Stabroek Events

Last Revised on April 16, 2022

AGREEMENT BETWEEN CUSTOMER AND STABROEK TRAVEL.

Welcome to the Stabroekevents.com website (the "Website"). This Website is provided solely to assist customers in gathering travel information, determining the availability of travel – related goods and services, making legitimate reservations, or otherwise transacting business with travel suppliers, and for no other purposes. The terms "we", "us", "our", and “Stabroek Events” refer to Stabroek Market Guyana, Inc., a Guyana-based corporation, and its subsidiaries and corporate affiliates. “Stabroek Partner” means any co-branded and/or linked website through which we provide links, content, or service. The term "you" refers to the customer visiting the Website and/or booking a reservation through us on this Website, or through our customer service agents.

This Website is offered to you conditioned upon your acceptance without modification of all the terms, conditions, and notices set forth below (collectively, the "Terms of Use” or "Agreement"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully, as they contain important information about limitations of liability and resolution of disputes through arbitration rather than in court. You should also read our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of the Website, and is incorporated by reference in this Agreement. By accessing or using this Website, booking any reservations for travel products or services, or contacting our call center agents, you agree that the Terms of Use then in force shall apply. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please do not use or book any reservations through this Website or our call center agents.

USE OF THE WEBSITE

As a condition of your use of this Website, you warrant that:

You are at least 18 years of age;
You possess the legal authority to create a binding legal obligation;
You will use this Website by these Terms of Use;
You will only use this Website to make legitimate reservations for you or for another person for whom you are legally authorized to act;
You will inform such other persons about the Terms of Use that apply to the reservations you have made on their behalf, including all rules and restrictions applicable thereto;
All information supplied by you on this Website is true, accurate, current and complete; and
If you have a Stabroektravel.com account, you will safeguard your account information and will supervise and be completely responsible for any use of your account by you and anyone other than you.

We retain the right at our sole discretion to deny access to anyone to this Website and the services we offer, at any time and for any reason, including, but not limited to, for violation of these Terms of Use.

PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

The content and information on this Website (including, but not limited to, price and availability of travel services) as well as the infrastructure used to provide such content and information, is proprietary to us or our suppliers and providers. While you may make limited copies of your travel itinerary (and related documents) for travel or service reservations booked through this Website, you agree not to otherwise modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell or re-sell any information, software, products, or services obtained from or through this Website. Additionally, you agree not to:

Use this Website or its contents for any commercial purpose;
Make any speculative, false, or fraudulent reservation or any reservation in anticipation of demand;
Access, monitor or copy any content or information of this Website using any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means or any manual process for any purpose without our express written permission;
Violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on this Website or bypass or circumvent other measures employed to prevent or limit access to this Website;
Take any action that imposes, or may impose, in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
Deep – link to any portion of this Website (including, without limitation, the purchase path for any travel services) for any purpose without our express written permission; or
"frame", "mirror" or otherwise incorporate any part of this Website into any other website without our prior written authorization.

If your booking or account shows signs of fraud, abuse, or suspicious activity, Stabroek Events may cancel any travel or service reservations associated with your name, email address, or account, and close any associated Stabroek Events accounts. If you have conducted any fraudulent activity, Stabroek Events reserves the right to take any necessary legal action and you may be liable for monetary losses to Stabroek Events, including litigation costs and damages. To contest the cancellation of a booking or freezing or closure of an account, please contact Stabroek Events Customer Service at [email protected]

SUPPLIER RULES AND RESTRICTIONS

Additional terms and conditions will apply to your reservation and purchase of travel-related goods and services that you select. Please read these additional terms and conditions carefully. In particular, if you have purchased an airfare, please ensure you read the full terms and conditions of carriage issued by the travel supplier, which can be found on the supplier’s website. You agree to abide by the terms and conditions of purchase imposed by any supplier with whom you elect to deal, including, but not limited to, payment of all amounts when due and compliance with the supplier's rules and restrictions regarding availability and use of fares, products, or services. Airfare is only guaranteed once the purchase has been completed and the tickets have been issued. Airlines and other travel suppliers may change their prices without notice. We reserve the right to cancel your booking if full payment is not received in a timely fashion.

In case of a no-show or cancellation, you may be entitled to a refund of airport taxes and fees included in the price of the ticket purchased. Where you are eligible for a refund, you can request such a refund from Stabroek Events customer service, who will submit your request to the airline on your behalf.

Stabroek Events may offer you the opportunity to book a reservation for a combination of two one-way tickets instead of a roundtrip ticket. Combined one-way tickets may provide a greater choice of flights, are often cheaper, and can be combined on the same airline or different airlines. Unlike roundtrip tickets, each one-way ticket is subject to its own rules, restrictions, and fees. If one of these flights is affected by an airline change (e.g. cancellation or rescheduling) that causes a Customer to make changes to the other flight, the Customer will be responsible for any fees incurred for making changes to the unaffected flight.

For certain low-cost carriers, the price of your flight has been converted from a different currency for convenience purposes to provide you with an estimate of the amount of the purchase in your local currency. As a result, when you book, the amount charged to your credit card by the airline may be slightly different due to currency fluctuations. Your statement may also include a fee from your card issuer to process the transaction plus any applicable taxes for international purchases.

Local law forbids the carriage of hazardous materials aboard aircraft in your luggage or on your person. A violation can result in imprisonment and penalties depending on applicable law. Hazardous materials include explosives, compressed gases, flammable liquids and solids, oxidizers, poisons, corrosives and radioactive materials. Examples: Paints, lighter fluid, fireworks, tear gases, oxygen bottles, and radio-pharmaceuticals. There are special exceptions for small quantities (up to 70 ounces total) of medicinal and toilet articles carried in your luggage and certain smoking materials carried on your person.

You acknowledge that some third-party providers offering certain services and/or activities may require you to sign their liability waiver before participating in the service and/or activity they offer. You understand that any violation of any such supplier's rules and restrictions may result in the cancellation of your reservation(s), in your being denied access to the applicable event product or services, in your forfeiting any monies paid for such reservation(s), and/or in our debiting your account for any costs we incur as a result of such violation.

Stabroek Events is not liable for any costs incurred due to hotel relocation.

Sort Order:

Travelers have many options to help them find the perfect hotel, flight, car rental, cruise, or activity. The “sort” settings at the top of the page allow travelers to order search results to their preference, whether based on price, verified review score, or other criteria. The “filter” settings also allow travelers to include or exclude various options to suit their travel needs. If no options are selected, we will show a range of relevant options in the search results, based on the criteria outlined below:

Lodging: Our default sort order reflects the relevance of properties to your search criteria, as we want to make sure you can quickly and easily find the offer that is right for you. We measure relevance by taking into account factors like a property’s location, its review scores, the popularity of the property (measured by how many travelers on our sites make bookings at that property), the quality of the content provided by the property, and the competitiveness of the property’s rates and availability, all relative to other properties meeting your chosen search criteria. The compensation that a property pays us for bookings made through our sites is also a factor for the relative ranking of properties with similar offers, based on the relevance factors described above. On our non-default sorts (e.g., by price or by star rating), properties with similar results will be ordered based on the factors above.
Flights: Our default sort order is based on the lowest price. In cases where two flights have the same price, the shorter flight is listed first.
Car Rental: Our default sort order is primarily driven by price, but we may consider other relevant factors such as popularity, customer reviews, convenience of pickup location, and car type or category.
Cruise: Our default sort order is based on a number of relevant factors such as cruise line rating, ship rating, price per day, origin rating, destination rating, length of cruise, and booking window.
Activities: Our default sort order is manually curated by Stabroek Events’s destination managers familiar with each market, taking into account such factors as price, popularity, distance from hotel options, and traveler feedback.
Vacation Packages: When combining several different travel products into a vacation package, we use the criteria outlined above to determine the sort order for each product.

Additionally, we continually optimize our service to provide the best experience to travelers. Accordingly, we may test different default sort order algorithms from time to time.

PREPAID HOTEL RESERVATIONS

You acknowledge that Stabroek Events pre-negotiate certain room rates with hotel suppliers to facilitate the booking of reservations. You also acknowledge that Stabroek Events provides you services to facilitate such booking of reservations for a consideration (the "facilitation fee"). The room rate displayed on the Website is a combination of the pre-negotiated room rate for rooms reserved on your behalf by Stabroek Events and the facilitation fee retained by Stabroek Events for its services. You authorize Stabroek Events to book reservations for the total reservation price, which includes the room rate displayed on the Website, plus tax recovery charges, service fees, and where applicable, taxes on the Stabroek Events services. You agree that your credit card will be charged by Stabroek Events for the total reservation price. Upon submitting your reservation request you authorize Stabroek Events to facilitate hotel reservations on your behalf, including making payment arrangements with hotel suppliers.

You acknowledge that except as provided below with respect to tax obligations on the amounts we retain for our services, Stabroek Events does not collect taxes for remittance to applicable taxing authorities. The tax recovery charges on prepaid hotel transactions are a recovery of the estimated taxes (e.g. sales and use, occupancy, room tax, excise tax, value added tax, etc.) that Stabroek Events pays to the hotel supplier for taxes due on the hotel's rental rate for the room. The hotel suppliers’ invoice Stabroek Events for certain charges, including tax amounts. The hotel suppliers are responsible for remitting applicable taxes to the applicable taxing jurisdictions. Stabroek Events does not act as co-vendors with the supplier with whom we book or reserve our customer's travel arrangements. Taxability and the appropriate tax rate vary greatly by location. The actual tax amounts paid by Stabroek Events to the hotel suppliers may vary from the tax recovery charge amounts, depending upon the rates, taxability, etc. in effect at the time of the actual use of the hotel by our customers. We retain service fees as additional compensation in servicing your travel reservation. Service fees retained by Stabroek Events for their services vary based on the amount and type of hotel reservation.

You may cancel or change your prepaid hotel reservation, but you will be charged the cancellation or change fee indicated in the rules and restrictions for the hotel reservation. If you do not cancel or change your reservation before the cancellation policy period applicable to the hotel you reserved, which varies by hotel (usually 24 to 72 hours) prior to your date of arrival, you will be subject to a charge equal to applicable nightly rates, tax recovery charges and service fees. In the event you do not show for the first night of the reservation and plan to check-in for subsequent nights in your reservation, you must confirm the reservation changes with us no later than the date of the first night of the reservation to prevent cancellation of your reservation.

You agree to pay any cancellation or change fees that you incur. In limited cases, some hotels do not permit changes to or cancellations of reservations after they are made, as indicated in the rules and restrictions for the hotel reservation. You agree to abide by the Terms of Use imposed with respect to your prepaid hotel reservations.

Sales, use and/or local hotel occupancy taxes are imposed on the amounts that we charge for our services (service fee and/or facilitation fee) in certain jurisdictions. The actual tax amounts on our services may vary depending on the rates in effect at the time of your hotel stay.

You may not book reservations for more than 5 rooms online for the same hotel/stay dates. If we determine that you have booked reservations for more than 5 rooms in total in separate reservations, we may cancel your reservations, and charge you a cancellation fee, if applicable. If you paid a non-refundable deposit, your deposit will be forfeited. If you wish to book reservations for 6 or more rooms, you must contact Stabroek Events’s group travel specialists by phone at (592) 227-5029 or by filling out the group travel form online. One of our group travel specialists will research your request and contact you to complete your reservation. You may be asked to sign a written contract and/or pay a non-refundable deposit.

Some event suppliers may require you to present a credit card or cash deposit upon check-in to cover additional expenses incurred during your stay. Such deposit is unrelated to any payment received by Stabroek Market Guyana, Inc. for your hotel booking.

PAY NOW OR PAY LATER DETAILS

With certain events, you may be presented with the option to pay online now or pay later at the hotel. If you select the “Pay Online Now” option, Stabroek Events will charge the amount to your credit card in US dollars immediately. If you select “Pay Later at the Hotel”, the hotel will charge your credit card in the local currency at the time of your stay. Please note that taxes and fees vary between the two payment options. Tax rates and foreign exchange rates could change in the time between booking and stay. Stabroek Events coupons may only be applied to "Pay Online Now" bookings.

BANK AND CREDIT CARD FEES

Your payment is processed in Guyana when we process your payment. When the event supplier processes your payment, it will be processed in the country in which the event supplier is based.

Stabroek Events or the event supplier may have to verify: (i) the validity of the payment card (through a charge of a nominal value that is either refunded within a few days or deducted from the final payment due to the travel supplier) and, (ii) the availability of funds on the payment card (to be confirmed by the bank issuing your credit card).

Some banks and credit card companies impose fees for international or cross border transactions. For instance, if you are making a booking using a non-US merchant with a US-issued card, your bank may charge you a cross-border or international transaction fee. Furthermore, booking international travel may be considered an international transaction by your bank or card company, since we may pass your card details to an international event supplier to be charged. In addition, some banks and card companies impose fees for currency conversion. For instance, if you are making a booking in a currency other than the currency of your credit card, your credit card company may convert the booking amount to the currency of your credit card and charge you a conversion fee. The currency exchange rate and foreign transaction fee is determined solely by your bank on the day that they process the transaction. If you have any questions about these fees or the exchange rate applied to your booking, please contact your bank.

CURRENCY CONVERTER

If a currency convertor is available on the Website, the following terms and conditions apply: Currency rates are based on various publicly available sources and should be used as guidelines only. Rates are not verified as accurate, and actual rates may vary. Currency quotes are not updated every day. Check the date on the currency converter feature for the day that currency was last updated. The information supplied by this application is believed to be accurate, but Stabroek Events does not warrant or guarantee such accuracy. When using this information for any financial purpose, we advise you to consult a qualified professional to verify the accuracy of the currency rates. We do not authorize the use of this information for any purpose other than your personal use and you are expressly prohibited from the resale, redistribution, and use of this information for commercial purposes.

STABROEK TRAVEL REWARDS

The Stabroek Events Rewards program (“Program”) is offered to the Website’s customers at the sole discretion of Stabroek Events, and is open only to individuals who have reached the legal age of majority in their respective province/territory of residence, have a valid email address, and have enrolled in the Program. Please click here to see the Terms and Conditions of the Program.

PAY WITH POINTS

Stabroek Events allows points from selected loyalty programs (“Points Programs”) to be redeemed for certain travel-related goods and services on the Website. If you use or register to use any points on the Website these terms and conditions apply. To be eligible to use points on the Website, you must have a Stabroektravel.com account, you must have an eligible account with the provider of the Points Program that is active and in good standing, and your purchase must exceed the minimum transaction value for the use of your points (if any).

LINKING YOUR ACCOUNT: For Points Programs other than Stabroek Events Rewards, (Your Stabroek Events Rewards account is automatically linked to your Stabroektravel.com account), your Points Program account (“Account”) will be linked to your Stabroektravel.com account during the registration process on the Website. Stabroek Events reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny registration, de-link your Account, or terminate your ability to use points on Stabroekevents.com for any reason. During and after registration, the Points Program provider may provide Stabroek Events with information about your Account, including your points balance.

REDEEMING POINTS: There is no fee to redeem your points at Stabroekevents.com. Points may only be redeemed for eligible purchases of Stabroek Events-related goods and services that Stabroek Events will determine at its discretion. Your Points Program provider will deduct from your Account balance the number of points you elect to use toward your eligible purchase. You may not combine points from one Points Program provider with any other loyalty points from another provider to complete a single transaction. However, if you do not have enough points to complete an eligible purchase, you may use an eligible credit card associated with your Account to complete the transaction. Eligible cards for such transactions may be limited to cards associated with the Points Program used in the transaction. Stabroek Events may, in its discretion, allow you to combine points with eligible coupons.

ADDITIONAL TERMS: Purchases made with points are subject to the point to dollar conversion rate set by the Points Program provider. The Points Program provider has the right to change the point to dollar conversion rates at any time. Also, some Points Program providers may set a minimum amount of points that may be redeemed in any transaction. Additional terms and conditions may apply and are available at the applicable Points Program provider’s website.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

You are responsible for ensuring that you meet foreign entry requirements and that your travel documents, such as passports and visas (transit, business, tourist, and otherwise), are in order and that any other foreign entry requirements are met. Stabroek Events has no special knowledge regarding foreign entry requirements or travel documents. We urge customers to review travel prohibitions, warnings, announcements, and advisories issued by the relevant governments prior to booking travel to international destinations.

Passport and Visa: You must consult the relevant Embassy or Consulate for this information. Requirements may change and you should check for up-to-date information before booking and departure. We accept no liability if you are refused entry onto a flight or into any country due to your failure to carry the correct and adequate passport, visa, or other travel documents required by any airline, authority, or country, including countries you may just be transiting through. This includes all stops made by the aircraft, even if you do not leave the aircraft or airport.

Health: Recommended inoculations for travel may change and you should consult your doctor for current recommendations before you depart. It is your responsibility to ensure that you meet all health entry requirements, obtain the recommended inoculations, take all recommended medication, and follow all medical advice in relation to your trip.

Disinsection: Although not common, most countries reserve the right to disinfect aircraft if there is a perceived threat to public health, agriculture or the environment. The World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization have approved the following disinsection procedures: (1) spray the aircraft cabin with an aerosolized insecticide while passengers are on board or (2) treat the aircraft's interior surfaces with a residual insecticide while passengers are not on board.

BY OFFERING RESERVATIONS FOR TRAVEL PRODUCTS IN PARTICULAR INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS, STABROEK EVENTS DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT TRAVEL TO SUCH AREAS IS ADVISABLE OR WITHOUT RISK, AND IS NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OR LOSSES THAT MAY RESULT FROM TRAVEL TO SUCH DESTINATIONS.

LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

The Information, Software, Products and Services published on this Website may include inaccuracies or errors, including pricing errors. In particular, Stabroek Events does not guarantee the accuracy of, and disclaim all liability for any errors or other inaccuracies relating to the information and description of the hotel, air, cruise, car and other events products and services displayed on this Website (including, without limitation, the pricing, photographs, list of hotel amenities, general product descriptions, etc.). In addition, Stabroek Events expressly reserves the right to correct any pricing errors on our Website and/or reservations made under an incorrect price. In such an event, if available, we will offer you the opportunity to keep your reservation at the correct price or we will cancel your reservation without penalty.

Hotel ratings displayed on this Website are intended as only general guidelines, and Stabroek Travel does not guarantee the accuracy of the ratings. Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers make no guarantees about the availability of specific products and services. Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers may make improvements and/or changes on the Website at any time.

Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers make no representations about the suitability of the information, software, products and services contained on this Website for any purpose, and the inclusion or offering of any products or services on this Website does not constitute any endorsement or recommendation of such products or services by Stabroek Events. All such information, software products, and services are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. Stabroek Travel and its respective suppliers disclaim all warranties and conditions that this Website, its servers or any email sent from Stabroek Events, Stabroek Events and/or its respective suppliers are free of viruses or other harmful components. Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products and services, including all implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular response, title and non-infringement.

The carriers, hotels and other suppliers providing travel or other services on this Website are independent contractors and not agents or employees of Stabroek Events. Stabroek Events is not liable for the acts, errors, omissions, representations, warranties, breaches or negligence of any such suppliers or for any personal injuries, death, property damage, or other damages or expenses resulting therefrom. Stabroek Events has no liability and will make no refund in the event of any delay, cancellation, overbooking, strike, force majeure or other causes beyond their direct control, and they have no responsibility for any additional expenses, omissions, delays, re-routing or acts of any government or authority.

In no event shall Stabroek Events or its respective suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of, or in any way connected with, your access to, display of or use of this Website or with the delay or inability to access, display or use this Website (including, but not limited to, your reliance upon opinions appearing on this Website; any computer viruses, information, software, linked sites, products and services obtaining through this Website; or otherwise arising out of the access to, display of or use of this Website) whether based on a theory of negligence, contract, tort, strict liability, consumer protection statutes or otherwise and even if Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

If despite the limitation above, Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers are found liable for any loss or damage which arises out of or in any way connected with any of the occurrences described above, then the liability of Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers will in no event exceed, in the aggregate, the greater of (a) the service fees you paid to Stabroek Events in connection with such transaction(s) on this Website, or (b) One-Hundred Dollars (US$100.00) or the equivalent in local currency.

The limitation of liability reflects the allocation of risk between the parties. The limitations specified in this section will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in these Terms of Use is found to have failed in its essential purpose. The limitations of liability provided in these Terms of Use insure the benefit of Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend and indemnify Stabroek Events and its respective suppliers and any of their officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties, or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of:

Your breach of these Terms of Use or the documents referenced herein;
Your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or
Your use of this Website.