Friends Forever 2012 trips
payment & other expense information,
part 5
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part 3, and part 4
For ALL summer participants, and groups these are deadline
days
Deposit - (non-refundable and non-transferable) $125.00 US by December 30, 2011 for all trips
1st Payment - $200.00 US by February 12, 2012
2nd Payment - $350.00 US by April 14, 2012
Final Payments - Amount TBA
1st Summer Trip Final Payment - May 18, 2012
2nd Summer Trip Final Payment - May 25, 2012
3rd Summer Trip Final Payment - June 1, 2012
Additional Trip expense
Single Room - Add $270.00 US
NOTE that payments are to arrive on the deadline day above payable to:
Master Card and Visa payments are allowed with an additional fee of 3%.
PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATION is COMPLETE (before or on 12/30/11) when: deposit, application information with picture, the pastors reference
and liability release forms are received at MMM Missions. The pastor’s reference should be sent in by the pastor by December 30, 2011.
Please fill out legal first and last
name on the application. A $175.00
service fee will be charged for name corrections to
the airlines.
The name on your ticket and passport must match.
Application approval response by MMM aka
Friends Forever Missions aka
www.ilovejamaica.org will be given to group leaders by
January 15, 2012.
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Failure to meet deadlines
with no notice and without communicating reasonable
cause will result in the information being submitted to the MMM Board of
Directors for person/group being dropped from the trip.
There is no refund or transfer
for the trip deposit. Additionally these are the time line breakdowns for
trip responsibilities.
Those that drop between 120 days and 95 days prior to departure are
subject to $325.00 in non returnable cost.
Those that drop March 15 and after for June
19, 2011 trip, also March 28 and after for June 26, 2012 trip, and April 2 for
the July 3, 2012 trip to departure are
subject to own the flight ticket and a $400.00 in non returnable cost.
Those that drop from trip 71 days prior to departure date with no replace
are subject to own the flight ticket and a $500.00 in non returnable cost..
Those that drop from trip 50 days prior to the trip are subject to own their
flight ticket and there is no refund to trip fees.
Payments are non-refundable but transferable to another person within 45 days of the trip with an additional $175.00 fee if the ticket was under a group booking, only
with the approval of Dr. Muirhead and the MMM Board of Directors.
Please Note starting in 2008 - within 48 hours of departure day - there is no replacement allowed for group travel by our cooperative travel agency.
The MMM Board of Directors does not
recommend a replacement to fill a person who cancels
30 days prior to the trip. The concern is based on this ministries
observation that last call replacements
are not trained and ready to be on this trip.
The person who cancels will own the
travel ticket (and its value), as mentioned, which is good for one
calendar year on the
airline of departure and return for travel value with that airlines.
It is recommended by Friends Forever Missions that you have always have a trained standby person as a
replacement cancellation, note with the complete application, pastor's reference and
liability release forms filled out and ready to be sent Friends Forever Missions
on a next day mail notice to our office.
No paper application, there is no trip.
Starting in
2008, we asked group leaders to communicate with our office and ask for the replacement person in
case of an extreme emergency cancellation. Therefore, payments are
non-refundable and not transferable within 2 days of trip. The person
who will not travel, may keep the airline ticket (can be used for transferable
airline travel within one year of departure date).
Travel and entry into Jamaica: Valid
Passport.
This is the policy of USA Government and Jamaica Government as of January 7, 2007.
You are allowed to bring one check in bag/suitcase. You are also allowed on the
plane one personal item and one carry-on.
You will be able to exchange funds to
Jamaica $. We will return to the exchange store again during the week, and on
the departure d
ay we will return for final exchange back.
The trip includes your roundtrip air-flight, departure tax, hotel lodging, group ground transportation, breakfast and dinners(as noted in your schedule).
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During lunch time you will have personal options as directed by your
www.ilovejamacia.org tour leader. There is fast food: Burger King,
McIsland Grill, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Basket in Robbins, and local stores
where you can get lunch in the $5 - $7 US range. We encourage you to bring
snacks and goodies.
The only day breakfast and dinner is not provided is on the 6th Day in the schedule, called 'on your own day'
In addition to funds you would bring for your personal shopping
Do not give money to hotel staff, orphanage workers, pastors or church leaders. You may give gifts from the goods you bring, but not
any cash or check. During your trip team meetings there will be an opportunity to respond to those areas of need by giving through your missions trip group.
Also, do not give out your phone number
to anyone in Jamaica (due to money request scams that
target missions participants).
You can get the phone number of your friends in Jamaica if you are going to call
them and pay for the call;
and we can recommend the following website, http://www.techjamaica.com/component/option,com_web2sms/Itemid,40/
so you can send text messages for free.