This topic has been written about separately in Polish in an earlier post. This is an explanation for international guests.
Since 15th February 2024 there has been a new law in force which requires all hotels, bed and breakfasts, guesthouses and agrotourism places to establish the relationship between adults and underage children travelling with them.
This means that we are called upon to get you to document the IDs of the kids as well, and to enable some form of help if any kids are being kidnapped or being abused sexually.
More details in the article in Polish here: https://www.nocowanie.pl/lex-kamilek-w-obiektach-noclegowych–co-warto-wiedziec.html?smclient=44474336-dddf-11ed-a674-3cfdfeb6e6ec&utm_source=salesmanago&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ota_16042024
Obviously it is very difficult for an untrained person to get this right, even the police have difficulty in judging situations and the last thing any hotelier wants to do is insult his guests by making them feel he thinks they are some kind of paedophile. So the law asks us to do this check whenever children and adults are staying with us. Even though we know that 99% are going to be perfectly happy families, it’s the 1% that the good shepherd leaves the rest to seek that we are concerned with here, and the only way to do it without offence is to apply the same enquiry in all the cases. That’s not as offensive as picking and choosing would be, even though we understand it’s not a nice topic. We hope it won’t undermine the feeling of welcome you have a right to expect at Agroletnica.
For those reading this who are either children or females who have been kidnapped and trafficked for modern slavery in the sex industry and you need help, you should feel confident about asking us for help. We’ve never felt scared of helping, the police and our private security are just a phone call away, we have plenty of cameras on the premises and the gate you came through on the way in is not going to let the average car out even if it is rammed at full speed, it’s really well made. Your abuser has brought you to the right place. (Well, the wrong place for him of course, or her, in those very rare cases).
So if you need help then simply identify yourself as someone being abused and we will take care of the formalities. You won’t be the first we have helped, or the last, God willing.
And if someone doesn’t like that, find somewhere else to stay, somewhere that doesn’t know the new law or chooses to ignore it. We don’t care if you don’t like it, we are going to help those who need this kind of help and for once in a long time a law comes along that is actually helpful and can do some good.