It seems like you’re everywhere in the hotel these days, and you’ll be in-person for the fee: the vacation fee for using Wi-Fi and Health Club, which is the fee for putting your laptop in the meeting room (even on the tablecloth), and once End, this is the management fee for handling credit cards.
Many of these costs are buried on a contract or hotel website. Bonni Scepkowski, president/Chief Strategy Officer of Stellar Conferences and Events, said they add up to be an understatement. “At around 30% to 40% or higher, your bottom line may be reduced.”
If you negotiate A negotiation terms during the contract phase. But you need to speak sooner.
Here are 5 of each of the most common expense and negotiation strategies:
1. cost
Exclusive in-house AV service may put you in a tight position. Only eight people were charged $3,500 for a television and electricity sales fee.
What can you do? One strategy is to negotiate the introduction of external companies to conduct meetings at a certain scale (e.g., 20 participants). If you choose a local-based one (local meetings and visitors offices will have a list of vendors), you can avoid paying for travel and hotels. Or search for venues that will AV dedicated in its smaller conference rooms.
2. Parking Fee
According to ResortFeecher.com, the average hotel parking fee climbed to $44 per night as many hotels are now outsourcing their accessibility features. During the contract phase, try to negotiate a certain number of free parking passes for your VIP and employees.
3. Destination fee
City hotels now have their own resorts, sometimes costing $10-$25 per night. A hotel’s “All Access Pass” includes access to a business center, Wi-Fi, bottled water, indoor refrigerator/microwave and lobby bikes – all of which have been free.
Just like the cost of a standard resort, you have the ability to ask for it to be reduced or eliminated in advance. One strategy is to break down the elements of the resort’s expenses: if access to the fitness center is included, for example, negotiate lower fees and have attendees add exercise fees to their accompanying fees. If you have a history of attendees’ meeting spending for previous events, use this as a leverage.
4. Catering service fee
Scepkowski found these fees at the bottom of the last page of the menu for 8 points types: 17% tip, 12% taxable management fee, 7% tax and 8% activity fee. “It’s three different ways to say ‘service fees’,” she said. “And it should be taxed 7%. “Not to small prints and ask them to reduce the total.
5. Room setting fee
Some hotels add per person to items that once included, such as laptops on the table. A planner reported a $500 fee from the hotel to rent out your own napkins and decor.
Be sure to discuss if there is any fee for your decor or furniture requirements; you may think the hotel is planning to charge you when you are lending you an additional soft seat.
