A very important question, are you funding the Quest Overseas yacht or stately home you may want to know?!! We can assure you that you're not (!), everyone who works at and for Quest Overseas is doing so because of a genuine passion for our projects and for travel in general, and we are dedicated to ensuring your experience of both is the best it could possibly be. This does have its cost though and we'd rather be up front with you from the start rather than charge less and then surprise you with more costs along the way.
To help maintain transparency in this sense, we split your payment into different sections, so you really can see where your money is going:
Payment to Quest Overseas
This covers the cost of all your activities, food, board and transport on the ground. Apart from beers and souvenirs, you shouldn't have to spend any more money whilst away with us. This also covers the cost of the support we provide - staff, 24 hour UK support, project and expedition research, medical back up etc. We can divide this payment even more as follows
60% - payment for your trip, this is what gets spent overseas during your trip
25% - staff, both UK and overseas
15% - office costs, project and expedition research, boring admin
If you would like further clarification on any of this, please contact us and we will be happy to expand on this.
Payment to your project
This is paid either to the Quest Overseas Charitable Trust or directly to our project partners. We keep this separate from your payment to Quest Overseas to make sure every penny of your donation goes to the project. No admin costs, no UK operations, it all goes directly overseas. Again, we can give more detail on this to anyone who is interested.
Amounts given to our project from each trip per person (these amounts are already included in the total cost)
- South America Gap Trips - £680
- Africa Gap Trips - £850
- South America Summer Projects (except Bolivia) - £680
- Bolivia Summer Project - £800
- Africa Summer Projects - £650
- South America and Africa Expeditions - £50
Flights
We don't deal with flights ourselves, we leave that to flight agents. This is good for two reasons. Firstly, flight agents will get much better deals than us because that is all they do. Secondly, this will give you the flexibility to choose the flight which suits you best, depending on your plans before and after Quest. We will give advice on recommended flights and airlines but you are free to make your own plans.
Other costs
You should also remember to take into account the cost of the following when working out your budget
- Travel insurance
- Personal kit (we provide any team kit - tents etc)
- Personal spending money - beers and souvenirs
- Money for onward travel after Quest???
We can also give advice and guidance on all of these.
