Booking Conditions
In these booking conditions, ‘you’ and ‘your’ means all people on the booking form (including anyone who is added or replaced at a later date). ‘We’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ means Cennen Cottages Blaenllynant, Farm House, Gwynfe, Llangadog. SA19 9SB.
Cennen Cottages is a trading name of JL & EZ Powell.
Before booking through us, please read these booking
conditions carefully and all the other information relevant to your booking,
including:
- the property rental conditions (which means all
information in any specific conditions or restrictions set out on the website
description of your chosen properties); - the Important Information the website or other
publication we tell you about; and - any other written information we brought to your
attention prior to confirming your booking.
All properties on our website are offered for the sole
purpose of holiday lettings, unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing by us.
Accordingly, you agree that your booking is for the sole purpose of holiday
accommodation and accept that you are not offered any rights to the property
other than the right to occupy the property as holiday accommodation for the
period of your booking. No booking of any kind is an ‘Assured Shorthold
Tenancy’ or protected under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977.
1. Making your booking
All bookings depend on the property and other arrangements
being available. You, as the person in charge of the party (“the party
leader”), must be at least 18 years old at the time of booking. All other
members of the party must authorise you to make the booking on the basis of
these booking conditions. By making the booking, you confirm that you are
authorised to make the booking and that all other members of the party agree
that the booking will be governed by these booking conditions. You, as the
party leader, are responsible for making all payments due to us.
As long as the property is available and we have received
all the relevant payments from you, we will give you written confirmation (see
below) as soon as reasonably possible. This confirmation will show your booking
details, the amount you have paid and the amount you still owe for the booking.
Your binding contract with the owner will begin when we issue you with the
written confirmation. For bookings made within 14 days of the departure date,
you will have a binding contract when we give written confirmation of your
booking to you and you have made the appropriate payments to us. If we pay the
deposit into our bank account, it will not mean we have accepted a booking
unless we have issued you with written confirmation. Please do not make any
other travel arrangements (such as flights) until we have issued you with a
written confirmation. We will give you your written confirmation either by post
or by email. If you book with us online, we will acknowledge that we have
received your booking and then send you confirmation by email. If you book by
post or phone, we will send your confirmation to you by post unless you tell us
at the time of booking that you would prefer it to be provided by email. It is
your responsibility to check your emails regularly and to let us know about any
change to your email address.
We have the right to refuse any booking before we send you
your written confirmation. If we do this, we will tell you in writing and
promptly refund any money you have paid to us. In this case we will not have
any legal responsibility to you.
As soon as you receive your confirmation, you must check the
details carefully. If anything is not correct, you should tell us immediately.
Please ensure that names are exactly as stated in the relevant passport. We
have no responsibility for any errors in any documentation except where an
error is made by us.
Where we offer the option of a provisional telephone booking,
the property will be released for general sale after the agreed time period
unless you fully confirm the booking.
Even if we have sent a written confirmation, we have the
right to cancel a booking where there are reasonable grounds to believe that
(i) it is not legitimate (ii) you are likely to breach any of our booking
conditions (iii) information supplied by you in relation to your booking is
incorrect (iv) you have behaved in a vexatious, abusive or unlawful manner to
owners, suppliers or to our staff. If we cancel your booking, we will tell you
in writing and not have any legal responsibility to you.
2. Payment
When you book, you must pay the deposit amount then due. We
only accept payment in pounds sterling. We must then receive the rest of the
money owed no less than 8 weeks before the start of your stay. If you book less
than 8 weeks before the start of your stay, we must receive full payment of the
total cost of your booking when you make the booking. For any arrangements
booked less than two weeks before the start of your stay, you must pay for the
booking in full by debit or credit card, or PayPal, or by bank transfer, at the
time of booking.
If you do not pay any payment due in relation to your
booking by the appropriate date we are entitled to assume that you want to
cancel your booking. In this case, your booking will be cancelled immediately and
the provisions of clause 5b. You may also need to pay additional charges.
Please see clause 5b.
There is no charge for debit or credit card payments. If
your bank refuses to make your payment for any reason, we are entitled to make
an administration charge of £31.
3. Pricing
We keep the prices charged under constant review and the
prices of unsold arrangements may be increased or reduced at any time. We may
also correct mistakes in the pricing of unsold arrangements at any time. We
will confirm the price of your booking when you make it. As changes and
mistakes can happen, you must check the price and all other details of your
chosen arrangements at the time of booking.
All prices quoted or otherwise given to you include all
charges and any taxes or government charges which may apply to your booking at
the time it is made. You may be required to pay any additional taxes that arise
after your booking has been confirmed.
We can pass on to you, in full, after we have confirmed your
booking, all costs or charges which are connected with your booking, including
any price increases due to changes in the exchange rates of currency.
All accommodation prices are for the property as a whole and
are not on a per person basis.
4. Website details
We aim to make sure that the information provided is
presented accurately on our website, in brochures and other promotional
literature or material we produce and provide. It is intended to present a
general idea of the arrangements. Not all details of the relevant facilities
can be included on our website. Furthermore, there may be small differences
between the actual property/arrangements and its description. This is usually
because we are always aiming to improve services and facilities. Occasionally,
problems mean that some facilities or services are not available or may be
restricted. If this happens, we will tell you as soon as reasonably practical
after we become aware of the situation. We cannot accept responsibility for any
changes or closures to local services or attractions mentioned on our website,
by our advisers or advertised elsewhere. We make reasonable efforts to make
sure that information we give you about your property and its facilities or
services, as well as advertised travel and other services, is accurate and
complete on the date given. We cannot accept responsibility for any inaccurate,
incomplete or misleading information about any property/arrangements or its
facilities and services, unless this was caused by our negligence.
Where Wi-Fi is an advertised facility, please note that its
provision is subject to availability and network conditions. It may not be
available 24 hours a day and is provided for pleasure not for business
purposes. Bookings are not accepted if they are wholly reliant on the
uninterrupted, unlimited provision of Wi-Fi.
5. If you change or cancel your booking
a) Changes
If you want to change any detail of your confirmed booking,
we will do our best to make the changes. However, we must receive your notice
in writing by post or email. We may agree to accept notice over the telephone,
but this should be arranged with us first. Also, we cannot guarantee we will be
able to meet your request. Changes can only be accepted in accordance with our
terms and conditions. You may be asked to pay us an administration charge of
£31 for each change. Plus, where we can meet your change request, you will have
to pay any costs incurred in facilitating this change for you, which will be
charged at the website price, which may be different from the price on the website
from which you booked your chosen arrangements. We may treat changes to your
dates or property as a cancellation of the original booking and so you will
have to pay cancellation charges.
b) Full cancellations
If you have to, or want to, cancel your booking after it has
been confirmed, you must phone us on the number shown on your booking
confirmation as soon as possible. The day we receive your notice by phone to
cancel is the date on which we will cancel your booking. Depending on your
reason for cancellation, you may receive a refund of all money you have paid to
us for your booking (apart from booking fees and, if it applies, any amendment
charges, and credit-card charges you have already paid). We will also charge a
cancellation administration fee of £53 for each week or part of a week per booking.
The conditions for getting a refund referred to above only
apply if the cancellation applies to all members of your party. All prices are
for the whole property and not on a per person basis.
Under your contract to qualify for a refund you must have
one of the following reasons and you may be asked to send evidence:
· Illness or pregnancy (we will need to see medical evidence
that you or a member of the party is unfit to travel). We will not cover
pregnancy if the relevant person was pregnant before the booking was made. And
we will not make a refund if the woman is due to give birth within 14 weeks of
the arrival date home
- Death.
- Redundancy (as long as the employment has been a
continuous with the same employer for at least two years). - Jury or witness service (in a court of law).
- Illness or death of a close relative (a close
relative is defined as a husband, wife, civil partner, son or daughter, son or
daughter-in-law, parent, mother-in-law or father-in-law, grandparent, sister or
brother or fiancé or fiancée). - Your home is damaged and cannot be lived in
because of fire, storm, flood, subsidence or malicious damage. - The police have asked you to stay at home,
following a burglary at your home or place of business, during the period of
your holiday or within the seven days before this. - You are in HM Forces and are posted unexpectedly
or have leave cancelled if you are in the police (unless you can recover the
cost of the lost booking from another source) or - You are placed in quarantine.
Please note that all of the above reasons must have arisen
after you made your booking and must not have been within your knowledge at the
time of your booking. This particularly applies to pre-existing illness.
You may also receive a full refund from the owner if you
cannot reach your destination due to snow or flood conditions or as a result of
being involved in an accident while on the way there (This only applies if you
have made every effort to try and complete your journey. You will need to
produce evidence to us from the police or Highways Agency). Although a refund
is available in these circumstances, you may prefer to delay your arrival. In
these cases, we will give you a 15% refund for each 24-hour delay (up to 72
hours maximum = 45%). For short breaks, we will give you a fixed refund of 45 %
for all arrivals delayed for more than 24 hours.
We will ask you to fill in a booking cancellation form which
may need signing by a medical practitioner or employer. In this case we may
also need you to give us more information/evidence from other people (we will
tell you at the time).
The following reasons for cancellation do not qualify for a
refund as set out above:
- Suicide or attempted suicide;
- deliberate self-injury;
- the effect of alcohol or drugs;
- or any other reason which is not specifically
referred to above.
If the reason for cancellation does not fall within one of
those given above, for example, you do not want to travel, your leave is
cancelled by your employer (other than HM Forces or the police) and so on, you
will have to pay a cancellation charge based on the number of days before the
arrival date at the property that we receive notice, as shown in the following
table. This means that if you have paid the balance of your total holiday cost
and then have to, or want to, cancel, you may receive a refund of part of the
cost. However, if you have not paid your total booking cost, including any
booking fee and the premiums for any insurance (if you have bought this) by the
time of your cancellation, you may have to make a further payment to cover the
cancellation charge.
For the purpose of the table below, total cost means the
total cost of the accommodation booking, including any extra items. You will
still have to pay any booking fees, credit-card charges and administration fees
for making any changes. If you have already paid booking fees, credit-card
charges and administration fees, we will not refund these if you cancel.
If you have already paid booking fees, credit-card charges
and administration fees, we will not refund these if you cancel.
Cancellation charges
Number of days before the start date of your trip that we receive your notice to cancel (or on which you are deemed to have cancelled) | Cancellation charge (plus all administration fees you owe) |
More than 70 days More than 84 days (properties stated to sleep 10 or more people) | Full deposit (including any balance of the deposit due) |
43 to 70 days 43 to 84 days (properties stated to sleep 10 or more people) | 50% of the total cost or full deposit (including any balance of deposit due), whichever is greater |
29 to 42 days | 75% of total cost |
8 to 28 days | 90% of total cost |
7 days or less | 100% of total cost |
If you live outside the UK and have booked, the term ‘total
cost’ in the above cancellation charges table means the amount paid to us after
taking off any booking fees and any administration charge paid to us for making
any change. To avoid any doubt, total cost does not include any charges for
booking fees, flights other travel services or any other amounts not paid to
us.
c) Cutting short your stay (UK only)
You can also get a refund as set out above if you show that
your stay in the UK is cut short for any of the reasons set out in b above. In
this case, we will refund the appropriate percentage of the cost of your stay.
This only applies if everyone from your party leaves the property. If your stay
is cut short for medical reasons affecting any person in your party, you will
need to produce a certificate from a local doctor, confirming that they needed
to return home.
d) Part cancellations
If only one person in your party needs to cancel, this will
not normally affect the total cost of your booking unless you cancel any extra
services which are charged on a ‘per person’ basis. In these instances, we may
provide a refund of any per person charges remaining after taking off any
applicable cancellation charges.
6. Cancellations or changes
We do not expect to have to make any changes to your
booking. However, sometimes problems happen, and bookings have to be changed or
cancelled or mistakes on our website or other details corrected. We have the
right to do so. If we do, we will contact you (by phone if reasonably possible
in the case of a significant change or cancellation – we will let you know
about minor changes by post) as soon as is reasonably practical. We will
explain what has happened and let you know about the cancellation or change.
However, we will have no further liability to you.
7. Events beyond our control
Unless we say otherwise in these booking conditions,
unfortunately we will not be legally responsible either jointly or individually
for any compensation if we are prevented from carrying out our responsibilities
under this contract as a result of events beyond our control. This means an
event we or they could not, even with all due care, avoid, including:
- strike, lock-out or labour dispute;
- natural disaster;
- acts of terrorism, war, riot or civil commotion;
- malicious damage;
- keeping to any law or governmental order, rule,
regulation or direction, including advice from the foreign office to avoid or
leave a country; - accident;
- breakdown of equipment or machinery;
- insolvency or bankruptcy of an owner or service
provider; - fire, flood, snow or storm;
- difficulty or increased cost in getting workers,
goods or transport; and - other circumstances affecting the supply of
goods or services.
8. Our legal responsibilities to you
If you have any complaints about any services we provide, you
must let us know immediately in writing and in any event within seven days of
the end of any arrangements booked through us. Unfortunately, we cannot accept
any legal responsibility if you do not let us know. We do not exclude or limit
what we will be legally responsible for if death or personal injury is caused
as a result of our negligence or that of our employees whilst acting in their
course of their employment, or for any criminal act we may commit.
We cannot be held responsible for noise or disturbance which
comes from beyond the boundaries of the property or which is beyond our
control. If we know about a problem before you arrive, we will contact you to
let you know.
We cannot be held responsible for the breakdown of
mechanical equipment such as pumps, boilers, hot tub filtration systems, nor
for the failure of public utilities such as water, gas and electricity.
9. Insurance
We recommend that you take out enough travel insurance to
cover you for your total stay.
For all overseas bookings, we consider it essential that you
arrange enough travel insurance for your trip. We do not check insurance
policies to make sure they are suitable, and this remains your responsibility.
You are responsible for covering us if we suffer any losses or expenses arising
out of your failure to take out proper insurance cover. We strongly advise you
to take out insurance which will cover any damage which may happen to property
which belongs to other people and which may get damaged.
We can refuse or cancel a booking if you do not have
personal travel insurance. We will treat any cancellation for this reason as a
cancellation by you and you will have to pay the cancellation charges set out
in clause 7 above. Please read your policy details carefully and take them with
you on holiday. It is your responsibility to make sure that the insurance cover
you buy is enough for your needs.
10. Disabilities and medical problems
If you or any member of your party has any medical problem
or disability that may affect your booking, please tell us before you confirm
your booking and give us full details in writing as early as possible before
you travel. If we reasonably feel unable to properly meet that person’s
particular needs, we can refuse or cancel the reservation.
11. Your property
We have set the following conditions on your stay at the
property:
Arrival and departure- You can arrive at your property at
any time after 3pm (unless we tell you otherwise, for example on your
confirmation) on the start date of your rental period. You must leave by 10am
on the last day. If your arrival will be delayed beyond 8pm on the start date
of your rental period, you must contact the person whose details are given in
the location guide. If you fail to do so, you may not be able to get into the
property. If you fail to arrive by 12 noon on the day after the start date of
your rental period and you do not let the person whose details are given on the
location guide know you are arriving late, we may treat your booking as having
been cancelled by you. In this situation, we will not refund any money you have
paid.
Behaviour – You and all members of your party agree:
- to keep the property clean and tidy;
- to leave the property in a similar condition as
you found it when you arrived; - to behave in a way at all times while at the
property which does not break any law; - not to use the property for any illegal or
commercial purpose; - not to sublet the property or any part thereof
or otherwise allow anyone to stay in it who we have not previously accepted on
behalf of the owner as a member of your party; - Not to behave in anti-social manner, breach the
peace or otherwise act in a way which may disrupt or affect the enjoyment of others.
Maximum occupancy – You also must not allow more people than
the website states to stay overnight in the property. You cannot arrange for
visitors to the property without our advance consent. You cannot significantly
change the number of adults or children during your stay. (For example, if you
book for two adults and two children, you cannot arrive with four adults and no
children.) You must not hold events (such as parties, celebrations or meetings)
at the property without our advance consent. If you do any of these things, we can
refuse to hand over the property to you or can repossess it. If we do this, we
will treat this as you are cancelling the booking. In these situations, you
will not receive a refund of any money you have paid for your booking. And we will
not be legally responsible to you as a result of this situation. (This will
include, for example, any costs or expenses you have to pay due to not being
able to stay in the property, such as the cost of finding other accommodation.)
We are not under any obligation to find any alternative accommodation for you.
Pets – Pets are not allowed unless we say so on the website.
If you take a pet with you, it is not allowed upstairs, on beds or furniture,
or in any shared facilities, such as hot tub or gym. You must not leave any
pets unattended in the property, including any garden, and you must keep dogs
on a lead within the boundaries of a property (including the garden).
Registered assistance dogs are allowed in most properties featured on the
website even if the property description says that pets are not allowed. If you
or any member of the party has a pet allergy, we cannot guarantee that dogs, or
other pets, have not stayed in your chosen property, even if we do not allow
pets, nor can we accept any responsibility for any subsequent health reaction. If
there is a charge for taking a pet, you will be told at the time of booking.
No Smoking: all properties are no smoking (including
E-cigarettes)
12. Damage
You are responsible for and agree to reimburse to us all
costs incurred by us as a result of any breakage or damage in or to the
property which is caused by you or any members of your party or any other
persons invited into the property by you. We can ask for an extra payment from
you to cover any such costs.
We expect the accommodation to be left in a reasonable state
on departure. If in our caretaker’s opinion, additional cleaning is required,
you will be liable to the owner for the cost of this cleaning.
You may need to check and sign an inventory of the property
and its contents on arrival at the property. If you discover that anything is
missing or damaged on arrival, please notify the key holder immediately.
13. Right of entry
We our allowed to enter the property (without letting you
know first if this is not practical or possible) if special circumstances or
emergencies happen (for example if repairs need to be carried out) or if you
break any of these booking conditions or any other terms that apply to your
booking and/or the property. We our also allowed to enter the property to
inspect it (including but not limited to where you have complained about the
property). If this happens, you will be given reasonable notice first.
You agree to allow us or our representative (including
workmen) access to the property as required by this clause.
14. Unreasonable behaviour
We can refuse to hand over a property if the unreasonable behaviour
of anyone in your party is likely to cause offence to other guests, to members
of staff or to neighbours, or if we have reasonable cause to believe you or any
member of your party will cause damage or loss to the property, its services or
facilities. If this happens, the contract between you and us will end and you
will not receive any refund and neither we nor the owner will have any further
responsibility to you.
We can end a stay after the keys have been handed over, if
the unreasonable behaviour of anyone in your party (including anyone invited
into the property by you) is likely to spoil the enjoyment, comfort or health
of other guests, residents, neighbours or members of staff or where you or any
member of your party (or anyone invited into the property by you) has broken or
is likely to break any of these booking conditions or any other terms and
conditions applicable to the property which you have been told about. If this
happens, you will have to leave the property immediately and no refund will be
given. You may also be responsible for any costs the owner has as a result of
your behaviour as set out in clause 11.
15. Special requests
If you have any special requests, you must let us know when
you make a booking and confirm them in writing. We cannot guarantee that any
request will be met. Confirmation that we have noted a special request or of
the fact it is shown on your written confirmation or any other document, is not
confirmation that the request will be met. If we fail to meet any special
request, it will not mean we or they have broken your contract.
16. Complaints
If you want to complain, we, will want to take action to sort your complaint out as soon as possible. You should put any queries or concerns to us. It is essential that you contact the us immediately if any problem arises so that it can be sorted out as quickly as possible. It is often extremely difficult (and sometimes impossible) to sort out difficulties properly unless the we are told promptly. If you discuss the problem with us during your stay at the property, it can usually be sorted out straightaway. In particular, complaints which would only be temporary (for example, complaints on how the property is prepared or the heating not working) cannot possibly be investigated unless registered during your stay. If you cannot contact us, you should immediately phone the Customer Services Line on telephone no. +44-1550-740-376 or mobile no. +44-7974-311-291. If, after this, you feel that the problem has not been dealt with to your satisfaction, you must, within 28 days of returning from your stay, put your complaint in writing to us. Send your letter to our office at Cennen Cottages Blaenllynant, Farm House, Gwynfe, Llangadog. SA19 9SB, marked for the attention of the Customer Relations Department. Or you can send an email to [email protected]. We have designed this procedure to make sure we can sort out complaints as quickly as possible. Please help us to help you by following this procedure. If you fail to do so, this may affect your entitlement to claim compensation if this would be appropriate.
17. Governing law and jurisdiction
Any dispute claim or other matter which may arise in
relation to your booking will be governed by English law and you agree that any
dispute will be dealt with exclusively by the courts of England and Wales.
18. Communicating with you
Please see our Privacy Notice which explains how we will
process your personal data.
For the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, you can send any notices intended to our office address Cennen Cottages Blaenllynant, Farm House, Gwynfe, Llangadog. SA19 9SB.
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