Is Holiday responsible for reviewing construction drawings for compliance with local, state, and federal laws, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, for a Crowne Plaza Hotel?
Crowne_Plaza Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ger (if appointed), Designer or Architectural Representative, General Contractor, and all other principals involved in the construction, development and marketing of the property. There is no charge for the kick-off meeting. However, you must pay your representatives' travel, lodging and living expenses.
Holiday will review the construction working drawings to check for compliance with the Standards of the Crowne Plaza System. Holiday does not review the drawings for compliance with any local, state and federal law, including any obligations imposed by the Americans with Disabilities Act since this legal compliance is your responsibility.
Using the same requirements applicable generally to Hotels under the Brand System in the same category as your Hotel, Holiday may require substantial modernization, renovation and other upgrading of your Hotel at any time. Holiday may make limited exceptions from those requirements based on local conditions or special circumstances.
Holiday's Inspection Before Opening:
Holiday inspects and approves your Hotel before Holiday authorizes it to open to confirm that you have completed all of the requirements under paragraph 13.J and/or Attachment "B" of the License. In the event that your Hotel fails its opening inspection or you need to reschedule your opening date or any visits that have not yet been completed by Holiday, you may be charged a fee of up to $5,000 for each extension and/or additional visit.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 69–81)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Crowne Plaza's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Holiday will review the construction working drawings to check for compliance with the Crowne Plaza system standards. However, Holiday does not review the drawings for compliance with any local, state, and federal law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is the franchisee's responsibility to ensure legal compliance.
Before detailed construction documents are started, representatives of the hotel must attend a kick-off meeting with Holiday. Various members of the Crowne Plaza team will be present to review all related business plans, target markets for operation, and building plans as well as scheduled timelines for the completion of these plans. Holiday expects the Principal Contact (licensee), General Manager (if appointed), Designer or Architectural Representative, General Contractor, and all other principals involved in the construction, development and marketing of the property to attend the kick-off meeting. There is no charge for the kick-off meeting, but the franchisee must pay their representatives' travel, lodging and living expenses.
Crowne Plaza provides written specifications for products and materials for use in the upgrading, construction, and furnishing of the hotel in the form of a Property Improvement Plan or "PIP", which will be an attachment to the License. The PIP provides specific renovations and alterations required to meet the requirements of the Standards and Holiday's product quality requirements, specific dates by which plans and drawings must be submitted, and beginning construction dates and interim milestone and completion dates for the Hotel and for opening the Hotel for business. Any design work submitted by unqualified individuals hired by the franchisee will be rejected and the hotel can be subject to Plan default, resulting in an assessment of fees up to $5,000 under the terms of the License.