You do not need to pay by credit card to be covered. It doesn’t matter how you pay, you are covered by our travel trust association. This will also save you the high credit card fees.
CateredSkiChalets.com is a sister company of the Dutch chalet company Skichalets.nl Ltd. occupying a unique position as the only one with catered chalets since 1993 with a fully-bonded membership in The Netherlands of the financial travel protection authority SGR, comparable with The Travel Trust Association, ATOL and ABTOT in the United Kingdom. Head to this travel trust association website: www.sgr.nl/english and check our warranty certificate, only in Dutch, with membership number: 3494. Reliability and 100% financial security for our valued guests are our top priorities, which is why we are members of this travel trust association. Only financially healthy companies are allowed to join this travel trust association. There are lots of different ‘travel associations’ and ‘ombudsman’ organisations, but these only generally require their members to follow a code of practice and act as a means of recourse or intermediary for customers. The difference about our membership of this travel trust association is that this travel network guarantee 100% financial protection to the consumer, ensuring total confidence. Your paid money is safe in the unlikely event of our financial failure and this travel trust association provide a full refund. Thanks to our membership, not only our Dutch guests, but also all other international guests of ours are fully insured for a guaranteed refund of all your payments made to us, in the unlikely event of insolvency. Even in the case of complete bankruptcy, even then you will get this guarantee and you won’t receive just a partial refund, but the full 100%. We have provided a bank guarantee to meet the requirements of financial of the travel trust association for a very substantial amount as financial security. In addition, this travel trust association also requires a significant annual financial contribution, and also in addition a mandatory monthly financial fee must also be paid. Each year, the chartered accountant of our accountancy firm must submit the annual accounts to this travel trust association for review. This is followed, also each year, by an intensive and lengthy audit, during which a financial assessment is conducted to determine whether we continue to meet the liquidity and solvency requirements necessary to maintain our membership of this travel trust association. As you can see, we are under strict financial supervision, which means you can book with us with complete confidence and go on a worry-free winter sports holiday.
Imagine this happening to you: you’ve booked your winter sports holiday and you are already in full holiday mood. And then the travel company you booked with runs into financial trouble or worse or even goes bankrupt. Goodbye holiday. Goodbye money. It’s a nightmare scenario, right? Nowadays, especially online, there’s an explosion of providers offering winter sports holidays. But be careful, the vast majority are not members of this travel trust association. So never book with them. In fact, this travel trust association frequently warns against this. This travel trust association does require a mandatory consumer contribution of only € 10,- per booking, so not per person. So if you are traveling with ten people, you are fully covered for just € 1,- per person.