My fiance and I are planning on getting married at Aventura Spa Palace on Feb 6th 2009. Thats less than two months away!!! Last night we were looking around online and came across Excellence Riviera Cancun. We fell in love with it. We loved the hotel itself, the location, and the wedding set up on the beach is exactly what we pictured when we started planning a destination wedding. We would even recieve $800 off the wedding package for booking 7 days with them.
Do you think it is rude of us to change our hotel so close to the date? Our guest will not need to change flights and they can all get thier money back from the old hotel. We even have two more weeks that we can cancle our wedding package without losing any money. We are going to try to cover as much of the difference as possible for our guests.
Our guests were paying about $211 a night at Aventura. This includes a group discount for 10 or more rooms and a nightly promotional discount. We are not sure if Excellence will give us a group discount yet becuase they have not contacted us back yet. After we priced a week stay it came out to be only about $30 more per person per night. Excellence is already running a promotion for 20% so we arent sure if they will give us an additional discount for having 10 plus rooms. This would make the price closer to the original for our guests and maybe low enough we could cover the difference for them.
So it will break down like this.
Excellence $3685 for a week for two people( with no group discount)
Aventura $2954 for a week for two people
Do you think that even with this 20% discount the hotel will give us a group discount? We probably cant pay for it if they cant bring the price down a little more. We really have our hearts set on this hotel now.