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Blocking Hotel Rooms

lamar0607lamar0607
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Did everyone block hotel rooms off for the wedding? Our wedding is in Oxford (near Miami) in late August, so I am thinking it would be a good idea to block off some rooms since their might be a lot more parents visiting, etc... during that time.

How many rooms did you block and what was your guest count? We are inviting 150 people- should I just look at my list and count how many are from out of town and go from there?

Thanks for any tips!
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Re: Blocking Hotel Rooms

  • melevebaldmelevebald
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    edited December 2011
    You should definitely block rooms because you often get a cheaper rate that way and hotels often give you bonuses for choosing their hotel (like we get one free night at the hotel for every 25 nights that are booked, a bottle of champagen and chocolate strawberries on our wedding night, etc).

    I estimated the maximum number of people who could possible come from out of town and want to stay in a hotel.  My hotel didn't penalize if all of the rooms that were blocked weren't booked.  So far, we've booked up a lot of them.

    The hardest part I found was figuring out how many doubles (2 double beds), singles (1 queen) and suites to book per night.  I didn't have a good system, but it seems to be working out.

    Good luck!
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  • GoBucksOHGoBucksOH member
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    edited December 2011
    We are inviting about 170 people to our wedding and we blocked off 15 rooms. People have up until one month before the wedding to book a room at a discounted rate. We also get free use of a shuttle back and forth from the hotel to the reception if 10 rooms get booked.
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  • muamanda18muamanda18
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    edited December 2011
    We have 140 people coming and there have been 40 rooms reserved. Figure out how many people are coming from out of town and go from there.
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  • tedfordktedfordk
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    edited December 2011
    I would definitely get rooms reserved especially since you are having it up at Miami.  I went to school there and it was always impossible to get rooms at hotels when my parents wanted to visit.  We had to reserve the rooms way in advance.  I would book them just to make sure that everyone can find somewhere to stay.
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  • tergitergi member
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    edited December 2011
    You might also consider that some guests who live in cincy might still want to get a room. We only live 25 minutes away, and would still consider staying overnight, just so we didn't have to drive those roads on the way home.  I would block now as Miami goes back to school mid to late August.
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