Has anyone tried to hire a room lately?
A mate of mine wanted to have his 30th birthday party in Aldos about four years ago, he only wanted the room and bar. No food, no service, no frills. He had a DJ all lined up.
Fifty guests.
I think that he was told that the only option for was for buffet or sit down.
For that if my memory serves me well was around £350.
He went somewhere else which charged £80 for the room and a buffet was thrown in for nowt. The takings over the bar was somewhere close to £5k.
Why are they charging so much?
I believe that inflation has risen sharply.
To keep the riff raff on Twitter away.
I would imagine that your average after dinner speech would be someone famous (ish) who is expecting a princely fortune for speaking. And they have reviewed certain similar events and come up with a ball park figure.
Taking into account bar takings and the ticket price, they are hoping to make a decent profit.
Bet you they charge for the cloakroom facilities?
Whatever happened to the collection buckets around the ground, that would be better and no outlay! (Ha)