Seminars at Hotel Rooms

When you do a seminar and need JUST meeting space you’ll be dealing with the CATERING office. If you are willing to GUARANTEE a certain number of rooms you will deal with the SALES department.

IF you guarantee a certain number of rooms you will almost always get your meeting space for FREE or at a MUCH reduced cost.

It all depends on HOW MANY rooms you are willing to guarantee.

If you get food from the hotel, you will also be able to get the meeting space for free or at a reduced cost.

For MOST of my events, I do NOT guarantee rooms. It just makes me NERVOUS. That being the case, if I KNEW I would be getting X number of people to book rooms, I would do it.

Another option you can discuss is the  SLIDING SCALE. This is where your meeting room fees are determined by how many rooms your people book. The more they book, the less you pay.

The first few times you do an event, I’d try and do it this way.

I’ve seen people get SEVERELY burned by guaranteeing rooms. Don’t YOU be one of them!!