Wedding hotel terms and conditions

nigreeves

My daughter has booked a hotel for a wedding next year and paid a deposit of £750.
She has been given a contract to sign and I am not happy with the wording.
The hotel is a medium size non chain hotel.
In the contract it says that the hotel has no liability if the wedding cannot take place due to circs beyond their control and if the hotel has been sold.
This seems wrong to me because surely if something goes wrong at the hotel or the current owners sell it then should my daughter be entitled to a refund?
No experience of this sort of thing so any advice would be most welcome.

Brighton_belle

I don't know the answer to your question, but what ever else you do, take out wedding insurance.

InsideInsurance

nigreeves wrote: »

In the contract it says that the hotel has no liability if the wedding cannot take place due to circs beyond their control and if the hotel has been sold.
This seems wrong to me because surely if something goes wrong at the hotel or the current owners sell it then should my daughter be entitled to a refund?

For a whole host of reasons you should have insurance in place in which case these sorts of terms are fairly irrelevant.

As its a small hotel it may be they dont have the best solicitors and so the wording may not be exactly what they mean. They may be trying to limit liability beyond the fees to the hotel itself. Have a word with them, by email or some other medium that gives you a record of whats been said