i had quite an experience attending a wedding dinner at a hotel @ Kitche*er Rd recently. My intent's not to discourage anyone from taking up the package, but perhaps can discuss with the co-ordinators during your meeting over these concerns.
Bads:
1) Hygiene -- It was probably a busy evening, so lazy susan of table was wiped with a semi-dirty cloth after 2nd dish (i.e. Shark's Fin soup). The server made it even dirtier as the soup stains was all smeared over the lazy susan after the wipe. A second lady came back to wipe after 4th or 5th dish. It was much better after that.
2) Servers -- I hope it was only my table that had such service from the servers, who:
1) poured beer into the glass till the bubbles overflowed onto the table cloth;
2) refilled a fellow table guest's red wine glass from another red wine glass, claiming that it was left untouched (after she cleared it off another table which guests had left before the last dish);
3) was pushy and kept shoving food onto guests plates despite us rejecting it;
4) who picked up MY chopsticks and started picking up the prawn shells on the table onto my plate, and went on using that same pair of chopsticks to clear the rest of the shells on the same table, I guess it was alright as she eventually came back with a new set of chopsticks (i think.) perhaps could have asked me first?
3) TRAFFIC JAMS! -- Being located next to Mustaf* Centre, the traffic on weekends around the area is already bad (single lane, single direction). And long waits to turn out to the main road do somehow made the already-eventful evening more frustrating. We were stuck in the traffic jam for about 20 minutes. Dinner ended at 10.50 or so, reached home close to midnight, despite us staying half an hour drive away from the hotel.
Goods:
1) Food was of good portions and quality. The proached prawns were really good.
2) Toilets were clean and spacious. Newly done up.
3) Servers prompt with service (think 1 or 2 servers to 1 table).
4) Food was served up really fast. One dish right after another.
5) Sufficient and cheap parking (perhaps only 1 wedding on that night?)which costs 2plus on Sat night.
I hope I've not done any damages to your decisions on this hotel. Perhaps it's really an one-off event that such incidents happened. Just do casually mention these points to your co-ord when you're discussing over details for the dinner.
