Terms & Conditions

Reservations
A deposit of $250 per person is required to make a tour reservation. This deposit should be made as soon as possible and no longer than 8 days after your verbal or written confirmation of a tour. Tour deposits are not refundable. In rare cases additional deposits may be due to reserve certain activities or services. When we receive your deposit we will provide you a receipt of payment and the date the final payment is due.

Final Payment
Final payment is due 90 days prior to your departure date. Any reservations made within 90 days of the start of your tour will require full payment. Payments within 90 days of the start of your tour must be made in cash, wire transfer, cashiers check, or a major credit card.

Cancellations
All cancellations must be received in our home office in writing or fax. The cancellation fees for a “tour” shall include all the costs of the tour including, transportation, lodging, activities, meals, tickets, and all other services.

If you gave us your credit card number for your tour deposit we will use the same credit card for any cancellation fees that may be due.

There are no exceptions to the cancellation policy above, including personal emergencies, airline delays, leaving early or arriving late, or weather.

Independent Travel Tours (ITT) has the right to change the lodging or activities in your tour to insure your safety and security.

ITT has no control over the weather and will not cancel or refund the tour price due to poor weather.

Trip Cancellation Insurance
ITT offers trip cancellation insurance for its tours. If you are interested in this protection please ask your trip consultant for a quote.

Trip Cancellation Insurance if purchased will refund the full cost (100%) of your tour. You may cancel for any reason with our policy.

Tour Prices
ITT guarantees that the cost of your tour will not change once you have paid the tour price in full and the trip is booked. Should you change your tour in anyway once it is booked there could be additional costs because of the changes you have made. All our tour prices are in US dollars.

Car Rentals
We use Hertz exclusively for our tours. A car rental day is a 24-hour period starting from the time you pick-up your rental vehicle. You will be charged a late fee or an extra day fee for late returns. There is no refund for early returns. Car rental prices do not include collision damage waiver, gasoline, and drop fees not included in the tour, or extended days beyond the rental period. You must pay these charges directly to the car rental company. The minimum age is 21 years for a car rental, and a major credit card and valid driver license is required. (There is a surcharge for driver’s ages 21 to 24 years of age).

Responsibility
In general, Independent Travel Tours (hereafter referred to as ITT) and its agents provide self-driving tours using Hertz vehicles, and accommodations and services of others. ITT acts only as an agent for clients in regard to travel and assumes no liability for injury, damage, loss, accident, delay or irregularity which may be occasioned either by reason of defect, through acts of defaults of any company or person engaged in conveying the passengers or in carrying out the arrangements of the tour or direct or indirect acts of God, fire, breakdown in machinery or equipment, riots, strikes or from any causes beyond the control of ITT. Tour Services include, but are not limited to, guided tours and activities, lift tickets, transportation, room or lodging accommodations that are furnished by independent contractors or suppliers and do not act for or on behalf of ITT. The acceptance of tour arrangements by ITT is deemed to be consent of the above. ITT is not liable or responsible in any way whatsoever for any act, error, or omission or for inconvenience, loss, damage, injury or death arriving out of tour arrangements. Should the client experience bad weather, traffic, or other causes beyond the control of ITT which result in delays, it is not the responsibility of ITT to pay for resulting costs and expenses, including, but not limited to additional lodging expense, additional meal expense, or other similar expenses.

Release of Liability an Assumption of all Risks
I acknowledge that the cost of and participation in all ITT tours is based upon tour participants executing this Release of Liability and Assumption of all Risk. Therefore, as lawful consideration for being permitted to participate on such tour(s), I hereby RELEASE AND DISCHARGE FOREVER ITT FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY ARISING FROM MY PARTICIPATION IN THE TOUR. I agree that this release shall be legally binding upon me personally, and members of my family and all minors traveling with me, my and their heirs, successors, assigns, and legal repetitive, it being my intention fully to assume all the risks associated with this trip and to release ITT from any and all liabilities to the maximum extent permitted by law.