Stressing about room block

[managirl]

Ok. So i am very excited. I just a few emails so I can get the ball rolling on signing my contract. Ok here is my question. How the heck am I suppossed to know what hotels my guests will pick to stay in? Our guest list is 160 people, all from NJ. Did most of your guests sway a certain way? I think most will pick value because of the economy . But alot of guests are single, so they might splurge on the higher priced hotel. I dont know what to do!! Can you change it later? Can you change from one hotel to another as long as it's the same number of nights? Help!!!

 

[bridetobe789]

Don't stress over this at all!! Your coordinator will help you and yes you can change stuff around too with your planner somewhat after you make it!! We polled some of our guests as to where they would stay.. they suggest you do one hotel from each category.. we ended up doing one value and one deluxe since we are going to stay in the deluxe and since everyone is already spending money coming down to he wedding most people were planning on staying at the value!! Choose the ones you like!! My family is coming from NY so they are already paying for the flight, food, tickets, etc so they will be @ the pop century!! Hope that helps! You can always do like I did and make DF do it too haha.. !

 

[DisneyBrideToni]

I picked one deluxe (GF) one moderate (cornado) and one value (all start movies). My guests were all scattered around in all of them, some deluxe, some value, some moderate. Also, you can pick up to 4 resorts so if you want to do two values you could. They just don't tell you that.

 

[GlobalDiva]

Most of our guests stayed at the moderate and the deluxe resorts that we chose, but a few stayed at the value. Don't necessarily assume that they won't wanna spend money on the hotel--they might wanna stay at the hotel where the wedding festivities are taking place, or they might use this as a chance to splurge on a little vacation or something.

One thing I will say about single guests though since you brought them up... most of my single guests stayed at the Value because the entire room cost fell on their shoulders as opposed to sharing the cost with a relative or a significant other.

You can modify your room block as long as there's availability at the resort where you're trying to move rooms to. You're locked into the room night minimum 90 days before the wedding.

Good luck! good news is this--the room block is one of the hardest things you'll deal with so it's all uphill from there

 

[disprincessatheart]

We changed ours a few times - it's not as big of a deal as they make it out to be!! The only time you have issues is if hotels start getting sold out and you still need more rooms, but I say that's the fault of the guests, you can only do what you can do!

 

[lurkyloo]

Another suggestion I would make: If you are paying for transportation for your guests, like buses to and from the ceremony, consider picking fewer hotels or ones that are closer together. I picked the max number of hotels and then it took all this extra time (and $) for the bus to drive all over the place picking people up. Next time I'd only give them 2 choices!

 

[jspahn]

We narrowed down to 1 in each catergory as others suggested. We did boardwalk, coronado and pop.
We sent out an email to family and friends saying "hey these are the choices, this is how much they would be, and this is the room size/bed sizes, whats your best guess on your plans?"

It was a good thing we asked - a lot of people that we thought would pick Pop, actually picked coronado because of the room and bed sizes. Pop only has 2 double beds where as coronado has 2 queens and has more sq footage.

We also under estimated, so if someone said they would come in on either friday or saturday and stay till tuesday, we just held it for saturday-tuesday.

I totally stressed over the whole room block thing too. We just turned our contract in last week!

 

[managirl]

Thank you so much. I feel more at ease now! If I could only pick BM dresses!!!LoL!!!!