Originally Posted by
thegoderic
Me:- "Can you cut the key for the gym please?" (That doesn't happen automatically)
She then got the waiver form and offered it to me to sign.
Me:- "Do I have to sign this every visit?" Having been told by someone last time that I didn't, as long as I'd signed it once.
Her:- "It's for your own safety"
I was tempted to repsond by asking how signing a form waiving my rights to sue Marriott should I have a heart attack in the gym was for my own safety, but I bit my lip at this.
Originally Posted by
SkiAdcock
FWIW - I think a hotel would be bonkers to accept a previously signed waiver on a health club form for dif stays. That's just a liability/lawsuit waiting to happen.
I have to agree with thegoderic here, with a life lesson additional comment from me.
First, the "It's for your own safety" comment is just ridiculous, because it is not for the safety of the guest at all, it is to try and distract the guest from blaming the hotel if the guest is injured. Substitute "Don't p**s on my boots and then tell me it's raining" for thegoderic's temptation to ask "how signing a form waiving his rights to sue Marriott should I have a heart attack in the gym was for my own safety?"
Second, the life lesson from my own history. Back in 1985, my mother was a passenger in a car which was hit by a tractor trailer truck. Fortunately she was being treated at the University of Maryland Emergency Shock Trauma unit, which was the pioneer in shock trauma hospital emergency care, and she was airlifted there. Among other things, she had a broken neck, and several other broken bones, but she was conscious. Before they would treat her, they handed her a clip board with a release form so that she would not sue the hospital for incompetence, or pain and suffering, or whatever. Even through her incredible pain and suffering, she had the presence to say
"I don't care what release forms you ask me to sign, if you all screw up, I will still sue you, and the release form will not matter at all!"
Release forms are not for the subject person's protection, but to intimidate stupid people into not suing a big corporate entity, because said stupid people do not know that release forms are ALMOST meaningless, and (at least in the USA) are actually void in the case of incompetence, recklessness, or ignorance on the part of the non-injured party being sued.