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I'm Holly Reynolds, I'm a catering sales manager here at the Edgewater.
We have a whole staff of catering sales managers.
We have about nine people who split the markets of people who want to have
events here.
I handle people who are not staying at the hotel, they're actually just coming in for
mostly day long meetings, and I handle groups of up to 60 people.
So anywhere from 5 person all-day business meeting to 60 person evening reception for
corporate event.
But, yeah, all corporate, all organizations.
Mm-hm.
I would say the most unique thing about the Edgewater is certainly the water view,
and specifically our location on the water.
We're physically right on top of it.
If we were to drill straight down, we would be in the water.
Over half of the hotel is actually not on land, it's on pilings over the water,
which just gives it a really unique feel.
Our restaurant you can look down, you're directly over the water.
It's an excellent atmosphere for people who want to have some pacific northwest
vibes, to be able to look out and see west Seattle, to look out and
see the Olympic mountains, all day long, every day.
It's something that people request often,
to have a water view in any of our meeting space, or guest rooms.
And it's probably the thing that it's the biggest draw for
people who come to the Edgewater.
The Beatles stayed here in 1969,
which is probably one of our biggest claims to fame.
We do have a suite, directly beneath us actually,
on the second floor that is The Beatles Suite.
Where they stayed, where they fish out of the hotel window.
And there's kind of an iconic, music rock and
roll vibe that the Edgewater gives off as well.
We are actually in a similar setting price range,
all of that to a lot of the five star hotels downtown Seattle.
Its tough to compare,
we are the only water front hotel in the history of Seattle.
No one else can offer the views that we offer.
We also are a boutique hotel and
we are not a large company that has hundreds of properties worldwide.
We are only a nationwide company.
There's several properties in Florida, as well as, California, and
another one here called the Deca Hotel in Seattle.
And that kind of gives it a smaller feel, we're more customizable,
we're more unique where every singleone of the Edgewater, excuse me,
the Noble houses, the company that owns us, every single property is special.
They do not look the same.
But a lot of the time when people are browsing for venues,
they look at places like the Four Seasons.
They look at places like the Fairmont and they can offer a lot of
other things that we can't offer since they are such large companies and
they can host Probably bigger events than we can.
Our max is 220 for a seated event in our Olympic Ballroom.
But we have a Pacific Northwest vibe that people want.
And so we're compared with the other five star hotels in the area,
although we do have that sort of unique feel, as well.
We have everything.
It's tough for me to pick out one that is the most common.
I would say that probably weddings are the ones that people think of first.
Upstairs, two floors, excuse me,
one floor above us is our olympic ballroom and it has floor to ceiling entire
west wall Windows view of the Olympic Mountains which is stunning.
We do an average of a 100 to 150 weddings per year.
Some of them there, some of the in other spaces in the hotel as well.
But I would say our most common is going to be the day long meetings,
mostly my groups and then similar to that is going to be groups that come in And
have meetings here and
stay in the hotel we do that constantly we've got groups here today.
[LAUGH] So lots and lots of corporate events here that is the combination of
social and corporate but I feel the corporate is probably the most common.
At the actual hotel for event purposes only which is a lot of what I do what
we do All the tables, linens, chairs, setups, teardown of every event.
We offer of service as far as beverage service, food service.
All of the food is catered in-house, through our 6/7 restaurant.
It's prepared by the same exact chefs that's often using the same menus as our
restaurant uses.
And we do not allow outside food.
We handle everything.
All the food, all the beverage, and we offer also on site AV.
It's through another company called PSAV.
They don't work for the Edgewater, they're all over the city.
But they are on site here so we do offer, every single room is AV capable.
Those are our main, basic, kind of boring meeting
space equipment that we can kind of require but
we also do rentals for specialty linens.
We do specialty food items Any kind of thing you would need for
an event, we can pretty much do it.
[LAUGH] So yeah pretty much everything.
We're a full service, a hundred percent full service event venue.
Also, our level of service is impeccable.
We really pride ourselves on the level of professionalism
that our Events staff works with and it's constant.
Everyone we know that you come in contact with your event,
we know that they're giving you the best level of service.
It's the best place I've ever worked.
I'm not just saying that, I very much enjoy working here.
I love being apart of my events team.
And I feel that we treat our customers really well and
we always want them to come back.
And they look out the window and they want to come back to us.
[LAUGH] So it's pretty nice.
We also have, actually,
an outdoor space on our fourth floor that's really unique to the hotel.
It's completely outdoors.
It's connected to one of our rooms called the terrace room and it offers stunning
views of downtown Seattle and the Space Needle, which I feel you can't get
the view from anywhere else either and its complete total private outdoor space of
over 900 square feet which is pretty impressive down on the waters.
So, that's another thing I feel is unique.
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Richard MooreExtension Lecturer, International & English Language Programs
