Post # 1
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Busy bee
My hotel is trying to tell me that they cannot reserve more than 30 rooms at our price or else I will incur liability. They are saying that they will add more rooms on once other rooms are booked- if 10 rooms book tomorrow then they will put 10 back on to make the total 30. BUT, I think a large number of guests will be staying since our wedding is 1 .5 to 2 hours away from his parents’ house and since a lot of my family is out of town. Still, I do not want to incur liability. Is what this hotel is doing normal? I’m so confused. The hotel sales lady told me to reach out to people and ask them to book for a year from now (our wedding is September 8, 2012) so that she could put more rooms on to my block. I have never heard of a bride doing this. HELP!
Post # 3
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Busy bee
30 rooms is a lot for them to put on a block in my personal experience (I work at a hotel). So I think it is completly normal for them to wait until they see the rooms being booked for them to add more to a block. Actually normally I think they make you wait until the majority of the blocked rooms are booked until they will add more to the block so I think they are really trying to work with you.
Post # 4
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Busy bee
@pinkb: good to know! I just did not know what was normal and this new bit of information was kind of sprung on me
Post # 5
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Sugar bee
When I tried to add hotel rooms to my block, they told me I had to wait until more rooms were booked. I wouldn’t worry about it – you have a LOT of time. I set up my block in April 2011 for a wedding in September 2011. Wait and see if more people book closer to the wedding, and then you can add more later. Are your guests even aware of the room block yet?
Post # 6
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Sugar bee
my family just started booking and we are 5 mths out….i think alot of your guest willl have a problem booking so early out!!
Post # 7
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Sugar bee
My hotel was a PITA about my 25 room block. We filled the 25 rooms in a week.
Post # 8
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Busy bee
Has anyone run out of blocked rooms? I’m worried that people will not be able to get a room because everybody will not book until the last minute. There are A LOT of people coming to my wedding who I don’t even know (a fact that I’m kind of upset about, but that is a different thread) so it isn’t like I can all these people and tell them to book early
Post # 9
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Bumble bee
What you explained is actually perfectly normal. Our hotel did that for us as well, but with an initial block of only 15 rooms. As soon as people start booking they’ll give you more.
Post # 10
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Busy bee
@MrsMcGyro: OK sounds good. I just didn’t know
Post # 11
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Busy bee
We dealt with this exact problem. 99% of our guests were coming from out of town and we thought we’d need 50 rooms. We called guests up right away and asked them to reserve the room if they wanted one. You only have to give your CC number to reserve, you are not charged until you actually check out. If you have Save-The-Date Cards, you could suggest people reserve the room that way.
We asked close family members and bridal party first. They had no problem reserving their rooms and it opened our wedding block up to other guests. This really helped because our wedding was taking place on a festival weekend and there were very few hotel rooms left available in the area. I was so glad to have the block so that my guests had a place to stay!
Post # 12
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Honey Beekeeper
That’s exactly what our hotel did. And as rooms were booked, more rooms were added to the block so that additional guests could also book. Totally normal!
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