Best place for party glass hire?
Best place for party glass hire?
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Disastrous

Original Poster:

10,217 posts

248 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Off the top of your head, can anyone recommend somewhere to hire approx 40 wine glasses, 40 champagne flutes and about 20 beer glasses?

Having an engagement bash and want to just hire in the glassware for convenience. Also, is is customary to have to wash it before returning or do they collect them dirty?

Any recommendations appreciated...Thought of Oddbins, Waitrose etc but no idea who else is in the market or what we should be paying.

Ta!

fizz47

3,252 posts

241 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Waitrose....its free


Literally go into your waitrose customer service and say you need 100 glasses and for what date.

It does not cost and you only pay if your break a glass - I beleive it is £1 per breakage..

fizz47

3,252 posts

241 months

HughG

3,750 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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And yes they need to be washed before return if using the free Waitrose service.

SeeFive

8,353 posts

264 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/serv...

Bloody hell. That is a long url.

Anyway, Sainsburys do it. Same as Waitrose. Glass hire has a £20 deposit less minimal charge for any breakages. Used them for a number of big parties, glasses are quite robust and functional minimising chance of breakage.

You need to take them back clean.

PedroB

512 posts

163 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Majestic have a similar deal too. Free to borrow, return cleaned. They also do big ice trugs for chilling bottles down in for free as well.

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

176 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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And Tesco, used them for our wedding party.

Disastrous

Original Poster:

10,217 posts

248 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Excellent - thanks for that. I hadn't realised it was that simple...

smile

SeeFive

8,353 posts

264 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Also. You may be stuck for fridge room with food and booze to keep cool before folks show up.

What I tend to do is use cool boxes and/or the large 40litre flexi buckets with lots of ice in to cool bottles and tins a few hours before they arrive. Buckets are about £3 each from supermarkets. Ice is about £1 per big bag.

When I have a big do (70-100 people) I tend to have the last minute food and ice delivered at a specific time from a supermarket - saves a lot of stress on the day running out to the store when you are finalising things.

I may be teaching you to suck eggs, but nothing worse than warm lager, white wine and fizz. Hope it goes well.

lufbramatt

5,694 posts

165 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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I don't think Sainsburys do it any more, they stopped about a year ago IIRC as I enquired for my 30th last year (despite that page still being on the website, unless they started again). Waitrose were spot on though.

surveyor

18,707 posts

215 months

Tuesday 27th October 2015
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lufbramatt said:
I don't think Sainsburys do it any more, they stopped about a year ago IIRC as I enquired for my 30th last year (despite that page still being on the website, unless they started again). Waitrose were spot on though.
They did it in August....

lufbramatt

5,694 posts

165 months

Wednesday 28th October 2015
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surveyor said:
lufbramatt said:
I don't think Sainsburys do it any more, they stopped about a year ago IIRC as I enquired for my 30th last year (despite that page still being on the website, unless they started again). Waitrose were spot on though.
They did it in August....
Maybe the woman I asked just didn't like the look of me then biggrin