10 Day Birdsville Races Tour
29 August – 8 September 2021
Day 1
Your tour starts when we pick you up from your Gold Coast accommodation at 6am. We will make our first stop at Toowoomba for a coffee at Picnic Point, then continue to Goondiwindi for our lunch stop. We continue west to the Nindigully Pub, we will camp along the banks of the Moonie River in front of the Nindigully Pub. Dinner is at the pub at your own expense. Shower and toilet facilities available at the pub. https://nindigullypub.com
Rooms are available at the pub(at your own cost) if you don't want to put up your tent, book directly with the pub.
Estimated travel time: 7 Hours
Meals: Lunch
Day 2
Start the day with a leisurely walk beside the Moonie river, before we travel via St George to Cunnamulla
Camping at Charlette Plains Station. Showers and toilets available. http://charlotteplains.com.au/
Estimated travel time: 5 Hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 3
We will travel the 250 kms to Quilpie were we will set up camp at the Lake, showers and toilets available.
Quilpie puts on the annual Kanaranga Do Street Party tonight. https://www.queensland.com/en-au/event/kangaranga-do-street-party
This year’s event will feature the ever popular “get your rocks off competition”, bath tub derby, wool bale rolling, great prizes, stalls, food and bar until late, kids activities and live entertainment!
Camping at The Lake, showers and toilets available. https://www.thelakequilpie.com/
Estimated travel time: 4 Hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 4
Travel to Windorah via the Cooper Creek. We will set up camp on the Windorah common and get ready for the night’s entertainment. https://barcooway.com.au/windorah-international-yabbie-races/
The Windorah International Yabby Races began 1998 and is always on the Wednesday night prior to the iconic Birdsville Races.
It is held in the street outside of the Western Star Hotel, and draws a crowd of punters, ready to whet their appetite with speedy blue claw crustaceans.
As well an opportunity for a good knees up, with live music, it is an event which helps raise much needed funds for Royal Flying Doctors Association, local community groups, as well as auctioning for charitable organisations, such as Breast Cancer Research and Tie Up The Black Dog.
Camping tonight at Windorah, showers and toilets available.
Estimated travel time: 4 Hours
Meals Breakfast & Lunch. Purchase your own dinner at the pub or cafe.
Day 5
Today we travel the Diamantina Development Road to Birdsville stopping at places of interest along the way including the reopened Betoota Pub.
Visit the famous Birdsville Pub, enjoy the festivities in this famous outback town. https://www.birdsvilleraces.com/
Camping beside the river at Birdsville walking distance to town, public toilets and $5 showers to aid the RFDS.
Estimated travel time: 6 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 6 -7
Birdsville Races
Dubbed as the Melbourne Cup of the Outback, crowds of 6,000 racegoers converge on Birdsville each year to enjoy two day of quality outback racing and entertainment. The second race meet in the Simpson Desert Racing Carnival, the 13 race program features horses from all over Australia competing for the coveted Birdsville Cup. Other entertainment includes the Fashions on the Field, Fred Brophy’s Boxing Troupe, entertainment at the Birdsville Hotel, Fun Run, Cocktail Party, a variety of food vendors, a giant auction and much more.
Attracting visitors from all over the world, the Birdsville Races is an event you will be talking about for years to come.
https://www.birdsvilleraces.com/
Meals: Breakfast & prepare your own lunch from our fridge, eg wraps, sandwiches etc.
Buy your own dinner at the famous Birdsville Pub, or one of the many food vendors in town.
Day 8
Today we leave Birdsville and head back to Quilpie vie Windorah, staying at The Lake Quilpie.
Estimated travel time: 7 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 9
Early start from The Lake camping ground following the Warrego Highway through Charleville to Roma for the last nights camp.
Estimated travel time: 6 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 10
Visit the Big Rig and the Roma Sale Yards as we leave the town heading for home via Miles, Chinchilla, Dalby and Toowoomba.
Arrive back on the Gold Coast by 6pm.
Estimated travel time: 6.5 hours
Meals: B,L
www.getonboardaussietours.com
Special Early Bird Price $1790
All inclusive, travel, camping gear, most meals including snacks and tickets to Birdsville Races
To book fill out the attached order form and pay a 25% non-refundable deposit per person to secure your place.
Pay by Credit Card (please call 0417485303)
Pay by Bank Transfer
Get Onboard Aussie Tours
BSB: 034 279 Account: 562590
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions.
Please take the time to read and understand our Terms & Conditions set out below before booking a trip with us. We strongly recommend that you also read the full Itinerary on our website prior to booking, our tours require a reasonable level of fitness.
OUR CONTRACT - All direct bookings are made with Get Onboard Aussie Tours. By booking a trip with us you are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the Terms & Conditions outlined below, which at the time of booking becomes the entire agreement (the contract) between you and us. We will accept your booking on this basis. Your booking confirmation invoice will contain the services provided to you by us.
When we receive your deposit, providing we accept your booking, we will issue you with the booking confirmation invoice. Once you receive the confirmation invoice you understand and accept that the contract becomes binding and exists between you and Get Onboard Aussie Tours.
UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES - If circumstances arise which are beyond the control of Get Onboard Aussie Tours such as:
DEPARTURE TIMES - Due to factors out of our control, such as road conditions, weather conditions and the long distances we cover, Get Onboard Aussie Tours is unable to guarantee arrival and departure times. Therefore we do not accept any liability if you miss a transfer or connection with another service provider. When booking any transfers or connections please be mindful of the fact that due to the local conditions, travel times might change, so you are reminded to be flexible with any other bookings you decide to make.
By booking our tour you accept that the itinerary can change or be altered at anytime, and you understand that when booking, you are agreeing to any changes that may occur. The itinerary lays out the type of tour you can expect but it is important you understand that when travelling on this style of tour conditions can change, and therefore alter what is possible on the tour.
TRAVEL INSURANCE - Get Onboard Aussie Tours recommends that international tourists purchase travel insurance at the time of booking the tour, which adequately covers you against personal accident, death, medical expenses, emergency repatriation, loss or damage of personal items and personal liability.
Whilst on our tour you will be walking on uneven ground and travelling in remote areas with very limited and sometimes no facilities; therefore there is a degree of personal risk. We recommend that you take out cancellation insurance at the time of booking which will cover any cancellation fees.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours does not accept liability for:
BOOKINGS, DISCOUNTS & REFUNDS - All our prices are in Australian dollars, include GST and are valid until 31 December 2019. Beyond this date prices may change. Get Onboard Aussie Tours has the right to change prices due to unforeseen circumstances.
A non-refundable deposit of 25% of the tour price is required per person per tour at the time of booking to secure your seat, and you must pay the full balance on or before 30 days of your tour departing. Please refer to your booking confirmation invoice for your final balance. If you book within 30 days of your tour departing, you must pay the full fee at the time of booking.
If you have not completed your full payment 30 days before your tour departs, Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to treat your booking as cancelled.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not accept any responsibility for costs you may incur as a result of booking our tour i.e. travel insurance excess, non-refundable flights, etc.
From time-to-time we advertise discounts on our tours on platforms such as Google, Facebook, our website. We may decide to offer an exclusive discount to customers on one of these platforms only. If you book with us and discover a discount after your booking is confirmed; it is the up to the discretion of Get Onboard Aussie Tours whether they retrospectively alter your booking with the discount. If we decide to change the booking, there is a fee of $150 per booking altered. If you find a discount which offers more money off than the discount you received at the time of booking, we will not honour the extra discount retrospectively.
CANCELLATION - If for any reason you need to cancel your booking we ask that you confirm this with us in writing and then we will start to process your request. Please be aware the following fees will apply:
30+ days prior to departure your deposit is non-refundable
14 – 29 days prior to departure 50% of the total price of the tour
0 – 14 days prior to departure 100% of the total price of the tour
If you need to cancel please notify us by email at info@getonboardaussietours.com and write ‘Cancellation {date of tour}’ in the title of the email. If you fail to join the tour, join it after departure or you decide to leave the tour at anytime, Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not provide a refund.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to cancel or postpone any tour at anytime prior to departure. This could be the result of road and/or weather conditions, natural disasters, mechanical defect, cultural considerations or other external events that means we are unable to operate the itinerary. In this case we can offer you a complete refund of the monies paid to Get Onboard Aussie Tours or transfer the costs to another tour. We are not responsible for any incidental expenses that you may incur as a result of your booking being cancelled or altered by us.
CHANGING TOURS - If you wish to transfer your tour to a different departure date please put it in writing to us by sending an email to info@getonboardaussietours.com. It is helpful if you put in the title of your email ‘Tour change’. Get Onboard Aussie Tours are not obliged to accept your request or to change your tour date departure. It will depend on how much notice we receive about the change, the departure dates and whether there are seats available. There will be a fee involved in transferring your seat.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY - Get Onboard Aussie Tours is not responsible for the acts or errors of the companies, agents and individuals who work with us, and we do not accept liability for any failure or wrongdoing relating to companies, agents or individuals that we are associated with or work with as a result of operating our tours.
As much as it is possible under law, you will not hold Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives liable for any loss, death, injury or damage, which you might experience (directly or indirectly) in connection with or as a result of coming on our tour.
As much as permitted by law, you agree to release Get Onboard Aussie Tours Tours, their employees, agents or representatives from any breach of these Terms & Conditions; and you agree to waive any claims you make against us which, in someway, are related to your (or your child’s) involvement on our tours.
You also agree that you will not hold Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives liable under any condition or warranty implied by law into these Terms & Conditions (Implied Warranty).
When an Implied Warranty cannot be excluded under law, our liability in regards to the Implied Warranty is limited to, under our discretion, offer of a refund of the total monies you paid to us in relation to your booking.
Any claim of loss made by you against Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives, which is indirect or consequential loss, for example, loss of profits or income will be excluded.
MEDICAL - It’s important that you declare any pre-existing medical conditions when you book the tour with us. Failure to do so could result in not being able to join the tour or being removed from the trip. In this case no refunds will be given.
INCLUSIONS & FLEXIBILITY - The locations you will visit on our tour are explained in the Full Itinerary on our website or in the case of a private charter, your itinerary will be arranged with you before the tour commences. Please note the itinerary is a guide only; your tour leader will follow it provided it is safe and possible under the current conditions. Due to the fact that we travel in remote areas and on rough terrain, our tours can be affected by poor road conditions and/or extreme weather, which might result in a change of itinerary, with little or no notice. There is also the possibility that the tour could be affected by public holidays, local festivals or other events, including emergency situations, which could result in changes to the itinerary. In any case of an itinerary change Get Onboard Aussie Tours is not responsible for any additional expense incurred by the passenger/s.
We reserve the right to change the itinerary at anytime; by travelling with us you accept this and understand our type of trip requires flexibility. This means you understand that the route, vehicle, available facilities and/or schedules can change without notice.
You acknowledge and accept that when travelling in remote conditions on rough terrain this can, at times, cause minor or major issues with the vehicle you are travelling in. Your guide will be experienced with how to deal with these matters and can often fix them on location. Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not provide refunds for any delays or changes made to your tour due to vehicle issues.
Regarding our tours, the Full Itinerary and the Trip Notes on our website explain that you will be camping at night time and you will be provided with a tent and swag. It also explains the transport, activities and meals provided as well as the fact that you will have the services of a group leader whilst on tour. If you are travelling with us on a private charter your transport, activities and meals will be described in the personal itinerary we create for you. Please be aware that any optional activities mentioned are covered at your own cost. They are not included in the trip price and are not part of the tour or this contract. You accept that any help given by your guide in arranging any optional activities does not render Get Onboard Aussie Tours liable for them in any way.
AGE & HEALTH REQUIREMENTS - All outback tours that we operate require that all passengers under the age of 18 years old are accompanied by a parent or guardian, who excepts full responsibility for them for the entirety of the tour; children who are 12 years old or under are unable to travel on our tours, with the exemption of private charters.
If you are planning to book one of our tours with anyone under the age of 18, the parent or guardian will be required to sign a consent form. Our passengers are typically 20 – 75 years old. We do not have an upper age limit; however you must ensure you meet the health & fitness requirements for our tours.
You acknowledge our advice that we do not recommend our tours to pregnant women; this is due to the risks involved with hiking on uneven ground, and the fact that the roads are corrugated and bumpy which can affect unborn babies.
GROUP NUMBERS - Get Onboard Aussie Tours requires a minimum number of bookings in order to run each tour. If there are not enough passengers booked on your tour we may need to cancel the departure. If this is the case, we will usually notify you at least 2 weeks before the start date of your tour. Your options could be transferring to the nearest possible alternative date, opting for an alternative itinerary, or a full refund of monies paid to Get Onboard Aussie Tours.
TOUR GUIDE’S RESPONSIBILITY - All our tours are run by a trip leader and it is imperative that passengers listen to their guide’s instructions in order to stay safe. In regards to matters concerning passenger’s well-being and staying safe on tour, your guide will make all the decisions, and have the final say. If you fail to respect the decision of your guide and/or fail to follow their instructions, disrupt the group or affect the mobility of the group, your guide can remove you from the tour effective immediately, with no right of a refund.
ACCEPTANCE OF RISK - Our tours are adventurous and by booking on one of our tours you acknowledge that there is a degree of personal risk. You understand and accept you will be visiting remote areas, walking on rough terrain, and experiencing activities that require physical exertion that you might not be used to. It is your own responsibility to make sure you understand the type of tour you are joining, the conditions you’ll be travelling in and the nature of your itinerary.
SEVERABILITY- If at anytime a term or condition written under these Terms & Conditions is unenforceable or void by operation of law or if it’s against public policy, or for any other reason, then that term or condition shall be taken out of our contract or amended accordingly. It will be amended to a degree that will allow all remaining Terms & Conditions to remain obligatory.
PHOTOS AND MARKETING - By participating on our tours you give Get Onboard Aussie Tours consent to use images taken of you whilst on the trip for advertising and promotional purposes, however we choose. You grant us full-rights in every sense (perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide) and you accept that this is an irrevocable license, which allows us to use images of you for advertising and promotional purposes.
DIESEL LEVY - If diesel fuel prices rise sharply, Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to charge a diesel fuel levy.
Your tour starts when we pick you up from your Gold Coast accommodation at 6am. We will make our first stop at Toowoomba for a coffee at Picnic Point, then continue to Goondiwindi for our lunch stop. We continue west to the Nindigully Pub, we will camp along the banks of the Moonie River in front of the Nindigully Pub. Dinner is at the pub at your own expense. Shower and toilet facilities available at the pub. https://nindigullypub.com
Rooms are available at the pub(at your own cost) if you don't want to put up your tent, book directly with the pub.
Estimated travel time: 7 Hours
Meals: Lunch
Day 2
Start the day with a leisurely walk beside the Moonie river, before we travel via St George to Cunnamulla
Camping at Charlette Plains Station. Showers and toilets available. http://charlotteplains.com.au/
Estimated travel time: 5 Hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 3
We will travel the 250 kms to Quilpie were we will set up camp at the Lake, showers and toilets available.
Quilpie puts on the annual Kanaranga Do Street Party tonight. https://www.queensland.com/en-au/event/kangaranga-do-street-party
This year’s event will feature the ever popular “get your rocks off competition”, bath tub derby, wool bale rolling, great prizes, stalls, food and bar until late, kids activities and live entertainment!
Camping at The Lake, showers and toilets available. https://www.thelakequilpie.com/
Estimated travel time: 4 Hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 4
Travel to Windorah via the Cooper Creek. We will set up camp on the Windorah common and get ready for the night’s entertainment. https://barcooway.com.au/windorah-international-yabbie-races/
The Windorah International Yabby Races began 1998 and is always on the Wednesday night prior to the iconic Birdsville Races.
It is held in the street outside of the Western Star Hotel, and draws a crowd of punters, ready to whet their appetite with speedy blue claw crustaceans.
As well an opportunity for a good knees up, with live music, it is an event which helps raise much needed funds for Royal Flying Doctors Association, local community groups, as well as auctioning for charitable organisations, such as Breast Cancer Research and Tie Up The Black Dog.
Camping tonight at Windorah, showers and toilets available.
Estimated travel time: 4 Hours
Meals Breakfast & Lunch. Purchase your own dinner at the pub or cafe.
Day 5
Today we travel the Diamantina Development Road to Birdsville stopping at places of interest along the way including the reopened Betoota Pub.
Visit the famous Birdsville Pub, enjoy the festivities in this famous outback town. https://www.birdsvilleraces.com/
Camping beside the river at Birdsville walking distance to town, public toilets and $5 showers to aid the RFDS.
Estimated travel time: 6 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 6 -7
Birdsville Races
Dubbed as the Melbourne Cup of the Outback, crowds of 6,000 racegoers converge on Birdsville each year to enjoy two day of quality outback racing and entertainment. The second race meet in the Simpson Desert Racing Carnival, the 13 race program features horses from all over Australia competing for the coveted Birdsville Cup. Other entertainment includes the Fashions on the Field, Fred Brophy’s Boxing Troupe, entertainment at the Birdsville Hotel, Fun Run, Cocktail Party, a variety of food vendors, a giant auction and much more.
Attracting visitors from all over the world, the Birdsville Races is an event you will be talking about for years to come.
https://www.birdsvilleraces.com/
Meals: Breakfast & prepare your own lunch from our fridge, eg wraps, sandwiches etc.
Buy your own dinner at the famous Birdsville Pub, or one of the many food vendors in town.
Day 8
Today we leave Birdsville and head back to Quilpie vie Windorah, staying at The Lake Quilpie.
Estimated travel time: 7 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 9
Early start from The Lake camping ground following the Warrego Highway through Charleville to Roma for the last nights camp.
Estimated travel time: 6 hours
Meals: B,L,D
Day 10
Visit the Big Rig and the Roma Sale Yards as we leave the town heading for home via Miles, Chinchilla, Dalby and Toowoomba.
Arrive back on the Gold Coast by 6pm.
Estimated travel time: 6.5 hours
Meals: B,L
www.getonboardaussietours.com
Special Early Bird Price $1790
All inclusive, travel, camping gear, most meals including snacks and tickets to Birdsville Races
To book fill out the attached order form and pay a 25% non-refundable deposit per person to secure your place.
Pay by Credit Card (please call 0417485303)
Pay by Bank Transfer
Get Onboard Aussie Tours
BSB: 034 279 Account: 562590
Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions.
Please take the time to read and understand our Terms & Conditions set out below before booking a trip with us. We strongly recommend that you also read the full Itinerary on our website prior to booking, our tours require a reasonable level of fitness.
OUR CONTRACT - All direct bookings are made with Get Onboard Aussie Tours. By booking a trip with us you are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the Terms & Conditions outlined below, which at the time of booking becomes the entire agreement (the contract) between you and us. We will accept your booking on this basis. Your booking confirmation invoice will contain the services provided to you by us.
When we receive your deposit, providing we accept your booking, we will issue you with the booking confirmation invoice. Once you receive the confirmation invoice you understand and accept that the contract becomes binding and exists between you and Get Onboard Aussie Tours.
UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES - If circumstances arise which are beyond the control of Get Onboard Aussie Tours such as:
- Threat from terrorist activities
- Change in road conditions
- Natural disasters
- Political unrest
DEPARTURE TIMES - Due to factors out of our control, such as road conditions, weather conditions and the long distances we cover, Get Onboard Aussie Tours is unable to guarantee arrival and departure times. Therefore we do not accept any liability if you miss a transfer or connection with another service provider. When booking any transfers or connections please be mindful of the fact that due to the local conditions, travel times might change, so you are reminded to be flexible with any other bookings you decide to make.
By booking our tour you accept that the itinerary can change or be altered at anytime, and you understand that when booking, you are agreeing to any changes that may occur. The itinerary lays out the type of tour you can expect but it is important you understand that when travelling on this style of tour conditions can change, and therefore alter what is possible on the tour.
TRAVEL INSURANCE - Get Onboard Aussie Tours recommends that international tourists purchase travel insurance at the time of booking the tour, which adequately covers you against personal accident, death, medical expenses, emergency repatriation, loss or damage of personal items and personal liability.
Whilst on our tour you will be walking on uneven ground and travelling in remote areas with very limited and sometimes no facilities; therefore there is a degree of personal risk. We recommend that you take out cancellation insurance at the time of booking which will cover any cancellation fees.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours does not accept liability for:
- Tour cancellations
- Any medical emergency
- Personal injury
- Loss or damage to personal items
BOOKINGS, DISCOUNTS & REFUNDS - All our prices are in Australian dollars, include GST and are valid until 31 December 2019. Beyond this date prices may change. Get Onboard Aussie Tours has the right to change prices due to unforeseen circumstances.
A non-refundable deposit of 25% of the tour price is required per person per tour at the time of booking to secure your seat, and you must pay the full balance on or before 30 days of your tour departing. Please refer to your booking confirmation invoice for your final balance. If you book within 30 days of your tour departing, you must pay the full fee at the time of booking.
If you have not completed your full payment 30 days before your tour departs, Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to treat your booking as cancelled.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not accept any responsibility for costs you may incur as a result of booking our tour i.e. travel insurance excess, non-refundable flights, etc.
From time-to-time we advertise discounts on our tours on platforms such as Google, Facebook, our website. We may decide to offer an exclusive discount to customers on one of these platforms only. If you book with us and discover a discount after your booking is confirmed; it is the up to the discretion of Get Onboard Aussie Tours whether they retrospectively alter your booking with the discount. If we decide to change the booking, there is a fee of $150 per booking altered. If you find a discount which offers more money off than the discount you received at the time of booking, we will not honour the extra discount retrospectively.
CANCELLATION - If for any reason you need to cancel your booking we ask that you confirm this with us in writing and then we will start to process your request. Please be aware the following fees will apply:
30+ days prior to departure your deposit is non-refundable
14 – 29 days prior to departure 50% of the total price of the tour
0 – 14 days prior to departure 100% of the total price of the tour
If you need to cancel please notify us by email at info@getonboardaussietours.com and write ‘Cancellation {date of tour}’ in the title of the email. If you fail to join the tour, join it after departure or you decide to leave the tour at anytime, Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not provide a refund.
Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to cancel or postpone any tour at anytime prior to departure. This could be the result of road and/or weather conditions, natural disasters, mechanical defect, cultural considerations or other external events that means we are unable to operate the itinerary. In this case we can offer you a complete refund of the monies paid to Get Onboard Aussie Tours or transfer the costs to another tour. We are not responsible for any incidental expenses that you may incur as a result of your booking being cancelled or altered by us.
CHANGING TOURS - If you wish to transfer your tour to a different departure date please put it in writing to us by sending an email to info@getonboardaussietours.com. It is helpful if you put in the title of your email ‘Tour change’. Get Onboard Aussie Tours are not obliged to accept your request or to change your tour date departure. It will depend on how much notice we receive about the change, the departure dates and whether there are seats available. There will be a fee involved in transferring your seat.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY - Get Onboard Aussie Tours is not responsible for the acts or errors of the companies, agents and individuals who work with us, and we do not accept liability for any failure or wrongdoing relating to companies, agents or individuals that we are associated with or work with as a result of operating our tours.
As much as it is possible under law, you will not hold Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives liable for any loss, death, injury or damage, which you might experience (directly or indirectly) in connection with or as a result of coming on our tour.
As much as permitted by law, you agree to release Get Onboard Aussie Tours Tours, their employees, agents or representatives from any breach of these Terms & Conditions; and you agree to waive any claims you make against us which, in someway, are related to your (or your child’s) involvement on our tours.
You also agree that you will not hold Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives liable under any condition or warranty implied by law into these Terms & Conditions (Implied Warranty).
When an Implied Warranty cannot be excluded under law, our liability in regards to the Implied Warranty is limited to, under our discretion, offer of a refund of the total monies you paid to us in relation to your booking.
Any claim of loss made by you against Get Onboard Aussie Tours or any of our employees, agents and/or representatives, which is indirect or consequential loss, for example, loss of profits or income will be excluded.
MEDICAL - It’s important that you declare any pre-existing medical conditions when you book the tour with us. Failure to do so could result in not being able to join the tour or being removed from the trip. In this case no refunds will be given.
INCLUSIONS & FLEXIBILITY - The locations you will visit on our tour are explained in the Full Itinerary on our website or in the case of a private charter, your itinerary will be arranged with you before the tour commences. Please note the itinerary is a guide only; your tour leader will follow it provided it is safe and possible under the current conditions. Due to the fact that we travel in remote areas and on rough terrain, our tours can be affected by poor road conditions and/or extreme weather, which might result in a change of itinerary, with little or no notice. There is also the possibility that the tour could be affected by public holidays, local festivals or other events, including emergency situations, which could result in changes to the itinerary. In any case of an itinerary change Get Onboard Aussie Tours is not responsible for any additional expense incurred by the passenger/s.
We reserve the right to change the itinerary at anytime; by travelling with us you accept this and understand our type of trip requires flexibility. This means you understand that the route, vehicle, available facilities and/or schedules can change without notice.
You acknowledge and accept that when travelling in remote conditions on rough terrain this can, at times, cause minor or major issues with the vehicle you are travelling in. Your guide will be experienced with how to deal with these matters and can often fix them on location. Get Onboard Aussie Tours will not provide refunds for any delays or changes made to your tour due to vehicle issues.
Regarding our tours, the Full Itinerary and the Trip Notes on our website explain that you will be camping at night time and you will be provided with a tent and swag. It also explains the transport, activities and meals provided as well as the fact that you will have the services of a group leader whilst on tour. If you are travelling with us on a private charter your transport, activities and meals will be described in the personal itinerary we create for you. Please be aware that any optional activities mentioned are covered at your own cost. They are not included in the trip price and are not part of the tour or this contract. You accept that any help given by your guide in arranging any optional activities does not render Get Onboard Aussie Tours liable for them in any way.
AGE & HEALTH REQUIREMENTS - All outback tours that we operate require that all passengers under the age of 18 years old are accompanied by a parent or guardian, who excepts full responsibility for them for the entirety of the tour; children who are 12 years old or under are unable to travel on our tours, with the exemption of private charters.
If you are planning to book one of our tours with anyone under the age of 18, the parent or guardian will be required to sign a consent form. Our passengers are typically 20 – 75 years old. We do not have an upper age limit; however you must ensure you meet the health & fitness requirements for our tours.
You acknowledge our advice that we do not recommend our tours to pregnant women; this is due to the risks involved with hiking on uneven ground, and the fact that the roads are corrugated and bumpy which can affect unborn babies.
GROUP NUMBERS - Get Onboard Aussie Tours requires a minimum number of bookings in order to run each tour. If there are not enough passengers booked on your tour we may need to cancel the departure. If this is the case, we will usually notify you at least 2 weeks before the start date of your tour. Your options could be transferring to the nearest possible alternative date, opting for an alternative itinerary, or a full refund of monies paid to Get Onboard Aussie Tours.
TOUR GUIDE’S RESPONSIBILITY - All our tours are run by a trip leader and it is imperative that passengers listen to their guide’s instructions in order to stay safe. In regards to matters concerning passenger’s well-being and staying safe on tour, your guide will make all the decisions, and have the final say. If you fail to respect the decision of your guide and/or fail to follow their instructions, disrupt the group or affect the mobility of the group, your guide can remove you from the tour effective immediately, with no right of a refund.
ACCEPTANCE OF RISK - Our tours are adventurous and by booking on one of our tours you acknowledge that there is a degree of personal risk. You understand and accept you will be visiting remote areas, walking on rough terrain, and experiencing activities that require physical exertion that you might not be used to. It is your own responsibility to make sure you understand the type of tour you are joining, the conditions you’ll be travelling in and the nature of your itinerary.
SEVERABILITY- If at anytime a term or condition written under these Terms & Conditions is unenforceable or void by operation of law or if it’s against public policy, or for any other reason, then that term or condition shall be taken out of our contract or amended accordingly. It will be amended to a degree that will allow all remaining Terms & Conditions to remain obligatory.
PHOTOS AND MARKETING - By participating on our tours you give Get Onboard Aussie Tours consent to use images taken of you whilst on the trip for advertising and promotional purposes, however we choose. You grant us full-rights in every sense (perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide) and you accept that this is an irrevocable license, which allows us to use images of you for advertising and promotional purposes.
DIESEL LEVY - If diesel fuel prices rise sharply, Get Onboard Aussie Tours reserves the right to charge a diesel fuel levy.