Aurora Expeditions Cruise Passenger – Win a Cruise Competition
Terms & Conditions
These terms and conditions apply to an Aurora Expedition prize of one 12-night cruise aboard Douglas Mawson, departing 1 December 2025, subject to availability.
1. Promoter
The Promoter is Cruise Passenger (Cruise Media Australasia PTY LTD; 33 164 325 866; Suite G01, 46a Macleay Street Potts Point 2011 NSW Australia) and the prize shall be provided by Compagnie du Aurora PTY LTD; 35 166 676 517.
2. The Prize (“Prize”)
The Prize is one (1) expedition for two (2) people, on the Coastal Tasmania: Untamed Wilderness (inaugural maiden voyage) departing 1-11 December 2025 staying in an Aurora Balcony Stateroom Category C cabin onboard the Douglas Mawson.
Prize Value: up to AUD $34,790. Prize value based on highest voyage fare available on Coastal Tasmania: Untamed Wilderness (departing 1 December 2025), for two (2) passengers in twin share accommodation in an Aurora Balcony Stateroom Category C cabin, plus AUD $700 flight credit per person.
The Cruise Prize Includes:
- All transfers mentioned in itinerary;
- All pre/post accommodation mentioned in itinerary;
- Onboard accommodation during voyage including daily cabin service;
- All meals, snacks, tea and coffee during voyage;
- Beer, house wine and soft drinks with dinner during voyage;
- Captain’s Farewell reception including four-course dinner, house cocktails, house beer and wine, non-alcoholic beverages;
- All shore excursions and Zodiac cruises;
- Educational lectures and guiding services provided by Expedition Team;
- Complimentary access to onboard expedition doctor and medical clinic (initial consultation);
- One 3-in-1 waterproof polar expedition jacket;
- Complimentary use of Muck Boots during the voyage;
- Comprehensive pre-departure information;
- Port surcharges, permits and landing fees;
- Gratuities for ship’s crew and local guides
The Cruise Prize does not Include:
- Other onboard incidentals are not included and are the responsibility of the passenger(s).
- Optional land programs, stateroom upgrades, transfers and flights may be purchased at an additional cost and will be subject to the Aurora Expeditions cancellation policy; please ask for details
- Aurora Expeditions prize doesn’t include airfare to and from embarkation/disembarkation point, transfers unless listed, hotel arrangements needed before or after voyages, travel insurance.
Entry into the Promotion
The Schedule above and all other entry instructions and prize information published by the Promoter form part of these Terms and Conditions. Each Entrant agrees and acknowledges that they have read these Terms and Conditions (and Schedule) and that entry into the Promotion constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions (and Schedule).
Employees of the Promoter and their immediate families, suppliers, associated companies and agencies are ineligible to enter.
Entries must be received by the Promoter during the Promotional Period.
One (1) entry per person. Multiple entries from the same IP address, same email address or from automated competition entry services are invalid.
Entry into the Promotion is free.
All entries to the Promotion may be subject to verification by the Promoter. Entrants must, within seven (7) days of being asked and at the Promoter’s cost, allow the Promoter to inspect and copy any documents that the Promoter may request establishing eligibility to enter the Promotion, including evidence of age, residence and identity. If a Winner cannot provide suitable proof of eligibility to the Promoter’s satisfaction, they forfeit their Prize in whole and no substitute or compensation will be offered.
The Promoter may, at its absolute discretion, declare any or all entries made by an Entrant to be invalid if the Entrant: fails to establish their entitlement to win the Promotion to the Promoter’s satisfaction; or fails to produce items as required by these Terms and Conditions or produces items that appear to be illegible, stolen, forged, reconstructed, altered, incomplete or tampered with in any way; or appears, to the Promoter, to have tampered with, or benefited from tampering with, the entry process; or has submitted an entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions; or has, in the opinion of the Promoter, engaged in conduct in entering the Promotion which is fraudulent, misleading, deceptive or generally damaging to the goodwill or reputation of the Promotion or Promoter.
This contest is not open to residents of Quebec, Russia, India, Belgium or Sweden.
Entry material
Entries must be submitted in accordance with the Entry Method and must not be: incomplete; incomprehensible; unlawful; obscene; defamatory or libellous; threatening or harassing; pornographic or contain nudity; hateful or offensive.
Entrants warrant that their entry is their own original work, and it does not infringe the copyright, moral rights, trademark rights or any other rights of any third party.
All entries immediately become and remain the property of the Promoter. The Promoter reserves the right to use the entry material for the purposes of conducting and promoting the Promotion, awarding the Prize and advertising and marketing the Promoter or the Promotion and/or future promotions.
Winners
The Winner will be determined from all valid and eligible entries received during the Promotional Period in accordance with the Winner Determination.
The Winner will be notified in accordance with the Winner Notification. All reasonable attempts will be made to contact the Winner. If a Prize is not claimed by the Winner by the date specified by the Promoter or Prize Supplier; or forfeited for any reason, the Prize will be awarded to the next best entry.
General prize terms
- All Prize values are correct and based on the recommended retail value at the Start Date of the Promotion.
- If a Prize or any part of a Prize is unavailable for any reason, the Promoter will, in its absolute discretion, substitute the Prize with another item of no lesser retail value.
- Unless expressly stated as being included in the Prize, all other costs and expenses associated with taking the Prize/s become the
3. Promotion entry Period:
Promotion entry period commences on 5 February 2025 and concludes at 9am AEST on 31 March 2025. It will be promoted via the Cruise Passenger website, eNewsletter, website and social media channels.
4. Entrants
(i) Entry is open to Australian residents only who are 18 years and over. Entry is via an online form on Cruisepassenger.com.au which will include First name, last name, and email address. All entrants must answer a multiple-choice question. The entrant must answer the question before their entry can be submitted. The answer does not have to be correct to be eligible for the draw.
(ii) Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. Employees of Aurora Expeditions and/or any of its Group Companies, subsidiaries, affiliates (including any relatives, family members and/or household members) and anyone else professionally associated with this Promotion are expressly excluded from entering.
(iii) Only one entry per entrant will be accepted. Multiple email addresses for the same person will not be permitted or accepted.
(iv) Entries must be received before the Closing Date. Late, incomplete, invalid and/or corrupt submissions will not be accepted and will be disqualified. No responsibility will be accepted by the Promoter and/or Aurora for lost entries and proof of transmission will not be accepted as proof of receipt.
(v) It is a condition of entry that the winner (and their travel companion) must agree to: (i) take part in any and all activities determined by Aurora including, without limitation, video filming and/or publicity relating to this competition; and (ii) be available to travel on the Prize sailing date.
5. Selection of Winner(s)
(i) The winner will be chosen at random by Cruise Passenger at 10am AEST on 4 April, 2025 at Cruise Passenger’s office Suite G01, 46a Macleay St, Potts Point, 2011, from valid entries received before the Closing Date and the winner will be notified by Cruise Passenger, by phone and email within 7 days of the draw. The winner will be published in Cruise Passenger eNewsletter on Friday 11 April, 2024.
(ii) If the winner does respond or cannot be contacted, a redraw will occur on Monday 7 April 2025 at 10 am AEST at Cruise Passenger’s office 46a Macleay St, Potts Point, 2011, from which the winner will be notified by phone and email within 7 days of the draw. The winner will be published in the Cruise Passenger eNewsletter on Friday 18 April, 2025.
(iii) The winning email notification will include instructions on how/by when the winner is to claim their Prize and provide passenger details, where applicable. Failure to claim and/or provide such details within the required time frame may result in forfeiture of the Prize.
(iv) The Prize cruise must be confirmed no later than 14 days after the winner has been notified that they have won the Prize.
(v) In the event that a winner declines the Prize, and/or is unable to take the Prize, and/or fails to respond within the required time frame, and/or does not claim/take the Prize, and/or is ineligible or otherwise unable to claim the Prize, the winner shall forfeit the Prize and the Aurora shall have no liability to the winner and reserves the right in its absolute and sole discretion to select another winner.
6. Travel and Health Requirements
(i) The winner(s) and, where applicable, their travel companions, will be responsible for ensuring and checking that they (i) hold any and all documentation required in order to travel including, without limitation, ensuring that they are in possession of valid passports with an expiry date no earlier than six months after the completion of the Prize cruise and apply and/or have any visas and/or other permits required for travel; and (ii) have adequate and comprehensive travel insurance (evidence of which shall be provided to Aurora if requested); and (iii) comply with any and all health and other requirements for travel including, without limitation, any required vaccinations, heath certifications and/or permits.
(ii) Prior to departure, the winner(s) are required to check, without limitation, the Aurora website, the FCDO travel advice website and the equivalent country websites of the countries being visited as part of the cruise, for the latest advice and information about travel documentation, procedures, facilities, policies, health and safety information and vaccination & health requirements.
7. General terms and conditions
(i) By entering this Promotion, entrants are considered to have agreed, without limitation, to these terms and conditions and Aurora Booking Terms and Conditions and Cruise Passengers Terms and conditions.
(ii) The Prize is subject to these terms and conditions and Aurora or Cruise Media Australasia reserves the right, to amend and/or update, without limitation, these terms and conditions and/or the Aurora Booking Conditions, conditions of carriage and/or privacy policy(ies) at any time.
(iii) The winner(s) must submit all the necessary information in the manner prescribed and by the dates prescribed, to be entitled to claim their Prize.
(v) The fulfilment of the Prize will be managed by Aurora
(vi) Aurora reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to:
(i) cancel, suspend and/or modify this Promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, a change in applicable law or any other factor beyond Aurora’s reasonable control impairs the integrity and/or proper functioning of this Promotion;
(ii) reject any entries and/or disqualify any entrants, at any time, if Aurora in its sole and absolute discretion deems that there has been or may be, whether intended or otherwise, any: (a) breach of any of these terms and conditions; and/or (b) infringement or potential infringement of any third party rights and/or intellectual property; and/or (c) defamation or potential defamation of any persons, companies, intellectual property, institutions, cultures or similar; and/or (d) offence or potential offence caused, howsoever arising; and/or (e) breach of any laws, regulations, codes (including moral codes), uses, guidelines and/or any other generally accepted etiquette rules required (without limitation) from any internet users, platforms, providers, hosts and/or sites and/or similar.
(vii) The Prize is as described, is not transferable, cannot be amended or varied, has no cash value (and cannot be exchanged for cash) and cannot be re-sold.
Aurora reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to change the Prize and/or substitute any or all of the Prize with an alternative Prize.
(viii) The winner(s) may be required to take part in publicity resulting from the Promotion. Aurora shall be entitled to make use, in any way and/or through any medium, of any comments provided and/or made by the winner(s) including, without limitation, those provided by the winner(s) on any social media sites and/or Aurora owned marketing channels (including the Aurora website), for the benefit of promoting Aurora and its Group and/or associated companies, subject to the applicable policies of the relevant social media sites and/or marketing channels.
(ix) In entering the Promotion, entrants agree not to post any detrimental content on any social media platform and/or in any other mediums.
(x) The determination and decision of Aurora on all matters shall be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into (including as to the winner(s)).
(xi) Aurora reserves the right in its reasonable discretion to: (i) disqualify any entrant, claimant, competitor or their guest whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of the rules or the intention of the Promotion and to declare as void any or all of their claims or entries based on such conduct; (ii) declare as void any claims or entries resulting from any printing, production and/or distribution errors (including without limitation any error(s) on any website and/or app of Aurora and/or in any published materials, regardless of format) and/or where there have been error(s) in any aspect of the preparation for or conduct of the Promotion that materially affects the result of the Promotion and/or the number of entrants, claimants and/or the value of claims; (iii) add to or waiver any rules and/or terms and conditions at any time; and/or (iv) cancel the Promotion or any part of it, at any stage, in the event of circumstances beyond Aurora’s reasonable control.
(xii) Aurora reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or amend/modify this Promotion and/or the Prize, or any part of it and at any time, if any fraud, technical failures, change in applicable law(s) or any other factor beyond Aurora’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Promotion, as determined by Aurora in its sole and absolute discretion.
(xiii) Insofar as is permitted by law, Aurora, its employees, agents, subcontractors and/or or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable for: (i) any loss (including, without limitation, indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), damage, cost, compensation and/or other expense which is suffered and/or sustained by any party (whether or not arising from any person’s negligence) in connection with this Promotion and/or in accepting and/or using the Prize [and/or its contents and/or their ingredients]; and/or (ii) any personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up/accepting the Prize, except where it is caused by the negligence of Aurora and/or Cruise Passenger, its employees and, where it is responsible for them, its agents and/or distributors. The winner(s)’s statutory rights shall not be affected.
(xiv) The winner shall be liable for complying with any fiscal and/or tax requirements (including, without limitation, any benefit-in-kind declarations and/or calculations) and other legal obligations and/or requirements arising out of, or in connection with, the Prize.
(xv) This Promotion shall be subject to the laws of New South Wales and the exclusive jurisdiction of the New South Wales Courts.
8. Personal Data
(i) Any personal information and/or data provided during the entry process (including, without limitation, the entrant’s name) must be valid, up to date and truthful. Aurora accepts no responsibility or liability for any incorrect, false or fictitious personal information provided to it.
(ii) Aurora and Cruise Media Australasia shall use the entrants’ personal data (including, without limitation, the winner and their companion’s names, addresses, emails) for the purpose of administering and/or promoting this Promotion. If entrants wish to opt-out at any time by writing to Aurora and/or Cruise Passenger or by clicking the unsubscribe link in any message received.
(iii) Subject to Aurora privacy policy and these terms and conditions, the winner(s) title, surname and county: (i) may be announced on the Aurora Facebook, Twitter (X) and/or Instagram accounts, as well as on its blog and in other marketing material for a period of 6 months following the announcement of the winner of the Promotion.
(iv) By entering the competition, entrants agreed to opt in and receive marketing communications from Aurora and Cruise Media Australasia.