and 28 days before tour start 50% of total price
Cancellation between 27 and 14 days before tour start 75% of total price
Cancellation between 13 and 0 days before tour start 100% of total price
If you are unable to come on your booked holiday, you can transfer your booking to another suitable person, but a new booking form must be completed for the replacement person. Should this change cause any additional cost, it has to be covered by you or the other person.
If we alter your holiday
Sometimes, we may find improvements to our plans, and make small changes to everyone’s benefit. If rearly we may have to alter an itinerary due to unforeseen circumstances, we will endeavour to offer alternative arrangements maintaining our quality standards. In the unlikely event of any significant alteration of your tour, you will be notified as early as possible, and if these changes are unacceptable for you, we will offer an alternative holiday, or a full refund of all your money you have paid us.
If we cancel your holiday
We require a minimum of 4 guests to run any tours. If we need to cancel your trip we will inform you no later than 30 days before departure. If the guests are less than 6, we may send only one guide to lead the group, instead of cancelling the tour. You will be advised of this prior to departure. We also may cancel your tour, if we are forced to do so by unusual or unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. In both cases we will do our best to offer you a suitable alternative tour. If this is not acceptable to you, you will receive a full refund of your money that you have paid us. We cannot refund any incidental costs you may have incurred by your booking (air tickets, insurance, etc.), in case of any kind of cancellation or alteration of our tours.
Accommodation
Our tour prices are based on accommodation in twin or double bedded rooms. If you request a single room, you have to pay a single room supplement. If you wish to share your room, we will try to find a suitable room-mate for you, but we cannot guarantee to find a suitable person. If we cannot find anybody, you have to pay the single room supplement.
Passport or visa
You must have a valid passport to enter and leave Hungary. If you are a national of any countries of the European Union or Switzerland, your Identity Card is enough, but only if your nationality is in your ID card.
So, British, Irish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Icelandic nationals need to have a passport, as well as citizens from the USA, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. (A Visa is required only for stays longer than 90 days.) If you are from any other countries please check with the local Hungarian Embassy or Consulate, or we can also help.
Fitness and Health
People taking part in our tours do so at their own responsibility, and we suppose that they are in good health. If there is any doubt about your fittness or ability of participation in an activity holiday, please consult your doctor.
Travel and Health Insurance
We strongly recommend that you have an adequate travel and medical insurance to cover unexpected costs due to tour cancellation or interruption, accident, illness, injury or loss, and ensure that your policy covers you for the sport activities you will do on our tours. Such insurance is not included in our holiday prices.
Special requirements
We are very happy to satisfy all your special requirements you may have, such as: extra nights in Budapest, any special dietary, non smoking room, extra wishes connected with bikes, bringing your own bike, and arranging your transport to your hotel in Budapest. Please help us, and send us all these demands when you make your booking, or possibly not later than 60 days before your arrival. Of course we will do our best to arrange everything for you, but later it may be difficult or not possible!
Responsibilities
We can not be held liable for anything caused by unusual or unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, that is known as „force majeure”, and we cannot cover any extra costs caused by any such cases. Touring by bicycle could carry some risk. We cannot accept any liability for death, accident, injury, illness, or any other inconveniences suffered by you, and for any loss or damage to your luggage or property on our holidays, unless it is caused by a negligent act or omission of us. All persons taking part in our tours must agree to observe local laws and traffic rules, and you are asked to abide by the safety advices given by your tour leaders (us). When you book, you must inform us about any medical conditions that may affect your ability or other people on the tour.
Price guarantee
We will not increase the price of your holiday once your booking has been confirmed, except due to changes of exchange rates, or increases of accommodation or other costs. Should the increase be more than 10% of the holiday price, you will have the right to cancel your tour, and receive a full refund of all money you have paid us. Once your holiday has been paid in full, no increases of the price will be done.
Complaints
We do our best to make your holiday most enjoyable. However, should you have any complaint during your tour, please notify us as soon as it arises, and we will make every effort to resolve the problem. If you are still not satisfied, please write us within 28 days of your tour end. This contract is governed by Hungarian law.
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