Book a Tour Here – Tonga

Terms & Conditions of Booking a WhaleSwim Adventures Tour:

1. Online 'Book your Tour' reservations will be held for 14 days. The non-refundable deposit of AUD$2,000.00 is required within 14 days to confirm a reservation. (If booked prior to the 1 January of the year of the tour – a non-refundable deposit of AUD$500 per person is required within 14 days and the balance of the deposit to be paid by 1 February prior to the tours departure date.)
2. All payments are in Australian Dollars only, a further payment of 30% of your total tour cost is due on dates up-to-and-including 1 May (see your confirmation invoice for dates) and payment in full is to be paid 70 days prior to your WhaleSwim Adventures. For payments by wire transfer, please add AUD$20 for banks fees.
   All payments are non-refundable unless the space/s cancelled are filled. After our costs/overheads are deducted, the balance paid will be held in credit, as a deposit for a future Whaleswim Adventures tour. This tour is to be booked within the following 2 years of cancellation.
3. Re-scheduling and substitution of guests is permitted with approval of WhaleSwim Adventures.
4. A Liability Waiver must be signed for each guest and uploaded into our online booking system within 14 days of booking your WhaleSwim Adventures tour.
   TO UPLOAD: Login to your booking and go to the Aqua Abilities page - scroll down and you will see the UPLOAD button.  Click it and follow the prompts.
5. Travel insurance is mandatory for all our WhaleSwim Adventures guests and should be taken out at the time of booking. Your travel insurance must provide cover against personal accident, death, medical expenses and emergency repatriation with a recommended minimum coverage of US$200,000 for each of the categories of cover. It must also cover trip and flight cancellation. We also strongly recommend it also covers curtailment, personal liability and loss of luggage and personal effects. Your must provide WhaleSwim Adventures with proof of your travel insurance at least 80 days prior to tour commencement. You will not be able to join the tour without it. 
6.  All rates and conditions are subject to change.
7. If payments are not received at the designated times, WhaleSwim Adventures, reserves the right to sell those spaces in question with forfeiture of all monies to date.
8. The booking is binding and all payments are non-refundable.
9. Prices may change due to 1. currency fluctuations 2. schedule or content changes 3. suppliers increasing rates after the tour has been advertised on WhaleSwim Adventures Ltd's website and circumstances beyond the control of WhaleSwim Adventures, even after payment is made in full, clients will have to pay the additional cost.
10. These are ecological holidays. WhaleSwim Adventures reserves the right to ask any participants to leave the group should they behave in a way that is insensitive to the whales, the environment, local people, our staff, crew or other group members or continually not follow the WhaleSwim Guides directions in the water with the whales. WhaleSwim Adventures staff and management also reserve the right to move those guests to other accommodation at the guests expense. No refund will be given.
11. If the WhaleSwim Adventures Tour Leader and/or the licensed whale-watching guide is not satisfied with your fitness, agility and snorkelling ability, they have the right to refuse you entry to the water with the whales as your lack of ability may endanger yours and the lives of others.
12. Please read Aquatic Abilities (Experience Required section):
    Tonga: whaleswim.com/humpbacks-in-tonga/
13. Drones are ONLY permitted to be used on our 'Photography Tours' and only with prior permission of the Tour Leader. Please note that any drones being bought into Tonga must be registered at the Tongatapu airport upon entry into the country - unregistered drones will not be permitted to be used. 
14. Smoking is NOT permitted on our whale-swim vessels.
15. In the event of cancellation of a whale-watching day due to bad weather, no refunds or replacement day/s of whale watching will be offered by WhaleSwim Adventures.
16. Children/teenagers under 16 years old are not accepted on our 7, 8 or 9 night tours
17. If the minimum bookings of 4 people on our 6-person tours and 6 people on our 8-person tours is not reached 80 days prior to departure of each expedition, then WhaleSwim Adventures has the right to cancel the expedition and transfer guests to another expedition. Any airfares booked/changed and paid for by the guest should be covered by their travel insurance.
18. WhaleSwim Adventures tours cannot be booked via a Travel agent, they can only be booked directly with WhaleSwim Adventures. The travel agent may charge their commission at their own discretion.