Hotel charging less for rooms.

stargirl.gra

I'm really annoyed. Getting married in Nov. and the room rate we've been given for our guests is 95euro per person. A friend just pointed out to me that the night before and the night after the room rate is 45euro per person. I'm absolutly peed off! I hope this can be resolved.

newtoboards

Although I know where your friend is coming from if they are unhappy with the rate then they should take it up with the hotel. I got a room rate for my guests and then got phone calls about them being cheaper on other night from guests. I called the hotel once and told them my guests weren't very happy with that and were booking an alternative hotel. I rang those that called me back and told them to talk to the hotel if they wanted a better deal as I wouldn't be paying for it and had done all that I could. You should do the same and then wash your hands of the issue as otherwise you'll get no peace

Thoie

What night are the majority of your guests staying? If a hotel lets out a bunch of rooms for, say, a Saturday night only, they may then have difficulties letting out rooms for just the Friday or Sunday nights, and may therefore be letting those nights out cheaper, as fewer people would want a room for just one night. This is why many hotels have a minimum 2 night stay policy.

If there's a large group all staying for a particular night, it also means that housekeeping is under a lot of pressure to make up a whole bunch of rooms on a particular morning, instead of having the room changes staggered over a couple of days.

Would you be happier if the hotel had said it's €45 a night, but there's a minimum 2 night stay?

ghosttown

Hold out on them, book nothing now, but you're taking a chance. Family member got married last year, well known hotel on M50. We were told 3 months before that for the wedding we would get a 'special' rate of 119 per room, reduced from 'normal' 149.
So we booked cheaper hotel across the road at 49 per night.
3 days before wedding, internet specials in hotel of wedding were 69 per night for the wedding night, so cancelled across the road at no cost, and booked in.............

BC

Thats quite normal to be honest, hotels charge more on nights that there will be more demand. Its the same as airlines putting up prices on busy weekends. We didn't take the 'wedding rate' from our hotel for rooms as it was cheaper for guests to book directly. However we noticed that after the invites went out the room rate started to go up gradually. We asked the hotel and they said it was demand. The demand for rooms went up for that night so the price did too. Its still cheaper than the wedding rate though!

stargirl.gra

I went to hotel to talk to them about the room rates. We're getting maried on a thurs so it's not like a weekend where demand is higher also we have to book out the whole hotel to get married there which is no prob. When I told them that a guest of mine had discovered this and I was embarressed bla bla bla she said they only put those room rates up as an enticement and they would only sell one or two rooms at that rate before they would shoot back to normal price. I said fair enough but could you still do any better for me on the rooms. She said she'll email monday with an answer. Right now I feel if she takes anything off the rooms it'll be a bonus!

suzieled

If your booking out the whole hotel they should be taking something off the price for you. Before I gave our hotel our deposit I told them i wasnt happy with the room rate. I explained that I wanted our guests to stay in the hotel but if there was somewhere 2 mins down the roads cheaper, I know they would book their instead and it was in the hotels best interest to fill all of their rooms. They were also charging a rate of per person, and not a rate of per room. She changed our contract that this was an area we would discuss again 6 months before the date of the wedding, so we could see what is the going rates of rooms in other areas. If the rate is too high, I know we will have a number of people organising minibuses and heading home. Some prices in hotels are still far too high.

whatnext

we had the very same issue. sickened me.

not to mention they fact that on the first page of the web site they are quoting that they do weddings for €45 all inclusive. I can assure you that is far from the case.

Anyway I phoned up to cancel the bride and grooms room which was booked for 3 nights, (chancing my arm).

When I explained that the majority of the wedding party were going to book into another hotel in the town due to cost, and that we wanted to be with them, they agreed to knock €40 of the price of a room.

Net result for them is the hotel is now booked out, and the bar will get a hammering.

smelltheglove

My friend had this usse, the best man noticed a sign while passing by about rooms for 45, he then booked a room and after the booking was taken he cancelled his initial room. The couple then went to the hotel with their complaint. The hotel said it was wedding rates and nothing could be done about it and the next day the sign outside was gone!

Southsider1

ghosttown wrote: »

Hold out on them, book nothing now, but you're taking a chance. Family member got married last year, well known hotel on M50. We were told 3 months before that for the wedding we would get a 'special' rate of 119 per room, reduced from 'normal' 149.
So we booked cheaper hotel across the road at 49 per night.
3 days before wedding, internet specials in hotel of wedding were 69 per night for the wedding night, so cancelled across the road at no cost, and booked in.............

So, effectively, you jammed up the hotel across the road and then left them high and dry on the night. And ye all wonder why hotels up the price on particular nights? It's to make up for this kind of thing.

ghosttown

??? Get a grip will you ? The hotels take the pi-- cos they get a wedding booking. a few rooms in an ibis is not going to cause price increases. Vote with your wallet, get the best price.
What a ridiculous reply.

Southsider1

ghosttown wrote: »

??? Get a grip will you ? The hotels take the pi-- cos they get a wedding booking. a few rooms in an ibis is not going to cause price increases. Vote with your wallet, get the best price.
What a ridiculous reply.

Hardly ridiculous. Why bother to jam up the hotel across the road? Why not just wait for the original one and book it the days before and leave the other to try and sell their rooms? People like you are what's making trading so difficult for the hotel industry here and jeopardising jobs as a result!!!