For A/V Service, get a second or third quote. Cost is always a factor.
Planning a Corporate event and you need everything to be perfect. You want to go big but after getting the A/V Quote from the “In House A/V” company, you are starting to feel like you may have to start thinking small.
You don’t have to.
Resort and Conference Center A/V Companies do a fine job, this is not about their work. This is about the fees they have to charge. You see in order to get those big contracts with the Resorts and Conference Centers they have to pay … a lot. This ends up coming out of your pocket, no company is going to set themselves up to lose money, so you pay.
You have other options; the Resort might make it sound like only their In-House A/V will do but that is not the case. While the In-House A/V may still need to be on-site for some of the things you would need to create the event you want, they don’t have to provide all of the services.
For example:
For Internet and Power drops, you will need the In House team. You may even need them to be there when the outside A/V Company sets up.
Lighting, Effects, Screens, Projection, Sound, and LED Walls can all be done by an outside company.
The outside A/V company can run your entire show and the party afterward.
At Fast Breaks Executive Entertainment, we often save our clients more than 25% and provide personalized service. This can be the difference between offering beer & wine or an open bar!
Always get a second quote and think outside of the resort.
Outside AV can’t always run the whole show. If the venue controls Internet and Power drops, or has union rigging rules, the outside crew may only handle Lighting, Effects, Screens, Projection, Sound, and LED Walls while house labor stays on. Still price it out through a resource for comparing outside A/V quotes, but don’t assume every resort will release the room.
25% was the number I used to push back on our resort's in-house quote. I asked them to keep only internet and power drops, then hired an outside crew for LED walls and sound. We ran the split through an A/V cost calculator before signing, which showed the open bar was actually possible.
Our venue contract requires union stagehands for any outside vendor, plus a $2M COI and an in-house tech on overtime. That eats most of the 25% Fast Breaks cites before you even get to LED Walls or an open bar. A second quote only helps if it itemizes those mandatory labor and insurance costs; otherwise compare outside A/V vendor options with the full venue rules attached.
Ask the resort for its exclusive-services list in writing before you compare bids, because 'in-house only' often means power, internet, rigging points, and labor call times—not screens or LED walls. Put the in-house quote and the outside A/V quote side by side on an A/V quote comparison worksheet, including the 25% Fast Breaks Executive Entertainment cites, then check whether the savings cover beer & wine versus open bar. The step missing: confirm load-in windows and whether outside crews can strike overnight.
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