Venue hire enquiry, done for you in one go
A venue hire enquiry is never just one call. It is ten, because the first six places are booked on your date, can’t fit sixty people, or have an events manager who only works Tuesday to Thursday and is not in right now.
Tell us the date, the headcount and the kind of do you are planning. A real person rings the venues and asks the same questions at each. You get one text listing who is free, how many they hold and what they said about cost.
The problem
Why finding a venue eats your week
Most are booked before you finish asking
You explain the occasion, the numbers and the catering, and then hear that your Saturday went months ago. The only way to find the ones with space is to keep ringing down the list.
The person who knows is never in
Bar staff can’t quote a function. The events manager is in on certain days, takes messages and returns calls in a batch. You end up waiting on six call backs at once and missing half of them.
Every venue prices differently
Room hire here, minimum spend there, a per-head package somewhere else, plus whether you can bring a cake. Without the same questions asked at each place, the answers don’t line up and you can’t tell which is the better deal.
It all happens in work hours
Function enquiries get answered on weekday afternoons, which is exactly when you are meant to be doing your own job, not pacing the car park with a notepad and a dying phone.
The fix
What you get when we ring the venues
The same questions at every venue
Is the date free, how many can you hold, what is the hire fee or minimum spend, what is included. Asked the same way each time, so you can put the answers next to each other.
We wait for the events manager
If the right person is in on Tuesday, we ring on Tuesday. If they don’t pick up, we try again later in the day. You are not left juggling call backs between meetings.
A short list by text
You get the venues that are free on your date, with capacity and the costs they gave. The ones that are booked or too small are listed too, so you know they were checked.
An example
What it looks like
You tell us
Mum’s 60th, Saturday 8 March, evening, about 50 people. Somewhere around Fremantle or East Freo with a private room or area. Finger food and a bar tab. We’d like to bring our own cake.
We text you back
Rang six. Free on 8 March: The Quarterdeck, upstairs room holds 70, $3,000 minimum spend, cake fine. Saltbush Bar, courtyard holds 50, $500 hire plus food packages from $45 a head. Riverside Bowling Club, hall holds 100, $400 hire, bring your own caterer. Three others were booked.
An example only, with made-up names, to show the kind of answer you get.
Three steps
How it works
- 1
Tell us who to call
The business or person, and what you want to ask, book or find out. Thirty seconds on the form below.
- 2
We ring them
A real person makes the call and says they are ringing on your behalf. No answer? We try again until there is one.
- 3
We text you the result
What they said, in plain words, sent to your mobile. The recording and a written transcript too, if you asked for them.
Good to know
We gather the facts and you make the decision. We don’t hold dates, sign booking forms, pay deposits or agree to terms. Costs are what the venue told us by phone, so ask them for it in writing before you commit. Some will want to email you a function pack. If so, we tell you, and you can contact them yourself.
Free while we’re getting started
Who do you want us to ring?
Give us the who and the what. We make the call, keep trying if nobody answers, and text you what they said.
- A real person makes the call, not a robot
- We say we’re ringing on your behalf
- No answer? We try again, and again
- The answer lands on your phone as a text
Leave it with us.
We’ll make the call and text you what they said. Now go and do something better with your day.
Questions people ask
Do you choose the venues or do I?
Either. Send us your shortlist and we ring those, or give us the area and the kind of place you are after and we ring venues we find. Everyone we spoke to is in your text, with a phone number.
What questions do you ask?
Whether your date is free, how many the space holds, the hire fee or minimum spend, and what that includes. Add your own: parking, a microphone, bringing a cake, finishing time. We ask every venue the same list.
Can you put a hold on a date for me?
No. Holding a date usually comes with a deposit or terms to agree to, and that has to be you. We tell you which venues are free and who to speak to, so you can lock one in quickly.