Terms & Conditions | Trips N Tales
Hey Travellers,

Trips N Tales is a backpacking travel company specializing in taking travellers on informal, low cost, fun trips around the world.

Before using our services, you are requested to please ensure that you read carefully and understand the terms and conditions prior to booking. You are advised to check the web site for the latest version of the terms and conditions prior to booking your vacation. The Terms and Conditions are listed below for your reference:

1. Terms of use

This page sets forth the terms and conditions under which Trips N Tales provides the information on this website, as well as the terms and conditions governing your use of this site. The use of services provided by Trips N Tales constitutes a contractual arrangement between you and Trips N Tales, and represents your acceptance of Trips N Tales terms and conditions set out herein.

2. Registration obligations and responsibilities

In consideration of your use of the services provided by Trips N Tales you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the service registration form (such information being the “Registration Data”) and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, Trips N Tales has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, Trips N Tales has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the service (or any portion thereof) without any prior intimation to you.

If you log in to this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account information and your password/s. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You represent that you are of age prescribed by law to be eligible to enter into contract, and use this to create binding reciprocal legal obligations, and are capable, ready and willing to discharge any liability you may incur as a result of the use of this site.

3. Participation

You are requested to check-in with Trips N Tales representative fifteen (15) minutes prior to the specified departure time for transfers, activities, etc. The tour operator will not be liable for any service that leaves or arrives later than its specified time, even if as a result you miss a connecting service. The tour operator will use its best efforts to ensure that departure and arrival times are met. Travel Documents (including tickets, etc.) must be produced at the tour operator’s request.

You are responsible for looking after your personal belongings whilst travelling. The tour operator shall not be held responsible for any personal belongings left behind on any trip irrespective of the circumstances. If you lose your Pass(es), or if it is stolen, you must inform the tour operator immediately. You will not be permitted to travel without a valid Pass(es). The tour operator will replace lost or stolen Pass(es) at an appropriate cost. A replacement pass will carry the same validity as the original ticket at the time of loss.

Travelers must have completed 18 years of age at the time of departure especially for trips outside India. For security reasons, many countries have adopted practices to prevent international abductions of children. If a traveller below 18 years of age still wishes to join the trip outside India, it is recommended that a notarized letter be written by the parents or non-traveling parent granting authorization to travel, including the dates of travel.

You must report any physical disability requiring special attention to Trips N Tales at the time the reservation is made. Trips N Tales will make reasonable attempts to accommodate the special needs of disabled travellers, but is not responsible in the event it is unable to do so nor is it responsible for any denial of services by carriers, hotels, restaurants, or other independent suppliers. Smoking is not allowed on transportation that is exclusively provided by Trips N Tales whilst on a tour in any part of the world. You agree to maintain all applicable smoking regulations in public places either in India or overseas during a trip.

You agree to comply with the authority and decisions of the appointed tour manager or representative and abide by the laws of the country in which you are travelling. There may be times when the tour manager or representative have to make a decision in your best interests or the best interests of the group. For the benefit of all participants Trips N Tales reserves the right to discontinue the participation of any traveller whose conduct is deemed incompatible with the interests of the other participants. In such events, you will be responsible for your own repatriation and related costs and have no claims against us. Baggage restrictions as per the airline policies mentioned on your individual ticket will be applicable.

4. Photographs and pictures

Photographs or picture appearing on our website and brochures are used to display the excitement and experience of participants on the backpacking tours and holidays. While on a tour our tour managers or representatives may take photographs and films of participants of the tour. These photographs and pictures may be used in group brochures and/or advertising or publicity material of Trips N Tales. You expressly waive the condition of obtaining your prior consent and / or asking for payment/ remuneration in respect of such photographs and/or films.

5. Travel documents

You are responsible for verifying the dates mentioned on the travel documents and for obtaining and payment of all visas and entry documents prior to travel, and for meeting all health and other requirements and any documents required by laws, regulations, orders, and/or requirements of the countries to be visited. All passengers traveling internationally are required to have a valid passport. You will also be required to produce your passport at the time of your travel. Photo identification is required for all trips. Most countries require that the passport be valid for at least six (6) months beyond the conclusion of your trip. It is recommended you have a minimum of three blank pages in your passport when traveling as many countries require blank pages. Multiple-entry visas are required for some vacations.

6. Services

The service statements on this website are for general description purposes only. The information contained in this website should not be viewed as an offer to sell or as a solicitation to purchase any of our services. Furthermore, not all services are available in every state or country

Kindly note that the carriers and accommodations including but not limited to trains, cruises, ferries, hotels, and restaurants providing the services in the area of the holiday, itinerary that are available for booking are not run, supervised, or controlled in any way by Trips N Tales. These services are provided by local operators or other third parties that are entirely independent of Trips N Tales which has no control and has no right of control over the operations of these independent contractors.

Such services do not form any part of the services of Trips N Tales or of these Terms and Conditions, even where Trips N Tales suggests particular operators/other third parties and/or assists you in booking such activities. Your contract for such services will be with the organiser or operator of that activity and will be subject to its Terms and Conditions, which may contain exclusions or limitations of liability. Trips N Tales has no liability for any such activity or for any act(s) or omission(s) of the organizer or operator or for any of its employees or agents or any other person(s) connected with the activity or service.

Any special meal requirements will be made on a request basis only. Trips N Tales cannot guarantee special meal requests nor will it assume any responsibility or liability if clients special meal requirements are not fulfilled.

7. Itinerary charges
8. Booking charges, Cancellation & refund

All trip costs are based on rates (including foreign exchange rates) known at the time of printing and expected to be in effect at the time of departure. The current price will be confirmed at the time of booking. Tickets and other documents will be sent across after receiving the initial payment.

9. Insurance

It is mandatory to have a comprehensive insurance policy cover for cancellation, medical expenses, personal accident, personal baggage, money and public liability before registering for a Trips N Tales holiday. Trips N Tales reserves the right to accept bookings for trips/ holidays if you do not have an adequate insurance policy. This should be arranged at the time of payment of the deposit and will, in certain circumstances, cover you against loss of deposit or cancellation fees from the date of confirmation of your booking, as shown in the insurance policy. You expressly agree to indemnify Trips N Tales against all third-party claims, actions, damages and remedies which may be brought against us in respect of your participation in the holiday.

10. Propritary rights

You acknowledge and agree that the service provided by Trips N Tales and the content on this website is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other proprietary rights and laws. Third parties whose content appear on this website own the copyright in the content original to them. The look and feel of the website, including colour combinations, button shapes, and other graphical elements, are trademarks and copyright of Trips N Tales. Trips N Tales retains all, ownership rights to the content. You may not alter or remove any copyright notice or proprietary legend contained in the content or on this website. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting you a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of Trips N Tales or any third party, except for the limited right of use license expressly set forth here in. Trips N Tales marks are trademarks of Trips N Tales. Without Trips N Tales prior permission, you agree not to display or use it in any manner.

11. No warranty

This information is provided to you “as is,” and you agree to use it at your own risk. Trips N Tales make no guarantees, representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, arising by law or otherwise, including but not limited to, content, quality, accuracy, completeness, effectiveness, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, usefulness, or that the data or server will be uninterrupted or error-free.

12. Disclaimer of warranty

YOU AGREE THAT USE OF TRIPS N TALES SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. TRIPS N TALES SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” OR “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Trips N Tales has the right at any time to change, modify, add to or discontinue any service of Trips N Tales Trips N Tales has no obligation to provide you with notice of any such changes.

13. Disclaimer of liability

Trips N Tales shall not be liable for any damage caused to the Client by the failure to perform the contract or the improper performance of the contract where the failure or the improper performance is due neither to any fault of Trips N Tales or retailer acting on Trips N Tales’ behalf nor to that of another supplier of services because of the following reasons:

(i) the failures which occur in the performance of the contract are attributable to the Client

(ii) such failures are attributable to a third party unconnected with the provision of the services contracted for and are unforeseeable or unavoidable or

(iii) such failures are due to:

(a) Force Majeure; or

(b) an event which Trips N Tales, the Retailer acting on his behalf or the supplier of services, even with all due care, could not foresee or forestall.

(iv) Liability for loss, delay or damage to baggage is limited to the sum fixed by the Warsaw Convention 1929 (including as amended by the Hague Protocol 1995 and by any of the additional Montreal Protocol of 1975) or such other international conventions or any amendments thereto.

14. Disclaimer of liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL TRIPS N TALES BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES , RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRIPS N TALES SITE OR TRIPS N TALES SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE TRIPS N TALES SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH TRIPS N TALES SITE OR THE SERVICE.THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

15. Exclusions & limitations

You acknowledge that the disclaimers and exclusions of liability set forth above represent a fair and reasonable allocation of the risks and benefits of the agreement between you and us, and shall be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

16. Privacy policy

Trips N Tales is committed to protecting your privacy and information. The information that we use is for the purpose of fulfilling our contract as a tour operator/holiday provider. We may from time to time, make your information available to companies within our group, a list of which can be provided on request. Information Trips N Tales holds about the Client and his/her travel arrangements will not be disclosed unless required by Law.

17. Governing law

The above terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of India without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions, which is explicitly excluded. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts at Pune for any and all disputes, claims and actions arising against Trips N Tales

18. Termination

Trips N Tales reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate the provision of any of the services at any time for any reason, including but not limited to any improper use of this site or your failure to comply with these terms and conditions.

19. Complaints, Suggestions & comments

Whilst on the tour, if you have any complaints in respect of the tour, you are requested to inform the operator’s representative. In case the complaint cannot be resolved whilst on the tour by our tour representative you are requested to submit your complain to the Customer Service Manager on info@tripsntales.com within twenty eight (28 )days from the date of the incident. This will enable Trips N Tales to make a timely investigation. Trips N Tales will not consider complaints received after the twenty eight (28) day period mentioned above. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to email us at info@tripsntales.com

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