Hotel Block Rate - yay or nay??? (w/ Poll!)

I negotiated my potential hotel block down to $119/night plus tax. I would like to go ahead and block off the rooms but I just wanted to check in with you girls first. Do you think this is a good rate???

Def. a good rate!!! Our block is 160 a night!

thats the same rate i just got! im going for it!

Thanks girls for your votes and responses so far!!!

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Posted by eshenn

That's a really good rate. I saw that you are getting married at OFC too. Where did you get the block for? We booked at Danfords in June and it was a lot more than that!

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Danfords was a little too high for us. This hotel is only 20 mins from OFC and it's so beautiful. We're going to arrange for a shuttle to bring our hotel guests to/from reception. Sending FM.

YES!
GO FOR IT and stop wasting another second!

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Posted by lisagail55

Ohhh I'm gonna make an appt to see this place asap!!! This is the hotel we were thinking of blocking. GOOD DEAL!!!

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Def try to negotiate! We were quoted higher at first.

Ok. I am totally clueless. How does the room block work? Do the bride and groom pay for the room block or do the guests pay themselves? I am so confused as to whether or not I should be doing this now, because I don't want everyone bunking at my house.

Edited for spelling

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Posted by angelscri

Ok. I am totally clueless. How does the room block work? Do the bride and groom pay for the room block or do the guests pay themselves? I am so confused as to whether or not I should be doing this now, because I don't want everyone bunking at my house.

Edited for spelling

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How it works is you block off a certain number of rooms at a hotel depending on how many guests you are expecting to stay at a hotel. The blocked rate is usually discounted from the regular hotel rates. Then you provide your guests with the hotel information (usually with the invitation) and they book their own rooms if they want to stay at the hotel (they pay for themselves). Usually about a month before your wedding the hotel will release whatever rooms were not booked by your guests to the general public. You don't have to pay anything, however, some hotels require that a percentage of your block is booked. You don't necessarily have to do this now, but if you are having OOT guests then it's a good idea to do at some point if they don't have other arrangements (with family/friends). I'm doing this early because I want to get Hotel Information postcards that I will send with my STDs in May.

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Posted by ellie424

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Posted by angelscri

Ok. I am totally clueless. How does the room block work? Do the bride and groom pay for the room block or do the guests pay themselves? I am so confused as to whether or not I should be doing this now, because I don't want everyone bunking at my house.

Edited for spelling

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How it works is you block off a certain number of rooms at a hotel depending on how many guests you are expecting to stay at a hotel. The blocked rate is usually discounted from the regular hotel rates. Then you provide your guests with the hotel information (usually with the invitation) and they book their own rooms if they want to stay at the hotel (they pay for themselves). Usually about a month before your wedding the hotel will release whatever rooms were not booked by your guests to the general public. You don't have to pay anything, however, some hotels require that a percentage of your block is booked. You don't necessarily have to do this now, but if you are having OOT guests then it's a good idea to do at some point if they don't have other arrangements (with family/friends). I'm doing this early because I want to get Hotel Information postcards that I will send with my STDs in May.

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oooooo.........Thank you so much for explaining that to me ellie.

Thanks so much girls!!! I'm going to go ahead with booking the hotel block!

i dont think its that bad...what hotel is it??