Weekends and Longer Hikes
Choose the hike from the hiking program.
Phone the Administrator (details below) to reserve your place.
Arrange payment as soon as possible to:
Banking Details:
East Rand Hiking Club
Standard Bank, Benoni
Branch 013042
Account Number 02 1010 285
Proof of payment to be faxed to Administrator (details below). Please ensure that your name and hike details are clearly endorsed on document, whether it be a deposit slip or confirmation of an electronic payment. The Standard Bank deposit slips have a row of 22 squares in the bottom left hand corner. Print the name of the hike in these squares. Also print your name clearly in the "signature space".
Your booking is not confirmed until payment is received in full. Your name will remain on the waiting list and you could stand to forfeit your place to another person on the waiting list should their payment be received prior to receipt of yours.
Bookings may be cancelled and money refunded, under the following conditions:
- Administrator is notified at least two weeks prior to the hike, and:
- A substitute is available from the waiting list.
Money cannot be refunded if cancellation is not received within the subscribed period and if a substitute cannot be found.
Day Hikes
Choose the hike from the hiking program
Phone the leader at least 2 days in advance of the hike to reserve your place.
Contact details (name, home and cell no) must be given to leader.
The rules above also apply to pre-booked hikes (booked with the Administrator).
Contact Details for Administrator
Gretta Jones
Tel(011) 849 9805
Cell: (072) 244 9387
Fax: (011) 849 9805
Email: eastrandhikingclub@nashuaisp.co.za.
Cancellation of Bookings
Members will appreciate that, when bookings are cancelled, there are certain difficulties. Cancellations and refunds involve telephone or E-Mail costs, bank charges, book entries etc., and at the same time, when the trail has been fully booked, other members have been precluded from participating and it is difficult to find replacements at a late stage. This often results in popular hikes being only partially filled when they are, in fact, in heavy demand.
The majority of trail authorities require payment in full in respect of bookings well in advance of the date of the trail. In many cases these payments may be required some six to twelve months in advance. The National Parks require payment within two to three weeks of making the reservation, for a date up to a year in advance on the popular trails.
Where a booking by a member is cancelled and the trail authority has provision for refunds (usually less a cancellation fee depending upon the number of weeks before the date of the trail), the Club would then assist by applying for such refund from the trail authority on behalf of the member concerned. The amount refunded to the member is not guaranteed, but would be subject to the trail authority’s acceptance of the cancellations, less the cancellation charges.
Any cancellation will be dealt with by the Administration Secretary, who will give preference to members already on the waiting list, or when no waiting list exists, the Admin. Sec. will put the member in touch with other members who might be interested in taking over a cancellation. In that event, payment would have to be made direct between the members involved and not through the Club’s books, resulting in no loss to the cancelling member. However, where a replacement has been found by the Admin. Sec., the member will forfeit a cancellation fee of R10-00.
Under no circumstances are members to give their bookings to non-members. Any acceptance of non-members on hikes is at the sole discretion of the Committee.
Where the Club has paid over the fee to the trail authority concerned and it is not possible to obtain a refund or to find a replacement, then the fee in respect of the cancelled booking would have to be forfeited by the member.
REMINDER: As bookings are only confirmed once your payment is made to the Club, please ensure that your payment is received as soon as possible, as your name is placed on the “waiting list” until payment has been received. It is therefore also very important to either fax your payment to 011-849-9805 or E-Mail to eastrandhikingclub@nashuaisp.co.za immediately after making the payment.
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