Are you travelling again? We want to hear about your experiences – the journey and the destination, the most amazing parts of your holidays and the not-so-good bits, too.
Share your letters (150 words or less) for a chance to be published and win our monthly giveaway. Alternatively, send in a tip that’s made your trips all that much easier, or your best travel photo.
Letters and photos published in September are eligible to win an Antler Clifton suitcase (valued at $399).
TO ENTER, EMAIL
ESCAPE@NEWS.COM.AU INCLUDING YOUR FULL NAME.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
The competition commences on September 1st, 2022 at 9:00am AEST and concludes on September 30, 2022 at 5:00pm AEST. Entries must be received by the Promoter prior to the competition close date and time.
The time of entry will in each case be the time the email is received by the Promoter’s database, not at the time of transmission by the entrant. The time of Instagram entries will be the time of Instagram post.
The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any late, lost or misdirected entries including SMS messages not received by the Promoter or delays in the delivery of the SMS message due to technical disruptions, network congestion or for any other reason. SMS entries via the internet or computer generation and not attributable to a valid mobile phone account is invalid and will not be accepted.
How to enter
13. Entrants may enter the competition by submitting their original entry:
-By sending an email to
escape@news.com.au. Participants will be required to e-mail their personal details including, but not limited to, full name, address, post code, telephone number, and a piece of travel advice (150 words or less), or a short travel story (150 words or less), or a travel photograph.
-By posting a photograph to a personal Instagram account, including the text ‘#escapesnaps’ in the caption of the post.
-By commenting on a post on the Escape Facebook page, the comment being a piece of travel advice (150 words or less), or a short travel story (150 words or less).
14. Entrants are required to take full responsibility for the content of their entry and for ensuring that their entry complies with these terms and conditions. For the purposes of these content requirements, “entry content” includes any content (including text, photos, videos and email messages) that entrants submit, upload, transmit, publish, communicate or use in connection with their entry into the Promotion. Entries must be the entrant’s original work. The Promoter reserves the right to verify, or to require the entrant to verify, that the entry is the entrant’s original work. If an entry cannot be verified to the Promoter’s satisfaction, the entry will be deemed invalid. The Promoter may, in its absolute discretion, edit, modify, delete, remove or take-down any part of an entrant’s entry. An entrant’s entry must not include:
(a) any image or voice of any other person without that person’s express consent. Entrants warrant that if any such content is included, they have obtained the express consent of the relevant person;
(b) any content that contravenes any law, infringes the rights of any person or is potentially insulting, inflammatory, defamatory, obscene, offensive, discriminatory, indecent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate (which includes, without limitation, any content involving nudity, malice, excessive violence or swearing); and
(c) any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, any audio-visual or sound recording, or any other item in which copyright subsists, unless the entrant is entitled to do so. If an entrant has any doubts about whether they have the right to include any content (for example, recorded music) they must not include it. By including any such content in their entry, the entrant warrants that they have the permission of the relevant copyright owner to do so and that this permission allows the Promoter to use the entry in accordance with these terms and conditions.
The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify a winner if Promoter becomes aware that the winner and/or the winner’s entry is of a type described in this clause.
15. Any entry that is made on behalf of an entrant by a third party will be invalid.
16. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process, who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these terms and conditions or who has, in the opinion of Promoter, engaged in conduct in entering the Promotion which is fraudulent, misleading, deceptive or generally damaging to the goodwill or reputation of the Promotion and/or Promoter. This includes, but not limited, to entrants and households using multiple email addresses, postal addresses, PO Box addresses or SIM cards to register single or multiple purchases.
Number of Entries permitted
17. Entrants may enter as many times as they like. Maximum of one prize will be awarded per person.
Determination and Notification of winner
18. The winner will be the valid entry submitted in accordance with these terms and conditions that is determined by the judging panel, being the Escape editorial team, as the most outstanding and unique piece of travel advice, short travel story, or travel photograph.
19. The winner will be announced in September, online at escape.com.au/win and in the Escape print edition.
This competition is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in determining the winner.
Australian Competitions Club
