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Beyond the Wild

BEYOND THE WILD

TOURS & TRAVEL

🧾 Booking Policy

Version 0.9 (draft) · Updated 15 August 2026 · Pending legal review

This policy is in draft and is being finalised with qualified Ugandan legal review. The terms that govern your trip are the ones issued in writing with your quotation and booking confirmation, which you will always receive before any money is payable.

Enquiring costs nothing

Submitting an enquiry, requesting a proposal or asking to hold a group-trip space commits you to nothing and costs nothing. You can change your mind at any point before a booking is confirmed.

How a booking becomes confirmed

A booking is confirmed only when all of the following have happened:

  • •You have accepted the applicable proposal or booking terms.
  • •You have supplied the traveller information required for that booking.
  • •The required deposit or payment has been received and verified by us.
  • •We have confirmed the booking to you in writing.

Payment alone is not confirmation

For some services, additional confirmation is required from a supplier or authority. A payment on its own does not guarantee a particular service where availability has not yet been confirmed. If we cannot secure something you have paid for, we will tell you immediately and set out your options.

Deposits and balances

The deposit required is stated in your quotation or booking confirmation and varies by journey. Some services require full payment in advance because of supplier, permit or ticketing conditions, gorilla permits are the most common example.

Your booking confirmation will specify the total trip price, the amount due now, the outstanding balance and the final payment deadline, calculated against your confirmed departure date.

Group trip spaces

Available group-trip spaces shown on this website reflect current inventory. A space is reserved only once a booking has been confirmed. Where a temporary hold is offered during checkout, it may expire if payment is not completed within the stated period, an incomplete checkout does not permanently reserve a space.

Scheduled departures may have a minimum number of travellers required to run. If that minimum is not reached, we may offer an alternative departure, a revised itinerary or price, another arrangement, or cancel the departure and provide the applicable refund under your booking terms.

What we will never ask for on this website

We do not collect passport numbers, dates of birth, nationality documents or payment card details through forms on this website. Where that information is genuinely needed to arrange permits or bookings, we collect it separately and only at the point it is actually required. If you ever receive a request that appears to come from us asking for card details through a web form, treat it as suspicious and contact us directly.

Online payment

Online payment is not yet enabled on this website. Payment arrangements are confirmed with you directly. When online payment is introduced, a booking will only be treated as paid once the payment has been successfully verified and recorded by us or our authorised payment provider.

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