An innkeeper has a legal duty to provide food and accommodation to anyone who appears able to pay and is in a fit state to be received, provided facilities are available. The innkeeper’s liability for property belonging to a guest (someone who has booked sleeping accommodation) is strict but provided the notice in the Schedule to the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 is displayed the strict liability is limited to £50 any one article and £100 any one guest. The limits do not apply if the innkeeper has been guilty of negligence or other fault or the property was deposited for safe keeping. There is no liability if the guest caused the loss. Other customers are mere travellers and liability for their effects is governed by ordinary legal rules.