What a company D&D actually costs — worked out, nett

The two numbers a D&D budget is made of

At Major 99 the budget has exactly two compulsory lines: the venue package, which is a flat nett figure for your hall booking, and catering, which is per head and quoted separately. Everything else is optional and is listed on your proposal as its own line. Nothing is added afterwards.

The venue package tier is set by your end time, not your start time — so always tell a venue both.

Every tier includes the main hall, the stage, full AV and the LED screen, both pool tables and the party-games table, plus one hour of setup access before your event starts. Buffet is never inside a package price — it is always quoted separately.

Worked example: 150 guests, evening D&D

A Friday company D&D, 6pm–10pm with access from 5pm, dinner in the hall, awards on stage, karaoke and games after. Running past 8pm makes it an Evening Company Event.

Want a lower total without cutting the menu? Finish earlier. The same 150 guests on a Daytime Event ending by 6pm is S$2,800 nett for the venue plus S$3,000 catering — S$5,800 nett, about S$39 a head. Family days and long-service awards often work better in daylight anyway.

Worked example: 250 guests, evening D&D

Two hundred and fifty is our seated dinner capacity in the main hall, stage in place. The venue line is the same flat figure as it was at 150 — which is why the per-head number falls away sharply as the room fills.

If you need the whole venue to yourselves, Full-Premises Booking starts at S$13,000 nett and is available as a guideline from 150 pax. At 250 guests with the Value buffet that is from S$18,000 nett, from S$72 a head — and it buys you all nine private rooms, the third pool table inside the Gold room, and no members of the public in the building for the duration.

Optional lines, and what they do to the total

These are choices, not surprises. Each one appears as its own line on your proposal.

• An open bar instead of the included towers. On our free-flow packages the venue charge is waived and the evening is priced per guest instead. There are three tiers: free-flow beer, from S$55 per pax nett; then a tier adding house pours; then a tier adding wine. Minimum 140 guests, alcohol served for a three-hour window inside your event, house brands, last orders roughly 30 minutes before the end. Free-flow soft drinks are not time-limited — they run the whole event. Free-flow rates move with the season, so the rate that applies to your date is confirmed in your written quote. Strictly 18+ for anything served from the bar.
• Keeping the towers instead. Unfinished beer towers do not expire on the night — whatever your group does not drink stays as a balance you can come back and use on a later visit. For a crowd that will not get through thirty towers, the capped package is usually the better buy.
• Wine instead of beer. House wine converts one-for-one against your included towers at no extra cost. Tell us at quoting stage so we can confirm supply for your date.
• Corkage. On an Evening Company Event we waive corkage on up to 6 bottles of wine.
• A live carving station on the buffet — a separate add-on on any buffet tier, including Premium. Ask us for the current rate.
• Emcee or event host, photo booth, live band or acoustic set, arcade game credits. All available, all quoted as their own line in your proposal rather than published here — ask us and we will price them for your headcount and programme.

Why a plus-plus quote reads lower than it lands

Because it is usually quoted on a different basis. Three things commonly sit outside a hotel-ballroom per-pax figure, and all three are documented in the getout.sg dinner and dance cost guide for Singapore (read 17 September 2026):

• Service charge and GST. A 10% service charge plus 9% GST adds "approximately 20% to the quoted price". That is what "plus-plus" means.
• Corkage. Commonly S$30–50 per bottle — roughly S$600–1,000 on a 200-pax event if you bring your own wine.
• Overtime. Run past your contracted end time and it is commonly S$500–2,000 per additional hour.

The same guide notes shuttle buses at S$300–800 per bus for venues that are awkward to reach, and mid-range D&D catering at S$45–95 per pax.

None of this makes a ballroom the wrong answer for every company — it makes the comparison unfair unless you convert both quotes to the same basis first. Ask every venue the same question: is this figure nett, or before service charge and GST? Our 12-question venue checklist is built around that one habit.

What we need from you to quote it properly

• Your date, and your start and end time — the end time sets the package tier.
• Estimated headcount, and whether you need the whole venue exclusively.
• Whether you want dining, and any halal or vegetarian requirements. Halal-certified catering is available through our external catering partners; the caterer, current certification, menu and quotation are confirmed for each event before booking.

Send those three things and you get a full written proposal, with every inclusion listed, within one business day. November and December book out first, so Q4 dates are worth asking about early.

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