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help with contract law

  • 23-01-2011 8:42pm
    #1
    number13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    can anyone please help im totally lost. i saw an add in a paper for a hotel room for 500 euro. i ring the hotel and book it through my credit card. next day hotel rings me and tells me the hotel is double booked and will refund my card.
    Can anyone set me on the right direction. I think that the hotel have broke their contract because there has been an offer consideration and an acceptance, please help


Comments

  • #2
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Technically you are correct in the circumstances. It may have been a genuine mistake on the part of the hotel but they should have found you alternative options rather than blandly refund you and send you on your merry way.

    I'd contact them at manager or hospitality manager level and express your issue and in addition consider contacting the National Consumer Agency.

    Tom


  • #3
    number13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭number13


    i was looking on the internet and some people have paid as much as 1000 euro for the hotel and others have had theirs cancelled too. so doubt it was a mistake. So once there is an offer consideration and acceptance i have some sort of case. am i rigth in saying that?


  • #4
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Offer + Acceptance = Agreement; Agreement + Consideration = Legally Enforceable Contract.

    This issue here is whether there was some clause (whether proper or not) that may have allowed them to do that within a certain period of time.

    Please do not name the venue.


  • #5
    Reloc8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Reloc8


    number13 wrote: »
    i was looking on the internet and some people have paid as much as 1000 euro for the hotel and others have had theirs cancelled too. so doubt it was a mistake. So once there is an offer consideration and acceptance i have some sort of case. am i rigth in saying that?

    No.

    You have to prove that you suffered damages of some sort.

    Offer, acceptance, contract formed (as tom says, add consideration and you have legally enforceable agreement), breach of contract, damages.

    Nothing you have said indicates that you have suffered damages.

    NB you being annoyed is not a damage. Contract law does not admit of general damages, it deals with financial damages (except in very limited cases).


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