Conditions of Carriage

1. Tickets for excursions are issued subject to West Riding Automobile Company’s Conditions of Carriage which supplement the conditions set out below where applicable.

2. An "excursion" is a round trip using transport organised by us to a specific place, area of interest, or special event within theUnited Kingdomand which lasts not more than a period of 48 hours.

3. The cost of any excursion advertised by us includes the cost of return transport. Unless specifically stated in the excursion programme the price paid for the excursion will not include entry to any premises or events. Where an excursion involves an overnight stay, it is the responsibility of the passenger to arrange and pay for any accommodation required. The company will not make any such arrangements on your behalf. We will, however, transport you to and pick you up from pre-booked accommodation within a reasonable distance of the advertised destination.

4. We reserve the right to cancel or alter any announced excursion if found necessary through insufficiency of passengers or for any other reason that is outside of our control such as, by way of example only, adverse weather conditions or unexpected mechanical breakdowns that could not have been avoided by the proper execution of a reasonable preventative maintenance programme.

5. Should we exercise our right to cancel an excursion for such a reason, our liability to you will be limited to your right to receive a full refund of the price paid to us.

6. Where we substantially alter an excursion, you will also have the right to cancel and receive a full refund of the price paid to us.

7. We shall not be responsible to you in any way for any delay or cancellation where such delay or cancellation was unavoidable and caused as a result of factors entirely outside of our control such as by way of example only unexpected breakdown of vehicles, traffic congestion, diversions or adverse weather conditions.

8. Tickets must be shown on demand and given up to the driver on request.

9. If you wish to cancel your excursion for a reason other than that set out at condition 6, refunds shall be calculated on the basis of the reasonable expenses we expect to incur as a result of your cancellation, which must be requested in writing, as follows:

(a) Cancellations prior to seven days before travel, 30% will be charged or £2.00 per person, whichever is higher.

(b) Cancellations between four and seven days, 50% will be charged.

(c) Cancellations between three days and the day of departure, there will be NO REFUND.

10. The calculation set out at condition 9 shall be based on the price paid by you to us less the cost of any relevant admission fee(s) we have incurred.

11. Where the price paid by you does include an admission fee, we shall make reasonable endeavours to recover those fees on your behalf from those third parties and thereafter refund the admission fee in whole or in part to you but cannot be held responsible in the event that such fees cannot be recovered in whole or in part.

12. Save for personal injury and death caused by our negligence and misrepresentation, we exclude all liability for losses that were:

(a) not foreseeable to us and you when the contract was formed;

(b) were not caused by any breach on our part; and

(c) relate to business losses and/or losses to non consumers.

13. In order to avoid disruption to the enjoyment of other passengers, we must adhere to the scheduled timetable for departures. As such Vehicles cannot wait for passengers who arrive late on either the outward or return journey, or after any other break in the journey, and the Company cannot be held in any way responsible to you if you miss the vehicle as a result.

14. In compliance with the Motor Vehicles (Wearing of Seat Belts) (Amendment) Regulations 2006:

(a) seated passengers aged 14 or over are required by law to wear seatbelts where such are available.

(b) A child under the age of fourteen in a front seat position (i.e. parallel with the driver) or if less than 135cm in height, must wear a seat belt or where available, a child seat, booster seat or booster cushion as appropriate. A child under the age of three must use a baby or child seat when located parallel to the driver.

15. Infants located in other positions on any bus or coach under three carried on a lap should be outside the adult's seatbelt.

16. Children under three are carried free, but no seat will be provided.

17. Children under 16 will be carried at the advertised child fare.

18. Where theatre/concert/event seating is offered as part of an inclusive package, every effort will be made to seat together all passengers booking as part of a group. However, the seat allocation offered by the venue may on occasion prevent this and groups could therefore be seated in two's or three's. Occasionally individuals may be seated one behind the other.

19. Whilst we will make reasonable endeavours to ensure that your seat on our coach is reserved as numbered and allocated pursuant to a seating allocation plan at the time of booking, the Company nonetheless reserves the right for operational reasons to use a coach with a different seating layout to that shown at the time the booking is made.

20. Unforeseen problems may also occasionally mean a vehicle without numbered coach seating being used for all of or part of the journey.

21. The following conditions apply in addition to the standard excursions conditions of carriage above for excursions to football matches or other designated sporting events.

(a) Attention is particularly drawn to the requirements of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol Etc) Act, 1985 as amended by the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol Etc.) Act 1992 (c.57), which specifically prohibits the carrying or consuming of alcohol on coaches travelling to or from designated sporting events.

(b) It is also an offence under the above legislation for a person carried on a public service vehicle travelling to or from a designated sporting event to be in possession of intoxicating liquor and/or to be drunk. Drivers and Company officials may search any bag, holdall or carrier to satisfy themselves that no intoxicating liquor is being carried.

(c) In the event of any passenger being in breach of condition 21(b) above, the passenger shall be liable to the Company and its employees or agents for all costs incurred by them and arising as a result of such breach, including any fine or fines imposed upon them by virtue of Section 1 of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol Etc) Act, 1985 as amended by the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol Etc.) Act 1992 (c.57). Such passenger will be refused travel and no refund will be made.

Ridings Travel and National Travel East are trading names of the West Riding Automobile Company. West Riding Automobile Company Limited is a company registered with Companies House in England and Wales under company number 10253430 and with registered office address at 7 Manygates Lane,Wakefield,WF1 5NT.