IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE PAYING

You are reserving your place on the Egypt Pilgrimage — Stargates of the Gods, taking place from 15–27 March 2027. By making your first payment, you are entering into a binding agreement with Aurora Ray LLC.

1. Your price and payment options

Choose your room type and your payment option:

• Shared room — Single Payment: USD $11,999 charged in full today.

• Shared room — 3-Installment Plan: 3 × USD $4,222 (total USD $12,666) — first installment today, second 30 days later, third 60 days later.

• Private single — Single Payment: USD $15,999 charged in full today.

• Private single — 3-Installment Plan: 3 × USD $5,555 (total USD $16,665) — first installment today, second 30 days later, third 60 days later.

The installment plan totals slightly more than the single payment to reflect processing costs and the cost of holding your reserved place over the installment period.

All payments are charged to your credit or debit card. By choosing the installment plan, you authorize Aurora Ray LLC to charge your card automatically on the second and third installment dates — no further consent or action is required from you.

2. If your card changes or a charge fails

You are responsible for keeping the card you provide today valid and funded through the date of the third installment. If your card is cancelled, expired, or replaced, you must pay any remaining installment(s) by bank wire transfer, with all wire fees borne by you.

If a scheduled installment charge fails for any reason (declined card, insufficient funds, expired card), we will email you and you will have 7 calendar days to remedy the failed payment — either with a new card or by bank wire transfer. If it is not remedied within 7 days, your place is automatically forfeited and all amounts previously paid are retained as liquidated damages. Late payments incur a fee of USD $250 per week.

3. Final payment deadline

Regardless of which option you choose, all payments must be received no later than 13 February 2027 (30 days before the first day of the Pilgrimage). If you register within 60 days of the first day of the Pilgrimage, the 3-installment plan is not available and you must pay the full price today.

4. No refunds — please read this carefully

Once you make your first payment, all payments (including any future installments automatically charged to your card) are non-refundable, non-transferable, and non-creditable. This applies regardless of the reason for any later cancellation, including but not limited to:

• Personal illness, injury, or surgery

• Death, illness, or emergency involving a family member, partner, friend, or pet

• Work, financial, or relationship changes

• Visa denial or passport issues

• Flight cancellation, airspace closure, or transport disruption

• Government travel advisories or warnings

• War, terrorism, civil unrest, or geopolitical events in the Middle East or anywhere else

• Pandemic, epidemic, or public-health emergency

• Force majeure, natural disaster, or act of God

• Change of mind

Aurora Ray LLC commits to your reserved place from the moment your first payment is received — paying suppliers, hotels, transport, and site permits, and turning other applicants away. These costs are not recoverable.

Your trip price covers a fully prepaid 13-day luxury pilgrimage — a chartered private Nile boat, full board, airport transfers, the domestic flight from Cairo to Luxor, luxury hotels, daily KAT classes, group QHHT sessions, two facilitators, and a dedicated Egyptologist guide. Aurora Ray LLC prepays all of this in advance to secure your place and the group's experience. None of these commitments can be cancelled, refunded, or recovered once made — which is why all payments are final from the moment they are received.

5. Travel insurance — strongly recommended

Aurora Ray LLC strongly recommends that you obtain comprehensive travel insurance covering trip cancellation for any reason (CFAR), medical care, emergency evacuation, and trip interruption.

Most insurers only offer "Cancel For Any Reason" coverage if you purchase within 14–21 days of your initial payment, so we recommend you obtain a policy promptly. Travel insurance is your route to recover money if something prevents you from travelling. Aurora Ray LLC is not your insurer.

6. Resolving any concerns directly with us

If you have any concern about a payment — at any time, for any reason — please contact us first at [email protected]. We commit to responding within 30 days and working with you in good faith to resolve any issue.

In exchange, you agree to bring any payment concern to us first, and not to initiate a chargeback or payment dispute with your bank or card issuer — including against any future installment automatically charged to your card under the 3-installment plan, which you are expressly authorizing today — before giving us that 30-day opportunity to resolve it directly.

Initiating a chargeback in breach of this agreement is a material breach and makes you personally liable for the full disputed amount plus USD $2,500 in liquidated damages, plus all chargeback fees, attorneys' fees, and collection costs.

7. The full agreement is sent automatically

Within one (1) hour of your first payment, you will receive the full Participant Agreement for electronic signature. You must complete and return it within 48 hours. Your place is not fully confirmed until your signed agreement is received. If you do not sign within 48 hours, your place will be released and your payment retained.

You may read the full Booking Contract and Participant Agreement here before paying. We strongly encourage you to do so.

8. If Aurora Ray LLC has to cancel

In the rare event we must cancel due to force majeure (war, government travel ban, pandemic, or similar event beyond our control), you will receive a credit equal to the amounts paid, applicable toward a future pilgrimage within 24 months. We will not be responsible for your airfare, visa fees, insurance premiums, or other independent costs.