e marvel at typical cost proposals sent out by venues. There are usually so many line items. Each item usually is something the venue has brought in-house and decided to provide to their clients. In other words, clients are required to use these products/services of the venue.
The belies the biggest temptation for a venue. They start offering products and services in addition to the venue itself. The allure of additional money and control is appealing. This is such a slippery slope sthat many venues end up becoming all-inclusive venues. Like all monopolies, these venues limit their clients choice and inflate their costs. They've stopping putting the needs of their clients first.
We see it every day, and you're probably experiencing this now in your venue search. An otherwise lovely venue adds bar service, then in-house coordination, then rentals and before long you have to use their photographer and the owner's brother's polka band. Ugly stuff.
What the venue is really saying you is that they can provide all of these services better and most cost-effectively than all other providers in the market. And they'll justify these restrictions by telling you that the "all-inclusive" approach is a benefit to you as it makes planning your event easier.
Dragon Park's singular focus on the facility
We started out focusing solely on the he design and operations of our facilities. And that is what we still do today.
We will never be your caterer, coordinator, or DJ, and for that you should be very happy. We may call it facility management, but just think of us as taking care of all things related to the property. And our properties are robust indeed, including audio, video, lighting and other essential elements.
We fight the temptation to do anything that we do not think that we are the best qualified to perform, which is everything outside of building design and operations. We believe that our clients should be able to pick from many professional vendors. In fact, it's the only way to create a boutique event experience.
Our role is easier to understand when we say that we're the pilot of the plane. In fact the pilot terminology permits everything we do from our Mission Control rooms to Flight Plans to our focus on situational awareness.
