Moa Stone Estate Limited – Venue, Grounds & Accommodation Terms & Conditions
We seek your co-operation to ensure your stay with us, and the stay of other guests, is an enjoyable one. In making a booking with us, you are agreeing to all Terms and Conditions below. These are subject to change without notice. We are Moa Stone Estate Limited and our premises are at 167 Cornes Road, Raglan 3296, New Zealand. When you visit, use the venue or the accommodation at Moa Stone Estate, you confirm your agreement to these terms.
1. Guest Well-Being and Personal Responsibility
- Assumption of Risk: The Estate is a working flower farm with natural hazards (including uneven ground, tools, machinery, and insects). Guests enter the property at their own risk.
- Health & Safety: You are entirely responsible for your own safety, well-being, and supervision of any children or dependents in your group during your stay.
2. Insurance Requirement
- Mandatory Insurance: The Estate does not provide any insurance coverage for guests, their vendors, or visitors.
- Personal Coverage: You must arrange your own appropriate insurance (including comprehensive travel, personal liability, and event insurance if applicable) to cover medical expenses, personal injury, cancellation, or loss/damage to personal belongings and vehicles.
3. Protection of Property and Estate
- Care of the Estate: You are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the Estate, including all accommodation, venue spaces, gardens, flower beds, structures, and equipment.
- Strict Garden Rules: Walking through flower rows or picking flowers without permission, or damaging crops is strictly prohibited.
4. Liability and Damages
- No Venue Liability: To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Estate will not be liable for any personal injury, illness, death, or damage/loss to personal property sustained by you or your guests.
- Hirer Liability: You are legally and financially liable for any damage caused to our property, buildings, flora, or equipment by you, your guests, or your external vendors.
- Cost Recovery: Any repair, replacement, or excessive cleaning costs will be billed directly to you or deducted from your bond.
5. Bookings, Noise and Compliance
- Capacity & Noise: Guest numbers must not exceed the agreed booking capacity. Noise must be kept to a respectful level to protect the peace of the farm and local council bylaws.
- Compliance: Guests must follow any safety signs, restricted area boundaries, and verbal instructions provided by the Estate management.
Miscellaneous matters
- Any obligation in this agreement intended to continue to have effect after termination or completion shall so continue.
- No failure or delay by any party to exercise any right, power or remedy will operate as a waiver of it nor indicate any intention to reduce that or any other right in the future.
- Any communication to be served on either party by the other shall be sent by recorded delivery or by e-mail. It shall be deemed to have been delivered: If sent by recorded delivery to the correct address: within 72 hours of posting. If sent by e-mail to the address from which the receiving party has last sent e-mail: within 24 hours if no notice of non-receipt has been received by the sender.
- In the event of a dispute between the parties to this agreement, then they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
- This agreement does not give any right to any third party.
- We are not liable for any failure or delay in any circumstance beyond our reasonable control, [including industrial action, postal communication, plant failures, supply of gas, electricity and water or fire alarm evacuation].
- The validity, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of New Zealand.
Changes
We may update these terms and conditions from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Last changed 23/09/2026