CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION OF ACCOMMODATION
A – CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION BY THE RESIDENCE OR HOTEL
The Reservation Department automatically sends you an email confirming your reservation. However, the Balcons / Alparena group may modify certain elements of the trip. You will then have 7 days to accept or refuse the modification of the stay. In the event of refusal, your stay will then be fully refunded without further compensation.
B – CHANGE OF THE SERVICES AFTER YOUR BOOKING
In case of administrative closure of one of the services (swimming-pool, restaurants, shops…) due to exceptional event or decided by a competent, empowered authority :
- For free services (i.e: access to the swimming-pool): no reduction on the cost of the stay will be made.
- For paying services (i.e: restaurants): the service won’t be charged.
C – CANCELLATION OF ACCOMMODATION BY THE CUSTOMER
1 – Regarding accommodation:
Any cancellation entails an administrative fee of € 50 per accommodation and must be notified in writing to the Reservation Department
(email confirmed by our services or registered mail). No cancellation request can be registered by telephone. Regardless of the date on
which the cancellation occurs, the administrative costs remain with the host.
a – Full refund of sums paid (excluding administrative fees of 50 €) if the cancellation on your part is more than 30 days before the
planned date of arrival (excluding COVID provision).
b – In the event of late cancellation and as compensation, the host will keep the sums paid within the
following limits:
- Between 30 and 22 days before the expected arrival: 25% of the total amount of the stay will be due
- Between 21 and 15 days before the expected arrival: 50% of the total amount of the stay will be due
- Between 14 and 8 days before the expected arrival: 75% of the total amount of the stay will be due
- Less than 8 days before the scheduled arrival or no show: 100% of the total amount of the stay will be due
The corresponding sums cannot be transferred to another stay. Any cancellation request will be final.
During your stay: Any stay started is considered as consumed and will not give rise to any refund or credit.
2 – Regarding additional services on your written request: (email confirmed by our reservation department or registered letter)
- Up to 8 days before expected arrival: full refund free of charge
- Less than 7 days included before expected arrival: 100% of the amount remains due
D – CANCELLATION OF ACCOMMODATION BECAUSE OF COVID19
FULL REFUND GUARANTEED IN THE EVENT OF:
- CLOSURE OF THE SELECTED ACCOMMODATION and/or
- CLOSURE OF THE SELECTED SKI STATION
with the impossibility of rehousing in one of the group’s establishments on the same date.
FULL REFUND GUARANTEED FOR ANY CANCELLATION THE DAY BEFORE YOUR STAY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PANDEMIC IN THE EVENT OF:
- CONFINEMENT OF YOUR PLACE OF RESIDENCE with travel ban decreed by the authorities,
- CLOSURE OF FRENCH BORDERS and/or YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE
- TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS WITH OBLIGATION OF ISOLATION FOR TRAVELERS COMING FROM YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE IMPOSED BY THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES (to be applicable quarantine must be COMPULSORY and not voluntary).
THESE RESTRICTIONS MUST BE IN EFFECT THE DAY BEFORE YOUR ARRIVAL.
In the event of regulatory measures taken during your stay leading to an early return to your residence, the nights not consumed will be reimbursed.
Whatever the reason, any cancellation must be notified in writing to the Reservation Department (email confirmed by our services or registered mail). No cancellation request can be recorded by telephone.
The cancellation policy applied will be the one in force at the time the cancellation is requested.
E – GRITCHEN MULTI-RISK CANCELLATION INSURANCE WITH COVID EXTENSION
GRITCHEN cancellation insurance (cost of 4% of the rental amount and excess of € 30) covers the risks:
- Serious illness, bodily injury or death, complications due to the state of pregnancy, contraindication following vaccination, redundancy, summons to a court (juror or expert), summons for adoption, summons to school or university examination, destruction of professional or private premises, theft in said premises, granting of a job or internship by Job Center, cancellation or modification of the dates of leave by the employer (deductible of 20% minimum € 30), professional transfer (deductible of 20 % min 30 €), visa refusal by the authorities of the country, serious damage to your vehicle, medical inability to practice a sport, cancellation of accompanying persons
- In addition, cancellation for lack of or excess snow, late arrival (more than 24 hours), repatriation, interruption of stay, theft or breakage of sports equipment, forgetting of a personal item in the rental, vehicle of substitution.
The Covid extension provided for in the contract at no additional cost covers:
– REIMBURSEMENT IN CASE OF CANCELLATION FOR SEVERE ILLNESS declared in the month preceding departure in the event of an epidemic or pandemic.
– CANCELLATION for denied boarding following temperature measurement.
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