Hotel has hiked up prices!!

Baldie

We booked our wedding reception last year with our chosen hotel. We have recently discovered that they have raised their prices, and now our meal has gone from €39 up to €44.50 a head. That's nearly a €1000 onto the price. We have an appointment with the hotel this evening and I'm going to ask them how they can justify such a price increase, especially with the currentl economic climate! It's madness!!

We're going to have to try and get the prices down and argue another deal with the wine. The house wine is €17 a bottle, and corkage of our own wine is €7.50. I can go to my local off licence and but wine in bulk for €5 a bottle, which would only cost me €12.50 (€7.50 + €5) for a bottle of wine for the reception. Has anyone ever haggled with the wine and got the price down by €4.50 a bottle??

Orion

I know someone who, last year, demanded that the hotel he was using scrap the corkage or he was switching to a different hotel - and they did.

Hotels are begging for business at the moment. Be firm and tell them that you will move hotel if they don't be more reasonable.

sweetie

Baldie wrote: »

We booked our wedding reception last year with our chosen hotel. We have recently discovered that they have raised their prices, and now our meal has gone from €39 up to €44.50 a head. That's nearly a €1000 onto the price. We have an appointment with the hotel this evening and I'm going to ask them how they can justify such a price increase, especially with the currentl economic climate! It's madness!!

We're going to have to try and get the prices down and argue another deal with the wine. The house wine is €17 a bottle, and corkage of our own wine is €7.50. I can go to my local off licence and but wine in bulk for €5 a bottle, which would only cost me €12.50 (€7.50 + €5) for a bottle of wine for the reception. Has anyone ever haggled with the wine and got the price down by €4.50 a bottle??

contract? surely they can't impose this on you!

kizzabel

thats scandalous.
id definately dig my heels in.
its worth asking about a price reduction, theyre in need of business, dont be fobbed off

Trampas

as said already.

what does your contract say.

Ickle Magoo

I'd be reading the small print of the contract and the contacting a solicitor to check out the legalities of agreeing to a wedding that costs X just for them to hoist the price after the fact.

Have they done it at the last minute to try and ensure you have to pay it? It's such a rude and underhand thing to do, I'd be doing everything I can to move location to somewhere that going to treat you better.

Best of luck.

BC

The contracts usually say that prices are subject to change.
I'm really shocked that any hotel is increasing prices though.

Baldie

Right here's what happened. The hotel stayed with the 2009 prices, and I even managed to get the corkage reduced to €6, and they reduced the room rates also!! God knows how we managed it, but we were happy!!

Ickle Magoo

Well done Baldie!

I'd say in the current economic climate someone made a huge error of judgment to threaten you with price increases - well done on the negotiations.