Crowne Plaza Hotel, Changi Airport

hi all, i am also a 2012 BTB and looking at CP, i am meeting Alina next week to check out the ballroom and packages, may i know what are the perks i can negotiate for? Thanks!
 


Alyssa, consider what things are necessary and what are not so important then can nego easier.

things like free flow of drinks, extra room....etc.
 
thanks brandon! I am thinking of negotiating for more flowers, invitation cards and perhaps parking coupons... hopefully the alcohol can be used to exchange that cos my family and relatives dont drink much...

also wanna ask, does the ceiling light change colours during the dinner or its always one colour throughout?
 
parking coupon is the toughest to nego. do let us know whether you succeed.
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they are selling additional piece at $10 which is very ex, i had even request for $5 each kind but they say they are not able to do that.

yes the ceiling light shld be standard throughout, except for brighter or dimmer.
 
Thanks brandon!

I am meeting the wedding co-ordinator tmr, will let u know how much i manage to negotiate for
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You mean they are selling each flower for $10? thats expensive!
 
alyssa, i mean the parking coupon is selling at $10 each with a value of $10 inside which is too much for the event itself unless they comes early or stay later.

for sat, if they park for 5hrs, it cost 7.30. so the 2.70 will be wasted.
 
hi brandon, recieved your pm, thanks!
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unfortunately we couldnt bargain more than 20% cos she told me that they already increased it from 10% to 20% from last year. However she told me not to sign the contract yet cos there is a roadshow at BOWS next month and there will be more perks so hopefully they will have more stuff to give. I will update u then!
 
honestly i am having a very tough time deciding the venue... we love crowne, but feel that the location (it being very east) might be a problem and we didnt like the fact that the exterior of the hotel was very dark..but the ballroom is gorgeous and price gd on the pocket.

Actually the other hotel we are shortlisting is intercontinental for lunch. Guess its like comparing apple and orange.. very hard to decide..sigh
 
oh we are thinking of intercontinental, Marina mandarin as well but decided to go for hotel which are newer. as we have a few couple of friends who did their wedding at intercontinental and marina side, so we decided not to go for it and choose crowne.

have u visited the suite?
 
i see, nope i didnt manage to visit the suite cos it was occupied when i was visiting crowne. But A**** did show me pictures and i heard its quite spacious!

However i like the fact that crowne has lighted candles in the ballroom when they dim the lights..thought that was quite nice.

I think the reason why its so hard to choose between intercon vs crowne is because one is very brightly lighted while the other is towards the dimmer side. So both will require quite different themes i guess
 
congrats Angie!
we did went to see crowne...
the perks are good... free flow beer & additional 1 nite stay...
but we think it would be better to have sharks fin soup in the menu..
and their premium package is out of our budget..
so decided to give them up.. haha.. =P
 
free flow beer and additional nite stay????
this year's promo package?
so much better than my package..
mine only 1 barrel of beer....
 
yup thats the perks.. ya lor they dun serve shark's fin in menu so gotta top up $ for it for either bao yu or shark fin
 
Hi Angie and Precious and all,

I had just completed my wedding banquet over at CP, the move not to have shark fin turns out great.
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we choosen the bamboo piths.
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all the guests are very happy with it.

Overall, the banquet was a success, thanks to Alina, Bernard and Teddy, although there are some hip cups.
 
great to hear that Brandon! Pity the rates went up mid 2011 coz change in menu. but the menu not out yet man dunno how will it be
 
thanks brandon...
soup still dunnoe choose what.. i saw got Fish Maw... based on current menu...
what noodle u choose?

waiting to see what changes they're gonna have for 2011

angie... when is your AD?
 
ok brandon... but the e-fu noodle i dun see it in the current menu.. only got what noodle in truffle oil..
did u choose pomfret for fish? coz i wanna know how their pomfret taste...

angie: mine 1st Nov...
so we quite near... still waiting for 2011 theme to be out... and new menu too...

this year's perks really attractive, but we signed long time ago because we are afraid that the date is booked... lolx...
well....... just gotta pay more for the beer...
 
Precious, mine is a lunch so the menu might be different. for the fish, yes i choose the teochew pomfret which was nicely cook and also the size is big.
 
Precious, no problem.

recently one of the member here also had their wedding there. looking from her facebook, the wedding looks great too.
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beside the wedding banquet, the hotel stay was great too. the room's condition very good, new and big except that it's a long walk from the lift. :p but of coz more privacy.
 
hi all!

i'm oso lookin at hving my wedding dinner at CP! :D i really like e hotel and ballroom. (we all hv same gd taste! hehe)

btw, can i find out if u guys r takin/took e normal dinner pax or e premier pax? i only spotted the diff in the shark's fin dish for both & e free flow wine & additional barrels of beer.

sadly we missed their rdshow at BOWS! not sure if they can throw in e extra barrel of beer for us.
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did anyone manage to bargain for more stuff > the standard package?

my HTB is concerned abt e wine & beer supply, cos our relatives can really toast & drink! does anyone know usually how much alcohol is reqd for dinner? is e 1 wine/table & barrel of beer enough?

Hi Brandon, how many tables did u hv? understand their max capacity is 28. was e ballroom v packed during your banquet?

sorry for all the qns... :S thanks all! :DD *excited
 
hey all! sorry sorry been so wrapped up with the wedding, i realised i havent checked in here for a long time!

brandon how was ur wedding?? i saw ur wedding album, the wifey is gorgeous seh! u guys look really very happy in the photos. gong xi gong xi hahahaha...

for me not much feedback, bernard is damn zai, he ran the show very well despite my programme being damn packed and also very different from usual. just need to get thru CNY then hopefully will find time to get down to doing thank you cards haha.

the food... i didnt really get to eat at all! but all my guests commented that it was nice. (sorry brandon didn't see ur request for the photo of the cabbage roll, did u choose that in the end?) anyway we made a lot of changes to the menu after food tasting, down to the details like cut less fine, not so much sauce, request for condiment, change in name, etc. anyway we are the most marfan customer they will ever have, but good thing they managed to do it according to our wishes. they also allowed us to bring in our own salt & pepper shakers (i bought love birds ones) and help us to fill with salt and pepper before the day itself. also they folded the napkins into pockets for me to slip my programmes into it. basically quite helpful.

however the hotel staff is quite another matter. during our stay there, the service is quite atrocious. they can serve you food with no cutlery, the cutlery will take 1 hour to arrive. they can bring you wine glass for your wine, but no corkscrew. when you ask for one, they say the whole hotel doesn't have one?! and they need to go to the kitchen to hunt for one. then they take half an hour to bring it. etc. banquet wise, WELL DONE. hotel service wise, CMI. if u don't need hotel service, then you're alrite!

ok here's a pic from the wedding, you can get a small glimpse. sorry i don't have any other pics yet, this was from my instant photographer.

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senaqi~ i hear it is good to estimate 1 and half bottles of wine per table with beer. if ur relatives like to drink then u should probably estimate 2 to 2 and half bottles per table. each bottle serves about 7-8 glasses, you can ask the banquet manager to serve half glass each time to make it last longer (if people usually don't "bottoms up")

mine was a lunch, people always say for lunch less than 1 bottle a table will do because for lunch people usually don't drink so much. however i got 22 tables and they drank about 35 bottles! that's 1 and half per table for lunch time! so really depends on your relatives. better to have more than less. after the wedding, our wedding party came to our suite and knocked back another 10 bottles! so it does come to good use
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Kraz, thank you. the wedding lunch went well except a few issues. we took the cabbage roll after a 2nd round of food tasting (special arrangement from Alina, but we have to pay). sadly they missed out the fork n knife.

the stay there was wonderful for us, as our stay include the use of the lounge which has free snacks and drinks in the evening.

I had 22 tables as well, and they drank 32 bottles of wines. luckily we brought additional there and left with 5 bottles for our own consumption. no beer on our menu.

Omg, ur party gang knocked down another 10 bottles? that's a lot. for my side, luckily they came without drinking more. so right after that, we went out for a spin before returning our wedding car.

Your wedding photos are great too and Congrats too. so you had an instant photographers who printed out the photos?
I'm still waiting for my photographer to edit but videographer will be giving us this thursday.
 
brandon / kraz

i understand that you will assign one buddy to control your laptop for projector screen right?

will it be funny because you guys are up the stage and there your buddy is seated just beside the stage to do all the controlling...

just curious... its like "exposed" instead of doing it backstage
 
Precious, yes. our IT ic is like exposed just beside the stage to do the controlling of the video, montage. beside that he can actually relax and sit down at his table for food.

if can do backstage would be better but then he would have to walk further.
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julia, i used edmund leong photography. he is on the more expensive side, but definitely worth the money. the quality of the film paper used it wonderful, the photographer assigned was absolutely delightful, all my guests enjoyed it, and the photos that he took were really great as well. no doubt about it would recommend them. go check them out bah! =)
 
Hello all!

I just wana share that I went to Crown Plaza for a company event 2 weeks' back and I really think that I did not make a mistake by signing up with them! I simply luv the ballroom!!!! =)
 
Hi all,
I will be having my wedding at cpc.. I am hoping if i can push for the free flow of beer as i sign up very early and there is only one barrel of beer.. :-( Did anyone manage to get that?
 
HI YSL, think if you had signed up and already confirm, abit hard to push for it.

for me, i take out the barrel of beer and change to all wine event.
 
YSL: i think hard to nego for free flow of beer...
i signed up last year April for this year's Nov banquet.. contract signed..
as mentioned only 1 barrel...
free flow beer is this year's perks..
so i think abit tough...
and CP is famous for "hard to squeeze"
lolx... but u can try.. good luck!

but come to think, signed early is to block the date, to compare with this year's fantastic perks if you sign now, you might not get the date you wanted for... so i can only grumble... =P
 
Hi Autumn,

It's cool, quite a number of us had our wedding lunch there. the food is great + the setting and location.

I had mine there in Jan this year.

The suite are wonderful, new and big.

Feel free to post your queries here and we will try to feedback to you. if not can leave us a private message too.
 
Thanks Brandon and Precious. Didn't manage to get anything extra..
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will probably have all wine event too. but with parents friends and all. a bit hard to have all wine too.. one step at a time.
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Hi All BTB

Wanted to ask how was your visits or meetings with the wedding coordinators?

My friend said she met with this lady who was super difficult to negotiate and talk to.

Did anyone else met with other coordinators?
 
i think there's only one lady and one guy co-ordinating for wedding banquet..
usually and most of the time is the lady that will attend to you..
kinda hard to nego any extra perks from CP
if you really love the place... just close one eye forgetting about those extra perks which you are able to get from other hotels
otherwise, wait for the upcoming wedding showcase to see what perks they are offering
 

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