Relationship with Guests and Other Patrons

Relationship with Guests and Other Patrons

The main arguments in the case is that Paraskevaides had left their room with the safe keys but after returning they found out that they room had been invaded and that they bedroom safes were empty and open. The hotel security personnel and the police were notified about the incidence but the properties that had been lost were never recovered. The Four Seasons Hotel had made an expensive mistake (Protecting patron`s property). Instead of the hotel facing the limited amount that is provided by the statute, it when ahead and opened itself up to the liability of the full loss of the plaintiff. The lesson is very clear, the hotel was supposed to familiarize itself with the limiting liability statute of the state and comply with it effectively.

Under the common law doctrine of the infra hospitium the hotel must be liable for anything that the guest loses while in the hotel not unless the property was lost in the act of God, a public enemy or even as a result of the fault of the guest. The amount that was supposed to be compensated to the guest was reduced from $350,000 to $210,000 but if the hotel had complied with the law, the amount that it was supposed to be paid to the guest would have been reduced to much lesser amount to $2,000 (Protecting patron`s property). Something unusual about the Nevada`s law is that there are situations that can happen when the guest is on the hotel and fails to be compensated. The main law that surprised me is that loss caused by a public enemy when the guest is on the hotel cannot be compensated for. I thought that every loss that affects the guest while in the hotel should be compensated for but that is not the case with the Nevada`s law.   

A bailment is the transfer of property from one individual to another bearing in mind that the property will return. The individual transferring the possession is called the bailor while the individual receiving the possession is called the bailee. The first type of bailment is the bailment for the sole benefit of the bailee which takes place when the bailor lends property to the bailee but does not come back. Under this type of bailment, the bailee is required to exercise more care on the property than the person who originally possessed the property (Protecting patron`s property). An example of this type of bailment is when I was in need of a certain book from the library but I had to lend it at a cost. The librarian gave me the book at a no cost and in that situation, I benefited from the book but the librarian did not.

Another type of bailment is the bailment for the sole benefit of the bailor which exists when the bailee gets no benefit from the bailment. Bailee is only required to exercise a small degree of the property under this type of bailment. An example of this form of bailment is when I was experiencing some challenges with the drainage system in my room so there was a great risk of my revision materials getting destroyed so I had to take them to a friend of mine. The friend did not use the revise materials so he did not benefit for that but I did.

The final form of bailment is the mutual-benefit bailment. This is a type of bailment where both the bailee and the bailor benefit from the bailment. Under this form of bailment, the bailee has an ordinary responsibility of taking care of the property that has been bailed (Protecting patron`s property). Example of this type of bailment is when I had to lend a book form a library at a cost so we both benefited for the bailment. I benefited for the book while the librarian on the other hand benefited from the amount that I used in lending the book.

The main difference between a guest and an invitee is that the invitee is usually invited to the hotel for the benefit of the hotel owner while a guest is never invited but rather comes to the hotel at their own free will. In most cases, the invitees are usually offered extra protection since they are invited in the hotel for a specific purpose of furthering the business while that does not happen to the guests. When the owner of an hotel understand that a particular risk might affect the invitee while during the period he will be staying on the hotel, then the hotel owner must take the appropriate measures that will ensure that the invitee is protected against the threats. The owner must then decide to eliminate the risks. The main reasons why the invitee is in the hotel are well known by everyone within the hotel which is not the case with the guest whose purpose is never known since he might be doing some private affairs that should not be interrupted with by the hotel owners. One becomes a guest once they have booked for a room at the hotel and they have made the appropriate payment for the room and for the period they will be staying in that particular premises. The guests usually have the right to be compensated in case of any loss that occurs at the time when they at the hotel. Invitees in the other hand do not have the right to be compensated for the loss that occurs at the time when they are in the hotel.

The main difference between a guest and tenant is that a guest usually stays in a premise for a short period of time while a tenant on the other hand pays for a room that he stays for a long period of time. A guest specifies the period that he will be staying in the premise while a tenant does not. One becomes a tenant once they have relocated to a place and have made the required amount of money while there are some right that a tenant has that the guest do not have. The tenant has the right of accessing all the facilities and services that are within the premise while the guest does not have that right (Protecting patron`s property). A hotel should follow appropriate laws when evicting the invitees, the guest and a tenant. The hotel should file a case against them based on the law that they violated and that requires the eviction. The hotel cannot simply decide to evict them without following the law.