Reviewed August 15, 2026
Terms
Not topics of law but moments in time. Nine of them, from the first message to after you are home, and at each one the same three lines: what binds you, what binds us, and what binds neither of us because it belongs to somebody else.
The three parties, before anything else
- This company
- My Domaine Travel LLC, 5100 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016. A District of Columbia company and the only one behind this site. Books trips. Holds no money. Operates no part of any trip
- You
- the person asking. Pays the operating company, never this desk
- The operating company
- the airline, hotel, ship or tour company. Runs the trip, takes the payment, and writes the rules that decide what a refund is
Using this site, or asking for a price, puts what follows between us.
From the moment you send a message until we answer it
- Binding on you
- nothing at all
- Binding on us
- to read it in posted hours and answer in writing
- Binding on neither
- the price, the seat and the room. Those belong to the operating company and it may withdraw them mid-sentence
From our written price until you accept it
- Binding on you
- nothing. It can be ignored with no consequence and no charge
- Binding on us
- the figure and the inclusions listed in it, for the period the document names
- Binding on neither
- availability. An obvious error in a figure or a description may be corrected at any time before confirmation, and if we correct one you may withdraw free of charge
The moment you accept in writing
- Binding on you
- your instruction to proceed, and nothing more
- Binding on us
- to place the booking as instructed, or to tell you the same day that it cannot be placed
- Binding on neither
- there is still no booking. A conversation, a call or an unanswered mail does not create one
From acceptance until the operating company confirms
- Binding on you
- nothing has been paid and nothing is owed
- Binding on us
- to act promptly and to report back in writing either way
- Binding on neither
- the price, until confirmed. A figure that has moved is re-priced in front of you, and nothing gets placed at a figure you never saw
From confirmation until the deposit date
- Binding on you
- the deposit, on the date the operating company set
- Binding on us
- to have given you their conditions before you committed, and to hold your documents
- Binding on neither
- nothing is refundable yet because nothing has been paid
From the deposit date until the balance date
- Binding on you
- the balance, on their date
- Binding on us
- to put a number on any change first, so that deciding against it stays an option
- Binding on neither
- the deposit is usually gone from the day it is paid, under their schedule and not ours
After the balance date
- Binding on you
- the full price
- Binding on us
- to act for you, in writing, if anything changes
- Binding on neither
- the returnable share now steps down by date under the operating company's schedule. We cannot waive it, override it or refund on their behalf, because the money never came here
While you are traveling
- Binding on you
- your own travel documents. Passports, any visa and any health requirement are yours to hold and yours to check against the issuing authority. We do not advise on immigration, visas or entry rules
- Binding on us
- to act for you in writing during posted hours, and in the arrival band to hold beds ahead of you at no charge
- Binding on neither
- weather, strikes, mechanical failure, closed roads and government action. Nobody controls them and nobody here pretends to
After you are back
- Binding on you
- nothing
- Binding on us
- to answer a complaint in writing within five business days, and to keep your booking record for seven years because tax and accounting require it
- Binding on neither
- this is when we are paid, out of the operating company's margin, and only if you actually traveled
Where all of it is decided
- Law that governs this agreement
- the District of Columbia, together with United States federal law
- Where a case is heard
- the courts sitting in the District of Columbia
- What none of it removes
- any right you hold under the law of the state you live in, including under the District's Consumer Protection Procedures Act, and any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud
- Outside services
- a hosting company serves these pages, and the flight search on the front page is run by a booking company that is not this one, on a subdomain of this address. Their terms cover their part, ours cover ours, and the privacy page names which is which
- Using the text and pictures here
- read them, print them, use them to reach us. Do not copy the site substantially, scrape it, or republish it
- If this page changes
- the date at the top moves with it. Whichever wording stood on the day you asked this office to act is the one that governs
Questions go to amend@mydomainetravel.com, or My Domaine Travel LLC, 5100 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016.