Choosing a Venue – Banquet Hall Cons

Pros

• Generally Banquet Halls are in plaza’s, there are pros and cons to a plaza. Notably, the plaza will have several other businesses, which can make parking a but of a nightmare. Parking close to the venue may be full, which allows for you to have to walk pretty far in your cute yet high heels. Valet at this point would be an asset, but most banquet halls do not have that — It potentially is a vendor that you may be able to hire.
• Banquet Halls don’t have as much staff as a hotel, when you rent the hall, you pretty much are just renting the hall — The banquet hall may not have a person specifically to attend to the bathrooms during the event. You may not have a greeter at the front nor will you have valet etc…… your vendors
  that you hire, will be responsible for those task.
• Since you are allowed to bring in your own liquor and food — if you run out, it’s totally on you. The venue will not extra’s.
• Banquet Halls generally do not charge per person, they have a flat rate. This means, regardless if you have 30 guest or 80 guest, your banquet hall fee will remain the same. Now there will be a difference in price for your caterer which would be per person, but unfortunately, no difference in the price of the banquet hall.