Terms & Conditions for the following competitions:
Viking River Cruise:
Competition starts: Friday 13 June 2025
Competition ends: Thursday 24 July 2025
Winner to be drawn: Friday 25 July 2025
Viking River Cruise Prize Terms & Conditions:
- Validity and Availability: This prize is valid for any 8-day Viking Danube or Rhine River Voyage for selected travel in 2025 & 2026. Viking will endeavour to book your preferred sailing date; however, a specific sailing date cannot be guaranteed and is subject to availability at the time of booking.
- Blackout dates: Travel is not permitted in June, July & August in both 2025 & 2026. This prize is also not eligible on France or Christmas river itineraries.
- Booking and Redemption: To redeem this prize and book your departure date, please contact our team at insidesales.anz@viking.com or call 138 747. The prize must be redeemed and booked by 31 August 2025. If the prize is not redeemed by this date, it will be forfeited. Please email insidesales.anz@viking.com to claim your prize.
- Stateroom Details: The prize includes a Category F stateroom (River) based on double occupancy. A paid upgrade can be requested, subject to availability, with the cost being the difference between the standard stateroom (F) and the higher category.
- Non-Transferability: The prize is non-changeable, non-transferable, and not redeemable for cash or cruise credits. It is based on double occupancy for two people.
- Eligibility: The prize is valid for residents of Australia who are 18 years and older. You must also still be employed with the Travel Industry at the time of travel.
- Inclusions and Exclusions: The prize covers the cruise only. All elements of the prize must be taken together, and the winner and their travel companion must travel together. Flights, transfers, visas, and other personal expenses such as meals (other than those specified on board), transfer fees, travel to and from the departure point, passports, visas, telephone charges, laundry, additional nights or upgrades, and travel insurance are the responsibility of the winner.
- Forfeiture: If you are unable to accept the prize as stated and within the indicated dates, you will forfeit the prize.
- Force Majeure: In the event of unforeseeable natural disasters, states of emergency, war, or any other circumstances beyond Viking’s control, Viking reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the prize redemption.
All competition prizes are subject to the following Traveltalk conditions:
Information on how to enter the competition forms part of the terms of entry. Entry into the competition is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.
- One entry per person only is permitted per competition.
- By entering this competition, entrants agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions (and by any other requirements set out in the promotional material), which may be amended or varied at any time by the Promoter.
- Pointer Publishing Pty Ltd is the Promoter of this competition
- Entrants must only enter in their own name and the correct answer to be eligible. The Promoter reserves the right to request the winner to provide proof of identity and age, proof of residency at the nominated prize delivery address and/or proof of entry validity (if required) in order to claim a prize. Proof of identification, residency and entry considered suitable for verification is at the discretion of the Promoter. In the event that a winner cannot provide suitable proof, the winner will forfeit the prize in whole and no substitute will be offered.
- The competition commences the competition start date (above) and closes on the competition end date (above).
- Entries must be received by 11:59pm AEST on competition end date (above).
- Entry into the Promotion constitutes acknowledgement and acceptance of these terms and conditions. Information on how to enter, all entry instructions, advertising material and prize information published by the Promoter form part of these terms and conditions.
- An Entrant is any person who has entered this Promotion in accordance with these terms and conditions.
- Employees or directors of the Promoter or Sponsor, immediate family members of any employee or director of the Promoter or Sponsor, any retailer, supplier, associated company or agency of the Promoter or Sponsor and any person who the Promoter or the Sponsor has previously notified are not eligible to enter.
- Entries not completed in accordance with these terms and conditions are void.
- Entries will be deemed void if stolen, forged, mutilated or tampered with in any way.
- The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- If, due to circumstances beyond Traveltalk’s control, the supplier is unable to provide the stated prize, Traveltalk will not be held responsible.
- To submit a complete and valid online entry, entrants will be required to provide various personal details including full name, email address, residential address, contact phone number/s, age/date of birth and gender for the purpose of verifying eligibility. Any contact details entered incorrectly shall invalidate the entry.
- Illegible, incomprehensible and incomplete entries will be deemed invalid.
- The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of entries and to disqualify any entry which, in the opinion of Promoter, includes objectionable content, profanity, potentially insulting, inflammatory or defamatory statements, disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process, who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Terms & Conditions or who has, in the opinion of Promoter, engaged in conduct in entering the Promotion which is fraudulent, misleading, deceptive or generally damaging to the goodwill or reputation of the Promotion and/or Promoter. This includes, but not limited, to entrants and households using multiple email addresses, postal addresses or PO Box addresses. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify a winner if Promoter becomes aware that the winner and/or the winner’s entry is of a type described in this clause.
- The winner will be decided on the competition draw date (above) at 24 Chandos Street, Manly Vale, NSW 2093, and announced within Traveltalk newsletter.
- The Promoter will make all reasonable effort to contact the winner. If the prize is unclaimed within 10 days from the competition draw date (above), an unclaimed prize draw will be held at 24 Chandos Street, Manly Vale, NSW 2093. The original winner will forfeit the prize and the winner of the unclaimed prize draw will be notified by phone or in writing within seven (7) days of the draw.
- The winner’s name will be announced publicly through Traveltalk and on Facebook networks and in any publicity from prize suppliers.
- Whilst every care will be taken to make sure the winner receives the prize, the Promoter does not take any responsibility for parcels that are lost or stolen.
- All entries and any copyright subsisting in the entries become and remain the property of the Promoter who may publish any of the entries received.
- Privacy statement: We will only use and store your personal information for the purposes disclosed to you, including sharing it with any other organisations that help us provide goods or services to you including prize suppliers.
- Winner must be aged eighteen (18) years and over.
- Entrants are permitted to enter only once per competition.
- Entrants must reside in Australia
- All entrants will be subscribed to Traveltalk’s newsletter and to be eligible to win must be a subscriber on the day of the prize draw.
- All entries become the property of Traveltalk Media.
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