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Q about hotel rooms

Julestrd Posted:

Q about hotel rooms

So if I book rooms for say a 8 day period but some people don't book but for 5 days is there some sort of repercussions against me? Some people are intending on staying the full 8 days, some shorter maybe some longer.

cocoa Posted:

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i'm not sure, but i don't think i would block rooms for that long of a time period. i would give a minimun of two days and if people want to stay longer, they indicate taht to the hotel. but i would also ask your hotel.

sonia Posted:

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i don't think there's any penalty. there's usually a cutoff period like a month before the event at which point any rooms that aren't booked are released to the public. so you should always overestimate when blocking rooms.

sammi102 Posted:

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I agree, I would overestimate on the number of rooms and only block it for a couple of nights, but I would ask the hotel, they would be the best to know.

Julestrd Posted:

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Ok thanks girls I am still in the process of looking for hotels. It's so odd though that when I ask for a group rate yet it's still higher than finding the same hotel on Expedia.com do you think the hotel would give me the rate I found online?

no stress bride Posted:

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Posted by sonia

i don't think there's any penalty. there's usually a cutoff period like a month before the event at which point any rooms that aren't booked are released to the public. so you should always overestimate when blocking rooms.



I agree we booked the room for a whole weekend to get the same price but no everyone is staying the weekend and whatever rooms aren't taken will go back up for the public!!
sonia Posted:

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Posted by Julestrd

Ok thanks girls I am still in the process of looking for hotels. It's so odd though that when I ask for a group rate yet it's still higher than finding the same hotel on Expedia.com do you think the hotel would give me the rate I found online?



some might but most won't unfortunately. they factor in the fact that they're guaranteeing you a block of rooms, whereas on expedia they only have a few rooms and there's no guarantee that all your guests will get it. that's the answer we got when the same thing happened to us.

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