Oct 10, 2009

Dear Omega Wizards,

 

Jewel in 2010 will be in lovely Majorca! It will be held from Sept 10 (arriving by the evening of Sep 9 at the latest) through Sept 21 late afternoon. A free day on Sept 16 will help integration and give you time to have an excursion. Majorca is one of the lovely Balearic Islands off the southeast coast of Spain.

 

Venue: The class will be at the Hotel Playa Esperanza (www.esperanzahoteles.com), chosen because students have had very positive experiences there in the past. And in September, the sea and air temperature will still be nice and warm. The hotel is located in the east of Majorca in the heart of an ornithological reserve at the beachfront of Playa de Muro. Outside the hotel, there is a public bus service to Palma, Alcudia, Pto Pollensa and C’an Picafort. The hotel itself offers a beachfront location and swimming pools, as well as many activities like bicycling, hiking, and other sports-activities. 

There are two ways to book with the hotel: through tour operators, as a complete package deal, or to book your flight and room separately. Wherever you book your room, it is necessary to mention VortexHealing Conference (even if booked through tour operators), and to send us the information of how you booked your room. The hotel was able to give us really attractive prices if you book directly, and there should also be plenty of flights available to Majorca, as it is a big holiday destination. So you will need to compare prices with your local agencies, but please, however you decide, always mention VortexHealing Conference and let Yvonne, our organizer, know through whom you booked, as we are responsible to provide the hotel with that information—both a list of all participants and through whom they booked. A list of travel agencies that the hotel works with will follow below.

 

TUITION, DEPOSITS & BALANCES:

     Cost of the full tuition of 12-day Jewel : $ 1250. (Doesn’t include room or board or transport.) Deposits are $300. There is a $50 Discount for deposits received by Aug 10, 2010. And there is a $50 Discount for balances received by Aug 24, 2010. (So you can receive either 1 or 2 discounts, or, if you first register after Aug 24, you would pay the full price.)

     All other aspects of the Deposit/ Balance/ Refund Policy are the same as for other classes.

 

PAYMENTS:

Paying for the class is the same as for US-based classes—you register with Yvonne Andrus, Ric’s US class organizer, and you can pay with VISA or MC, a personal check that is written in US $, or an international money order in US $. Please note that mail from Europe can take a week to arrive, and there are times it has taken as long as two weeks.

Checks and money orders should be made payable to VortexHealing.

Payment by Visa/MC: use the form on the last page of this info-file for deposits and/or

balances. You can print out the form and then fill it in and mail or fax it to Yvonne; you can scan the filled-in form and email the file to her; or you can copy and paste the last page into a Word file, fill it out on your computer and then email the file to her. (If you email it, then for Internet security, write out every fourth credit card number as a word. For example: 237nine 143six… and do this for the security code as well. This way, any programs out there looking for strings of 16 digit numbers will have no way to spot your card number.

 

 

CONTACT INFO FOR YVONNE:

Phone: 1-248-651-2130. (From outside the US dial 00-1-978-248-651-2130.) Please be

aware, that she lives in the US Eastern Time Zone, which is 5 hours earlier than London and 3 hours later than California. So, From England and Europe, please call in the afternoon or evening your time, because of the time difference.

       Mail: Yvonne Andrus // 54233 Scarboro Way// Shelby Twp., MI 48316 // USA

       e-mail: yandrus@winclass.com

       Fax:  Yvonne will have a fax machine by December.

 

Arrival in Majorca: It is important that you plan to arrive by evening, Thursday, Sept 9.

      If you arrive a day late, there will be no way for you to do the class.

 

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2010 Venue Prices the Hotel Playa Esperanza

 

These prices are for Room and Half Board. ‘Half Board’ means a full buffet breakfast and full buffet dinner, and the food there is excellent. The prices below are for our group rate, when booked directly (not through a tour or travel agent). And except for the single room, the rates are per person/per day.

 

Double room, sea view: € 67.94

Double room, standard (non-sea view): € 63.81.

Single room: € 73.79

Double room Standard Used as a Single: € 76.06

Double room Standard Used as a Single (sea view): € 86.05

 

 

TO GET THESE PRICES YOU MUST MENTION “VORTEXHEALING CONFERENCE” AT THE TIME OF BOOKING!

 

Because of what is involved with holding rooms for students at the hotel, please let us know as soon as possible once you make your reservations—even if you haven’t yet paid a deposit with Yvonne.

 

Hotel Playa Esperanza’s Payment / Cancellation policy:

When booking with the hotel directly they will take your credit card number as a guarantee for the reservation but they won’t charge you at the time of booking. For cancellations made between 5-10 days before arrival they will charge one day’s price. Cancellations made 4 or less days before arrival will be charged 25% of the full reservation.

 

Contacting the Hotel Playa Esperanza:

     Tel.:   0034-971-89-05-68 or 0034-971-89-05-70

     Fax:  0034-971-89-09-38

     E-mail: reservas@esperanzahoteles.com or info@esperanzahoteles.com

 

Getting from the airport to the hotel:

     This will take about 75 Minutes and a taxi  cost about 60 one way the last time we were there, so it may be a little higher now. There is also a bus that can be taken from Palma Airport to the central station every 30 Min. and from there you can catch a bus every hour to Playa de Muro. The bus stops directly in front of the hotel (stop Number 14—Playa Esperanza).

     In addition, about a month before the start of class, we will organize a Taxi-Share list, to help you find other students to share a taxi with, who will be arriving approximately the same time as yourself. Students who have registered will get an email about this at the time.

 

Renting a Car:

     There are many car rental companies in Mallorca, and depending on the time of booking they will have different prices. Usually, better prices are had when booking early. One company that our hotel is working with is Betacar Europcar. They are working with them only from the hotel but I am sure, if you contact them, you can get a car from the airport. Their Tel.no. is 00 34-971-73-78-36 (011-34-971-73-78-36 from the US) or FAX no. 0034-971-45-48-89 (011- 0034-971-45-48-89 from the US). Ric & Susanne found good deals (with airport pick-up) with Carjet, at www.carjet.com. Just compare prices as they can vary quite a bit!

 

TOUR PACKAGES

 

The Esperanza hotel is giving us very attractive prices again. However, sometimes a better bargain can be found through a tour operator, that may also offer packages with Charter flights that will be less expensive than a regular flight.. Be aware that with packages, the rooms are often non-seaview with an additional cost for sea-view, or might be breakfast only as compared to HB (Half Board, which means full breakfast and dinner buffets). Below are the tour operators that we know work with our hotel. Note that for the UK, we only have online companies, and we don’t have any for the US. If you are traveling from a country that isn’t on the list below, another option that you can  investigate is the cost of booking with a tour operator that is on the list and then buying a separate flight to that country. Reminder: It is important that you have the tour operator put “VORTEXHEALING CONFERENCE” on your reservation.

 

TOUR OPERATORS  that work with the Hotel Playa Esperanza:

 

UK/ Internet                          www.Expedia.com, www.hallmarkleisure.co.uk, www.alpharooms.com, www.hotelclub.net, www.somewhere2stay.com, www.sunway.ie/sunholidays.com, www.realtravel.com    

 

GERMANY                            TUI, Jahnreisen, Thomas Cook, Dertour, Hotelbeds, Shauinsland and more

 

IRELAND                             Budget Travel, Sunway

 

SWITZERLAND                  Kuoni, TUI Switzerland

 

AUSTRIA                              Gulet (TUI Austria)

 

 

 


Credit Card Form for Paying Deposits or Balances for Jewel Class, 2010, with Visa or MC

(Send this to Yvonne—see contact details above.)

 

All 9 items need to be completely filled out.

 

1. Circle one:  Visa      Mastercard

 

2. Name (as printed on your credit card):

 

3. Name of Student attending Jewel, if different from name on card:

 

4. Billing Address (including country) & phone:

 

 

 

 

5. The credit card number is:

 

6. The expiration date is:

 

7. The last 3 numbers that are printed on the back of your card (if you have them) are:

 

8. Write in numbers and words the amount you wish us to charge your credit card and indicate for what it is being used (e.g deposit, balance, or total).

 

9. Sign and Date the statement at the bottom of this page. (Signing isn’t necessary if emailing the form.)

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DEPOSIT / REFUND POLICIES  (updated feb 24 09)

 

Deposits & Early Registration Discounts: a discount of $50 for deposits of $300 received by Aug 10, 2009, and/or a discount of $50 for balances paid by Aug 24, 2009.

 

Refund of Deposits:

Administration fees are $30. An admin fee will be charged for bounced checks.

Any ‘balance’ payments, in excess of required ‘deposits’, are fully refundable.

Requested prior to a month before the class: full refund less the admin fee. Requested prior to 2 weeks before the class: ½ the deposit refunded, less the admin fee. Requested within 2 weeks before class: non-transferable/ nonrefundable.

Once class has begun, all tuition payments (deposit + balance) are Non-Refundable.

For canceled classes, all payments are refunded. View the detailed policy for class cancellation & date changes online.

 

Transfer of Deposits to Another Class:

Deposits may be transferred only to classes taught by the same teacher.

Once a deposit is transferred, it is non-refundable; it must be used for a class.

Requested prior to one month before the class: transfer of full amount of deposit. Requested prior to 2 weeks before the class: 1/2 of deposit transferred. Requested within 2 weeks of class: the deposit is Non-Transferable/ Non-Refundable.

If transferred more than once, only the first deposit is free of admin fees & must be used within 4 years of the original

canceled class.

 

Credit Cards: If the card used is ‘foreign’ relative to the country of the processing bank, a foreign transaction fee will be added to the amount. If a 3rd party, such as PayPal, is used to process the card, their fees will be added to the amount.

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·        Consent:  I, _______________________________(write name), have read, understand and agree to the costs and the deposit/ balance / refund policy delineated on this form. I understand that my deposit pays for reserving a place in the class. I also understand that my tuition payment (deposit plus balance) pays only for the opportunity to take the class, not for some predefined experience that I may expect to get from the class. I also assert that I have provided all the personal information and credit card details given above and that they are accurate.

 

Signature: ______________________________     Date: _______________