Absolute Hotel corkage...anyone have feedback?

Mucker2020 · 09-07-2012 09:52PM #1

Hey all ,

Just wondering has someone had their wedding in this hotel and what they paid for corkage as they are charging €10 per bottle which I think is daylight robbery...

Anyone have any experience with this hotel and corkage???

Gatica · 10-07-2012 09:16AM

I don't know of that hotel... However 10 euro corkage is acceptable for really nice venues. More standard hotels probably could charge as low as 6.

Sleepy · 10-07-2012 09:23AM

We're not paying corkage at all (Riverside Park Hotel in Enniscorthy) but I pretty much ruled out any hotel that wanted to charge that sort of money for corkage. That's the price of a decent bottle of wine (e.g. Faustino V is currently €10 in Tesco).

dtipp · 11-07-2012 08:27AM

Sleepy wrote: »

We're not paying corkage at all (Riverside Park Hotel in Enniscorthy) but I pretty much ruled out any hotel that wanted to charge that sort of money for corkage. That's the price of a decent bottle of wine (e.g. Faustino V is currently €10 in Tesco).

We had Faustino V at our wedding.
Lovely wine and loads of people commented on it.
Best of luck.

Sleepy · 11-07-2012 09:31AM

It's about the only area of the budget I'm not cutting corners on tbh. Having no corkage means I can justify getting good wine and Faustino is my favourite red (I'd love to serve the Gran Reserva (No. I) but the budget can't be stretched *that* far!).

gazzer · 11-07-2012 11:03AM

The hotel where we are having our Civil Partnership and reception are charging us €5 for corkage which is pretty good imo. We also got a 10% reduction in the cost of the food.

Going to go up to Asda in the next couple of weeks and get the wine up there.

Tigger · 12-07-2012 01:08AM

learn to haggle

i paid 2 from an initial 8
i also had fizzy put in with not fizzy

Absolute Hotel corkage...anyone have feedback?

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