Ra Takes Five – Terms & Conditions

Trip: Ra Takes Five – Totality on the Red Sea, Egypt
Dates: 29 July – 8 August 2027
Trip leader: Victoria (Vic) Africano
Organizer: Wild Kin LLC, trading as Wild Kin Collective, 600 E. Plum Drive, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524, USA
Contact: vic@wildkinco.com
Trip page: wildkinco.com

1. About These Terms

These terms are the agreement between you and Wild Kin LLC, trading as Wild Kin Collective ("Wild Kin", "we", "us"). They cover your place on Ra Takes Five. When you pay your deposit and tick the box confirming you accept these terms, your booking is confirmed and these terms apply.

Please read them together with the trip page. If anything here differs from the trip page, these terms apply.

2. What's Included

• Ten nights in a shared Royal Tent for two, a few meters from the Red Sea, at the camp you choose (Marsa Nakari or Wadi Lahami).
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. Tea, coffee, selected soft drinks, and refillable water are always available.
• For divers: six days of scuba diving at sites chosen each day to suit wind and sea conditions. Your orientation dive, dive briefings, tanks, and weights are included.
• Two excursions to swim with wild spinner dolphins.
• The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027, watched from inside the path of totality. Certified eclipse glasses are provided.
• Round-trip airport transfers from Hurghada.
• Boat and land transport for the diving and dolphin outings in your package.
• All tips for your airport driver, dive guides, boat captains, and camp staff.
• Your environmental fee and hyperbaric chamber support fee.
• Trip planning and support from Vic from the day you book until you're home.
• For snorkelers: ride-along snorkeling on the dive boats in your package. That means every dive morning at Wadi Lahami and the three boat days at Marsa Nakari. Snorkeling on Marsa Nakari's house reef is included too.

Dive days and dolphin outings depend on weather and sea conditions. See section 8.

3. What's Not Included

• International flights and your Egyptian visa.
• Transfers from Marsa Alam airport. Vic can help arrange one on request, at your cost.
• Rental dive equipment and Nitrox.
• A PADI ReActivate refresher, dive courses, certifications, and specialty training.
• Extra dives, extra snorkeling trips, extra dolphin outings, night-dive certification or private guides, kitesurfing, and land excursions booked on site.
• Travel insurance and dive insurance (see section 9).
• Alcohol, diet drinks, specialty coffees, juices, snacks, souvenirs, laundry, and other personal purchases.
• Hotel nights before or after the trip, including any night in Hurghada needed to meet your transfer.
• Costs caused by delays or changes beyond our control, such as weather, flight disruption, illness, strikes, or government action.
• Medical costs, hospitalization, and evacuation.

4. Price

• €5,495 per person, sharing a Royal Tent, with the dive program.
• €4,995 per person, sharing a Royal Tent, if you are snorkeling, freediving from shore, or staying topside instead of joining the dive program.
• Private tent: €1,750 extra. Private tents are offered from 1 May 2027 if any are left.

Prices are in euros. If you pay in another currency, Stripe or Wise converts the amount on the day you pay. Any bank charges or exchange differences on your side are yours.

Book Early bonus: The first five guests whose deposits we receive get one extra dolphin outing or dive day. It is offered whenever the boat has a seat, so it depends on space on the day. It has no cash value and cannot be exchanged.

5. Payment Schedule

Your deposit is a non-refundable retainer. It holds your place and is applied in full to your trip price.

If you book after a due date has passed, all payments due up to that date are payable when you book.

You can pay by card through Stripe or by bank transfer through Wise, using the payment links we send you. Each person pays their own deposit, so couples pay it twice.

If a payment is late, we will remind you by email. If it is still unpaid 7 days after that reminder, we may treat your booking as cancelled by you (see section 6).

Need a different payment schedule? Ask before your next due date. Any change must be agreed in writing by email.

6. If You Cancel

All payments are non-refundable once made. This is because we pay the camps and dive centers well in advance.

Please tell us in writing at vic@wildkinco.com if you need to cancel.

Passing your place on: If you can't come, you can transfer your place to someone else, with Vic's written OK. The new guest must accept these terms and meet the requirements in sections 9 and 10. Any name-change fee charged by a camp or transfer provider is paid by you or the new guest, as you agree between yourselves.

Unused services: There is no refund for dives, dolphin outings, meals, nights, or transfers you don't use. This includes arriving late or leaving early.

Shorter stays: The camps book every guest for the full ten nights, so you still pay for all ten nights of lodging. Your activities are priced for the days you're there, starting from the camps' five-day minimum dive package for eclipse week. A sixth dive day and the dolphin outings can be added. Snorkelers pay the camp's snorkeling rates. Ask Vic for a quote.

If cancellation insurance covers your reason for cancelling, claim from your insurer. This is why we strongly recommend it.

7. If Wild Kin Cancels

We may cancel the trip before departure, for example if there are too few bookings.

If Wild Kin cancels the trip, you get back every payment you made to Wild Kin. We will refund you within 30 days of telling you the trip is cancelled.

If something bigger than us cancels it, such as a travel ban, a natural disaster, war, or a government order, you get back everything we haven't already paid out to suppliers. You also get back everything we can recover from them. We will work to recover those payments quickly, but we can't promise how much suppliers will return, and we will not start legal action abroad to recover them. We will pass on each amount within 30 days of receiving it.

If Vic can't travel, the trip goes ahead with Matt Dann as your guide. This is not a cancellation, and no refund is due. We will tell you as soon as we know and ask you to confirm by email that you're continuing without Vic.

If you decide not to continue without Vic, no refund is due. You can still pass your place to someone else, as described in section 6.

If neither Vic nor Matt can travel, the trip still runs with the camps' own dive teams. We will name a trusted guest as trip host to look after things on the ground. This is not a cancellation either, and no refund is due.

That refund is the limit of what we owe you for the cancellation. We are not responsible for flights, visas, hotels, or other costs you paid to anyone else. Refundable or changeable flights and good travel insurance protect you here.

8. Changes to the Trip

This trip runs on nature's schedule. You accept that:

• Dive sites, boat trips, and dolphin outings are chosen day by day. They depend on weather, sea conditions, local rules, and the dive team's judgment. We may change, shorten, or swap any of them.
• Wildlife is wild. We can't promise sightings of dolphins, sharks, dugongs, or any other animal.
• Night diving can be paused by local rules.
• Clouds can hide the eclipse. There is no refund if weather affects the view.
• In rare cases, we may need to move you to equivalent accommodation, change a supplier, or change a group leader.
• If the dive center or boat crew cancels a dive day or dolphin outing because of weather or sea conditions, we will try to reschedule it later in the trip. If that isn't possible, we will offer another activity of similar value where one is available. These calls belong to the dive center and boat crews, and no refund is due.

If we must make a major change before departure, we will tell you as soon as we can. No refund is due for changes made for safety, weather, sea conditions, wildlife, or local rules.

9. Insurance

Required:

• Travel insurance that covers emergency medical care and medical evacuation, for the full length of your trip.
• Dive insurance if you are scuba diving or freediving.

Strongly recommended: Trip cancellation and interruption cover.

Please send us your policy names and policy numbers by 15 May 2027. Without proof of the required insurance, you may not be able to join the trip, and no refund will be due.

10. Health, Fitness, and Diving

You are responsible for choosing a trip that suits your health, fitness, and experience. You must be comfortable in open water and able to manage your own limits.

Divers:

• You must hold a recognized scuba certification and bring your certification card and logbook, on paper or in an app.
• We strongly recommend at least 20 logged dives. You must be comfortable managing yourself underwater and diving with a buddy.
• If it has been six months or more since your last dive, you must complete a PADI ReActivate before joining the dive program. It can be done on site at your own cost, but it may use up part of your first day in the water.
• Everyone starts with an orientation dive.
• You must complete the dive center's medical questionnaire. If it asks for a doctor's sign-off, you must get one before the trip.
• The dive center's rules and the dive guides' safety decisions are final.

Freedivers: You must leave 24 hours between your last scuba dive and your next freedive, including descents as shallow as two body lengths.

Health information: Before the trip, we will ask you to complete a health statement. Please tell us about any condition, medication, allergy, or dietary need that could affect you on the trip.

We, the camp, or the dive center may stop you from taking part in any activity if we believe it is unsafe for you or others. No refund is due in that case.

11. Travel Documents

You are responsible for your own passport, visa, and any health or vaccination requirements. Your passport must be valid for at least six months after you arrive in Egypt. Vic will help with the visa steps, but getting it is your responsibility. No refund is due if you are refused travel or entry.

12. Conduct and Respect for Wildlife

We swim with wild animals in their home. You agree not to chase, touch, feed, or crowd any wildlife, and to follow the guides' instructions in and out of the water.

You agree to treat fellow guests, guides, skippers, and camp staff with respect.

We may remove anyone from an activity or from the trip if their behavior puts people or wildlife at risk, or seriously disrupts the group. No refund is due in that case, and you pay any costs it causes.

13. Our Suppliers and Our Liability

Your accommodation, meals, diving, boats, and transfers are provided by independent camps, dive centers, boat operators, and transport providers. They are not employees or agents of Wild Kin. Each one follows the laws of the country where it operates.

We choose suppliers with care. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any delay, injury, loss, damage, or expense caused by a supplier's acts or failures, or by events beyond our control. Such events include weather, natural disasters, illness, pandemics, strikes, civil unrest, war, terrorism, government action, and transport failures.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid to Wild Kin for this trip. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

14. Risks of the Trip

This trip takes place in remote areas of Egypt. It includes scuba diving, snorkeling, freediving, boat travel, and road transport. These carry real risks, including illness, injury, and death. Medical care may be hours away, and evacuation may be slow.

By booking, you accept these risks. Before the trip, we will ask you to sign a Release of Liability and Assumption of Risk form. Taking part in the trip depends on signing it.

15. Photos and Video

Vic and Matt may take photos and video during the trip. We will only use images in which you can be recognized for marketing if you give your permission on our separate media release. You can say no, and it won't affect your trip.

16. Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to run your booking and your trip. Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect, who we share it with, and your rights.

17. Questions and Complaints

If something isn't right during the trip, please tell Vic straight away, so she can try to fix it on the spot.

If you still have a complaint after you get home, email vic@wildkinco.com within 30 days of the trip's end. We will reply within 14 days.

If you have a problem with a payment, please contact us before you contact your bank or card company. Most issues can be solved quickly by email.

18. Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, USA. Any dispute will be handled in the courts of Larimer County, Colorado, unless the law of your home country gives you the right to bring a claim there.

If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.

19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms before you book. The version you accepted when you paid your deposit applies to your booking. Any later change to your booking must be agreed in writing by email.

Last updated: 10 November 2026