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How To Book

Your Next Great Adventure Begins Here

Reserving your spot on an expedition is as easy as 1, 2, 3 — just complete our Online Application. In our never-ending effort to skip out of doing as much real work as possible we’ve adopted the paperless office concept, allowing us to spend less time mired in administrative drudgery, and more time watching Rikki Lake reruns.

Of course, you would expect people in our business to tell you to book your trip early, lest all manner of awful things befall you. But we really do have good reasons for telling you that. See, we keep our team-size small, so most expeditions reach full capacity in a short time. Also, airlines (thieving bastards that the are these days; really ... would it be that much trouble to serve a chicken sandwich and a Coke?) tend to sell out of their best fares months in advance. So book your trip early. Don't make us tell you again.

Deposit Policy

Our expeditions are filled on a first-come-first-served basis, and we'd like to tell you that we regret that we cannot process your application without a deposit. Truth be told, though, we don't regret shit.

You have any idea what kind of mind numbing work we put into this? We're not the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, you know. No tickie, no laundry, round-eye ... we have ungrateful kids to put through college.

See, planning a bitchin' expedition involves substantial upfront costs; a portion of your deposit is a nonrefundable administrative fee used to cover those costs. Think of it as a good faith promise that you won’t flake out on us and decide to go to golf camp or some goofy thing like that, bailing out a week before the trip and leaving us in a last-minute scramble to fill your spot.

If you’re tired of climbing partners bailing on you, try asking for a deposit upfront and watch your batting average go up.

Method of Payment

It seems like every time the boys down in the lab write a secure program to send credit card information over the Internet, some 12-year-old hacker in New Jersey writes a program to defeat it. Security is a big thing with us, so you can be confident paying by credit card or inter-bank wire transfer on our secure payment page.

Balance Due

For expeditions to Mexico or South America, the balance of your expedition fee is due 90 days prior to your date of departure; for expeditions to Asia, the balance is due 120 days prior. For planning purposes, date of departure is defined as Day 1 of the expedition’s published itinerary.

In the event your balance is not received by the corresponding deadline we will assume you are unable to participate, and we reserve the right to resell your spot on the expedition. Golf camp, huh? Good luck with that.

Change of Itinerary

All requests for changes from one itinerary to another must be sent to change@expedition-logistics.com and must be accompanied by a new Online Application.

Cancellation

All cancellation requests must be sent to cancel@expedition-logistics.com and will be processed on the day they are received (geez, make up your mind already).

Trip Cancellation and Traveler's Health Insurance

We do not sell traveler’s insurance. We do, however, strongly recommend you purchase insurance from a third party to protect the investment you have made in your expedition. Trip cancellation and interruption insurance protects you against cancellation and/or interruption of your trip, travel delays, loss of baggage and travel documents, and baggage delay. Traveler’s health and evacuation insurance protects you in case of illness, injury, rescue, evacuation, medical treatment, and repatriation. Learn more about traveler’s insurance and view a list of recommended travel insurance providers here.

Additional Information

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