Sea Haven holiday cottage, Staithes

Holiday rental over Staithes Beck

Terms and conditions of booking

Terms
Sea Haven holiday cottage at Staithes


Terms and conditions, version 29.06.2024
Including pet policy and electric vehicles policy


1. Your booking becomes effective when we confirm to you by email.

2. Payment - we invoice a £100 non-refundable deposit to secure your booking. The balance becomes due one month before the start of your holiday.

3.Cancellations, refunds and no-shows 4. Check-in - Sea Haven check-in time is 4pm and checkout time is 10am. This window provides our housekeepers with sufficient time to clean and change linen.

5. The maximum number of guests permitted to sleep at Sea Haven is:
6. Cottage size and accessibility

You are informed that Sea Haven is a small traditional fisherman's cottage set on a steep hill that may be unsuitable for guests with limited mobility.
7. Pet policy
8. Noisy parties. - Sea Haven has a no noisy parties policy.

9. Sub-letting is prohibited.

10. Electric vehicles (EV)
If you will connect an EV to the cottage you must inform us in advance and we will jointly estimate the additional electricity cost and add it to your rental price. We welcome and encourage EV use but you must pay your own travel costs. You are informed that we do not provide special EV charging facilities, the power supply is standard household single-phase and you may not connect anything to the cottage that is unsafe or prohibited by law.

11. Breakages. If you accidentally break something, we do not expect you to pay for it, but please inform the housekeepers straightaway so we can replace it promptly. This clause specifically excludes damage by pets - see point 7, above.

12. Smoking and the use of candles and tea lights are strictly prohibited inside Sea Haven.

13. Changes. Should you wish to change the agreed and paid for dates of your holiday we will make every effort to accommodate you.

14. Sea Haven and Seahaven (!) Your reservation is for Sea Haven, 3 Cowbar Bank, Staithes. You are informed that there is another cottage in Staithes (near the Cod and Lobster) that has traditionally been called Seahaven (a single word) but their agent has recently started to use the spelling Sea Haven - the same name as our cottage. We cannot find the owner and the booking agent has ignored repeated requests to correct the spelling.

15. Direct bookings through these sites, yorkshireholiday.com and staithes.uk. The prices, charges, terms and conditions published at these sites are for direct bookings by the owner of Sea Haven. Different terms and conditions, prices, charges, commissions and fees may apply for bookings through booking.com.

16. Third party sites cannot confirm reservations for Sea Haven. The only sites that can confirm reservations are:
  • yorkshireholiday.com or staithes.uk (direct with the owner);
  • homeexchange.com (direct with the owner);
  • Sometimes booking.com;
  • Other sites that may advertise Sea Haven are not entitled to confirm reservations nor accept payment.
  • Correspondence with third party booking sites regarding Sea Haven should be copied to bookings@yorkshireholiday.com.