Add Ons – booking an event host (hourly fee)

Add Ons – booking an event host (hourly fee) – bookings made after April 15th included 1 host (discuss your requirements)

We understand that when you book an event there’s so much work involved pre-planning  that you’d like to just come to your own party and celebrate with your loved ones without all the extra duties involved to make sure the event flows stress free so you can totally let your hair down.

If you’d like to book a member of our wonderful team to be your hostess for your event then they can be there to greet you and handover all your extra hires ready for your set up, making sure you are happy with everything in the venue right from your access time, they are happy to help with any setting up / styling and to be ready for your caterers / cake lady / DJ arrival and to show them power points and other important things that you’d be happy to handover to be someone else’s responsibility.

They can greet your guests on arrival, show them around, answer any enquiries about the venue and facilities, work closely with your vendors (when the music needs to be reduced, where the slushie machine can be plugged in etc) She will turn all the lights on, set up the hot water urn if you are using that, making sure everything is ready to go, assist with the flow of the event by helping you out where needed and the tidy up throughout your event disposing of paper plates / cans / bottles and thanking your guests as they leave making sure they know how to get home from here (directing to train station etc) All those little things you now won’t have to worry about.

They are available from your access time to your vacate time, at $40 an hour – IF YOU ONLY REQUEST THEM FOR 4 HOURS THIS HAS TO BE THE FIRST 2 HOURS ASSISTING WITH SET UP AND PREPARING AND THE LAST 2 HOURS TO ASSIST WITH PACK DOWN AND CLEAN UP – IF YOU’D LIKE THEM FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION PLEASE BOOK THE EXACT HOURS OF YOUR ACCESS TO YOUR VACATE.
You let us know if you’d like them to stay downstairs and mingle whilst doing hosting duties or you’d like them just to be on stand by and coming down occasionally for the mid night clean up, then again at the end to assist with pack down and clean up. Just having someone there for your needs and to get you the things you have forgotten like a knife to cut the lime or some chalk to write a sign then they are there for you through, otherwise this is a complete DIY BYO venue so nobody would be available to assist. THEY ARE ON CALL ALL DAY/NIGHT.

We have found that when a venue host is present that this takes the stress off the organiser, as many times the hirer turns up without a knife to cut the cake, or containers for the leftovers, extra toilet paper might need filling up , things you don’t want to have on your mind so having an event host present can make a difference to your celebrations.
Also all of our event host bookings so far have had a full bond refunded due to the assistance throughout the night and smooth running with no complaints regarding noise or parking which would normally come out of your bond money plus a 100% tidy up completed as guests leave.
Without a host please be reminded that this is a DIY Venue, you will turn up and have nobody present to assist with any enquiries on site, Deborah can be contacted via phone but will likely be on other deliveries and set ups, and are asked to leave the venue how it was found, with a host you will get assistance throughout the night, on call from the office next door if you do not want her full attendance all night at your event.

Contact us for more details about this extra service and what you would like our host to assist you with for your event so we can ensure if it’s to hand out drinks etc then we will roster on the correct host for your event (RSA certified)
OUR HOST IS NOT THERE TO DO ACTUAL CONSTANT BAR WORK, SECURITY, DJ, PHOTOGRAPHY, MC STYLE DUTIES OR WEDDING COORDINATORS, WE RECOMMEND YOU EMPLOY PROFESSIONALS FOR THIS TYPE OF SERVICE. THEY CAN ASSIST WITH CERTAIN ASPECTS BUT THEIR MAIN FOCUS IS THE FLOW OF THE VENUE AND MAKING SURE YOUR GUESTS ARE COMFORTABLE AND YOU ARE RELAXING AT YOUR OWN EVENT WHILE THEY KEEP ON TOP OF THE TIDY UP, AND MAKING SURE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE BEING ADHERED TO LIKE NO SMOKING IN THE VENUE – PARKING ETC.

this is an hourly fee for 1 host

if more than one host is required / bar attendant / server etc please discuss with us so we can arrange this for you.

OUR ACCESS HOST ARRIVES 1 HOUR BEFORE YOUR BOOKED TIME SO SHE CAN MAKE SURE THE VENUE IS PERFECT AT HANDOVER – PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM IF ANYTHING NEEDS DOING AND HAND IT TO HER TO ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY.
OUR ACCESS HOST DOES HER FINAL CLEANING OF TOILETS, EMPTYING BINS AND CHECKING EVERYTHING ELSE IS IN ORDER AT AROUND 7PM.THEN THE VACATE HOST ARRIVES.
OUR VACATE HOST ARRIVES AROUND 7PM AND CONTINUES THE DUTIES OF THE ACCESS HOST, THE CLEAN UP AN HOUR AFTER YOU HAVE LEFT THE VENUE TIDY.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RETURN THE FOLLOWING MORNING TO COLLECT YOUR GIFTS / DRINKS / LEFTOVER FOOD ETC THEN PLEASE LET THE HOST KNOW SO WE CAN UNLOCK THE GATE AT 8AM TIL 10AM