Yes. There is no bar on site, no corkage and no food and beverage minimum, so your company brings whatever it wants and the evening is not priced by the glass. The things to plan around are not the drinks: music stays at a reasonable level inside, with no amplifiers, and the hot tub closes at 11 PM under a municipal by-law.
Why this matters to the budget
A hotel or restaurant party is usually priced three ways: the room, a per-plate minimum and a bar tab that nobody can predict. Here the chalet rate covers the house, and the food and drink are whatever your company decides to buy. For a group of fourteen that difference is normally the largest single saving of the trip.
There is no in-house catering either, so you can cook in the full kitchen, bring a private chef or a caterer from our Things to Do directory, or walk ten minutes to the Village restaurants.
What to plan around
- Music and noise are kept at a reasonable level inside the chalet. Amplifiers and high-volume sound systems are not permitted, and the area has a noise by-law that applies around the clock.
- Hot tub hours are 7 AM to 11 PM under Town of The Blue Mountains By-law 2021-70. Using it outside those hours risks a $500 municipal fine and the security deposit.
- The chalets sit in a residential neighbourhood, not a resort compound, so the neighbours are people who live there.
- Everyone staying is on the booking; see day visitors if colleagues are joining only for the evening.
Read together these are easier than they sound: a long dinner, speeches and a late night indoors are all fine. A sound system on the deck is not. See the house rules.
Nobody drives afterwards
The practical reason companies move the party out of a restaurant: everyone has a bedroom in the house the party is in, so no one is calculating whether they are fine to drive. See the holiday party venue page.