How to organise a Love Island themed party or Love Island Corporate Event? Love Island is one of the most talked about UK summer phenomena in recent years. Just talking about the latest Love Island drama, antics, eviction gets everyone energised and opinionated – from teens (of course they should be in bed!) to grandparents.  After all, we need a bit of light relief from dreary British weather, politics and Brexit! Who wouldn’t want to see that combined  transferred to their corporate environment? Specialist team building companies could only dream of creating the positive effects o ..read more

Hotel Desk is exhibiting at Square Meal Venues and Events 2018 with a Love Island theme!   Why Love Island? Simply because the Hotel Desk team love events.  We can help you source any external venues in any international destination including your very own mystery island. (sadly we can’t however ensure all your delegates attend with Love Island bodies.)   We have a great competition for the show to win your very own Love Island themed mystery box.  Simply answer the below  Q Where is the Love Island located? Simply click here to send us your answer A ..read more

Put simply BillBack is a payment option for hotel and events that makes corporate lives easier! Invoices for individual hotel stays or conference/meetings, booked by an agency (known as a Principal)  such as www.hoteldesk.co.uk, are not settled on departure or prepaid.  Instead invoices are sent to the agency who verifies the amounts, then presents the client with a consolidated invoice for payment which is then settled as part of pre-agreed payment terms between the agency and client.   BillBack payments for hotels and events The BillBack facility has several financial and ti ..read more

A Venue Finder with a difference – corporate event management experience Hotel Desk is an independent specialist Venue Finder with significant experience in the delivery of global venue finding and hotel booking services. As an independent venue finder specialist we provide a much more personal and flexible service than provided by the larger agencies.  In short, we do everything larger agencies do but with the flexibility and experience to assist with larger events that significantly reduces the need for external event management supplier or in house resources. You may have come across v ..read more

Hotel Desk is thrilled to be exhibiting at 2017 Square Meal Venues + Events London   Hotel Desk, the experts in global venue finding, is on stand E27 at Square Meal Venues + Events on the 20 and 21st September 2017 at Old Billingsgate, London.  Come and  join our ‘Game of Thrones’ fun, enter our on stand competition to win £100 of high street vouchers and of course speak to us about any global venue finding requirements you may have. Square Meal Venues + Events With over 30 years’ experience, the Hotel Desk team are experts in sourcing and negotiating with external venues all ..read more

Schools are back! Normality again prevails…we are all back in the office more,  nights get shorter and the days longer! Some of you may be mourning the summer whereas others are excited for Halloween, bonfires and that word that we will all start hear more of…….Christmas!   Christmas party venue The industry gets busier at this time of year with the buzz of events and plans for the coming months kicking into action. So, we thought what better way to start the season of autumn with a Hotel Desk competition. For the chance to win £100.00 worth of Marks & Spencers vouchers, h ..read more

Look for motivational and inspiring team building activities for your next event? It’s not just hotels & venues we book At Hotel Desk we source, compare & negotiate all spectrum of event suppliers on your behalf including team building companies,  AV and technology suppliers,  transportation, etc etc as part of our free venue finding and event services.  It is all too easy to accept the first quotation or a recommended supplier, but we would always suggest impartial benchmarking of quotes from other suppliers to ensure you are receiving the most suitable and competi ..read more

Are you a Meeting or Event Planner? Do you book external meeting rooms and venues? As a meeting or event planner attendance at the Meetings Show 2017 is a must. Hotel Desk is organising a hosted buyer’s group at this years’ Meetings Show  held at Olympia in London on June 13th to 15th 2016. It is an excellent event, in addition to a vast representation of industry venues and event suppliers there is also a cutting edge educational programme and a range of interactive workshops to assist you in your role. There will also be a number of additional UK familiarisation programmes running ..read more

Event Technology help & expertise One of the potentially most problematic elements of an event is the event technology side, both in the planning stage and live onsite. From apps, basic and specialist AV, Virtual Reality, mobile content etc, etc, it is inevitable that a some event technology is required at even the most basic of meetings.  Event technology can hugely enhance an event, including optimising content delivery, creating themes and experiences with sound and lighting and also facilitate delegate and audience engagement before, during and after an event. Get it wrong and you ..read more

Meetings rate benchmarking Hotel Desk is delighted to announce its participation in the HBAA’s, and industry first, meetings rates benchmarking tool. Potentially, this is the most significant development in the UK meetings industry in recent years. For participating agencies, such as Hotel Desk, we have access to combined agency historical booking rates. This also includes those agencies booking on behalf of multinationals with keenly negotiated corporate rates. This provides Hotel Desk with extremely powerful meetings rate information on-tap, which we have integrated into our negot ..read more