Terms & Conditions



These General Terms and Conditions do not contravene to consumers' mandatory statutory rights.
Please read these General Terms and Conditions carefully. These General Terms and Conditions describe our contractual obligations to you, and your contractual obligations to MountVacation.com. It answers all questions that may appear about deposits and cancellation penalties. By clicking the NEXT button at the end of this page, you will be bound by these terms and conditions.

1. Validity of the General Terms and Conditions

 
The website MountVacation.com and OBS d.o.o. (MountVacation.com) offers its services exclusively on the basis of these General Terms and Conditions. The General Terms and Conditions provisions govern the legal relationship between you as customer and MountVacation.com and constitute a part of the contract between you and MountVacation.com. MountVacation.com regularly operates solely as an internet broker and not a broker of distinct accommodation services. MountVacation.com will operate solely as an intermediary between you and respective service providers, such as hotel operations, and acts on behalf and to the account of both, you and the respective service provider. Insofar as MountVacation.com offers internet links to third-party offers in the course of individual transactions, MountVacation.com does not operate as an intermediary of those third-party services. Please be advised that price, conveyance, and general travel conditions of the relevant individual service provider(s) will apply to the contents of the agreement between you and the service provider(s). These conditions may govern the conditions of payment, deadlines, liability, cancellation, booking alterations, reimbursement as well as other details of the hotel agreement for clarification purposes only.

2. Validity of information

 
The information on this website is the sole responsibility of the MountVacation.com. It is not issued on behalf of either: the ski resorts, the hotel chains, individual hoteliers, or suppliers of self-catering accommodations, and neither accepts responsibility for it.

The on-line prices are calculated as accurately as possible according to the information input by you, the client, and information input by individual hotels. However, because of the complex nature of calculations and numerous different combinations of hotel rooms, we cannot guarantee the online prices. All rooms and prices on the website are subject to availability.

3. Use of the WWW site

 
You may only use the website to make legitimate enquiries or bookings. You are not permitted to make any speculative, false or fraudulent bookings, or any booking in anticipation of demand. If we are reasonably of the opinion that such a booking has been made we shall have full right to cancel the booking and inform the relevant authorities of the respective countries.

You also undertake to provide correct and accurate email, postal and/or other contact information to us and give us right to use these details to contact you in case that it should prove to be necessary (see our «Privacy Policy»). If you do not give us all of the information that we need, we may not be able to complete your booking. You shall be liable to us for any damage sustained due to any speculative, false or fraudulent bookings and/or contact information made or given by you.

4. Disclaimer

 
The MountVacation.com website has been compiled with the greatest possible care. Our services are based on the information provided by the hotels; for this reason, the hotels remain responsible for the correctness of this information. Hotels can alter the information about their hotel, such as prices and availability, at any moment. We can therefore not guarantee that all the information is accurate and faultless, nor can we be held responsible for errors or inaccuracies in the supplied information. You should always check the provided information before acting on the basis of the supplied information.

5. Contract and the booking procedure

 
This website is intended only as an invitation and it does not constitute an offer by MountVacation.com. Any booking made by you shall be deemed to be a binding offer by you which we may, at our choice, accept. No contract shall exist until payment is received and the booking is confirmed to you as applicable under these GTC.

The offer is established through the completion of the booking sequence whereby you click on the appropriate button(s). You are bound to this offer for a maximum of 48 hours. If neither MountVacation.com nor respective hotel services provider confirms the booking via electronic media within 48 hours following the entry of the offer, you are no longer bound by your offer. A booking confirmation will serve as an acceptance. A booking confirmation will generally be sent immediately to your email address following the completion of the booking sequence together with the booking-code and at it will be at the same time sent to the respective hotel service provider of your choice.

Once we have received your booking request and have responded with a confirmed price and availability for your accommodation we can guarantee that this price and booking is accurate and will be held for 48 hours from the time of our return email to you. Hotel services provider holds the right to cancel the booking within said 48 hours from the time of our return mail to you, if booked accommodation term was available only due to mistaken check in, in case of late check out of unavailable terms and in case of unauthorised system abuse by third party.

6. Payment

 
MountVacation.com shall forward all your reservation information, excluding the credit card details, to the hotel service provider via a secure connection.

MountVacation.com shall charge you directly via credit card secure payment, PayPal or Money Bookers, or via bank transfer, in the amount of 10% of the total accommodation price as respectively booked. The 90% of the accommodation price will be paid by you at the respective hotel services provider upon arrival or departure, as applicable by individual provider.

In some cases (indicated with the booking path), we ask for full prepayment before your departure. We will send you an invoice for the remaining 90% of your purchase directly to your email box and ask you for the final payment. If your arrival is less of 90 days from the booking date, you will be given the option to either pay 100% of the purchase price at the time of booking or 10% at the time of booking and the outstanding balance 56 days prior to arrival. If you pay by credit or debit card, we shall automatically process the payment at the time of booking in accordance with the above terms. You hereby give us your consent for this procedure. Failure of payment due to unauthorized or improper use of the credit card or any other reason shall result in your booking being cancelled.

As the purchase is being completed, you are bound by these terms and conditions. The relevant invoice will be sent the working day following the day of your booking. Please note that it is your responsibility to check carefully the details of your booking as soon as you receive them, and to notify us of any irregularities.

For security of payment, credit card details are taken and shall be kept by MountVacation.com until you have covered the full accommodation price, as a guarantee of reservation only and shall be deleted after hotel service provider was fully compensated.

Note that whenever you provide us with personal details or credit card information, such as your credit card number, name, address, and telephone number, they are protected by powerful Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology as it travels through the internet.

7. Booking confirmation and receipt

 
You must present your booking confirmation details to the accommodation services provider upon arrival as they are proof of pre-payment.

It is your responsibility to check the confirmation and ensure that all of the details are correct. Accommodation will only be provided in accordance with the details listed in the confirmation. If the details on the confirmation are not correct, you should contact us prior to travel at info@mountvacation.com.

It is also your responsibility to ensure the accuracy of the information you input into the on-line form before you complete the booking. If you make a mistake, we will try to correct the booking details but provide no guarantee that this will be possible. The cost of the service requested may vary on amendment of the details and if so you will have to pay these in addition. A new confirmation email will be sent to you. If the new details do not suit you, you may cancel your booking in accordance with Article 9 of these General Terms and Condition.

8. Exclusion of liability for services booked

 
MountVacation.com assumes no liability for the performance of the hotel and accommodation services and provides no guaranty with regard to the quality or fitness of the services as represented nor does MountVacation.com, which operates solely as an intermediary, supply any guaranty for the availability of hotel and accommodation services.

9. Personal travel insurance and travel documents

 
Unexpected events can lead to unavoidable cancellation of holidays which can involve you in substantial cancellation charges. Illness or personal loss abroad can be costly at best. That is why you are obligated to purchase a cancelation insurance policy to an extra cost of 2,5% per total sum of your reservation. This cancelation insurance is for your and MountVacation.com's safety, to arrange for your holiday insurance, as your holiday may be obstructed due to reasons that are beyond our or your control (sickness, death in your family or any other occasion mentioned in a terms and conditions of our partner Mondial Assistance International AG).

From time to time you may find a link to a partner of ours in order to get information for medical & assistance travel insurance policies. However, it is at your absolute discretion to choose your insurance provider.

We do not insist that you take out personal travel cover with us, although we believe our premiums are competitive. If you do not take out insurance with us, it is a condition of booking that you indemnify MountVacation.com against all costs, losses and liabilities that would have been covered by such insurance.

You are also liable to respect all customs and monetary regulation of your country and the country of your destination. If you shall at any point be banned to continue the journey or usage of accommodation facilities due to infringement of any of such regulation, you shall be solely liable for all the consequences and costs that such might incur at any such event.


The client is entitled to total reimbursement, minus the cost of travel cancellation insurance premium and 50 € administrative costs, caused to MountVacation.com by the processing of booking. Reimbursement is paid directly to the clients' account. If one claims in, it is neccessary to write the following data: account number and bank.

All medical certificates are under the supervision of insurance company. In case of insurance fraud legal action will be taken against the physician as well as the client.

10. Changes or cancellation of a holiday by the customer

 
If you want to cancel your holiday, the person who made the booking form must write to us or send us an email. We will cancel your booking with the booked accommodation provider on the day we receive your communication. Cancellation charges as a percentage of the total cost (excluding any insurance premiums, which are never refunded) and which shall be paid to MountVacation.com only are as follows:
  • Your notice is received more then 56 days before departure = 10% of total value of booking;
  • Your notice is received between 55 and 30 days before departure = 30% of total value of booking;
  • Your notice is received between 29 and 15 days before departure = 50% of total value of booking;
  • Your notice is received 14 days or less before departure = 100% of total value of booking;
Premiums for personal travel insurance are not refundable.

Individuals however shall not be entitled to reimbursement in the event of the force majeure such as any natural causes or political unrest which caused impossibility to use accommodation services. In such event it shall be deemed that the individual has withdrawn from the contract and MountVacation.com shall have a right to charge him/her costs as defined by paragraph 2 of this Article.

11. Change or cancellation of a holiday by MountVacation.com

 
Except if we notify you within 48 hours after you booked you accommodation and the accommodation provider has been notified, changes made by the accommodation provider shall not affect any of your rights. In no event shall MountVacation.com be liable for change of accommodation to accommodation of a lower standard, and any other event, when the change or cancellation is caused by accommodation provider or in the event of force majeure such as war, threat of war, civil strife, industrial action, terrorist activity, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, bad weather or technical difficulties with transport and any other incident that shall frustrate your travel. In these circumstances we are not liable and we will not pay any resulting expenses or additional costs.

Lack of snow is not a reason to cancel your holidays and MountVacation.com will not reimburse any resulting expenses or additional costs. If you cancel your holidays, you will be charged by article 9 of this GTC.

12. Complaints

 
If you have any complaint about the accommodation services you have found or booked trough our web site, you must tell the provider of the accommodation service's immediately, and must notify the hotel reception desk or to the relevant hotel representative during your stay. The facility management must be given adequate opportunity to rectify the situation. If they do not mend the situation and your enjoyment of your holiday is affected, you must let us know as soon as possible so we can react in a proper manner and remove such accommodation provider from our web site, however we can not guarantee nor do we take responsibility for the standard of the accommodation.

If at the time returning to your respective country you wish to take the matter further, you must write to us with full details of the complaint within 28 days of your return to the address of MountVacation.com. If you have not followed the above procedure we will still do our best to help you, but any liability may be diminished, ultimately to the extent that liability of the accommodation services shall be minimal or non-existent, if there is a failure to complain promptly in writing and without giving service provider the opportunity to rectify the problem while the opportunity exists. None of the foregoing in any way affects your statutory rights. We endeavour to respond to all complaints within fifteen working days, and we keep you fully informed of progress throughout.

13. Assignment

 
These General Terms and Conditions of the contract are between you and us only. You are not entitled to assign or delegate your rights under them to any third person.

14. Intellectual property

 
All intellectual property and information on the MountVacation.com website is ours or is licensed to us and you shall not copy these without our permission. This does not prevent you from using MountVacation.com website to the extent necessary to make a copy of any booking details.

15. Amendment of the terms and conditions

 
Each time you use MountVacation.com website, you will be bound by the then current General Terms and Conditions and you should review these each time you make a booking to insure your are satisfied with them.

16. Severability

 
These General Terms and Conditions shall be deemed severable. In the event that any provision is determined to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision shall nonetheless be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.

17. Headings

 
The headings used in these General Terms and Conditions are included for convenience only and shall not define, extend, limit or otherwise affect these General Terms and Conditions.

18. Entire agreement

 
These General Terms and Conditions constitute a binding contract between us and you should read them carefully and ensure they contain everything you want and nothing you are not prepared to agree to.

19. Applicable law

 
Your contract with MountVacation.com is based on these General Terms and Conditions and these terms represent a part of the contract. You must agree with the General Terms and Conditions before continuing the process. The contract and the General Terms and Conditions are governed by the Laws of the Republic of Slovenia. Any dispute arising out of or in relation to this contract or the terms shall be at any case and notwithstanding the EU legislation resolved by the Courts of the Republic of Slovenia, unless you are a natural person and MountVacation.com will have to file a claim against you. In such case a law suit may be brought up against you at the court of your present domicile or permanent residence, unless you have changed your domicile or residence after confirming these General Terms and Conditions. Your statutory rights are not affected by anything in these General Terms and Conditions. The English version of these General Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at MountVacation.com under Terms and Conditions, is the authentic and original version and shall be used in any dispute. All other language versions merely serve as a translation for convenience.

20. Privacy


 
MountVacation.com respects your privacy

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act and relevant EU legislation).
We collect information about you for two reasons: first, to process your order and second, to provide you with the best possible service.
Before you submit your accommodation proposal we ask if we can send you occasional news or offers by email. We will not email you in the future unless you have given us your consent. We do, however, need to email you during the process of arranging your accommodation.
We will give you the chance to refuse email from us in the future. We do not send marketing emails to non-customer's personal email addresses ('spam').
 
What kind of information do we collect?
The type of information we will collect about you includes:
  • your name
  • age (to ensure correct allocation of hotel rooms/insurance pricing)
  • name and age of other party members
  • your address
  • phone number
  • e-mail address
  • credit/debit card details
Any personal information you supply will only be used for the purpose of arranging your holiday, and will not be given or sold to any third party under any other circumstances.
We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.
The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We use Secure Socket Layers (SSL) technology to ensure the privacy of the information provided to us both. At no time is your debit/credit card details transmitted unencrypted over the Internet. We also operate behind a firewall to ensure there is no unauthorised access to our systems.

Cookies
We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which would be stored on your browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser settings. You must have "cookies" enabled to use the MountVacation.com World Wide Web site.

Links
MountVacation.com contains links to other websites. Those sites are not covered by this privacy and security policy, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those other sites.

 

 
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