❄Christmas & festive season❄
Run your busiest season without the spreadsheet chaos
Christmas is the highest volume, highest stakes season of the year for hotels and venues. Creventa collects every guest’s menu choice, allergy and drink pre-order before they arrive, then produces your kitchen reports, place cards and function sheets at the touch of a button. No manual typing, no missed allergens, no last minute panic.
Why Christmas is make or break
Festive bookings land in a short, intense window, with thousands of covers across back-to-back parties. The admin that is manageable in quiet months becomes overwhelming at peak. These are the pressure points Creventa removes.
A wall of party bookings
Dozens of events in a few weeks, each needing menu choices, numbers and seating chased and confirmed on time.
Set menus and choices at scale
Thousands of guests picking starters, mains and desserts. Collected and counted automatically, ready for the kitchen.
Allergens you cannot get wrong
Every allergy and dietary need captured against the named guest and visible to your team, fully documented.
Deposits and wet spend
Collect deposits up front and let guests pre order drinks by the table, so revenue is locked in before the night.
What Creventa handles for your Christmas season
One branded platform that carries every festive event from booking to last orders.
Branded guest pre-orders
Guests get a personalised, white label email or QR link and choose their food, drinks and extras. It looks entirely like you.
Allergen & dietary control
All 14 mandatory allergens plus custom needs, tracked against each guest for an FSA compliant record.
Drinks pre-orders
Tables order wine and fizz in advance, lifting wet spend and telling your bar exactly what to prepare.
Place cards & kitchen reports
Chef reports, food pass, function sheets and personalised place cards print in one click, with zero typing.
Deposits & payments
Take deposits and balances through the platform, so festive revenue is secured well before the event.
Delegated party organisers
Hand each party organiser their own access to add guests, assign seats and share the event, taking work off your team.
The payoff at peak season
Figures are typical results seen by Creventa venues and vary by event and venue.
Christmas parties, which used to take an entire shift, now only take an hour thanks to Creventa.
Christmas time, which used to be a big stress point, would now be unmanageable without Creventa. Our hotels would really struggle without it.
It’s the admin time you put into these events from the enquiry stage all the way through. There’s so much admin and time that goes into that, and Creventa takes it away.
The biggest win is Christmas parties, which were so labour intensive from our side and that of the party organiser.
Christmas planning resources
Practical guides for getting your venue festive ready.
The smartest Christmas pre-order system
How a branded pre-order flow keeps festive service calm and profitable.
Large hotel Christmas parties, without spreadsheets
A step by step approach to running big festive parties without manual admin.
The complete guide to food pre-order systems
Everything hotels and venues need to know about modern pre-ordering.
Group dining pre-orders
Collect choices for large tables and groups with no back and forth.
Get Christmas ready before the rush
See Creventa run on the kind of festive events your venue hosts every December. A hospitality specialist will walk you through pre-orders, allergens, seating, place cards and reports.
Every kind of festive event, one platform
Over 2 million festive dishes were ordered through Creventa at Christmas 2025. Whatever shape your festive season takes, the same flow handles it: booking, pre-orders, allergens, seating and reports.
Christmas party nights and joiner parties
Many small groups sharing one big night, each with their own organiser, pre-orders and seating, consolidated into one plan for your team. How joiner parties work.
Gala and awards dinners
Choice menus for hundreds of guests, table plans with VIP and speaker flags, and place cards printed in one click. Seating plans and place cards.
New Year’s Eve ticketed events
Sell tickets through your own website with your branding, with drink packages and upgrades chosen at purchase. Event ticketing for venues.
Festive afternoon tea
Menu pre-orders and dietary requirements collected ahead of service, so every sitting runs to time. Pre-order management.
Corporate Christmas lunches and group dining
Regular large-party bookings through the same pre-order flow, with chef reports by table. Group dining pre-orders.
Ticketed family experiences
Festive family events sold as tickets with extras and add-ons, guest data captured on every booking. See ticketing.
Christmas FAQs
When should venues open Christmas party bookings?
Industry data suggests earlier than most venues expect. Around 30% of Christmas bookings are made by October, and pre-booked festive sales have risen from 18% to 32% of festive revenue since 2019 (Young’s, Propel Multi-Club Conference). Most Creventa venues open festive bookings and launch packages by September.
How do venues collect pre-orders for Christmas parties?
Each guest receives a personalised, venue-branded email or QR link and submits their own menu choices, allergies and drink pre-orders. Three automatic reminders chase non-responders, and the kitchen reports, place cards and function sheets build themselves. Over 2 million festive dishes were ordered through Creventa at Christmas 2025.
How do shared party nights (joiner parties) work?
Several separate group bookings share one big night. Each party organiser gets their own access to manage their group’s guests, pre-orders and seating, and the venue sees everything consolidated into one seating plan and one set of kitchen reports. The Parmar Collection runs ticketed shared nights of 350 to 500 guests this way.
Can guests pre-order drinks for Christmas parties?
Yes. Tables order wine, fizz and drinks packages before the night, so revenue is secured early and the bar knows exactly what to prepare. Venues see a 251% uplift in wet spend from festive drink pre-orders, a result reported by a Holiday Inn hotel using Creventa.
How does Creventa handle allergens at Christmas volume?
Every allergy and dietary need is captured against the named guest, covering all 14 major allergens plus custom allergies, and flagged automatically on chef reports, food pass sheets and place cards. The record is documented and compliant even across hundreds of parties in a few weeks.
What does Creventa cost for the Christmas season?
Plans start from £74 per month per venue billed annually, and every plan includes pre-orders, allergen control, place cards, onboarding and support. See the pricing page for plans by venue type.
Last reviewed July 2026. Figures are typical results seen by Creventa venues and vary by event and venue.
