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Radisson Hotel St Helen's Stillorgan

  • 24-01-2012 8:35pm
    #1
    Denise2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Am thinking of getting married here and was wondering if anyone had any feedback. We're having a small wedding of about 50 - 60 and seems like a good place although not cheap !!

    I presume most hotels are willing to haggle ?? The corkage is €17 for wine and €25 for sparkling wine/champagne which seems expensive.

    Thanks for any advice :-)


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  • #2
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    That level of corkage is obscene, think you'd be better off going with wines from the hotel's wine list tbh.


  • #3
    liliq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭liliq


    My mam went to my cousins wedding there in August and thought it was fab... I didn't go so no more detail than that, sorry!


  • #4
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    We (well, my parents did on my behalf) looked at that venue and we're having 75 people. They didn't like it because the rooms were all a weird shape and our guests would have been in two separate rooms - I'm not 100% sure but I think there was a doorway between them that wasn't very wide. We didn't like the idea of having it separate like that. I'd been to a 21st there a few years ago and remember thinking the rooms were a weird shape and a bit cramped at the time so I took my parents word for it and didn't look any further.

    Maybe with 60 guests you are all in one room but it might be worth making sure what room they are giving you and what space will be for your guests.

    I had a bad experience with another venue (that shall remain nameless but I know none of my friends will go near it now) where they wanted to a) put me in a little back room, not the front room we wanted because I was having a "tiny wedding" (personally I don't think 75 is tiny) on a Saturday in the summer and b) avoided taking my booking at all costs in case a better customer came along. Even though we had the minimum numbers that their terms and conditions asked for, the date was free and we wanted to book and pay the deposit on the spot they just wanted a bigger wedding that would make more money for them. We only realised what they were up to a good way along in the booking process and there was a lot of hassle around it which I won't go in to. If they wanted a bigger wedding to make more money than make your minimum numbers higher. In my experience, lots of venues are not very welcoming to "small weddings".

    OP - Just a heads up to be aware of it with your numbers! As far as I remember the Radisson were very good to my parents about the numbers we were having, the shape/size of the room was the only reason we went elsewhere. By the time they went there they were a bit jaded from lots of venues not being impressed by the size of our wedding and they found the Radisson good to deal with.


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