I recently hosted an event at Serendipity Events, and unfortunately, the experience was far from satisfactory. The location was amazing, but the venue staff and the eagerness to ch...arge us for every little thing made it a nightmare of a venue.
From the start Einav our sales manager was kind and communication with her was a breeze throughout the whole planning process. Even my initial phone conversation with Maggie went well. Once we were over a month out Lexie reached out and this where we were given strict rules, had hesitations with allowing us to have a mariachi (when we confirmed with Einav prior to signing the contract). Lexi provided us with a diagram that indicated we had the whole venue space when in fact we only had 3/4 of the space due to all of their decore items. Lexi kept adding fees that were not discussed or contracted (the fees were told to my guests and not the main person paying for the venue). She arrived late so all communication and questions went to the porters and when she arrived, she wasn't very kind, she didn't bother to introduce herself and she ultimately didn't help us much with anything.
Veronica who was our porter on site assisted with items well, she knew her way around the venue and also assisted Lexi with items she couldn't figure out, but her customer service wasn't there. My only true complaint was that I wish she would have come to me, the person contracted, when she had issues on how my family cleaned up their venue. Overall, she was the only one that assisted me when I asked, but she was fast and responsive.
The Bartender was rude and short to my guests, and he closed down the bar too soon before we could finish up our tickets.
When we arrived at the venue to set up, we found cups in the bushes, a heavy punching bag in our space, which my family had to move, and the chairs were all dirty and dusty. No one was there to walk us through anything, and I had to search for someone to let them know i was there.
A 2-hour set up time was too short and strict, and the 6pm-10pm event time was way too short as well. The initial price to this venue is reasonable but be warned that you will need to set up your own table and chairs, as well as have your family clean up just so they don't charge you extra for servers when you have a taco person (not a sit-down banquet). They will try to charge you for heavy trash bags in the last minute causing your guests to walk far to throwaway the trash themselves. We were also told that the venue owner keeps a watchful eye over us through cameras.
Honestly it was such a disappointment when the venue location is so nice. When confronted about all of this all they said was that Einav promised us too much in order to sell the venue :)