Wednesday 18 June 2025
BIG SPLASH MEDIA
CRUISE PASSENGER – COMPETITION TERMS & CONDITIONS
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1 of 3 wine vouchers – Cruise Passenger – Reader Competition
The Prize:
1 of 3 Dan Murphy’s wine vouchers
Competition start date:
18 June 2025
Competition closing date:
20 July 2025
General Terms
No payments will be made for any costs associated with claiming the prize. No compensation will be payable if a winner is unable to use the prize as stated.
All references to time in this document are a reference to the local time in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on the date stated. The Prize must be taken as offered, is subject to availability and is non-refundable, non-transferrable and not redeemable for cash or any other goods or services. The Prize cannot be resold. The Prize cannot be transferred to any other person, unless agreed to by the Promoter. It is a condition of accepting a prize that the winner accepts the conditions of use of the Prize.
If any Prize (or part of any Prize) is unavailable, the Promoter, in its discretion, reserves the right to substitute the Prize (or that part of the prize) with a Prize to the equal value and/or specification.
In the event of COVID affecting travel from your home country or to the country of embarkation by government border restrictions only, the promoter will assess and rebook onto another date in 2025.
The promoter is not responsible for any costs incurred by airline changes, pre/post accommodation or transfers associated with prize.
The Promoter reserves the right (subject to any applicable law) to cancel, terminate or modify or suspend this promotion. The Promoter, its related bodies corporate and their respective officers, employees, contractors and agents (Promotion Parties) will not be liable for any losses, damages, expenses, costs or personal injuries arising out of this promotion, the promotion of this promotion or the use of any prize, including but not limited to any breach of these terms and conditions, contract or tort (including negligence) and any other common law, equitable or statutory remedy (Damages) whatsoever, including but not limited to direct, indirect and consequential Damages, including Damages that cannot reasonably be considered to arise naturally and in the ordinary course of things, even if those Damages were in the contemplation of the Promotion Parties: a) for personal injury or death suffered or sustained in connection with the supply of goods or services which are supplied by the Promoter in the ordinary course of business.
To remove doubt: third party goods or services, which other than in connection with this promotion, are in the normal course of business supplied by a third party unrelated to the Promotion Parties, are not supplied by the Promoter in the ordinary course of business; and the Promoter’s Conditions of Carriage and general booking conditions (and any exclusions contained therein) apply despite any statement to the contrary in these terms and conditions; or b) to the extent it is not permissible at law to limit or exclude liability in the manner contemplated in that clause (in which case that liability is limited to the maximum extent allowable by law). The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any tax implications that may arise from accepting a prize. Independent financial advice should be sought.
Receipt of a prize may have Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) implications. To the extent that there is any FBT liability, this will be paid for by the employer of the recipient. The grossed-up value of a prize and any other Fringe Benefits the recipient receives during the course of the FBT year may be reported on the recipient’s annual PAYG Payment Summary as required by taxation law. Competition entries are via an online form on sydneytravelguide.com.au
Any person 18+ who is a permanent resident in Australia may enter. Entry is via an online form: first name, last name, email, mobile and postcode. form Entry opts participants into Cruise Passenger newsletters and communications.
Prize drawn
20 July 2025 at 10am at Big Splash Offices: Suite G01, 46a Macleay St, Potts Point, 2011, NSW.
Winner notified by email within 24 hours of the draw. The winner must respond to the email to claim prize. If the winner cannot be contacted, doesn’t respond or rejects the prize, the prize will be redrawn at 10am on 26th July, 2025, and a new winner will be notified by email within 24 hours. The promoter reserves the right to redraw the winner. If this is required, this will take place at Big Splash Offices G01, 46a Macleay St, Potts Point NSW, 2011 via random selection. Winner published on cruisepassenger.com.au and in Cruise Passenger eNewsletter on 26th July, 2025.
Abercrombie & Kent “The Wonders of Ancient Egypt” – Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions
1. Promoter
The Promoter is Cruise Passenger (Cruise Media Australasia PTY LTD; ABN 33 164 325 866; Suite G01, 46a Macleay Street, Potts Point, NSW 2011, Australia). The Prize is supplied by Abercrombie & Kent.
2. The Prize (“Prize”)
The Prize is for two (2) people travelling together on Abercrombie & Kent’s The Wonders of Ancient Egypt itinerary from Cairo to Cairo. The prize is valid for bookings and travel until 31 July 2026, excluding an festive dates (23rd, 27th & 31st Dec 2025, and 2nd & 6th April 2026), and cannot be redeemed after this date).
The Cruise Prize Includes
- 8 days/7 nights accommodation for two people, travelling twin share worth $9190, and includes:
- A 4-night sailing in a standard cabin onboard an A&K Sanctuary riverboat during The Wonders of Ancient Egypt itinerary
- 3 nights in Cairo
- Internal flight from Cairo to Aswan
The Cruise Prize does not include:
Travel insurance
- Optional excursions, upgrades, or cruise extensions
- Additional accommodation outside of the cruise itinerary
- Meals and beverages not included in the cruise fare
- Visas, passports, vaccinations or other entry/exit requirements
- Items of a personal nature such as souvenirs, laundry, telephone calls, or medical expenses
- Transportation to and from the Australian departure airport
- Airfares between the Australian departure airport and Cairo, Egypt
- Any taxes, duties or government charges not explicitly included
- 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.
The entry details required are First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone Number, Post Code, and a question to be determined by the Promoter.
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 outside of Australia.
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 accepting the Prize/s become the responsibility of the prize winner
3. Promotion entry Period:
Promotion entry period commences on 25 June 2025 and concludes at 9am AEST on 31 August 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 1 September, 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 8 August, 2025.
(ii) If the winner does respond or cannot be contacted, a redraw will occur on Monday 8 September 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 5 September, 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 Abercrombie & Kent shall have no liability to the winner and reserves the right in its absolute and sole discretion to select another winner. The winner must book the cruise and airfares by 31 July 2026 in order to successfully redeem the prize.
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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent Booking Terms and Conditions and Cruise Passengers Terms and conditions.
(ii) The Prize is subject to these terms and conditions and Abercrombie & Kent or Cruise Media Australasia reserves the right, to amend and/or update, without limitation, these terms and conditions and/or the Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent
(vi) Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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. SafetyNet Protection cannot be applied to this booking.
Abercrombie & Kent 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. Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent owned marketing channels (including the Abercrombie & Kent website), for the benefit of promoting Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent on all matters shall be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into (including as to the winner(s)).
(xi) The Promoter 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 The Promoter 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 The Promoter reasonable control.
(xii) The Promoter 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 The Promoter’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Promotion, as determined by The Promoter in its sole and absolute discretion.
(xiii) Insofar as is permitted by law, Abercrombie & Kent, 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 Abercrombie & Kent 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. Abercrombie & Kent accepts no responsibility or liability for any incorrect, false or fictitious personal information provided to it.
(ii) Abercrombie & Kent 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 Abercrombie & Kent and/or Cruise Passenger or by clicking the unsubscribe link in any message received.
(iii) Subject to Abercrombie & Kent privacy policy and these terms and conditions, the winner(s) may be announced on the Cruise Passenger Website, Newsletter, and through Abercrombie & Kent’s 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 Abercrombie & Kent and Cruise Media Australasia.