Q &A
​Who are your Culinary Adventures for?
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Our clients range from 35 - 90 years old but our average participants are pre-retirees to recently retiree professionals.To us, it is not about age but about enjoying a good time in great company. Our fellow travellers tends to be respectful, open minded and fun loving with a keen interest for learning and experiencing new things.
Our tours are rather active, we use our private bus to get to our destination, but there is walking involved while visiting towns, vineyards, farms and attractions. While, we can always adapt to personal needs, our tours are better enjoyed by those with good mobility.
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Most of our clients have travelling experience and are accustom to travel on their own. We provide full support for an entire week but our participants must be comfortable to get to and from our meeting point at each destination. Our tours will not check everything out of one's bucket list but rather offer a unique perspective and meaningful connections to the particular area we are visiting.
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How big are your groups?
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Our groups are generally around 20 people. Big enough to give the opportunity to meet and discuss with a variety of people during our long table dinners and activities but intimate enough to get to know everyone personally and have your own personal time and space. Occasionally, we split the group in half to accomodate more intimate activities.
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How long are your Culinary Adventures.
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All our Tours are 8 days 7 nights. We start around 10AM on day 1 and finish late afternoon on our last day.
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Where do we meet?
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We will provide a convenient meeting point where our tour bus can pick us up and drop us off. Our meeting point will be in a city (travel hub) where there is an airport/ train station/ harbour. We will enjoy a day visiting our landing city together before our bus will take us to our private villa in a near by town. From the villa, we will enjoy daily excursions. On our last day, the bus will take us back to the near by city and drop us off at our meeting point and/or near the train station. We will provide detailed instructions for each destinations.
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When will I receive our itinerary?
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Upon request, we can provide you with previous Culinary Adventures itinerary as a reference. We make slight changes to itineraries every year according to our vendors availability, our clients feedback and our exciting new discoveries. Our final itinerary will be sent to you a few weeks prior to departure, once all our reservations are confirmed. We do businesses with several small family run businesses - The personal experiences they provide is absolutely worth the wait for their availability;)
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Can you accommodate my food allergies?
Absolutely, we can adapt our menus to any kind of allergies.
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What are the Payment Terms
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We take a $1,000 per person upon signature of the contract. The balance is divided in 2 payments about 5 months prior to departure and 2 month prior to departure.
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What are the cancellations policy?
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When we design our tours, we sign several contracts with our partners. We have to respect each and every of their cancellation policies. Therefore, we have our own cancellation policies. The bellow represent the worst case scenarios. Please, purchase trip cancellation insurance.
1.In the event of withdrawal from the Tour by the Client, the Client will lose Deposit if Client withdraws within the period that the 1st deposit had been made up to 5 months before the departure.
The Client will lose Deposit and second payment if Client withdraws within the period that the 1st deposit and second payment had been made up to 2 months before the departure.
The Client will lose Deposit, second payment and third payment if Client withdraws within the period that the 1st deposit, second payment and third payment had been made up to the day of the departure.
2.In the event of cancellation of Tour by the Tour Operator before the Departure Date, for any reason, except in case of force majeure, the Tour Operator shall reimburse to the Client all amounts paid by Client to date.
3.In the event of force majeure, the Tour Operator shall issue the Client a credit note, allowing the Client to postpone to a later Tour.
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