Weissensee: unusual entry conditions for the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour 2023

True skating enthusiasts are already looking ahead in summer to the 2023 Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour in Austria. “Unusual entry conditions apply to the 2023 edition”, says the organisation Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour.

AEW

The AEW is an organisation from Eindhoven, also known as Stichting Wintersporten. The foundation has many years of experience organising long tours on the Weissensee in Austria.

Unusual entry conditions for the 2023 tour: cancel free of charge?

On its own channels the AEW speaks of unusual entry conditions. Earlier editions (2021, 2022) were cancelled because of corona. Even so, you can enter for the 2023 tour without worry.

Because the entry can be cancelled free of charge up to and including 31 December 2022. Without giving a reason. You then get 100% of the entry fee back. So you run little risk until 1 January.

After that everything changes. “From 1 January this entry is final (…)”. Free cancellation then lapses. So from that moment there is no refund of the entry fee, or only a partial one.

That applies in the event of an exit ban from the Netherlands, for instance. Or an entry ban from Austria, Carinthia and the Weissensee. Government measures or not: free cancellation lapses.

Too little ice, dangerous weather

The Weissensee and ‘too little ice’ sounds like a glaring contradiction. Every year the Weissensee freezes over around St Kathrein. Usually the ice grows steadily to 40 cm, sometimes as much as 55 cm.

And yet: after 31 December 2022 you get no money back if ‘the event is rejected or cancelled, or another decision is taken by a local or regional authority’ as a result of…

• …too little ice and/or…
• …dangerous weather conditions

The unusual entry conditions for 2023 in short

• You can safely enter the Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour 2023 now; after all, free cancellation runs until 31 December 2022.
• After that free cancellation is no longer possible, even with corona or little ice.

The AEW decides for itself whether the entry fee is partly refunded, generally or in an individual case. Any such refund is then purely as a gesture of goodwill.

• Note: “The entry is personal and not transferable.”

See the programme for 2023.

Basic corona rules?

Finally, rules of conduct have been drawn up that overlap with the basic corona rules. Such as staying at home with symptoms en washing your hands often.