Room rate for Friday wedding

denhaagenite

Hey all, just booked a hotel for our wedding in 2011!! Very excited, just a bit worried about the room rate.

Now the hotel said we don't have to book any rooms, and it's not really ourselves we're worried about. We paid 140 b&b at a wedding in Ireland recently and thought that this was normal, however lots of other guests were of the opinion that this was too steep. As a result they chose not to stay at that particular hotel.

Our hotel are saying they will charge us 145 for a double and we are afraid that our guests will be the same.... We just want people to come and enjoy themselves without breaking the bank. We've already had the idea of including other accomodation options with our invitations and organising taxis to take people to various places but would like for people to have the option.

We've been living away for a while but honestly, for a decent hotel, is this too much? Are we that out of touch with the prices or were people being unrealistic about the price situation? I will feel more confident haggling it if I think that I'm in the right, I've already negotiated quite a bit with them and since we've got such a good overall price I don't want to be unfair on the hotel either, they have to make a profit somewhere!!

Any advice on this appreciated

LouOB

I think 145 for a room is quite reasonable for one night - esp if two people are sharing. Most people will bring a guest or their other have hence 72.50 each.

For your single friends, just make sure they hook up to got halves on a room ;-)

gaz wac

Look up the price of your hotel on hotel sites like http://www.centralr.com/ ( only say these cos I find them the cheapest and use them all the time) you will prob notice that they will be much cheaper than dealing with the hotel direct. Find a site who will do the cheapest deal and tell all your guest.
If people dont want to do this, tell them to say that they are not with any wedding party, some hotels increase the price for wedding guest :mad: good luck and congrats

denhaagenite

Ya thanks for that, I thought the price was fair enough and having looked at hotels.com and trip advisor I'm happier with it. As I said, we'llinclude other accomodation options with our invitations and hopefully keep everyone happy .

It is fun to read the reviews though, I think we made the right choice

tatli_lokma

it depends on the hotel and location - ours was a 4 star in Co Dublin and cost €66 per dbl room (room only basis) or €85 per room on B&B basis (€85 per room for triple room, and €95 for a family room sleeping 2 adults and 3 kids). We were guaranteed a minimum of 15 rooms at that rate. A friend is getting married down the country and the 'special offer' rate is €150 per room, room only! We have sourced a hotel literally a few kilometeres away for €75 per room B&B, and the taxi there and back will be about €10. So saving of over €50 for us, which when you take into account all the other expenses is not to be ignored! (actually we have booked a special offer of 2 nts B&B and one evening meal for €165 total, so we are getting an extra nights accom, 3 course dinner for 2 and breakfast on both days for €15 more than the wedding hotel! didn't take long to decide on where to stay!)

Well done for considering your guests expense - many people don't seem to give a stuff about the cost to the guests!

It may be worth haggling with the hotel - and as others have said, look elsewhere for rates for your hotel. If you find a better rate, the least the hotel can do is match it for a certain number of your guests. Worth a try anyway.

Congrats and have a great day regardless!

ETA - just re-read your post and notice you say its €145 for 'your' room - personally I think its a bit scabby of the hotel to charge the B&G for their room. The bridal suite was comp'ed for us, plus they let me put my stuff in there and check in the night before. They also gave us an extra room for storing some stuff in the night before. If they are charging you for the bridal suite I would absolutely be pushing for that to be comp'ed!

sweetie

When we got married last year we made sure to include as much accomodation
options as possible. There was an expensive 4 star, good value 3 star and a lot of B&Bs near the venue and people could choose themselves. We arranged for a local minibus to do runs from 12 onwards whenever he got full and I think it costed between 5-10 euro per person depending on distance.

I went to a wedding earlier this summer and it was in a 4 star hotel and the room was 171 (190 reduced by 10%.) I didn't think the room warranated that price especially for a sunday night and emailed them after but too late. My wife had booked the room as it was her friend who was getting wed and she never checked the price. I'll make sure to do the booking from now on! Most of the family and other friends of the wedding party who had travelled further had booked cheaper self catering units in the same development.

How Strange

denhaagenite wrote: »

Hey all, just booked a hotel for our wedding in 2011!! Very excited, just a bit worried about the room rate.

Our hotel are saying they will charge us 145 for a double and we are afraid that our guests will be the same....

IMO, it's in your interests not to fix a room rate now in 2009 for a wedding in 2011.

The hotel industry is on its knees and it will get worse for them before it gets better so you may find that by the time your wedding comes around rooms could be half what they are today. The cost of hotel rooms certainly aren't going to increase seeing as we have a derth of hotels in this country.

I'd say put it to the back of your mind until around the time you're sending the invitations out and then go back and see what rate they offer. In the meantime maybe periodically check the rates to see if they regularly offer deals as this will give you some thing to negotiate with in 2011. Also look at other hotels in the area so you can compare prices.

messrs

i went to wedding in cavan in august and paid 180 for double room - and this was special rate coz we were wedding guests