Seeing the New Millennium in 90°N

Terms and Conditions


Advance Booking and Payment:

Advance part-payment of an amount equivalent to 25% of the participation cost should be made by February 1, 2000, in order to confirm your participation. Final payment of outstanding amount shall be made 120 days prior to the start of the expedition.


Cancellation of Participation and Refund of the Amount(s) Prepaid:

All requests for cancellation of participation shall be accepted in written form only. Provided that the cancellation notice is received by us 120 days prior to the starting date of the expedition, the amount prepaid will be refunded in full, less administrative/cancellation fee of US$ 500.00 per person. Please note that no prepaid amounts whatsoever and/or other charges shall be refunded if the cancellation notice is received within the period of 120 days preceding the starting date of the expedition.

For these and other reasons which are specified below you are strongly recommended to obtain an insurance against cancellation of the expedition. The cost of participation specified herein is based on the cost of events calculated for a complete group of participants, and no refunds therefore can be made for any separate part of the programme you may have chosen not to take part in, including the scheduled helicopter airborne hours. (The captain and the chief of expedition may at their own discretion choose to use or not to use the helicopters). It is thus obvious that no amounts can be refunded to those participants which, for some reasons, will be unable to participate in the expedition until its completion.


The Travel Plan

The travel plan proposed herein and the sequence of the expedition programme events may be altered at the discretion of the chief of expedition. This is en expedition to a remote, poorly explored part of the world, and therefore we reserve the right to modify the proposed travel plan as necessary depending on the meteorological conditions, availability of anchorage, political conditions and other factors beyond our control, without discussing said issue with participants of the expedition. Such decisions, without any doubt, shall be made for the sake of the all participants, with safety of the vessel taken into consideration. The participants shall have no right to demand a cash refund or a different type of compensation in case such unavoidable modifications have been made to the travel plan and programme of events.


Obligations

Please read the information stated below attentively.

Prepayment of any amount or full payment of the participation cost shall be understood as your consent to all provisions specified herein.

POSEIDON Company and the Murmansk Shipping Company act as the principal sales agents for booking the vessel and, as such, exercise utmost care. POLAR WORLD acts as the organizer of extreme actions programme within the framework of this expedition. However, neither POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD, nor their branches and/or agents shall bear liability for any loss or damage done to the property and/or any loss arising out of illness, personal injury or death which may have occurred during the expedition. The said contingencies may be caused by improper maintenance, operation or control of any airplane, helicopter, automobile, bus, boat, hotel, state-owned carrier or any other transport facility used to carry out this expedition. We cannot accept responsibility for any failures, impediments, delays, actions or omissions occurring throughout the duration of the expedition through the fault of transportation or other services with which POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD collaborate as agents only.

POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD reserve the right to alter or cancel any part of the travel plan, to modify the terms and conditions of advance booking or to change the type of transport facility without notice, by any reason and with no cash refund, at their discretion. We reserve the right to cancel the expedition before its start. In this case, prepayments received will be refunded to participants without any further obligations from our part.

POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD shall bear no liability for any damage caused to a participant of expedition (regardless of whether such damage has or has not resulted in said participant's death); for damage/loss of property resulting from any hostilities, protests, riots, insurrections or any other civil disturbances occurring in the countries of sojourn, and destination or transit countries. POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD strongly recommend that the expedition participants obtain appropriate insurance against above-mentioned contingencies.

Full responsibility for the luggage shall be borne by the luggage owner.

Should a participant fall ill (regardless whether aboard the vessel or ashore) during the expedition, which would eventuate in evacuation, or use of an airplane, or helicopter, or any other transport facility, or result in said participant's return back to the country of origin, the expenses arising out of the above-mentioned contingencies shall be borne solely by the participant.

POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD strongly recommend to the participants that they verify whether such accidents are covered by their insurance. If the insurance coverage of does not include such accidents/contingencies, full responsibility in that case will be borne by the participant. In this respect, POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD will exonerate themselves of any liability connected with such contingencies.

Transport companies employed by the expedition shall not bear any responsibility for any action, acts of negligence or accidents which the participants may have suffered outside their transportation facilities. Passenger ticket to use said facilities constitutes personal contract concluded between transportation companies and the purchasers of these tours or trips. By buying the ticket a passenger also agrees with these terms and conditions.

By making a prepayment, a participant thus confirms that his mental, physical or any other condition, or any disablement shall not cause damage to himself and to other participants of expedition. POSEIDON Company, the Murmansk Shipping Company and POLAR WORLD reserve the right to terminate any group member's participation in the expedition at any time for his own sake and for the sake of the expedition as a whole.

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