Any experience - Park Plaza

Unwilling

Hello

We're lookin at the Park Plaza as a potential venue for the wedding....

Has ANYONE out there had experience with them - is the venue good,are they professional, whats the grub like?

Could really use some help!:rolleyes:

Enii

Is it the Park Plaza Tyrrelstown?

Unwilling

Sorry yes i should have clarified that - Park Plaza Tyrellstown as opposed to NYC... I wish hahahahahaha

smelltheglove

I havent been there but I have heard some good reports. Sorry cant be more help.

Enii

I have had food in the bar which was very nice.


It is a fairly new hotel and I think the decor is very attractive.


There might be some helpful reviews on www.tripadvisor.com

Sorry I can't be of any more use.

meisha

i didnt like it,i went to a wedding there in June and i didnt like the food,the room was too big the guests were lost it didnt feel cosy..beautifull place but it was my least favourate wedding to attend im afraid

Unwilling

Whatsup fellow Matrimonials

Went to a few places today for pricings etc .....

What's the deal with charging 13-22 euro a head for a civil ceremony?
I don't get it.

We went to the Crowne Plaza, wanted civil ceremony and reception dinner for 100 people along with afters for up to 150 and according to the info they CHARGE for your guests to sit on their hinnies and watch you get hitched:eek:

Also - in the two hotels we visited, charge between 350 and 550 for a bar extension... am I the only one who thinks that this is a little ironic... won't they get revenue from the drinks sold throughout this time... why charge for the compliment!!!!

Neither venue would allow us to serve the cake for dessert! Apparently it wouldn't fit in with their schedule and would upset the apple cart

Little upset by the whole affair....................

Can any one help meeeeeeeeeee:mad:

meisha

the bar extension prices are a joke :mad: im new to all this too ill have to do my research and im dreading it!

Unwilling

Hi

I just don't understand it at all. 550 to extend the bar for 2 hour!
And 22 bloody euro for a chair in a room to watch the ceremony, when all 100 said people will be attending the reception and eating and drinking....
I can understand to a point if we were having the ceremony in the hotel and then fecking off elsewhere for a meal.. but my god....

Would LOVE to find a RESTAURANT venue in North Dublin that would hold a civil ceremony, meal and then a good ole fashioned knees up (no dance floor) just bar pub area... and do away with the whole HOTEL side of things as they just take the P*SS

550 my bum for a bar extension.. not paying it

smelltheglove

I think some hotels give more than others, some are prepared to haggle others just say no. I got married outside of dublin and I dont think I had to pay the bar extension, as far as I recall they waved it.

There are plenty of places around, loads of choice so go with what suits you best. There is a restaurant in town called Fallon & Byrne that is lovely, I dont know if they could cater for what you are requesting though, they do have a specific room upstairs for functions. There was a lovely little hotel I attended and shot a wedding at, Maples House Hotel, lovely, small quaint, everything you could ask for as long as there were not too many guests.

Also I covered a wedding in a pub, couple had a carvery for the dinner and it worked out lovely, they decorated the function room themselves the night before, just perfect, pub was beside the Botanic Gardens so perfect venue for photos also.

Toots

I'm surprised they wouldn't let you serve the cake for dessert. Our hotel had no problem doing it, although a lot of people I've spoken to have said you shouldn't do it, cos people will be so full from the meal, in a lot of cases your cake is just left uneaten and binned

If your per head meal price includes a dessert, I'd go ahead and serve that. Then if people don't eat it, it's not like it's your lovely cake being wasted, and you'd have to pay for the dessert anyway. Then serve up the cake in the evening/night when people will be peckish again.

tatli_lokma

Toots* wrote: »

I'm surprised they wouldn't let you serve the cake for dessert. Our hotel had no problem doing it, although a lot of people I've spoken to have said you shouldn't do it, cos people will be so full from the meal, in a lot of cases your cake is just left uneaten and binned

If your per head meal price includes a dessert, I'd go ahead and serve that. Then if people don't eat it, it's not like it's your lovely cake being wasted, and you'd have to pay for the dessert anyway. Then serve up the cake in the evening/night when people will be peckish again.

you can still serve your cake later - we served cake as dessert and we didn't cut the cake and serve until the evening. As you say, many people are stuffed after the dinner and need a break before dessert. This way both the day and evening guests had 'dessert'.

As for it being included in the 'per head' price - I disagree. If an all in price inc dessert and you don't want it I would negotiate about €5-6 per head reduction and serve your cake. Regardless of whether you serve dessert and cake, or cake only some of your cake will go to waste, so thinking about your 'lovely cake' being wasted is a waste of time! food will get wasted, some of your cake will be binned - thats par for the course. That is why I wouldn't pay extra for something that most people don't eat. A waitress friend of mine who serves at weddings at least once a week said that most times at least half the desserts go back uneaten or barely touched - why spend the money on that when you could have a larger cake that will be more likely to be eaten?