Premier Inn for guests

I've not had any experience of making a group booking or the discount that you might get but I wonder if it might be less of a headache for you to let your guests make their own bookings and perhaps in you wedding details let them know of a couple of hotels that might be convienent. For the group bookings it looks like they'd require a certain amount of payment up front so you would end up having to coordinate money with a number of people which will be no mean feat! I'm sure if you let people know of some options they will be happy to make their own bookings.

We considered this, and got in touch with Premier Inn about reserving a block of rooms. Basically, they can reserve a block of rooms, guests book from that block, and you pay 6 weeks before the day. Before that date, your guests can cancel any rooms they have booked and you don't have to pay for any of the rooms that aren't booked. However, because they are a budget chain you don't get a discount for booking a block of rooms. You also may want to pay close attention to the check-in times. The reason I ended up not reserving the rooms was because they could only guarantee early check-in for about 10 rooms and it would be very awkward for my guests getting back to the hotel to check in at the normal time.

Hi, we have booked the premier inn for our guest and have booked in total about 9 rooms I think. We had to give them our credit card for the booking but have been told that guests pay for their room a week before the wedding and can cancel up to this point having said that, we have two premier inns near us and the other was a different story so I think you'd be best just getting in contact with them individually. I think it had a lot to do with the time of year) local events, they seem to be able to be quite flexible with the terms and conditions from my experience

As above, we've suggested premier inn and there is a nice new one not far away and guests have stayed there before from another family do. We phoned about discount but nothing is offered (this was even 50 plus rooms) x

I have no experience with Premier Inn, but I am doing a group booking with Travel Lodge. I have 45 rooms on my booking, I need to pay 1 month before, so I have been collecting money from people gradually. We booked a large number of rooms as we are able to cancel the ones we don't need up to one month before, as long as there are more than 9 rooms booked - which constitutes a group booking. With our immediate family, and best friends we had over 9 so I knew that wasn't going to be a problem. The group rate they gave me was about £10 cheaper than if we were to book online, and now as we are getting close to the wedding it's even cheaper as their online rates have gone up.

Give them a call, it is more hassle, but might be worth it if you don't mind xx