Southern Italy and Sicily Tale by Bus - 2026 Season

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• Participating guests must have a Multi (Multiple Entry) Schengen visa valid throughout the tour duration. (Green Passport holders are exempt from visa.)
• Having Euros is sufficient to make purchases and spend money in all countries included in the program during the trip. In regions where the local currency is used, the guide will assist in currency exchange.
• Comfortable walking shoes or sneakers should be preferred during the trip. It is useful to have a cardigan or similar clothing with you for the evening.
• In our weekly tours, a rotation (seat change) application is implemented daily in seat planning, and fixed seat and front seat guarantees are not given. Seat changes are organized by the tour guide.
• There is a mandatory minimum 1-night stay in order to bring goods (alcohol - cigarettes, etc.) into Turkey from abroad.
• Free shop shopping limit when entering Turkey from abroad: Cigarettes: 3 cartons, Alcoholic Beverages: 1 liter of alcoholic drink (excluding alcoholic drinks containing more than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Alcoholic Beverages: 2 liters of alcoholic drink (including alcoholic drinks containing less than 22% alcohol, wine, and champagne), Perfume: 600 ml, Makeup or Skin Care Products: 5 pieces, Chocolate and Confectionery: 2 kg, Coffee: 1 kg, Tea: 1 kg 
• Guides may make changes to the program flow depending on weather and road conditions, provided that they show all places specified in the program.
• The Travel Assurance Package can only be added at the tour purchase stage. It cannot be added later. It provides the guest with the right to unconditional uninterrupted cancellation up to 7 days before the travel date. There is no refund if not used. If the cancellation assurance package is not purchased, guests have the right to free cancellation up to 30 days before. If there are less than 30 days left until the tour date, a 30% penalty applies; if there are 20 days or less left, a 100% penalty applies. Hospital reports, workplace leave documents, etc., obtained from authorities in Turkey submitted along with the participant's cancellation request unfortunately cannot be accepted for the cancellation of hotels they will stay at and services they will receive outside of Turkey.
• Our tour program is organized with a minimum participation condition of 25 people.  If sufficient participation for the trip cannot be achieved, the final cancellation notification date is 20 days before the tour departure. The tour canceled due to insufficient participation will be announced by EMC Tur.
• In cases where only category information is given without specifying the hotel name in the tour program and/or there are options for the same destination, the hotel(s) will be notified by EMC Tur 2 days before the trip departure.
• During periods such as fairs, congresses, concerts, events, sports tournaments, etc., hotels may be used at distances greater than the specified km. In such a case, information will be provided by EMC Tur 15 days before the tour departure date
• Triple rooms can be provided depending on hotel availability, and in such rooms, the bed allocated to the 3rd person is smaller than standard beds. Triple rooms consist of 1 large bed + 1 extra bed. Since extra beds consist of fold-away and coach beds, tour participant 3rd persons and/or child reservations are deemed to have accepted the congestion and bed type that may occur in the rooms. Child discounts are valid for a single child staying next to 2 adults and fitting the age group.
• Breakfasts taken at the hotel, which are among the services included in the tour package, are served with a limited menu consisting of butter, jam, bread, tea, or coffee, suitable for the breakfast culture of the country visited and generally called continental breakfast, and can be served in a separate hall allocated for groups.
• Panoramic city tours included in the tour package are tours organized for the general introduction of the cities, made panoramically with guide narration from inside the vehicle, lasting a maximum of 2-3 hours, not including museum and historical site entrances. If panoramic tours, including other tours specified in the program, cannot take place on the day and time corresponding to the tour due to local authorities not allowing visits or entries, or due to closed roads because of any event, or in cases where weather conditions make it impossible to conduct the tour, EMC Tur is not responsible for the failure to perform said tours. Some tours can be carried out by public transport or on foot, to the extent possible, at closed roads or points where vehicle entry is not allowed.
• Waiting times at customs gates crossed by road during travel may exceed standards, and EMC Tur cannot be held responsible for negativities caused by these waiting times.
• Optional tours are organized by the local EMC Tur from which we receive service, with a minimum participation condition of 20 people. If the required number cannot be achieved, excursions cannot be made, or optional excursion prices, content, and the vehicle to be used vary according to the number of participants. In addition, the days and hours of the tours can be changed by the guide according to the open/closed status of museums and historical sites in the places to be visited and weather conditions.
• Optional tours depend on the participant's request and are not mandatory. Passengers who do not wish to participate in optional tours organized during the tour are deemed to have accepted to wait at a suitable rest facility on the way. These passengers are dropped off at the highway rest facility before the optional tour starts and are picked up from the point where they were dropped off after the tour is completed.
• Check-in and boarding procedures that must be done for people participating in tours with flights are personal procedures and must be done by the guest before the flight at the relevant airline counters or online from the airline companies' websites.
• EMC Tur is not responsible for people who are not present at the specified airport at the hours notified by EMC Tur for participation in the tour, do not have check-in and boarding procedures done on time, or have check-in and boarding procedures done on time but do not board the plane, failing to perform the flight. All expenses that will occur for new round-trip plane tickets and transfers in the region to be visited, which will be necessary for people who missed their flight to join the tour, belong to them.
• EMC Tur is an intermediary institution between the airline and the passenger and is subject to the 28.09.1955 Hague Protocol. There may be a risk of delay in scheduled and private flights, or hours may change before the existing trip and flight. EMC Tur is obliged to notify these changes as soon as possible. The passenger has purchased the trip by accepting the risk of schedule changes. Children aged 0-2 do not pay airport tax and airport service fees.
• Vehicle Types Used in Our Tours are classified as follows according to the Number of Persons. The vehicle types below are assigned according to the number of persons in each tour.
• Buses: (Used for 25 - 46 Person Counts)  *Mercedes Travego/Tourismo   *NEOPLAN Cityliner/Tourliner -*Temsa Safir/Maraton *Man Fortuna, Midibuses: (Used for 17 - 24 Person Counts) *Isuzu Turkuaz, *Otokar Mega, Minibuses: (Used for Person Counts up to 16) *Vw Volt, *Mercedes Sprinter
• All guests are deemed to have completed the tour sale by accepting the items stated above.

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