The benefits of an all-inclusive Christmas party
Published: Thu 30 Jan 2020
Published: Thu 30 Jan 2020
If you’re sourcing your own vendors, you’ll soon realise that there are a lot of people to contact and manage.
Not just caterers, but entertainers, photographers, suppliers for extra lighting.
With an all-inclusive package, the venue provides in-house services or sources vendors from its trusted contacts.
Plus a dedicated event coordinator usually comes as part of the package, and they’ll manage your party from start to finish.
With all of this support, you can focus less on sorting out the party and more on having a wonderful time!
With multiple vendors, you get more invoices and the challenge of keeping track of all the costs. With all-inclusive, you get one price per person, upfront, so you’re much clearer on what you’re spending.
And it’s unlikely that the final cost will vary much from what you see when you first approach the venue. If the venue is offering an all-inclusive package, it’s used to running events and reliably predicting costs.
We’ve all heard horror stories of Christmas parties not going to plan.
Food not coming out on time and your colleagues sustaining themselves with drink, or the heating failing and partygoers sitting around in their coats.
Venues offering all-inclusive Christmas parties are experienced in hosting events and seeing them run smoothly.
And if a problem does occur, trained staff are there to see the party get back on track.
You’ve got your three-course meal sorted, but what about those little extras? The drinks and nibbles on arrival, the welcome cup of after-dinner coffee before being dragged on to the dance floor.
And then there’s the entertainment such as organising a DJ. With an all-inclusive Christmas party, your venue will think of all of these details, so you don’t have to!
Venues usually give you a choice of packages.
If you don’t like decision-making, it’s great because this can be the only choice you have to make!
On the other hand, an all-inclusive package needn’t stop you from getting involved in the planning process and thinking creatively.
If there’s something that you want that’s not listed, the venue can source it for you from its various contacts.
Venues may also offer you options for personalising your event; for example, choosing the messaging and branding on digital signs.
If the all-inclusive Christmas party option appeals (and let’s face it, what’s not to like?), then get booking!
Although the Christmas season seems far away, in the event planning world it’s not and organisations are securing their venues now.
Take a look at the IET’s all-inclusive Christmas party packages, available at IET Birmingham: Austin Court.