Details of the MBCA German Trip is listed below the form, please read before completing and form.  

Please note:  If requesting an earlier arrival and/or later departure date from the hotel than the included hotel dates you will be responsible for the cost of the additional room nights (including taxes, fees, etc.).

This will be accommodated based on hotel availability and subject to hotel rules concerning changes or cancellation.

Payment: $500 per person deposit is required with registration. Balance per person must be received at the National Business Office 75 days before the commencement date. Do not send cash. German Trip participants are responsible for their own airfare and personal expenses, i.e., food and beverage not included in the trip, phone calls, laundry, side trips, tour guide gratuities, etc.  

I agree to all terms and conditions pertaining to the MBCA trip to Germany as indicated on MBCA’s Website as of the date of this form, including tour responsibility, liability, waiver, and release. If a minor is participating on the German Trip with me, my signature below is my acceptance of responsibility for said minor and agreement to all terms and conditions on the minor’s behalf.

DO NOT MAKE YOUR AIRLINE RESERVATIONS UNTIL YOUR GERMAN TRIP IS CONFIRMED

These trips are offered by the Mercedes-Benz Club of America, Inc. (MBCA or the Club) in collaboration with Daimler AG (DAG) and Mercedes-Benz AG (MBAG) in Stuttgart solely as a service to Club members.

Land Accommodations: Six or seven nights (depending on the specific trip) in a first-class hotel room with private bath/shower are included.

Land Transportation: A private deluxe motor coach for all transfers between hotels and sites on the itinerary are included. The itinerary is subject to change.

Meals: Six full breakfasts, four luncheons, six full dinners including non-alcoholic beverages, are included for the June and September trips. Sightseeing: An English-speaking guide will be provided for the tours.

Taxes/Gratuities: All hotel and restaurant gratuities and German government taxes are included for hotels and meals that are included in the trip. It is customary to tip local guides at the end of the tour.

Not Included:

A.     Air Transportation: Air transportation is not included in the trip price. Please work with your airline of choice at your expense. However, you must arrive at the trip departure location in time to depart on the tour. There can be no assurance that any delay in your arrival can or will be accommodated.

B.     Personal Expenses: Personal expenses, i.e. passport fees, visa fees, excess baggage fees, telephone charges, laundry, valet, side trips, alcoholic beverages, and all other items not specifically on the itinerary.

C.     Insurance: Cancel for Any Reason Travel Insurance is recommended. Please work with your travel agent or airline.

Reservations and Cancellations:  Cancel for Any Reason Travel Insurance is recommended. A non-refundable deposit of $500 per person is due with your trip registration. When there are sufficient members registered to conduct a given trip, you will be notified of the trip dates, and you may then make your air reservations. The balance of the trip fee must be received at the NBO no later than 60 days before the trip starts. Cancellations must be submitted to MBCA in writing and will incur forfeiture of your trip deposit and all trip fees paid when canceled less than 75 days before a confirmed trip.

Should MBCA cancel one or all of the German Trips due to unforeseen circumstances, all fees paid, minus prorated expenses, will be refunded.

Prices: Prices are based on rates, including foreign exchange rates, expected at the time the trip starts. Prices are subject to change.

German Trip Responsibility, Liability, Waiver and Release:

A.     Trip participant understands and acknowledges the risks inherent in participating in, or incident to, travel and travel-related activities. Trip participant also understands and acknowledges that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any place where people are present and by participating in travel activities and any activities associated with the trip. Trip participant hereby voluntarily assumes all risks incident thereto, including all risks related to infectious disease or viruses, including exposure to COVID-19, and accepts full responsibility for any injury, illness, disability, paralysis, death, loss, or damage which trip participant may incur or suffer (whether to person or property) as a result of participation in the trip. While participating in the trip and any and all activities associated with the trip, Trip participant agrees to observe and abide by any applicable rules, procedures, regulations, ordinances, orders, requirements, requests, and guidelines established by governmental authorities, including, without limitation, those pertaining to public health and safety (in particular, as pertains to COVID-19).

B.     MBCA and DAG act only as agents for trip participants, and assume no liability whatsoever for injury, damage, loss, accident, delay and/or irregularity which may be occasioned by any reason whatsoever, including but not limited to defect in any vehicles, or the acts or omissions of any company or any person transporting, accommodating, or serving the trip participants. MBCA and DAG assume no liability whatsoever for losses or expenses due to delays or changes in air or land transportation, hotel accommodations and/or other services. All such losses or expenses will be borne by the trip participant. In the event, the services and/or accommodations offered cannot be supplied, or in the event of a deviation in itinerary due to causes beyond the control of MBCA and/or DAG, reasonable efforts will be made to offer comparable services and accommodations, but this cannot be assured, and no refund will be made.

C.     Each and every trip participant waives and releases any claim whatsoever against MBCA, DAG, MBAG, and any and all other parties and their representatives, agents, employees, officers and directors for any damage to or loss of property, or for injury to or the death of any person, due to or arising out of (i) any acct or omission of any entity or accommodations included in the trip itinerary and (ii) any circumstance, cause of condition incurred or experienced during the trip.

D.     MBCA and/or DAG and all other parties cannot be held liable for lack of performance under ”force majeure” circumstances (including, but not limited to, war, riot, insurrection, terrorism, acts of God, strikes, labor stoppages, epidemics, and pandemics).

E.     Each and every trip participant (i) authorizes and consents to treatment, hospitalization and other care rendered to them in the event of their illness, injury or other emergency circumstance that may occur while participating in the trip and (ii) assumes full responsibility to pay for all costs and expenses for any such care for treatment therefore, agreeing to fully hold harmless and indemnify MBCA and DAG therefore.

F.     Acceptance of the trip participant’s registration form and deposit shall be deemed to be the participant’s consent to all terms and conditions, including the provisions of the waiver, release and consent to medical treatment set forth above.

Thank you for joining the MBCA Trip to Germany!