Bateaux London

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Experience the UK’s capital city from a unique perspective with an entertaining cruise from Bateaux London. Bateaux London’s cruises include Afternoon Tea, Lunch, Dinner and a Sunday Jazz Lunch, combining quality dining, spectacular views from the River Thames and great entertainment. Cruises depart from and return to Embankment Pier and pass lots of London’s iconic sights, including the London Eye, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Tate Modern and HMS Belfast. Entertainment varies from recorded commentary to singers, jazz bands to pianists playing classics on a baby Grand Piano. Whichever cruise you choose to take, you can expect good food and drink, stunning city views, quality entertainment and a relaxing yet fun atmosphere for your celebrations. Bateaux London’s cruises are ideal for any special occasion, including birthdays, team building, corporate events and hen parties in London.

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Terms and Conditions - important information to know

Our Dress Code
A Bateaux London cruise is a special experience and a great opportunity to create some wonderful memories with your friends and family.

We have a strict dress code for our Saturday nights which we believe enhances the occasion.

For the rest of the week, on all our different cruises, we have a suggested dress code and guidelines for appropriate attire.

Dinner Cruises
Sunday - Friday - we ask for smart attire. Smart, clean trainers are permitted and jeans should not be ripped.

Saturdays - we ask for more formal attire. Think black tie for men (Tuxedo optional) and cocktail dresses for women. Trainers/sports shoes are not permitted and guests without proper shoes will be turned away. This is a special occasion and a time to dress up.

Lunch Afternoon Tea and Sunday Cruises
Smart casual attire is suggested for all of our daytime cruises.

Please note that fancy dress and swimwear is not appropriate attire for any of our experiences.

Dietary Requirements 
Please check each cruise menu for information on dietary requirement variations. We are able to cater for most dietary requirements on board, however please make your requirements known at the time of booking so that we may advise accordingly.  Please note all menus are subject to change.

Special occasions 
We offer extra touches for your special occasions and would be delighted to arrange flowers or Champagne. Please contact our Reservations department for more information or to pre-book your additional items. Please allow 5 days for flower orders

Before your cruise 
Please ensure that you thoroughly check the details within your e-ticket and notify our Reservations Department by calling 020 7695 1800 or emailing reservations@bateauxlondon.com if there are any discrepancies. Please quote your booking reference number on all communications this can be found within your e-ticket.

We will advise you of any changes to your booking via email, therefore please continue to check for any updates regularly.

On the day of your cruise
 Please make your way to Bateaux London’s reception area to collect your boarding card. This will be issued to you in exchange for a gift voucher (if appropriate) or your E-ticket.

We recommend arriving at least 15 minutes prior to the time stated on your e-ticket.

We are unable to delay the boat departure or return for guests that have missed the boarding time. Late arrivals for the cruise will NOT be offered a refund and re-scheduling of your cruise is at our discretion.

Location 
Bateaux London is based at Embankment Pier. Embankment Pier Victoria Embankment London, WC2N 6NU

Bateaux London is across the road from Embankment Underground Station and a short walk from Charing Cross National Rail Station.

Vessel 
Your cruise will take place on board the vessel stipulated on your e-ticket. Bateaux London does however reserve the right to substitute with another vessel if deemed necessary.

Child Policy
For lunch, afternoon tea and Sunday cruises, children’s price are available for those aged between 3-12 years. Children under the age of 3 years are not permitted on board for health and safety reasons. Space is limited on our boats so prams bassinets and pushchairs are not permitted on our vessels. Highchairs are not available. Children under the age of 12 are not permitted on our dinner cruise.

Cancellation Policy
 No refund will be offered for cancellations which fall outside the following stipulated notice periods: Groups of 1 - 9 guests: We require a minimum of 48 hours notice in order to offer a full refund. Cancellations received less than 48 hours prior to the cruise will incur 100% cancellation fee.

Groups of 10 -20 guests: We require a minimum notice period of 8 days to offer a full refund on cancellation; between 7 and 2 days in advance, a 25% Charge will apply to cancellation or any number reductions. Cancellations received less than 48 hours prior to the cruise will incur 100% cancellation fee.

Groups of 21 – 60 guests: For parties of 21 or more we require 15 days notice to offer a full refund; between 14 and 8 days prior to the cruise date a 30% Charge will apply to cancellation or any number reductions. Less than 7 days prior to the cruise will incur 100% cancellation fee.

Private Charters and Large Groups (a Booking containing more than 60 passengers) - No cancellation charges if a booking is cancelled more than 30 days prior to the Event Date. 50% charge will apply for cancellations and any number reductions received between 30 and 15 days prior to the Event Date. 100% charge will apply for any cancellations and number reductions received less than 15 days prior to the Event Date.

For Special Event cruises, such as Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve Cruises, different terms and conditions apply so please refer to your confirmation details.

Bookings and Payments
Booking and payment are required in advance.  All published rates and schedules are valid 1st April-31st March. Bateaux London reserves the right to amend and withdraw prices and services outside of the dates published above.

General Information
Bateaux London retains the right to refuse boarding for safety reasons.  Bathrooms on board are accessed by stairs only on the Symphony. Smoking is permitted on designated outside decks only. Prices, piers, menus, boats, schedules, contents and routes are subject to availability and change. During cruises, photography and filming for our own use may take place. No alcohol may be removed from the boats.

If you have any further queries, please contact us on 020 7695 1800, quoting your booking reference number.

Services and safety
1. We reserve the right, when necessary, to alter or withdraw on board services and facilities.

2. For your own safety and the safety of others, you must follow instructions given by our crew when on board our vessels.

3. For safety reasons smoking is permitted on designated outside deck areas only.

4. The crew may refuse to carry any passengers, or direct any passenger to disembark, where the behaviour of that passenger is liable to cause nuisance or offence to the other passengers or put at risk the safety of the passenger, other passengers, crew or vessel.

5. The Company will not be liable for any loss, damage or delay to any persons or their possessions whilst embarking or disembarking from the vessel or during the cruise which may arise from or be in any way connected with any act, omission or negligence of any person employed by the Company.

6. The Company will not be liable for death or personal injury to any persons resulting from any act or omission other than the Company's negligence.

7. Our vessels are equipped with a full complement of buoyancy equipment for all passengers and are in constant contact with the port authority. In the unlikely event of an emergency a member of the crew will give you further instructions. .

Bookings and Reservations
1. You must have a confirmed reservation, which is valid for the date and package booked with a Bateaux London six digit reference code.

2. Children under the age of five are discouraged on Lunch, Sunday Lunch Jazz and Afternoon Tea cruises. Children under the age of 12 are not permitted on Dinner Cruises. Prams, bassinets and pushchairs are not permitted on our vessels. Highchairs are not available.

3. If you book a reservation with a credit or debit card to which you do not have legal right, the reservation will be invalid.

4. Whilst we try to ensure that all information, particularly times and prices, displayed on our websites are accurate errors may occur. If we discover an error in a price you have purchased, we will try to inform you as soon as possible and give you the option of either reconfirming your purchase at the correct price or cancelling it. If we are unable to contact you for any reason, we reserve the right to treat the purchase as cancelled.

5. If you present a mis-priced reservation, we reserve the right to withdraw the booking, cancel it and refuse cruising unless and until another reservation has been purchased at the correct price for the intended cruise product. Cancellation under any of these circumstances will entitle you to a full refund of any sums you have paid.

6. A dress code applies on dinner cruises - Smart formal dress is required. Both ladies and gentlemen are asked to dress in a manner appropriate to a smart formal occasion. Gentlemen are encouraged to wear a shirt and tie with a jacket or suit. Trainers and leisurewear are not permitted on board. Bateaux London reserves the right to refuse entry based on inappropriate attire and refunds will not be offered in such circumstances.

Accessibility
Contact reservations@bateauxlondon.com to discuss any access requirements, such as wheelchairs. Due to the tight space of the pier we advise using a manual wheelchair but this can be talked about in more detail with the Reservations Team.

Toilets are accessed via stairs on the Symphony, but the Harmony vessel has a ground level, wheelchair accessible toilet on board. An access statement for Bateaux London is available upon request.

Luggage, belongings and animals
1. For safety reasons, and for the comfort of passengers, we have to restrict the amount and type of luggage, including pushchairs and shopping trolleys, that you can take with you on our vessels. We do not accept responsibility for any luggage, belongings or animals brought on board. If you bring any such items on board they remain your responsibility at all times.

2. You may not take on board hazardous or flammable substances.

3. We reserve the right to restrict the carriage of any luggage and to refuse permission to take any item on to vessels.

4. We do not accept responsibility for any luggage, belongings or animals brought on board. If you bring any such items on board they remain your responsibility at all times.

Lost Property
1. We deal with lost property in accordance with our lost property procedures, which are available for inspection on request.

2. If you find any lost property on our vessels or facilities, do not touch it but please alert a crew member immediately.

3. If we think unattended property may be a security threat, the police or security services may be called to attend and the item(s) may be destroyed.

Bateaux London Cloakroom Policy
The cloakroom is for the use of Bateaux London customers on a given date so that property may be stored in a convenient, secure and safe location during the cruise. The customer is given a ticket with a number on it, which corresponds to the ticket placed on the customer's property. It is the customer's responsibility to look after this ticket once it is in their possession. Bateaux London accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage that occurs from a ticket being lost. No property will be handed back with out a ticket.

Any property lost or damaged that has not been handed in to the cloakroom is the individual's responsibility and Bateaux London is not liable whatsoever for any loss or damage that occurs from the property not being handed in.

Lost Property will be given to charity if left unclaimed for three months. PLEASE CLAIM FOR LOST PROPERTY BETWEEN 10am -4pm Monday to Friday.

Bateaux London (“Bateaux”)  Terms of Use Copyright  You may only download or print information from this site for non-commercial personal use. Partial or complete reproduction by electronic or mechanical means without Sodexo’s express written consent shall be deemed counterfeiting and is illegal.  Bateaux makes no warranty that the information on this site does not contain errors or inaccuracies and disclaims any liability. Information on the site will be updated or supplemented periodically without prior notice. This page and all site pages are original works owned by Sodexo.

Governing Law
  These terms and conditions are governed by and to be interpreted in accordance with English law and in the event of any dispute arising in relation to these terms and conditions or any dispute arising in relation to the website whether in contract or tort or otherwise the English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over such dispute.

Terms of Use  Copyright  
You may only download or print information from this site for non-commercial personal use. Partial or complete reproduction by electronic or mechanical means without Sodexo’s express written consent shall be deemed counterfeiting and is illegal.  Bateaux makes no warranty that the information on this site does not contain errors or inaccuracies and disclaims any liability. Information on the site will be updated or supplemented periodically without prior notice. This page and all site pages are original works owned by Sodexo.

Privacy Policy  
Bateaux (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  This policy together with our terms of use sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.  For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Sodexo Limited of Solar House, Kings Way, Stevenage SG1 2UA.

Information we may collect from you  
We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.bateauxlondon.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site. 
    If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. 
    We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them. 
    Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders. 
    Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.   We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.  For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
    They enable us:  - To estimate our audience size and usage pattern. 
    To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests. 
    To speed up your searches. 
    To recognise you when you return to our site.  You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Where we store your personal data  , the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.   All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses made of the information
  We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. 
    To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. 
    To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. 
    To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so. 
    To notify you about changes to our service. We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by mail or telephone. If you are an existing customer, we will contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) or by mail with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.  If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means or by mail if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the [order form OR registration form]).

Disclosure of your information  
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.   We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following ways:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets. 
    If Sodexo Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. 
    If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sodexo and/or its subsidiary and associated companies, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights
  You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting marketing@bateauxlondon.com . Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information  
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy  
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

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