HOW TO Get the best hotel room block rates for your wedding guests
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2022
- The secret to getting the best rates for hotel room blocks comes down to timing.
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As a planner, I have been encountering two options when I reach out to hotels to reserve a block of rooms for my clients:
1. They offer a soft-hold on rooms that will fall off 30-60 days before the wedding if not booked. The clients don't have to put any money down, but do get a direct booking link with a 10-20% discount attached to pass along to their guests - most put on their wedding website. This way does not lock in any room rates & rates still fluctuate with the market.
2. A traditional room block. Typically the client has to put down a deposit of 25-50% which is refunded when the minimum number of rooms book. Typically this either gets clients a better discount, locks in current rates, or both.
Hope this helps someone!
Great input Laura. Thank you. Yes, soft-holds can be very beneficial, especially when the couple prefers to give the guests 2 to 3 options of hotels.
Helped me immensely. Thanks!
New subbie here, thank you for this video! I am planning my destination wedding for 9/2023 and was given a room black rate which is identical to the resort’s online prices. I will pose the question you’ve suggested to the resort (thank you!). As far as paying the deposit, I planned to request a $100 deposit from my guests who wish to book and use the funds to pay the deposit. What are your thoughts on this? Any other creative ways to pay the deposit without using my own $? I don’t have the deposit $ right now but it’s 12 mos before the wedding and folks need time to pay for their trips so I want to secure the block asap.
Ty!
I think requesting a deposit from your guests is a good idea for sure. This is a tricky one as it's more of a personal finance kind of question. Maybe see if the hotel can extend the date a deposit is due by or request a sliding scale?
How do you know if they’re offering promotions, or when they are running a promotion, that rate will be offered to our guests?
I wish guests would pay for the hotels. So much financial pressure on couples
Guests almost always pay for their own hotel rooms unless the couple is being overly generous! The couple arranges the discounted group rate and then gives the information to the guests to book and pay their own rooms.