Riu day Passes

saraece · August 15, 2008

Is anyone being charged for guests attending their reception that are staying on another Riu resort?

Our wedding/reception is at the Riu Bachata and we have 7 people staying next door at the Riu Merengue. They are not being charged to attend our wedding but I just read that they may charge us $35/pp to attend the reception (we chose the free package offered). They really didn't have to stay at the other resort and since I thought it wouldn't make a difference I didn't encourage them to stay at ours.

Mrs. Martin · August 16, 2008

All RIU's state that 80% of all your guests must stay at the hotel (where the wedding is taking place) in order get married there. And for those guests that are not staying at the hotel, you must pay for a guest pass. Even your vendors need passes. Yours aren't expensive because the RIU that I'm getting married at is charging us $100 per guest pass (Yikes!). We're spending close to $700 on just passes

BachataBride · September 19, 2008

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Martin

All RIU's state that 80% of all your guests must stay at the hotel (where the wedding is taking place) in order get married there. And for those guests that are not staying at the hotel, you must pay for a guest pass. Even your vendors need passes. Yours aren't expensive because the RIU that I'm getting married at is charging us $100 per guest pass (Yikes!). We're spending close to $700 on just passes

The $35 (now $39 I think!) is if you are staying at one of the sister RIUs on the same complex - its just for dinner!! It's $100 for a day pass to the resort! So it is the same!!! What a bummer though!!