- Trip to Greece - 2010

Thursday, March 11

to

Monday, March 22

Teachers:

Please email both of us together• Janis Richardson richardsonj@staff.ednet.ns.ca

• Pascale Chambon-Dias pdias@staff.ednet.ns.ca

• Doug Fitzpatrick (admin)

Itinerary - Draft

• Direct from Halifax• 12 days (March 11-22)• Athens (Parthenon, Acropolis, Olympic site,

…..)• Tolo (Olympia guided visit)• Delphi (ruins, Temple of Apollo, Mount

Parnassus…)• Cape Sounion• Cruise • Some free time (2hours)

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Price• Total: $3200 (with taxes and airport fees)

• Deposit of 195$ + insurance cost. (not returned)

• Insurance = $15/day (approximately – for travel and

health)

• Prices increase June 27th, but if five students enroll

by June 26th, it will lock our tour fees for our entire

group until the end of September

• students who sign up later will have to pay higher

rates ($100-$200)

Price includes • Round-trip airfare • Sleeping/hotel accommodations• Cruise• Breakfast & Diner included (on their own for

lunch)• Full-time services of a professional Tour

Director • Guided sightseeing tours and city walks as

per itinerary • Visits to select attractions as per itinerary

Price does not include• Passport and visa fees (non Canadian citizens must

secure any necessary visas) • Airlines fuel surcharges (all subject to change) • Beverages at dinner • Lunch, unless specified in the itinerary • Optional excursions and/or extensions • Explorica Travel Protection with Cancel for Any

Reason Guarantee • Local transportation to unscheduled activities • Tips to Tour Director, bus drivers, and cruise staff • Spending money

Insurance

• When you sign up, we require that you to take insurance with Explorica as it facilitates the situation should we need to use it in Greece.

• $15/day

• It is for both – pre and on tour (travel and health)

Explorica insurance covers

• A traveller's injury, sickness, or death of an immediate family

member

• Theft of passport or visas

• Flight cancellations due to strike or bad weather

• Loss of luggage and personal effects

• Trip Cancellation or Trip Interruption due to covered reasons

such as covered sickness, injury or death

• Trip Cancellation or Trip Interruption due to Terrorist Acts, as

defined

• http://explorica.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/explorica.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=88

Fundraising

• No school organized fundraising for the trip• You may organize your own fundraising

activities – however it has to be okayed by the school (legal).

• When you contact us - We can also send you a letter for your activity should you need one.

Things you need to do soon

• Get a passport, it will cost around $90 and takes about 4 months to process.

• Make sure you are up to date with your shots, although no more are necessary for this trip – talk to you doctor.

• Buy insurance (travel or health) as you book the trip. – we need proof of travel insurance.

Things to do Sept-Dec.

• Forms and student picture.• Make payments on the website.• Check teachers’ websites for information.

Closer to the trip

• Read over guide lines to what is permitted on a plane.

• Break-in Walking shoes and pack comfortable clothes.

• You can only bring what you can carry in one trip (from bus to room).

• Medication• Exchange money in euros.

To sign up

• One bus = 40 students (with 6 chaperones)

• Go to: www.explorica.ca

• enter your TCID (chambon-dias-6837)

• Press “Go”

• click on the red "SIGN ME UP" button

Note: $2,607 is only the tour fee

To sign up

1. Name, date of birth, contact information

2. Price breakdown • **IMPORTANT** Explorica currently has a June

promotion for anyone who signs upin June. During the signup process (step 2) you will be presented with the cost breakdown. PLEASE ENSURE THAT you USE THE VOUCHER CODE: “JUNE100” and you will receive $100 off if you sign up in June.

To sign up

3. Payment Method.

4. Final confirmation.

5. Print your confirmation

To sign up

• Should you find that you are blocked. It may be that 40 students have already signed up.

• Therefore, email the two teachers immediately to place student’s name on a waiting list.

• pdias@staff.ednet.ns.ca

• richardsonj@staff.ednet.ns.ca

Questions?????