Terms and conditions

The Uniform Conditions for the Hotel and Catering Industry (UCHCI) are the terms and
conditions on the basis of which hospitality businesses in the Netherlands, e.g. hotels,
restaurants, cafes and related businesses (including catering businesses, party service
businesses and the like) provide hospitality services and conclude hospitality
agreements.
 
The UVH are registered with the District Court and the Chamber of Commerce and
Industry in The Hague.
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Article 1 Definitions
For the purpose of the UCHCI and in the offers and agreements to which the UCHCI are
applicable the following words are each time understood as follows:
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1.1 Hospitality business
The natural or legal person or company that carries on a business engaged in the
provision of hospitality services.
1.2 Host
The person who represents a hospitality business upon the conclusion and
implementation of hospitality agreements.
1.3 Provision of hospitality service(s)
The provision by a hospitality business of accommodation and/or food and/or beverages
and/or the availability of (meeting) space and/or premises, all with the thereto-pertaining
activities and services, and all in the broadest sense of the word.
1.4 Customer
The natural or legal person or company that concluded a hospitality agreement with a
hospitality business.
1.5 Guest
The natural person(s) to whom one or more hospitality services must be provided in
pursuance of a hospitality agreement concluded with the customer. Where the UCHCI
refer to guest or customer this is understood as both guest and customer, unless the
content of the provision and its scope necessarily imply that only one of both can be
meant.
1.6 Hospitality agreement
An agreement between a hospitality business and a customer regarding one or more
hospitality services to be provided by the hospitality business at a price payable by the
customer. Instead of the term hospitality agreement the term reservation is occasionally
used.
1.7 Reservation value
The value of the hospitality agreement that equals the total expected turnover of the
hospitality business, including potential tourist tax and VAT, regarding a hospitality
agreement concluded with a customer, which expectation is based on the average
numbers applicable within the relevant hospitality business.
1.8 Royal Association of Businesses in the Catering and Related Industry

The Royal Association of Businesses in the Catering and Related Industry “Hospitality
Netherlands” and/or its potential legal successor.
1.9 No-show
A guest not making use of the hospitality service to be provided in pursuance of a
hospitality agreement without cancellation.
1.10 Group
A group of 10 or more guests to whom hospitality services must be provided in
pursuance of one or more hospitality agreements to be qualified as a coherent whole.
1.11 Individual
Each and every person, falling under guest or customer, who is not part of a group
according to the aforementioned definition.
1.12 Corkage and food charge
The amount payable for the consumption of beverages and/or food in the premises of a
hospitality business that were not supplied by the hospitality business.
1.13 Cancellation
The communication in written form by the customer to the hospitality business that one
or more stipulated hospitality services shall not be used, either in full or in part, or the
communication in written form by the hospitality business to the customer that one or
more of the stipulated hospitality services shall not be provided, either in full or in part.
1.14 Turnover guarantee
A written declaration of the customer that with regard to one or more hospitality
agreements the hospitality business shall at least realise a certain amount of turnover.
 
Article 2 Applicability
2.1 The UCHCI are applicable, with the exclusion of any and all other general terms and
conditions, to the conclusion and the content of any and all hospitality agreements as
also to any and all offers regarding the conclusion of the said hospitality agreements. If
other general terms and conditions are nonetheless applicable then the UCHCI shall
prevail in case of a discrepancy.
2.2 It is only possible to deviate from the UCHCI in writing and on a case by case basis.
2.3 The UCHCI also extend to the benefit of any and all natural and legal persons that
the hospitality business relies on or relied on upon the conclusion and/or the
implementation of a hospitality agreement or upon the exploitation of the hospitality
business.
 
Article 3 Conclusion of hospitality agreements
3.1 A hospitality business may always, for any reason whatsoever, reject the conclusion
of a hospitality agreement, unless this kind of rejection exclusively takes place on one or
more grounds that are qualified as discrimination in section 429 quater of the Dutch
Criminal Code.
3.2 Any and all offers made by a hospitality business regarding the conclusion of a
hospitality agreement are subject to contract and the proviso “whilst stocks (and/or
capacity) last”. If the hospitality business relies on the aforementioned proviso within a

reasonable period of time after acceptance by the customer then the intended hospitality
agreement is deemed not to have been concluded.
3.3 A hospitality agreement concluded for a guest (guests) by intermediaries
(shipbrokers, travel agencies, online travel agents and other hospitality businesses and
the like), whether or not in the name of their business relation(s), are deemed to also
have been concluded at the risk and expense of the said intermediaries. The hospitality
business is not liable to pay a commission or bonus, by any name whatsoever, unless
expressly stipulated otherwise in writing. The guest (guests) and the intermediary
(intermediaries) are jointly and severally liable for the payment of the amount due.
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Article 4 Option right
4.1 An option right is the right of a customer to unilaterally conclude the hospitality
agreement through the mere acceptance of a valid offer of the hospitality business.
4.2 An option right can only be granted in writing. An option right can be stipulated for a
fixed or an open term. The option right expires if the holder of the option states not to rely
on the option right or if the fixed term has expired without the holder of the option stating
to rely on the option right.
4.3 An option right cannot be revoked by the hospitality business, unless another
potential customer makes an offer to the hospitality business to conclude a hospitality
agreement regarding the total or a part of the hospitality services included in the option.
The holder of the option must, as the occasion arises, be informed of the said offer by
the hospitality business after which the holder of the option must state within a time limit
to be imposed by the hospitality business whether or not the holder of the option intends
to rely on the option right. If the holder of the option does not state within the imposed
time limit to rely on the option right then the option right expires.
 
Article 5 General rights and obligations of the hospitality business
5.1 Pursuant to the hospitality agreement the hospitality business is, without prejudice to
the provisions set forth in the following articles, held to provide the stipulated hospitality
services at the stipulated times in the manner common for the said hospitality business.
5.2 The hospitality business is authorised to always, without taking a notice period into
account, terminate the provision of hospitality services to a guest if the guest acts in
breach of the internal rules and/or the rules of conduct or otherwise acts in such manner
that the order and the rest within the hospitality business and/or the normal exploitation
thereof are disrupted. As the occasion arises the guest must on demand leave the
hospitality business. If the customer otherwise fails to fully comply with his obligations
vested in the same vis-à-vis the hospitality business on any account whatsoever then the
hospitality business is entitled to suspend the provision of services. The hospitality
business can only exercise the present authorities if the nature and the seriousness of
the violations committed by the guest give, at the reasonable discretion of the hospitality
business, sufficient cause to the same.
5.3 After consultation with the competent local authorities the hospitality business shall
be authorised to rescind the hospitality agreement extrajudicially on account of well-
founded fear for disruption of the public order. If the hospitality business relies on this
authority then the hospitality business shall not be liable to pay any compensation to the
customer.

5.4 The hospitality business is not held to take receipt of and/or retain any good of the
guest. The above implies that the hospitality business shall not be responsible and/or
liable for damage to or loss or theft of any good of the guest that the hospitality business
rejected to take receipt of and/or retain.
5.5 If the hospitality business charges an amount to the guest for taking receipt of and/or
retaining goods then the hospitality business must supervise the said goods as befits a
good pater familias, without prejudice to the provisions set forth in article 12. 5.6 The
hospitality business is not held to permit any pet of the guest access and may impose
conditions on the permission. The statutory provisions, including the relevant exceptions,
are applicable to the permission for guide dogs.
 
Article 6 General obligations of the guest
6.1 The guest is held to comply with the internal rules and the rules of conduct applicable
within the hospitality business and to follow the reasonable instructions of the hospitality
business. The hospitality business must UCHCI communicate the internal rules and the
rules of conduct in a clearly visible manner or provide the same in writing. Reasonable
instructions can be given orally.
6.2 The guest is held to lend cooperation in reasonable requests of the hospitality
business within the framework of its statutory duties regarding, inter alia, safety,
identification, food safety / hygiene and limitation of nuisance.
 
Article 7 Reservations
7.1 If the guest has not arrived within half an hour after the reserved time then the
hospitality business can consider the reservation to have been cancelled, without
prejudice to the provisions set forth in article 9.
7.2 The hospitality business can impose conditions on the reservation.
 
Article 8 Hospitality service consisting of the provision of accommodation and/or the
availability of (meeting) space and/or premises
8.1 In case of accommodation the hospitality business communicates in advance at what
time the accommodation is made available to the guest and before what time the guest
must have checked out.
8.2 Unless stipulated otherwise, the hospitality business is entitled to consider the
reservation for accommodation to have been cancelled if the guest did not present
himself on the first reserved day at 18:00 o’clock or if the guest did not indicate to arrive
at a later time in a timely fashion and the hospitality business did not object to this. The
above applies without prejudice to the provisions set forth in article 9.
8.3 The hospitality business is entitled to require of the guest that the latter accepts a
different, similar accommodation or (meeting) space and/or premises than would need to
be made available according to the hospitality agreement. The guest can reject the said
alternative. In the latter instance the guest is entitled to terminate the hospitality
agreement to which the said request of the hospitality business is related with immediate
effect, without prejudice to his obligations on account of other hospitality agreements.
 
Article 9
9.1 Cancellation by Customers, general

9.1.1 The Customer is not entitled to cancel a Catering Agreement, unless he at the
same time makes a binding offer to pay the amounts fixed below. Every Cancellation is
considered to include such an offer. Such an offer is considered to be accepted if the
Catering Establishment does not reject the offer forthwith. Cancellation should take place
in writing and be dated. The Customer cannot derive any rights from a verbal
Cancellation. The stipulations in Clause 9 apply without prejudice to the stipulations in
other clauses.
9.1.2 The Catering Establishment may inform the Customer at the latest one month
before the first Catering Service based on the relevant Catering Agreement is due to be
provided that it will regard certain Individuals as a Group. In that case all the conditions
for Groups apply to those persons.
9.1.3 The stipulations in Clauses 13.1 and 14.6 also apply to Cancellations.
9.1.4 In the event of No-show, the Customer is in all cases required to pay the
Reservation Value.
9.1.5 In the event that not all the agreed Catering Services are cancelled, the conditions
below apply pro rata to the Catering Services that are cancelled.
9.1.6 If one or more agreed Catering Services are completely or partly cancelled, the
periods in the following clauses shall be increased by 4 months, if the Reservation Value
of the cancelled Catering Services amounts to more than the correspondingly calculated
value of the other Catering Services that the Catering Establishment could have provided
during the period in which the cancelled Catering Services were to have been provided.
9.1.7 Any amounts which the Catering Establishment already owes to third parties at the
time of Cancellation based on the cancelled Catering Agreement must at all times be
fully reimbursed by the Customer to the Catering Establishment, provided the Catering
Establishment has not acted unreasonably in entering into the commitments in question.
The amounts involved shall go towards a reduction of the Reservation Value referred to
in the following clauses.
9.2 Cancellation of hotel accommodation/lodgings
9.2.1 Groups
If a reservation for only hotel accommodation is made, either with or without breakfast,
for a Group then the following applies to the Cancellation of this reservation.
 
a. The initial guarantee deposit of 25% must be paid within 14 days of the issued invoice
and is non-refundable. Groups that occupy more than 70% of the Hostel must make an
initial guarantee deposit of 50% from the Reservation Value. All deposits are non-
refundable.
b. In case of Cancellation more than 57 days before the original Check-In Date, the
Customer is not obliged to make any extra payment to the Hotel Establishment.
c. In case of Cancellation less than 56 days before the Check-In Date, the Customer is
obliged to pay 50% of the original Reservation Value to the Hotel Establishment.
d. In case of Cancellation less than 28 days before the Check-In Date, the Customer is
obliged to pay 100% of the Reservation Value to the Hotel Establishment.

e.The number of guests for whom reservations were initially made can be reduced by a
maximum of 15%, and only with notification by e- mail (at least 28 days before Check-In
Date). An increase in the number is possible only if our capacity at that time allows it.
9.2.2 Individuals
If a reservation for only hotel accommodation is made, either with or without breakfast,
for a one or more Individuals then the following applies to the Cancellation of this
reservation.
a. In case of Cancellation more than 48 hours before the Commencement Date, the
Customer is not obliged to pay any money to Hotel Establishment, unless it is a non-
refundable booking.
b. In case of Cancellation 48 hours or less before the Commencement Date, the
Customer is obliged to pay the First night of the Reservation to the Hotel Establishment.
9.3 Cancellation of restaurant/table reservation
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9.3.1 Groups
If a reservation for only a restaurant (table reservation) is made for a Group then the
following applies to the Cancellation of that reservation:
1. if a menu has been agreed:
a. in case of Cancellation more than 14 days before the reserved time no payment is
due;
b. in case of Cancellation 14 days or less but more than 7 days before the reserved time
the Customer shall pay 25% of the Reservation Value;
c. in case of Cancellation 7 days or less before the reserved time the Customer shall pay
50% of the Reservation Value;
d. in case of Cancellation 3 days or less before the reserved time the Customer shall pay
75% of the Reservation Value.
2. if no menu has been agreed:
a. in case of Cancellation more than twice 24 hours before the reserved time no payment
is due;
b. in case of Cancellation twice 24 hours or less before the reserved time the Customer
shall pay 50% of the Reservation Value.
9.3.2 Individuals
If a reservation for only a restaurant (table reservation) is made for one or more
Individuals then the following applies to the Cancellation of that reservation:
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1. if a menu has been agreed:
a. in case of Cancellation more than four times 24 hours before the reserved time no
payment is due;
b. in case of Cancellation four times 24 hours or less before the reserved time the
Customer shall pay 50% of the Reservation Value.
2. if no menu has been agreed:
a. in case of Cancellation more than twice 24 hours before the reserved time no payment
is due;
b. in case of Cancellation twice 24 hours or less before the reserved time the Customer
shall pay 50% of the Reservation Value.

9.4 Cancellation of other Catering Agreements
9.4.1 The following shall apply to the Cancellation of any reservations not covered by
Clauses 9.2 and 9.3.
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9.4.2 The Cancellation of a Reservation made for a group shall be subject to the
following.
a. In case of Cancellation more than 6 months before the time when under the terms of
the Catering Agreement the first Catering Service should be provided, the Customer is
not obliged to make any payment to the Catering Establishment.
b. In case of Cancellation more than 3 months before the said time, the Customer is
obliged to pay 10% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
c. In case of Cancellation more than 2 months before the said time, the Customer is
obliged to pay 15% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
d. In case of Cancellation more than 1 month before the said time, the Customer is
obliged to pay 35% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
e. In case of Cancellation more than 14 days before the said time, the Customer is
obliged to pay 60% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
f. In case of Cancellation more than 7 days before the said time, the Customer is obliged
to pay 85% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
g. In case of Cancellation 7 days or less before the said time, the Customer is obliged to
pay 100% of the Reservation Value to the Catering Establishment.
9.5 Cancellation by the Catering Establishment
9.5.1 The Catering Establishment is entitled to cancel a Catering Agreement subject to
the following, unless the Customer has given written notice within seven days after the
signing of the said Catering Agreement requiring the Catering Establishment to waive its
powers to cancel the agreement, provided that the Customer at the same time clearly
states that he is also waiving his own powers to cancel the agreement.
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9.5.2 If the Catering Establishment cancels a Catering Agreement to provide food and
accompanying drink, the Clauses 9.1.1 and 9.3.2 apply correspondingly, transposing
Customer and Catering Establishment.
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9.5.3 If the Catering Establishment cancels a Catering Agreement other than the one
referred to in Clause 9.5.2, then Clauses 9.1.1 and 9.2.2 apply correspondingly,
transposing Customer and Catering Establishment.
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9.5.4 The Catering Establishment is at all times entitled to cancel a Catering Agreement,
without being obliged to pay the aforementioned amounts, if there are sufficient
indications that the gathering to be held in the Catering Establishment on the grounds of
the Catering Agreement is of such a different character from what might have been
expected on the grounds of the Customer''s statement or on the grounds of the capacity
of the Customer or Guests, that the Catering Establishment would not have concluded
the agreement, if it had been aware of the actual nature of the gathering. If the Catering
Establishment exercises this right after the gathering in question has started, the
Customer shall be obliged to pay for the Catering Services provided up to that point in
time, but the Customer''s obligation to pay for the rest shall cease to apply. In such an

event, the payment for the Catering Services provided shall be calculated in proportion to
the time the gathering was due to last.
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9.5.5 Instead of exercising its right referred to in 9.5.4, the Catering Establishment is
entitled to set additional requirements for the course of the gathering in question. If there
are sufficient indications that these requirements are not being (or will not be) fulfilled,
the Catering Establishment shall still be entitled to exercise the right referred to in 9.5.4.
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9.5.6 If and insofar as the Catering Establishment also acts as a tour operator in the legal
sense, the following shall apply with regard to travel agreements in the legal sense. The
Catering Establishment may change an essential point in the travel agreement, owing to
important circumstances that are immediately reported to the Customer. The Catering
Establishment may also change a non-essential point in the travel agreement, owing to
important circumstances that are immediately reported to the Customer. Up to twenty
days before the commencement of travel, the Catering Establishment may increase the
cost of the trip in connection with changes in the cost of transport, including fuel costs,
the levies that are due, or the applicable exchange rates. If the traveller refuses to accept
any such change, the Catering Establishment may cancel the travel agreement.
 
Article 10 Security deposit and interim payment
10.1 The hospitality business may require of the customer that he pays a security deposit
to the hospitality business. Received security deposits are administered properly,
exclusively serve as security for the hospitality business and are expressly not qualified
as already realised turnover. By way of additional security of the hospitality business it
may require of the customer that cooperation is lend in the supply of the required data,
including the creation of a print or copy of the credit card of the customer, in order to
secure the security deposit and the possibility of securing the levy of execution against
the same as much as possible.
10.2 The hospitality business can always require interim payment for already provided
hospitality services.
10.3 The hospitality business can recover everything that the customer is liable to pay to
the same on any account whatsoever from the amount that was deposited in pursuance
of the above provisions. The surplus must forthwith be repaid to the customer by the
hospitality business.
 
Article 11 Turnover guarantee
If a turnover guarantee was issued, then the customer is held to in connection with the
relevant hospitality agreement(s) at least pay the hospitality business the amount
determined in the turnover guarantee.
 
Article 12 Liability of the hospitality business
12.1 The hospitality business shall be liable vis-à-vis the guest for damages that are the
result of a failure of the hospitality business to comply with the agreement, unless the
said failure cannot be blamed on the hospitality business or to persons on whose
assistance the hospitality business relies during the implementation of the agreement.
12.2 Without prejudice to the provisions set forth in article 5.5 the hospitality business
shall not be liable for damage to or loss of goods that were taken to the hospitality
business by a guest who is staying there. The customer indemnifies the hospitality
business against claims of guests in connection therewith. The provisions set forth here

are not applicable to the extent that the damage or the loss can be blamed on intent or
gross negligence of the hospitality business.
12.3 The hospitality business shall not be liable for damage caused to or with vehicles of
the guest barring if and to the extent that the damage is the direct result of intent or gross
negligence of the hospitality business.
12.4 The hospitality business shall not be liable for damage, directly or indirectly, caused
to whomever or whatever as a direct or indirect result of a defect or capacity or
circumstance of, in or at a movable or immovable property of which the hospitality
business is the holder, lessee, leaseholder or owner or that is otherwise available to the
hospitality business, barring if and to the extent that the damage is the direct result of
intent or gross negligence of the hospitality business.
12.5 Liability of the hospitality business is limited to the amount that can within reason be
insured.
12.6 If damage is caused to goods retained for the guest for which a fee as intended in
article 5.5 is paid then the hospitality business is liable to pay compensation for these
goods resulting from damage or loss. Compensation shall not be payable in connection
with other goods present in the goods presented for safekeeping.
12.7 If the hospitality business takes receipt of goods or if goods are, in any way
whatsoever, deposited, kept and/or UCHCI left by someone wherever, without the
hospitality business stipulating a fee for the same, then the hospitality business shall not
be liable for damage to or in connection with the said goods, caused in any way
whatsoever, unless the hospitality business intentionally inflicted the said damage or if
the damage is the result of intent or gross negligence of the hospitality business. In all
instances it applies that the hospitality business cannot be held to pay compensation for
damage to goods that are present in goods that are deposited, kept and/or left,
regardless of the fact whether or not the hospitality business stipulates a fee for this.
 
Article 13 Liability of the guest and/or customer
13.1 The customer and the guest and those accompanying the same are jointly and
severally liable for any and all damages that are and/or shall be inflicted on the
hospitality business and/or a third party as a direct or indirect result of an imputable
failure to comply and/or an unlawful act, including a violation of the internal rules,
committed by the customer and/or the guest and/or those accompanying the same as
also for damages that are inflicted by an animal and/or a good of which they are the
holder or that falls under their supervision.
 
Article 14 Settlement and payment
14.1 The customer is liable to pay the price stipulated in the hospitality agreement. The
prices are mentioned on lists that are placed by the hospitality business at a location
visible to the guest or were included in a list that is, if need be as requested, presented to
the customer or accessible to the customer via digital sources. A list is deemed to have
been placed in a manner visible to the customer if it is visible in the commonly accessible
areas of the hospitality business.
14.2 The hospitality business can charge an additional fee for special services, e.g. the
use of a cloakroom, garage, safe-deposit box, laundry or dry cleaning, telephone,
internet, Wi-Fi, room service, TV rental, and the like.

14.3 Any and all invoices, also including invoices regarding cancellation or no-show, are
payable by the customer at the moment that they are presented to the same. The
customer must provide for payment in cash or payment by bank or giro, unless stipulated
otherwise.
14.4 The guest and the customer are jointly and severally liable for any and all amounts
that one of them or both of them are liable to pay to the hospitality business on any
account whatsoever. Hospitality agreements are, barring a provision to the contrary,
deemed to also have been concluded on behalf of each and every guest. By showing up
the guest confirms that the customer was authorised to represent the same upon the
conclusion of the relevant hospitality agreement.
14.5 As long as the customer has not complied with all his obligations vis-à-vis the
hospitality business in full the hospitality business shall be entitled to take possession of
and keep any and all goods that the customer brought along to the hospitality business
until the customer has complied, to the satisfaction of the hospitality business, with all his
obligations vis-à-vis the hospitality business. Apart from a right of retention the hospitality
business is, as the occasion arises, entitled to a right of pledge on the relevant goods.
14.6 If payment other than in cash was stipulated then any and all invoices, for any
amount whatsoever, must be paid to the hospitality business by the customer within
fourteen days after the date of the invoice. If an invoice is sent then the hospitality
business is always authorised to charge a late payment surcharge of 2%, which expires
if the customer pays the invoice within fourteen days.
14.7 If and to the extent that timely payment fails to materialize the customer shall be in
default without any notice of default being required. Only if the customer is a natural
person (consumer) shall the hospitality business send a once-only notice of default if
payment fails to materialize with a time limit of at least 14 days to yet make the payment.
14.8 If the customer is in default then the customer must compensate the hospitality
business for any and all costs associated with the collection. The extrajudicial collection
costs are charged in accordance with the law. UCHCI
14.9 If the hospitality business has goods in its possession as intended in article 14.5
and the customer whose goods the hospitality business has in its possession has been
in default for a period of three months then the hospitality business is entitled to sell the
goods publicly or privately and to recover its costs from the proceeds. The costs
associated with the sale are also at the expense of the customer and the hospitality
business can also recover these from the proceeds. The amount that remains after the
recovery by the hospitality business is paid to the customer.
14.10 Each and every payment shall, regardless of any note or comment made with the
said payment by the customer, be applied to the debt of the customer to the hospitality
business in the following order: • the costs of execution • the judicial and extrajudicial
collection costs • the interest • the damages • the principal sum
14.11 Payment takes place in euros. If the hospitality business accepts foreign means of
payment then the market rate applicable at the time of payment applies. In this respect
the hospitality business can charge an amount on account of administration costs that
corresponds with a maximum of 10% of the amount that is offered in foreign currency.

The hospitality business can accomplish this by revising the market rate by a maximum
of 10%.
14.12 The hospitality business is never held to accept means of payment other than cash
and can impose conditions on the acceptance of these kinds of other means of payment.
 
Article 15 Force majeure
15.1 Each and every foreseen or unforeseen, foreseeable or unforeseeable,
circumstance that hinders the implementation of the hospitality agreement by the
hospitality business such that the implementation of the hospitality agreement becomes
impossible or burdensome shall be qualified as force majeure on the part of the
hospitality business that implies that a potential thus occurring shortcoming of the
hospitality business cannot be blamed on the same.
15.2 If one of the parties to a hospitality agreement is unable to comply with an obligation
by virtue of the said hospitality agreement then this party is held to forthwith inform the
other party accordingly.
 
Article 16 Found objects
16.1 Objects lost or left behind in the building and appurtenances of the hospitality
business that are found by the guest must forthwith be presented to the hospitality
business.
16.2 The hospitality business acquires the title of objects of which the rightful owner did
not report to the hospitality business within one year after presentation of the same to the
hospitality business.
16.3 If the hospitality business sends objects left behind by the guest to the guest then
this shall take place entirely at the risk and expense of the guest. The hospitality
business shall never be held to proceed with despatch.
 
Article 17 Corkage and food charge
17.1 The hospitality business can prohibit the guest from consuming personal food
and/or beverages at the hospitality business, including the terrace. If the hospitality
business permits the consumption of personal food and/or beverages then the hospitality
business may impose conditions on the said permission, including the charging of
corkage and/or a food charge. UCHCI
17.2 The amounts as intended in article 17.1 are stipulated in advance or are, failing
prior agreement, within reason established by the hospitality business.
 
Article 18 Applicable law and disputes
18.1 Dutch law is exclusively applicable to hospitality agreements.
18.2 In case of disputes between the hospitality business and a customer (not being a
natural person who does not act within the performance of a business or profession) the
competent court in the place of establishment of the hospitality business is exclusively
competent, unless mandatory statutory provisions designate a different competent court
and without prejudice to the authority of the hospitality business to have the dispute
settled by the court that would have been competent failing this clause.

18.3 Any and all claims of the customer expire after a period of one year has lapsed
since they arose.
18.4 The invalidity of one or more of the provisions of these general terms and conditions
shall not affect the validity of all other provisions. If a provision of these general terms
and conditions appears to be invalid, for any reason whatsoever, then the parties are
deemed to have stipulated a valid alternative provision that best approaches the scope
and application of the invalid provision.
 
Article 19 Inaccuracies and Errors
19.1 The hospitality business information may contain technical inaccuracies
and typographical errors, including but not limited to inaccuracies relating to pricing or
availability applicable to you transaction. The hospitality business does not assume
responsibility or liability for any such inaccuracies, errors or omissions, and shall have no
obligation to honour reservations or information affected by such inaccuracies.
The hospitality business reserves the right to make changes, corrections, cancellations
and/or improvements to the hospitality business information, and to the products and
programs described in such information, at any time without notice, including after
confirmation of transaction.