Hotel De Oosterpoort
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About the venue
Hotel De Oosterpoort sits in the middle of the Groningen business district, where the conference floor hosts corporate events on weekdays and converts into a full wedding ballroom on weekends. The movable partitions come down, the furniture changes over, and by Friday afternoon a hall for 140 to 260 guests is ready.
The hotel has run weddings alongside business events for twelve years, and it shows in the organisation, a fixed run sheet, its own sound and lighting technician, and a house DJ on request. Events manager Mark Huisman usually replies within two days and offers out-of-town guests a reduced hotel rate for the night of the party.
Highlights
The converted conference floor, set up for 140 to 260 guests.
The reception area where guests gather for drinks before dinner.
The dance floor with fixed sound and lighting equipment and a house DJ.
One of the rooms offered at a reduced rate to out-of-town guests.
Venue type
- Hotel
Ceremony
- Civil ceremony possible
Food
- In-house catering
Drinks & bar
- Staffed bar on site
- Alcohol allowed
Music & sound
- Sound system on site
Curfew
- Until 00:00
Practical
- Accommodation through the venue
Recommendations
6 recommendations“You can tell this hotel has run corporate events for twelve years, everything followed a tight run sheet. With 180 guests, nothing felt improvised.”
“Mark Huisman had arranged his own sound and lighting technician, so our DJ did not have to bring their own equipment. That saved a lot of setup time.”
“Nobody noticed the converted conference floor used to be a conference floor, the movable partitions were completely gone and the furniture was fully switched to wedding style.”
“Our guests from outside Groningen got a reduced hotel rate for the night of the party, which made it a lot easier to convince everyone to come.”
“The dance floor with the house DJ filled up nicely, the sound was set just right for a room of 200 guests.”
“Mark replied within two days to all our emails, even in the busy month before the wedding when we kept adjusting small things.”
Location
Stationsweg 30 · Groningen