The price includes:

• All yoga tuition (equipment is provided including mats, blocks, bricks, blankets and belts)
• 7 nights accommodation in single or double ensuite rooms which also have small fridge.
• Generous breakfast after the morning class each day
• Evening meals on the first and last nights (food is your own choice of vegetarian or non-vegetarian but is all locally produced.)
• Transfer by taxi from Chania airport (from Heraklion there will be an extra charge of £50 per taxi each way)

*A child is assumed to be 12 years or under and accompanied by a parent not doing yoga; there are no creche facilities as yet but this may be an option in future years. Teenagers are charged the full non-participant rate. **In the event of a large yoga group needing more rooms than are available at Hotel Leonidas, very similar rooms will be provided close by.

Travel Information (flights and insurance are not included in the price)

The courses run from Tuesday to Tuesday to fit in with charter flights to Chania from the UK. Direct flights to Chania are available from Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham. Flights to Heraklion are available from Gatwick, Manchester and several other regional airports. Easyjet offer budget flights into Athens where you can take a domestic flight to Chania (several per day) and, new for 2008, a service to Heraklion from Gatwick and Manchester. New for Summer 2008 - a daily service with Aegean Airlines from London Stansted to Chania via Athens. Chania is also served by two ferries a day from Piraeus (Athens). Please visit our links page for some useful travel sites. Car hire is available from Chania airport and can be pre-booked through Free Spirit.

The beach at Falassarna

Booking

Our agents are Free Spirit Travel, specialists in Yoga Holidays.

Address: 153 Carden Avenue, Brighton BN1 8LA

Telephone:01273-564230 Fax:01273-504076

For a link to their website with printable booking form please click here www.freespirituk.com

Free Spirit Conditions of Booking

1. No contract shall exist until:

Either the Online Booking Form is submitted and acknowledged, or the signed Booking Form is received, and

The appropriate deposit is paid, or if the booking is made within 8 weeks of the departure date, the full amount is paid and a confirmation invoice has been issued.

Persons making payments without completing the booking form will be bound by Free Spirit Travel's Booking Conditions.

2. Where a booking is made on behalf of several individuals the booking is conditional on the person signing the booking form having authorisation from all the individuals named on the booking form to enter into this contract.

3. Full payment of the balance due must be made 8 weeks before departure, or Free Spirit Travel reserve the right to cancel the arrangements made on your behalf and charge the applicable cancellation charges.

4. Cancellations: Whilst we would wish to treat cancellation sympathetically our spaces are limited and the following charges must be applied. Cancellation of your holiday, for whatever reason, should be notified to Free Spirit Travel in writing.

Period Cost
Up to 42 days before departure Loss of deposit
41-28 days before departure 50% of total price
27-14 days before departure 65% of total price
13 days or less before departure 100% of price

5. In order to participate in overseas holidays, clients must have travel insurance.

6. Amendments made up to 7 weeks before departure will, if we are able to assist you with the required changes, incur an amendment fee of £10 per person.

7. Accommodation will usually be in twin bedded rooms. There are sometimes limited number of double-bedded rooms for couples. Places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Single rooms usually incur a supplementary charge and must be detailed on our invoice to you to be guaranteed.

8. Any courses listed have been confirmed by the respective Course Instructors. If, for any reason at all, a course leader becomes unavailable on overseas holidays we shall do our utmost to replace them with a leader of similar qualities. Wherever possible you will be advised in advance of any alterations. Similarly, the alteration of some amenities or courses might take place due to maintenance work, mechanical faults, weather conditions, sickness or other situations outside our control.

9. Liability: We do NOT accept any liability for:

Cancellations, delays or changes caused by war, threat of war, terrorist actions or threats, closure of airports, civil strife, industrial action, natural disaster, technical problems to transport, staff cancellations or other events beyond our control
Participants' medical or psychiatric conditions which may develop during or subsequent to the holiday
Loss of, or damage to, personal property of participants.

(10. Dolphins and whales are wild animals and whilst all 'Swimming with Dolphins' holidays take place in destinations renowned for their abundance of dolphins, contact with either of these animals cannot be guaranteed.)

11. If you have had any major physical or emotional illness within the past 5 years, or are under medical or psychiatric supervision, you must notify us of the details at the time of booking and, where appropriate, enclose a doctor's certificate of fitness to travel. Non-disclosure of relevant information can invalidate your insurance and cancel our contractual obligation to you.

12. Complaints:

(Please read and note carefully, this may affect any future claim)

In the event of a complaint arising which cannot be resolved on the spot, you the client, must immediately contact Free Spirit Travel either by telephone, fax or email, and we will attempt to resolve it for you immediately.

Free Spirit Travel will always make every attempt to solve the problem
at the time of the complaint in order that any disruption to the enjoyment of your holiday is minimised.

It should be noted that Free Spirit Travel is acting only to book the holiday on your behalf with the Owner of the facility/holiday booked. We will always do our best to help resolve any justifiable complaints, however it is the client's responsibility to take up the complaint with the Owner on the client's return to the U.K.

Should Free Spirit Travel prove unable to resolve the matter on your behalf, we will always assist you with justifiable complaints provided we were notified of the problems when they arose.

13. Free Spirit Travel acts purely and solely as booking agents between, and on behalf of, both parties.