Terms and Conditions


Please ensure that you read the following booking conditions carefully before making a booking with us. All Strel Swimming Adventures (“SSA”) holidays and vacations are operated by Strel Swimming Ltd. and Strel Swimming LLC. These booking conditions are applicable to the contract between you and Strel Swimming Ltd. (all European / Mediterranean tours) and Strel Swimming LLC (North American tours). The terms “we”, “us” and “our” as used in these terms and conditions mean Strel Swimming Ltd. or Strel Swimming LLC. References to “you”, “your” or “guest” mean all persons named on the booking.

1. Booking and payment

1.1. Online and telephone bookings

All bookings are subject to availability. Bookings can be made either online at www.strel-swimming.com or by telephone on +44 78 58 2525 86 or +1 408-634-6633. Bookings must be made by persons aged 18 or above. We welcome guests from the age of 16. All guests aged below 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

A binding contract comes into existence once we have received from you all payments applicable at the time of booking and we have sent our booking confirmation to you. It is your responsibility to check your booking confirmation upon receipt. Please inform us immediately if any information appears to be incorrect as it may not be possible to make any changes subsequently.

1.2. Payment terms

At the time of booking, you must either pay (i) the total published holiday price or (ii) a deposit of 30% (30% for Swim and Sail trips) of the published holiday price (the “Deposit”), with the balance of the published holiday price payable 90 days before the start of your SSA holiday (the “Due Date”). For all bookings made less than 90 days before the start of your SSA holiday, you must pay the published holiday price at the time of booking. If we do not receive payment by the Due Date, we reserve the right to cancel your booking immediately and you will forfeit your Deposit. We may agree to extend the Due Date at your request. If, however, you subsequently fail to pay the balance we shall consider the booking cancelled and you will be liable to pay the applicable cancellation charges. These set out below at section 4 (“Cancellation by you”).

1.3. Method of payment

You must pay the Deposit for your SSA holiday by credit card at the time of booking. We accept the following credit/debit cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Expres and Apple Pay. Please note that payments made by credit or debit card (whether deposits, part payments or final balances) will be subject to an admin surcharge charged by our provider (interchange transaction fee). All bookings made less than 90 days before the start of your SSA holiday must also be paid by credit or debit card at the time of booking.

You may pay the balance of the published holiday price, payable 90 days before the start of your SSA holiday, by credit or debit card and bank transfer. Full details will be provided on your booking order.

All online booking payments and transactions are made via a secure payment gateway and settled at our partner’s banks, Chase Bank in the USA and Barclays Bank in the United Kingdom. We do not store any credit or debit card information. To make a payment you will be redirected to Payment Gateway which is a secure website (SSL-Secure Socket Layer) dedicated to our booking system.

2. Published SSA holiday information

2.1. Price

Our prices are published on our website and you may have a look before your booking. We reserve the right to alter the published holiday price at any time before your booking is confirmed. Any special offers may be offered, altered or withdrawn at any time and without prior notification. Our SSA holidays are sold primarily in EUR, GBP and USD, however, we may take your booking in other currencies as well.

2.2. SSA holiday description

All information published on our website and in our promotional literature is correct at the time of publishing. All descriptions of accommodation, facilities and other services are based on information obtained from our third-party suppliers. Please bear in mind that occasionally some facilities or services may be withdrawn by our third-party suppliers due to circumstances beyond our control, for example, weather conditions or lack of demand. Where changes are significant we will endeavour to inform you as soon as possible (see section 5 “Cancellation by SSA” below).

2.3. Accommodation preferences

We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that all accommodation preferences supplied at the time of booking are fulfilled. Occasionally, however, our third party accommodation suppliers may be unable to fulfil all requests due to circumstances beyond our control. All accommodation preferences stipulated at the time of booking and thereafter are strictly subject to availability.

2.4. Itinerary

We reserve the right to change the published itinerary at any time. Your safety is of the utmost importance to us. Open water swimming requires a certain degree of flexibility and we may need to adapt our itinerary in the event of adverse weather conditions or any other circumstances beyond our control at any of our swimming locations. Our team always includes at least one local guide or boat pilot who knows the area well enough to ensure we swim in the finest and safest places to swim.

3. Medical conditions

SSA holidays are active adventure holiday trips. We welcome guests of all ages (over 16) and swimming abilities (please refer to our FAQs for a minimum speed required). However, if you have any medical condition or disability which might affect your SSA holiday, please contact us before making your booking so that we can advise as to the suitability of your arrangements. If we reasonably consider that we are unable properly to accommodate your particular needs, we reserve the right to decline your booking or, if full details are not given at the time of booking, cancel your booking once we become aware of those details. Medical conditions before or during our trip also include Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which is an infectious disease.

4. Cancellation and Changes by You

If you wish to cancel your booking, you must provide us with written notice as soon as possible. Cancellation will take effect from the date of receipt of your written notice. In all cases of cancellation, you will forfeit your Deposit.
If you cancel your booking 90 days (100 days for Swim and Sail trips) or less before your SSA holiday is due to start, a cancellation fee will be immediately payable to us. Cancellation fees are expressed as a percentage of the total holiday cost (as published or booked at the time of booking), as follows:

 

APPLICABLE FOR HOTEL-BASED TRIPS
Receipt of cancellation notice before departure
Cancellation charge payable
more than 90 days 40% or deposit
46-89 days 70%
45 days 100%

 

APPLICABLE FOR SWIM-SAIL CRUISE TRIPS
Receipt of cancellation notice before departure
Cancellation charge payable
more than 90 days 40% or deposit
61-89 days 80%
60 days 100%

 

APPLICABLE FOR GROUP BOOKINGS OF
8 OR MORE PERSONS PER TRIP
Receipt of cancellation notice before departure
Cancellation charge payable
more than 90 days 40% or deposit
61-89 days 80%
60 days 100%

 

If, after our booking confirmation has been issued, you wish to make any changes to your booking, you must send us a written request. All changes are subject to a 50 Eur,(100 Usd for Lake Powell, Loreto, Bacalar trips) and 150 Eur (Swim and Sail liveaboard trips) administration fee per person and any further costs already allocated to this trip booking including those charged by our suppliers who provide the component parts of your booking.

If you wish to transfer to another SSA holiday or change your departure date, you must send us a written request at least 90 days before the start of your trip (for individual bookings) and 100 days for Swim and Sail trips and group bookings (8 people or more). We will endeavour to accommodate your request, subject to availability. If the published holiday price of the SSA holiday or date that you wish to change to is more expensive than your original booking (as of the date of receipt of your request), you must also pay the difference in price. Your new booking must be taken within the same calendar year.

Any future credit (partial or full) resulting from cancellation under clause 4 (Cancellation and Changes by You) may be applied towards future available trips in the same calendar year unless agreed differently. This credit is non-refundable and not transferrable or redeemable for cash.

The cancellation notice days are calculated from the day of your notice in writing to one day before the start of your SSA holiday. The first day of your holiday is not included in this calculation.

4.2. Transfer your booking to another person(s)

This option is available providing the following conditions are met:
a) you notify us in writing at least 90 days before the trip departure (100 days for Swim and Sail trips) and give us the authority to make the transfer;
b) your request is accompanied by all documents related to another person’s booking (“transferee”), with full name and contact details;
c) this transfer option only applies towards a new transferee’s booking and not towards already existing booking (customer booked already);
d) the transferee accepts the transfer and these booking conditions, and fulfils any conditions that apply to the booking and our terms and conditions;
e) the transfer fee for such a change is subject to a 70 Eur, $100 Usd (Lake Powell, Loreto, Bacalar trips) and 150 EUR (Swim and Sail trips) fee per person (transferring person).

Please note that any request to transfer your existing booking (either to another date or another person) will be treated as a cancellation if such notice is received within 90 days of departure (100 days for Swim and Sail trips) and will be subject to cancellation charges.

5. Cancellation by SSA

We always try to avoid cancelling trip departures or making changes to our published itineraries. Most of our trips always run as scheduled. However, arrangements for SSA holidays are made many months in advance and it may be necessary in exceptional circumstances for us to cancel or make changes to your booking.

We reserve the right to cancel your trip departure in case we have not reached a minimum number of guests to operate the trip. We will aim to inform you no later than 4 weeks prior to your trip departure. Please note that we will not be able to refund or compensate for your travel expenses to our location and we recommend that you have travel insurance in place for such an event.

Subject to section 6 below (“Force majeure”), if we cancel or make a significant change to your booking, we will endeavour to provide you with reasonable notice of such cancellation or change and we will offer you (at your request) an alternative SSA future holiday, subject to availability and except where such cancellation or significant change is beyond our control (see “force majeure” below).

Subject to section 6 below (“Force majeure”), if we cancel your booking up to 21 days before the start of your SSA holiday, you will be entitled to a full refund of all monies received from you to date. If we cancel your booking 20 days or less before the start of your SSA holiday, you will be entitled to a full refund of all monies received from you to date plus minimum compensation of EUR 20 ($25 USD) per person.

6. Force majeure

We regret that we are unable to accept liability or pay compensation where our failure to perform our obligations under this contract is caused by or affected by, or you otherwise suffer any damage, loss or expense of any nature arising out of, circumstances beyond our control. For the purposes of these booking conditions, circumstances beyond our control, or “force majeure”, means any event which we or the supplier of the service(s) in question could not, even with all due care, foresee or avoid. Such events are likely to include (whether actual or threatened) war, civil strife, riot, industrial dispute, terrorist activity, pandemic spread, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, technical problems with transport, closure or congestion or restriction of airports, borders, national parks, monuments, roads, ports or airspace, adverse weather conditions, volcanic eruption, airport, port or airspace closures, and all similar events outside our control.

7. Communication with us

All bookings made online will be confirmed by e-mail, and all subsequent communications will be made via e-mail. Telephone bookings will also be confirmed by e-mail unless otherwise advised at the time of booking. We do not communicate by post.  Occasionally, we may use social media channels or other platforms to connect group members or send a message across. All references in these booking conditions to “send” include both e-mail and post, as appropriate.

8. Conduct

We reserve the right to refuse to accept you as a customer or continue dealing with you (and your party) if we, or another person in authority, believe your behaviour is disruptive, causes unnecessary inconvenience, is threatening or abusive, you damage property, you upset, disturb, or put any other guests or our staff (tour guides and our suppliers) in any risk or danger, on the telephone, in writing or in person on our trip locations.

On an active open water group swimming holiday, it is necessary that you abide by the authority of our leader (guide). If you commit any illegal act when on the holiday or if in our reasonable opinion or the reasonable opinion of the leader or another person in authority your behaviour is disruptive, threatening or abusive, causes unnecessary inconvenience, impacts other guests’ enjoyment of the holiday or is causing or likely to cause damage to any of our property, danger, distress, or annoyance to others or puts any other guests or our staff in any risk or danger, on the telephone, in writing or in person, we may terminate your travel arrangements without any liability on our part.

By confirming your booking, you accept that our tour leaders (guides) have the authority to prevent you from participating in any part of a tour should they have concerns about (a) your ability to safely partake in an activity or (b) your physical ability to complete an activity in the required timescale or (c) overall safety in terms of the current weather conditions. In the event the leader deems such a decision is necessary, we will reasonably endeavour to make alternative arrangements, but we will not be liable to provide any refunds for missed activities and you may be liable for additional costs incurred.

9. Before you travel

9.1. Insurance

It is a condition of your booking and your responsibility to ensure that you have suitable travel insurance cover for the travel arrangements and activities that you have booked with us. You must hold a valid comprehensive insurance cover for an adventure sports activity including “open water swimming”. Your policy must include medical expenses (including transportation), emergency repatriation, travel illness and personal accident on the tour. You will be asked to provide us with your insurance details (company name, policy number and 24-hour contact) before undertaking any swimming activities.

9.2. Passport and visa requirements

It is your responsibility to check up-to-date travel and visa requirements and to ensure that you have any visa required for entry into your country of destination.

10. Data protection policy

We will collect certain personal information from you at the time of booking in order to process your booking. This information includes, where applicable, your e-mail, name and address, payment details, hotel room type preferences, medical conditions and dietary requirements (which may disclose your religious beliefs). By making your booking, you agree that we may use or disclose this information for the purposes of processing your booking. It may be necessary to pass some of this information onto third-party suppliers, such as hoteliers, and by making your booking you accept that this may involve us sending information to countries that do not have an equal level of privacy legislation to that in the UK. This information may also be provided to government or public authorities as required by law.

We would also like to store and use this information for future marketing purposes. Only your name and contact details will be used for this purpose. Please inform us in writing if you do not wish your details to be used in this way.

This website uses Google Analytics which is a service provided by Google that uses text files (cookies) that are placed on your computer to assist how the site is used. By using this website you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You are entitled to make a written request about which of your personal information we are currently holding or processing, for what purpose and to whom it may be or has been disclosed. We will charge a fee to respond to such a request but aim to do so within 45 days of receipt. In certain limited circumstances, we are entitled to refuse your request.

Please contact us immediately if you believe that any of your personal details which we are processing are inaccurate or incorrect.

11. Photography & Testimonials

Any likeness or image of you secured or taken on any SSA holiday may be used by us without charge in all media (whether now existing or in the future invented) for promotional or marketing purposes, including but not limited to promotional materials of any kind such as brochures, video, photos or websites. Any written feedback supplied to the company may also be used for promotional purposes as detailed above.

All the photo material on this website is owned by: Sportno drustvo Martin’s club, 8210 Trebnje, Slovenia-EU. All the video clips and archive on this website is owned by: Strel Team d.o.o., 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia-EU.

12. Complaints

We want you to have an enjoyable and relaxing holiday with us. However, if you are not satisfied with any aspect of your SSA holiday, please report your complaint to a SSA staff member as soon as you can. SSA staff will do everything reasonably possible to rectify the issue during your SSA holiday. If you are still not satisfied and want to make a complaint when you return home, please write us at the address below within 28 days of the end of your SSA holiday:
Email: You can use our contact form at the bottom,
Post/Mail:
– Strel Swimming Ltd., 3 Rushton’s Yard, Ashby-De-La-Zouch, Leicestershire, LE65 1AL, United Kingdom,
– Strel Swimming LLC, 2036 N Gilbert Rd., Ste 2-181, Mesa, AZ 85203, USA,
– Strel Team Ltd., Ulica 28.maja 65, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

13. Limitation of Liability

We are not liable to you for any dissatisfaction, loss of enjoyment, loss, injury or damage which results from your SSA holiday unless caused by our negligence. We take all reasonable care in arranging your SSA holiday. However, we are sometimes dependent on other organisations, which we do not own or operate, for the provision of accommodation and certain travel. Consequently, we shall not be liable for loss, damage, inconvenience, death or personal injury due to neglect, act or omission of any other company or caused by an event beyond reasonable control.

We also have no liability to you for any consequential loss which you may suffer in relation to any arrangements which you book to coincide with your SSA holiday, including travel and accommodation arrangements.

If any International Convention applies to or governs any of the services or facilities arranged or provided by us, or provided by any of our third party suppliers, and you make a claim against us of any nature arising out of death, injury, loss or damage suffered during or as a result of the provision of those services or facilities, our liability to pay you compensation and/or the amount (if any) of compensation payable to you by us will be limited in accordance with and/or in an identical manner to that provided for by the International Convention concerned (in each case including in respect of the conditions of liability, the time for bringing any claim and the type and amount of any damages that can be awarded).

14. Law and Jurisdiction

This contract is governed by English Law. In the unlikely event that any dispute arising out of or in connection with this contract cannot be settled amicably between us, it shall be referred to ad hoc arbitration. The seat of the arbitration is to be in London, England, and the language to be used in the arbitration is English.