SloWays 2025 Competition Terms and Conditions
Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before entering the competition. By entering, you indicate that you accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to be bound by them.
1. Promoter’s Details
The competition is organized by SloWays, a brand of S-Cape Countryside Travels srl (the "Promoter"). Registered office: Borgo Allegri 16/R Firenze, Italy.
2. Eligibility
- This competition is open to anyone aged 18 years or older at the time of entry.
- Proof of age, residence, or eligibility may be required.
- Employees and immediate family members (parents, children, siblings, spouse, or life partners) of the Promoter or its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, or promotion agencies are not eligible to enter.
3. How to Enter
- To enter, participants must complete the official entry form available online at http://sloways.info/wanderlust2025
- Required details include first name, surname, email address.
- Entries are restricted to one per person. Incomplete or duplicate entries will be disqualified.
- No entries from agents or third parties will be accepted. Entry is free of charge.
4. Competition Dates
- The competition opens on 27 January 2025 at 11:59PM (GMT) and closes at 23:59 (GMT) on 31 March 2025 (the “End Time”).
- Entries received after the End Time will be invalid.
5. Prize Details
- The winner will receive:
- A 7-day, self-guided walking journey along the Via Francigena route from Viterbo to Rome.
- Accommodation in 2- or 3-star hotels, B&Bs, or agriturismo (double or twin rooms with en-suite bathrooms).
- Daily Italian continental breakfasts.
- Luggage transportation between accommodations from Viterbo to Rome (max. 1 bag per person, 20kg).
- An official pilgrim passport, guidebook, and access to a navigation app for the route.
- Basic medical and luggage travel insurance.
- 24/7 phone assistance during the trip.
- For the avoidance of doubt the entirety of the Promoter’s booking terms and conditions apply to the Prize
Not included The winner is responsible for arranging (and bearing the costs of) any element of the trip that is not expressly described in paragraph 5 and, if applicable as mentioned in this document, which shall include (without limitation):
- Transfers and travel;
- Any hotel accommodation or other pre- / post- trip accommodation;
- Local hotel city taxes, where applicable);
- Tips and gratuities;
Airport taxes imposed at the destination; - Insurance other than Basic medical and luggage travel insurance, visas or other travel documentation;
- Vaccinations, where required;
- Events, activities, food and drink;
6. Important Notes
- The Prize is valid for travel in 2025 only, between 01 May and 25 October 2025, excluding the period from 21 July to 03 August 2025.
- The Prize must be booked by no later than 30 April 2025.
7. Winner Selection and Notification
- The winner will be chosen at random from all valid entries of the competition.
- The winner shall be notified on 1ST March 2025 with instructions on how to claim their prize.
- The accuracy of any email address, address (as applicable) provided is the responsibility of the entrant.
- If a winner cannot be contacted or is unable to accept their Prize, the Promoter reserves the right to choose another winner from the eligible entries received. We shall make all reasonable efforts to contact the winner.
- Acknowledgement of the Prize by the winner must be received by the Promoter no later than 5 days after notification. Should the Promoter not receive confirmation from the winner by this time, or in the event that the winner or substitute winner is unreachable or ineligible or declines to accept the Prize, or a substitute winner fails to acknowledge the Prize as specified by the Promoter, the winner or substitute winner shall forfeit the Prize and the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to another eligible entrant, picked by random from the remaining entries.
8. Prize Conditions
- IMPORTANT The Prize is non-transferable, non-refundable, and no cash alternative will be provided.
- The Prize cannot be awarded to any person who, for any reason, would not be allowed by law to purchase or use the Prize. No compensation will be payable by the Promoter if the winner is unable to use the Prize as stated.
- The winner is responsible for organizing their own transport to the starting point (Viterbo) and from the ending point (Rome).
- Travel insurance, valid passports, and any required visas are the sole responsibility of the winner.
9. Receipt of Entries
- The Promoter cannot be held responsible for network, computer or software failures of any kind, which may restrict or delay the sending or receipt of your entry. The Promoter is not responsible for entries not received and/or any lost entries.
- The Promoter reserves the right (in its absolute discretion) to reject entries and disqualify entrants, including without limitation where the Promoter has cause to believe that (i) there has been a breach of these Terms and Conditions or (ii) the entrant has interfered with the fair running of this competition, including, without limitation, by manipulating entries or the results, or has provided false information or has acted unethically in any other way.
10. Use of Data
All personal data provided during entry will be handled in accordance with the Promoter’s Privacy Policy, available at https://www.sloways.eu/about-us/privacy-policy
11. Winner details
- Details of the winner’s, surname and county of residence, will be obtainable after 10th April 2025 by writing to the Promoter’s address specified in paragraph 1 above quoting ‘Winner: SloWays Wanderlust Competition’.
- The winner may be required to participate in post-competition publicity.
12. Publicity
The Promoter may use photographs, names, ages and the town/city of the winner in future publications and publicity, and may require the winner to take part in promotional publicity as specified by the Promoter, including without limitation being filmed, interviews, photoshoots etc.
By entering the competition, in consideration of the Promoter providing the competition and the Prize, the winner agrees to take part in such publicity and grants a worldwide, irrevocable, unconditional and royalty-free licence to the Promoter and all necessary rights and consents for the full period of any intellectual property rights to use the winner’s photograph, voice, likeness and/or image, and the name and age of the winner in any media without further payment or permission, for any future promotional activity.
13. General Conditions
The Promoter reserves the right to amend the competition in exceptional circumstances.
All entrants agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions and the Promoter reserves the right to exclude entrants for any breach of these Terms and Conditions. The Promoter’s decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered in to.
The Promoter reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel or terminate the competition for any reason, extend or resume the entry period, or change or withdraw the Prize at any time without giving advance notice and will do so if an event occurs that renders the competition itself or the awarding of the Prize impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter (including without limitation reasons which are unforeseeable by the Promoter at the time of running the competition) or if it cannot be guaranteed that the competition can be carried out fairly or correctly for technical, legal or other reasons and the entrant agrees that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.
The Promoter has arranged the competition in good faith but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, accepts no responsibility for and will not be liable for any claims, costs, losses, damages, expenses or liabilities, of any kind (including without limitation direct, indirect, consequential, incidental or punitive damages) arising out of or in connection with the competition or with the acceptance, possession, use or any other aspect of any prize awarded.
Your legal rights as a consumer are not affected. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions limits or excludes the liability of the Promoter for death or personal injury resulting from the Promoter’s negligence or for any damage or liability incurred by the entrant as a result of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by the Promoter or otherwise as prohibited by law.
14. Governing Law
These Terms and Conditions are governed by Italian law, and entrants agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Italian Courts.
