> but you don’t sign anything that specifies what constitutes damage and what the charges may be for that damage
I neither said nor implied any such thing.
> you actually do enter into a more comprehensive agreement than you realise
Why would the agreement I entered into be something other than the one I read and signed?
> perhaps during the booking process
Booking is as simple as calling the hotel to reserve a room, then paying when I get there, usually with a couple pages of paperwork to read through. What part of that process sneaks a legally binding contract I've never read into the equation?
> implicitly by simply staying in the property
And implicitly by replying to my last comment you owe damages of $50.... That's not how contracts work. There might be some non-contractual reason why staff are allowed to enter, or else those hotels might have different paperwork from everywhere I've stayed (hence my question). Implied contracts are a thing, but they arise from ordinary social "contracts," not to grant special, previously unspecified, powers like goons rifling through your things. What's the legal theory that would give a hotel that much power, and if that power is real why would they stop at something as small as sending goons?
I neither said nor implied any such thing.
> you actually do enter into a more comprehensive agreement than you realise
Why would the agreement I entered into be something other than the one I read and signed?
> perhaps during the booking process
Booking is as simple as calling the hotel to reserve a room, then paying when I get there, usually with a couple pages of paperwork to read through. What part of that process sneaks a legally binding contract I've never read into the equation?
> implicitly by simply staying in the property
And implicitly by replying to my last comment you owe damages of $50.... That's not how contracts work. There might be some non-contractual reason why staff are allowed to enter, or else those hotels might have different paperwork from everywhere I've stayed (hence my question). Implied contracts are a thing, but they arise from ordinary social "contracts," not to grant special, previously unspecified, powers like goons rifling through your things. What's the legal theory that would give a hotel that much power, and if that power is real why would they stop at something as small as sending goons?