Dreams Cancun - Questions for those married here!

hello everyone,

i am new to this site... i am getting married at the dreams in cancun on jan. 5th, 2007.. just wondering if anyone has any tips!!!!

everything seems to be in order.. i really wish i would have found this website when i started the planning! i have been going into everything blind. now its just down to choosing the food, what i want in my welcome bags, etc. we are having almost 100 people, so it is alot to accomodate!!!

i read through most of the info, and emailed some of the other girls my personal questions. thanks for all of your help in advance!!

~katy

Ok so this is what happened to me I just want to share...

I've been talking to Daniella for about two weeks now and i already had the date for my wedding separated and everything, so the next step was to fill the questionnaire so I could get a quote ... and bam!! Daniella tells me that one of the main requirements for me to have my wedding there is to have me and my husband and al least 80% of the wedding guests staying at the hotel!!!! what?! I have 200 people for my wedding! I can't make them stay on that specific hotel, more so if they're paying for it!! is not like we're only 30 people!; as if she wasn't rude enough the three times I talked to her on the phone...

Anyway, I'm trying to talk to Claudia now and see if they can change that rule, so my guest can stay at any hotel they choose; because I have already booked 30 rooms on a different All inclusive hotel for them to stay at, at a very reasonable price if I may say.

I'm just very dissapointed that no one mentioned this requirement before, so instead of wasting my time talking to a very rude person and waiting ages for her to reply to my questions, I could have just started planning somewhere else.

I just read everything you guys have to say about your wedding at Dreams and everything sounds so lovely I wish I could have a nice wedding too, but we'll see how everything goes... wish me luck!

Do you realize that you're going to have to pay a day pass fee for anyone that doesn't stay at the resort?

For us, we wanted everyone to stay at the same hotel, that was part of the whole fun of having a destination wedding. We sent a letter out, told everyone where it was and who to contact for reservations and no one ever even questioned staying at a different resort.

If you wanted to try to get everyone to stay at dreams you could politely mention on your website or in a newsletter that if they stay elsewhere they will be responsible for the day pass fee.

I can understand why the resort would do this. To be honest, if I were a guest staying there I would be kind of annoyed if 200 people suddenly showed up for a wedding at the resort and were taking up the time of the bartenders and staff, when those of us that were paying to stay there should still be getting good service. I'm not trying to sound unsympathetic, but I can see why this is a policy.

Hey thnx for answering! and I think you have a point, but the way I see it is even if we were staying at the hotel the bar tenders and else would have to cover my wedding because we're paying them to do so, and Im pretty sure they have extra staff for weddings anyway. Also the people we're inviting come from several places arround the world and for some of them Cancun can be a very expensive vacation, I obviously want to get the best deal for them without compromising my perfect wedding; I will definately mention Dreams so they can have the option to stay there if they want to, but the thing is that I can't make them stay there so I can't assure 80% of them will be staying there.

I asked Dreams if they could give me a better rate because of the amount of people I'm having and they told me to try and get something through travelocity or expedia wich doesn't assure everyone is gonna get a good deal; while in most of the other hotels do.

I do see that paying the day pass is kinda stupid, but all im asking is not having to assure 80% of them will stay there because I don't know.

Am I making a big deal out of nothing??

i understand your frustrations. that is one of the difficult parts of getting married out of town. we have 92 guests coming and all are staying at the dreams. we didnt really give anyone another option. i was a little nervous to do this at first but then i decided oh well. if people can make it, they will be there, if not, there isnt really anything you can do about that.

having them stay at another resort would also be hard because then you couldnt all see eachother during your whole trip.

hope you figure everything out.

katy