The Grand Formosa Regent Taipei (晶華酒店), Grand Hyatt Taipei (台北君悅大飯店) and Grand Hotel (圓山大飯店) are couples’ top choices for wedding banquets in northern Taiwan, a survey by a local travel Web site showed yesterday.
Couples in central Taiwan favored the Evergreen Laurel Hotel (台中長榮桂冠酒店) in Taichung, while Howard Beach Resort Kenting (墾丁福華渡假飯店) was the top venue of choice in the south, the survey showed.
FACE MATTERS
“Because of the fear of losing face, brand-name hotels are still local consumers’ top choice for hosting their wedding banquet,” Max Huang (黃少風), a department head at travel.1111.com.tw (1111 全球旅遊網), said at a press conference in Taipei.
About half of the survey respondents said boutique hotels were their ideal wedding banquet location, while theme hotels were favored by 39 percent of respondents.
The Grand Formosa Regent Taipei said it had been able to win consumers’ hearts by including honeymoon suites, wedding cars and ballroom decorations in its wedding packages. Its packages cost, on average, between NT$17,000 (US$559) and NT$20,000 per table of 12 people, plus a 10 percent fee.
PAYING FOR EXTRAS
“In comparison, the market’s average is NT$14,000 per table of 10 people, which is not really as cheap as it seems, because there are many extra charges if couples want the ballroom to be decorated in the way they want,” Shirley Ding (丁秀卿), director of the function dining division at the Grand Formosa Regent Taipei, said yesterday.
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