Contact your travel agent or ATI to confirm space availability. We will normally hold a provisional place for one week.

Complete the Booking Form and forward it along with your deposit of US$200 per person. If you are making the booking directly, send your deposit to Andean Treks Inc. at 32 Russell Avenue, Watertown, MA 02172 USA.

Checks payable to Andean Treks Inc. must be in US$ funds drawn on a U.S. or Canadian bank. You may also charge your deposit on Visa or Master Card.

Since your deposit is non-refundable, we suggest you purchase travel insurance at the time you book.

You'll receive the most current detailed itinerary listing all meals and other inclusions, plus an information kit to help you prepare for your adventure, including a packing list.

Final payment
Full payment is due 8 weeks prior to commencement of your services (PCS). If you book your trip within 8 weeks PCS, full payment is due when we confirm your participation.

If we do not receive payment by the due date, ATI reserves the right to treat the reservation as canceled. Your deposit is forfeited under such circumstances.

To guarantee services for custom itineraries or add-one, we may require that you pay additional deposits prior to final balance.

Changes and transfers
After we have confirmed your tour services, each time you request a change requiring us to rework reservations, we reserve the right to levy a US$25 service charge plus the cost of international communications, express mail, and any nonrecoverable supplier charges. If you transfer to another trip, cancellation fees apply as detailed below.

Cancellation and Refunds
We must receive written notification of your decision to cancel a trip. Based upon date of receipt, the following charges apply: If you cancel your trip up to 29 days PCS, we retain non-recoverable supplier expenses (such as air tickets, hotel and boat charter pre-payments) plus your deposit payment. Note: we prepay Galapagos boats 8 weeks prior to sailing date, so non-recoverable expenses are high within 8 weeks PCS. From 28 days to 8 days PCS we retain nonrecoverable supplier costs plus 50% of the balance of invoiced services. Within 7 days PCS we retain 100% of your trip payments.

Changes, Cancellations and Refunds by ATI
We publish this data many months prior to your trip. We do all in our power to avoid increasing the price of our trips. In exceptional circumstances, we reserve the right to amend prices without prior notice. An increase in trip prices shall not be sufficient grounds for cancellation of tour.

Certain situations may arise during the tour which may be beyond the control of the guides or participants. ATI reserves the right to modify or withdraw any tour arrangements when deemed necessary in the best interest of safety and security of participants. In such a case, ATI, in its sole discretion, may either offer an optional or alternative activity for any portion that has been canceled, or a pro rata refund.

While we rarely cancel our departures, we reserve the right to do so up to 30 days PCS. In such a case, we will offer you alternative arrangements. If you do not accept these, we will refund all payments you made to ATI.

In the event that we are forced to cancel a departure, we are not responsible for your trip preparation expenses such as non-refundable air tickets, doctor's appointments, inoculations and medications, passports and visas, and personal equipment.

Airlines typically charge a fee for date changes, ticket re-issues and cancellations, particularly on the lowest cost excursion fares. Before you buy your ticket, consult your travel agent for details of these restrictions and potential charges.

No partial refunds will be given for unused hotel rooms, meals, or other prearranged tour services.

Tier-priced Trips
If a trip is tier-priced, your tour cost depends on the number of full-revenue participants traveling. If a group roster grows or shrinks, your final cost may change from your invoiced amount according to our published rate. If the land cost of a tier-priced trip decreases after you have paid your balance, we will refund the difference at the completion of the tour.

Flight Itineraries
We must receive a copy of your complete flight routing, including the ticket number. You must reconfirm your international flight reservation at least 72 hours prior to your departure.

What's Included in the Cost
All internal air in Peru and Ecuador, and all international air , including air from Miami to Peru, and Ecuador to Miami.

Complete inclusions for each trip are provided with your detailed land itinerary.

Accommodations on our fixed departures are based on double occupancy for hotels, tents, and yachts. We reserve the right to substitute hotels of comparable quality for those listed in itineraries.

Single accommodation is usually available for supplemental cost. If you are traveling alone and wish single accommodation, please indicate this on your booking form. We will add the current single supplement to your final bill. If you indicate you are willing to share accommodation, we will attempt to match you with a room-mate of the same gender. If none is available, the single supplement unfortunately must be assessed.

What's Not Included
Airfare between your home and Miami; airport departure taxes; airport transfers on other than scheduled group arrival and departure dates; hotel nights not specified in the land itinerary; tips and gratuities; passport and visa fees, immunizations, laundry, long distance telephone charges and other personal expenses; cost of hospitalization or evacuation; expenses incurred recovering lost luggage or belongings left behind on a trip, or shipping purchases home from abroad.

ATI is not responsible for additional hotel nights, transfers, and meals which may be required by individual travel arrangements at variance with our published itineraries, or which may be forced by airline scheduling changes, canceled flights, missed connections or by other factors beyond our control.

Health and fitness
Being physically fit prior to your departure will greatly enhance your travel experience. We strongly recommend a visit to your doctor and dentist before your holiday. Ask your doctor about current inoculation requirements.

If you are in doubt about your physical capacity to complete the tour, review the itinerary with your physician. Details of pre-existing medical conditions must be forwarded to ATI. Although your trip leader will carry a first-aid kit, medical facilities and personnel capable of attending to serious problems are rarely available in the remote areas we visit. Evacuation can be prolonged, difficult, and expensive. While your health and safety during your trip are our primary concern, ATI is not a medical facility and we assume no responsibility or liability regarding provision of medical care.

The trip leader has the right to disqualify anyone at any time for being physically or mentally incapable, or for endangering group safety. Refunds are not given under such circumstances.

Inherent Dangers
You understand and accept that participating in your tour may expose you to inherent dangers among these being the hazards of traveling in remote and/or mountainous terrain, emotional trauma, accident or illness in remote places without medical facilities, the forces of nature, the hazards of war and civil insurrection, and hazards of traveling by air, water, or land by various conveyances, and other hazards of such trip or vacation including but not limited to food, lodging and transportation.

Claims and Complaints
If you are dissatisfied with the services or some other aspect of your tour, you must first inform the tour leader and/or our local representative in order that the tour leader and/or representative may attempt to correct the situation. Any further complaint must be put in writing to your travel agent or to ATI within 30 days of the end of the tour.

Ready to register?
Print the Booking Form, enclose your check for US$200 for each registrant, and mail to the address shown on the form.

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