Where the Family Stays

Ruth Abernathy · 27 July 2026

Hotel blocks work for guests. They work badly for the eight or ten people who are there for four days.

Two Different Groups

Most of your guest list needs a bed for one night near the venue, and a hotel block handles that perfectly well. A much smaller group is there for the whole thing: parents, siblings, the people setting up and clearing away.

Booking both groups the same way is the mistake. The second group does not need rooms, it needs somewhere to be together between the events.

One Building Beats Eight Rooms

A single house with a kitchen and a table gives that inner group somewhere to eat breakfast, wrap favours, argue about the seating plan and decompress afterwards. Corridors and a hotel lobby do not.

It is also usually cheaper per head once you are past about six people, and it removes the eleven separate check-ins.

If the Wedding Is Abroad

Destination weddings make the split sharper still, because the inner group is now travelling for a week rather than a weekend and will be in each other's company the whole time.

The same logic applies and applies harder: take a whole property. Places set up for exactly this exist in the usual destinations, and something like these family villas in Seminyak is the shape to look for, with the bedrooms and the shared living space in one building rather than scattered across a resort.