WIN A TRIP NEW YORK

THE RULES

Entry to the competition can only be made by booking at least a one night stay at any hotel anywhere in the world through www.hotelsandtravel.jimdo.com. Each night that you book for is registered as a separate entry. So if you book for one night that equals one entry WHICH AUTOMATICALLY  GIVES YOU TEN ENTRIES, if you book two nights that equals two entries SO YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE CREDITED WITH TWENTY ENTRIES and so on. Therefore the more entries you accumulate the greater your chances of winning. You can also enter by clicking on the like button on our homepage and sharing, this will earn you one entry. It couldn't be easier to put yourself in the running to win a trip to New York.

The competition commences midnight on 1st December 2019 and concludes at midnight on 30th September 2020.

The time of entry is when a valid booking is received by www.hotelsandtravel.jimdo.com.

Cancellation of a booking will nullify that entry to the competition.

The prize is for two people and can be taken at any time from 15th october 2020 to 4th January 2021.

Employees of Hotels and Travel (pty) Ltd. and their families are not eligible for entry to the competition.

 

 

ELIGIBILITY

 

The Contest is open to anyone in the world who, at the start of the Contest Period, is twenty-one (21) years of age or older, has a valid passport before and for the duration of the trip and will be able to travel to the United States ,

 

Employees, directors and officers of any affiliate, employees, directors and officers of their respective advertising and promotional agencies, as well as those with whom any of the foregoing are domiciled (whether related or not) are not eligible to enter the Contest.

 

Any guest of a Grand Prize winner must also hold a valid passport and be able to travel to the Destination. Guests may be under the age of majority ( a “Minor”) so long as the Grand Prize winner is the custodial parent or legal guardian of such Minor and agrees to be fully and legally responsible for his/her Minor guest for the duration of the Grand Prize trip.

 

NOTE: Any number of hotel reservation bookings may be made and will constitute an entry into the competition. Any cancellation of an hotel reservation will nullify that entry to the competition. 

 

 

WINNER SELECTION

 

On 1st October 2020 one eligible entrant will be randomly selected as the potential winner of the Grand Prize, as described below.

 

The Grand Prize winner will be contacted by a representative of one of the Contest Sponsors within three (3) business days of the draw by email, at the address provided by the entrants at the time of their making their hotel reservation. If a Grand Prize winner is found to be ineligible, decline to accept the Grand Prize or is unable to be contacted (including failing to return emails within three (3) business days of the draw they may be required to forfeit their Grand Prize and another eligible entrant may be selected at the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion.

 

THE GRAND PRIZE 

• return airfare, based on economy class, for two (2) people from any official airport in the world to New York, either JFK or Liberty Newark airports,  departing at a time and date of their choosing after 15th October 2020 and before  6th January 2021.
• • four nights’ in a luxury bedroom at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York, USA.
  • all hotel taxes and processing fees
  • airport-hotel transfers in New York, USA

 The approximate retail value of the Grand Prize is $3500.

 NOTE: Only one (1) Grand Prize will be awarded per person, per household.

 

DEADLINE FOR CLAIMING A  GRAND PRIZE

 

Following confirmation as a Grand Prize winner in accordance with the Contest Rules, selected entrants will be given instructions and a deadline as to how they must claim their Grand Prize. Potential Grand winners who fail either to claim the Grand Prize or to inform the Contest Sponsors of his/her inability to claim their Grand Prize before the deadline, as instructed, will be required to forfeit that Grand Prize and another eligible entrant may be selected at the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion.

 

GRAND PRIZE CONDITIONS

 i. All incidental costs and expenses not specifically referred to herein as part of the Grand Prize description, including but not limited to ground transportation not specifically mentioned  above, airport improvement fees, travel insurance, out-of-country medical insurance, if applicable, connector flights, sightseeing tours, tips, departure taxes, fees and surcharges, excess baggage fees, souvenirs, costs associated with obtaining travel documents, visas, or necessary vaccinations, all meals, snacks and beverages or items of a personal nature are the sole responsibility of the Grand Prize winner (and/or guest where applicable). The Grand Prize winner and their guest are solely responsible for obtaining all other forms of insurance, including but not limited to, medical and hereby acknowledge that Contest Sponsors have not and will not obtain or provide insurance or any other form of insurance;

 

2. Grand Prize winners must be 21 years or older and have a valid credit card for use to pay for any additional incidentals over and above those provided for by the contest. The hotel will take an imprint of the credit card on arrival at reception. Management reserves all rights and is not liable for any lost or stolen certificates. This prize is non-transferable and has no cash value;

 

3. The Grand Prize trip must be taken during the Travel Period noted above. All Grand Prize elements are subject to availability and substitution. All airline tickets are subject to flight variation, work stoppages, and schedule or route changes. Contest Sponsor and Prize Supplier reserve the right to structure travel routes and select hotels in their sole discretion. No refund or compensation will be made in the event of the cancellation or delay of any flight except at the sole discretion of the Prize Supplier and Contest Sponsor. The Grand Prize winner and their guest must travel together on the same itinerary from the same Departure Point. Elements of the Grand Prize trip (including, without limitation, airfare and lodging) may not be used towards loyalty programs. If a Grand Prize winner is unable to travel during the Travel Period, they may be required to forfeit their Grand Prize and an alternate winner may be selected at the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion;

 

4. The Grand Prize winner and their travel guest must be in possession of a valid passport and other necessary travel documents upon selection, which documents must be valid prior to, and for the duration of the trip. Grand Prize winners and their guest must be able to travel to New York, departing from the Departure Point. Failure to obtain necessary travel documentation, including but not limited to, any requisite Travel Consent Forms proving that the custodial parent or legal guardian has the requisite permission to travel with a Minor, will result in forfeiture of the Grand Prize;

 

5. The grand Prize Winner and guest are responsible for all or any costs associated with transportation to and from the Departure Point.

 

6. If any guest of a Grand Prize winner is a Minor in his or her province of residence by the date the Grand Prize is awarded, the Grand Prize winner must be his/her custodial parent or legal guardian, who has agreed to be fully and legally responsible for his/her Minor guest for the duration of the Grand Prize trip;

 

7. Grand Prize winners and their guests, may not enter licensed establishments unless they are twenty-one (21) years of age or older; and 

 

8. Grand Prize winners and their guests must comply with all applicable laws, including but not limited to, all local laws while in New York.

 

ODDS OF WINNING

 

Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period.

 

 

 

NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES

 

None of the Contest Sponsors makes any representation or offers any warranty, express or implied, as to the quality or fitness of any Grand Prize awarded in connection with the Contest. Grand Prize winners understand and acknowledge that they may not seek reimbursement or pursue any legal or equitable remedy from the Contest Sponsor or Prize Suppliers should a Grand Prize fail to be fit for its purpose or is in any way unsatisfactory to a Grand Prize winner.

 

DECLARATION AND RELEASE OF GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

 

Before being awarded a Grand Prize, the selected entrant must:

 

1. Have made at least one valid hotel booking which has not been cancelled and or can be cancelled at any time.

2. the selected entrants and their guest (or guest, custodial parent or legal guardian, if a Minor) each must sign a standard form Declaration and Release of Liability confirming that by entering the Contest: 

• he or she has read, understood and accepted these Contest Rules; 

• that he or she understands that acceptance of the Grand Prize may involve danger and/or exposure to risks and hazards of both man-made and natural origin, whether arising from foreseeable or unforeseeable human error and negligence, and that, as a result, he or she may suffer damage to personal property, serious personal injury, illness or even death;

 

• that he or she nevertheless freely and voluntarily agrees and does hereby assume any and all risks of personal injury, illness, death arising out of or connected with his or her participation in the Contest and winning a Grand Prize; and

 

• that he or she releases, discharges, indemnifies and holds harmless the Contest Sponsors, the Affiliates, the Prize Supplier, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, independent contractors, representatives, licensors and agents as well as their respective advertising and promotional agencies from and against any and all liability due to any injuries, damages or losses to any person (including death) or property of any kind, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of a Grand Prize, or in connection with participation in this Contest or a Contest-related activity, including, without limitation, any financial, legal or moral responsibility or loss or personal injury including death or damage to or loss of property suffered or incurred or arising from participating in the Contest or accepting a Grand Prize, whether suffered by a Grand Prize winner, or by his or her heirs, administrators, personal representatives or executors, and notwithstanding that such injuries or losses may have been caused solely or partly by any act, omission, negligence or gross negligence of any or all of the sponsors and organisers.

 

Release Forms will be emailed to the potential Grand Prize winner at the email address provided. Grand Prizes will only be awarded upon (a) verification that a valid hotel booking has been made and paid and not cancelled or able to be cancelled and (b) return of the fully executed Release Forms to the email or fax number provided to the Grand Prize winner. Failure to return a signed Release Form as instructed by the Contest Sponsors may result in disqualification, to be determined at the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion. Grand Prize winners are responsible for obtaining and returning signed copies of Release Forms from their guests, if applicable.

 

GRAND PRIZE SUBSTITUTION

 

Grand Prizes and prize portions are non-exchangeable, non-transferable, non-refundable, have no cash surrender value and must be accepted as awarded with no substitutions, except as may be decided by Contest Sponsors in their sole and absolute discretion. The Contest Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to substitute and/or modify a Grand Prize, or prize portion, with a Grand Prize of equal or greater value for any reason. Should a Grand Prize winner be unable to claim their Grand Prize or prize portion as awarded, their rights to that Grand Prize or prize portion may be forfeited, to be determined at the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion.

 

TERMINATION/MODIFICATION

 

Subject to applicable law, the Contest Sponsors reserve the right to cancel, suspend, terminate, and/or modify the Contest Rules or administration of the Contest, in whole or in part, without prior notice with no obligation or liability, including, if for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned, whether due to technical failure, tampering, fraud, corruption of security or other causes beyond the control of the Contest Sponsors. The sponsors and organisers are not responsible or liable to any entrant or winner or any person claiming through such entrant or winner for failure to supply a Grand Prize or any part thereof, by reason of any acts of God, any action, regulation, order or request by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not the action, regulations, order or request proves to be invalid), equipment failure, threatened terrorist acts, terrorists acts, air raid, blackout, act of public enemy, earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami, war (declared or undeclared), fire, flood, epidemic, explosion, unusually severe weather, hurricane, embargo, labor dispute or strike (whether legal or illegal), labour or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, work slow-down, civil disturbance, insurrection, riot, performers’ illness, injury or death, or any other cause beyond the sponsors and organisers sole control.

 

OWNERSHIP OF ENTRIES

 

Subject to the terms mentioned below entries shall become the property of the Contest Sponsors and their advertising and promotional agencies. They assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, destroyed or otherwise indecipherable entries due to any failure or technical malfunction of the telephone network, on-line computer systems of equipment, servers, access providers, software, poor reception, technical problems, failure of any email or submission or due to any other reason regardless of cause.

 

PUBLICITY

 

Entrants understand and acknowledge that a Radio Station may contact him or her on-air without prior knowledge as a result of his or her participation in the Contest.

 

TAMPERING 

 

If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Sponsors, that corrupts, impairs or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, the Contest Sponsors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, extend or suspend the Contest and/or Grand Prizes. The Contest Sponsors further reserve the right to disqualify, from this Contest and future contests of the Contest Sponsors, any individual who tampers with or in any way corrupts the entry process. The Contest Sponsors may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Contest, future contests of the Contest Sponsors and/or winning a prize(s) if, in the Contest Sponsors’ sole discretion, the Contest Sponsors determine that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or any unlawful or unfair playing practices relating to the Contest (including but not limited to the use of automated quick entry programs), prize(s), or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or the Contest Sponsors representatives. Any attempt by an entrant or any other individual to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be in violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Contest Sponsors reserve the right to seek remedies and damages (including lawyers’ fees) from any such entrant or any other individual to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

 

By entering the Contest, the entrant agrees that the sponsors and organisers shall have no liability and shall be held harmless by the entrant for any damage, loss or liability to person or property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of entering the Contest, the acceptance, possession, use, enjoyment or misuse of any Grand Prize, or while preparing for, participating in any Contest-related or Grand Prize-related activity. The sponsors and organisers are not responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, fraud, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by any of the sponsors or organisers, users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions that may cause damage to a user’s system or limit an potential entrant’s ability to participate in the Contest.

 

COMPLIANCE WITH CONTEST RULES

 

All entrants agree to abide by the Contest Rules, which are subject to change at the sole discretion of the Contest Sponsors.

 

COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS

 

This Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law and is subject to all federal, provincial, territorial and municipal laws and regulations the United States of America and of each province, territory and municipality of the United States of America.