Well, it certainly has been an interesting couple of months!
With the NT being one of the first jurisdictions to impliment tough border and quarantine controls, that were soon followed by other State and Federal governments, we have been fortunate to get through this period with minimal loss of lives and are now more capable and ready to deal with any further outbreaks.
Albeit, there is still many financial and mental challenges ahead!
Whilst it is promising that the NT’s borders may be open by mid July, there is still reasonable uncertainty between State and Federal bodies as to when free Australia wide travel may occur. Added to this uncertainty, is the unfortunate demise of Virgin Airlines which will have a significant impact on some of you who have booked flights with them. Hopefully new owners are found and you do not lose your flights value or ability to re-schedule.
As such, unless there is significant developments within the next month, in order to provide reasonable time-frames for change of plans and increased certainty,
we have decided to extend our suspension of tours out to August 14th.
For those with existing bookings during that period, if we have not done so already, we will contact you soon to discuss alternative arrangements.
In addition to the extended suspension of tours, we have also made some further changes for tour departure schedules for the August to November period as set out below.
Existing Bookings
For those that have been affected by the suspension, we appreciate your understanding and patience.
As we progress, those who have decided to defer travel rather than request a refund, we need to firstly ascertain whether you are considering travelling later this year or delaying until 2021.
As many of you are family groups that intended to travel during school holiday periods, in order to ensure we can meet your future needs we need to start planning future departure dates. In particular, the three week span covering Sept 19th to October 11th 2020, the first week is now already unavailable.
Similarly, we have already started to get some enquiries for 2021 so we want to make sure we have you locked in for the dates you require before we accept any new bookings.
Please refer to conditions for refunds and defferal as advised below on March 22nd and new information below regarding future 2020 scheduled tours.
New 2020 Bookings
Apart from already confirmed departures, All dates for ‘Public’ scheduled tours have been closed for the remainder of 2020 and up to April 2021.
As there will be limited (and probably expensive!) flights and reduced free independent travellers throughout this period, it is simply not worth scheduling tours and having to cancel if minimum numbers are not achieved.
We will only initially be accepting booking requests for groups of 4 or more people. Tours of two days or more will be accepted for departures on any date subject to availability surrounding any existing confirmed departures.
If the group prefers not to pay an additional fee to reserve the departure as a Private Charter the tour will be listed as a confirmed ‘Public’ departure and made available for other participants to book.
We feel this will be our most efficient way to ensure that we do not waste time on cancelling and re-arranging bookings.