Hotel Accommodations

Ramada Plaza Hotel, in downtown Hamilton, has agreed to provide group discount rates to our guests. Ramada Plaza Hotel has quoted a rate of $100.07 (Canadian Dollars)/night, which is available up to March 6, 2002. This rate applies to non-smoking rooms with one or two double beds. Some rooms with one King Size bed are also available.

Rooms are available on a "First Come, First Served" basis. Although enough rooms should be available for all of our out-of-town guests, you may not be able to choose a room with all the specific features that you wish if you do not book early.

This special rate ($100.07 + 15% tax per night) is available only up to March 6, 2002. After this date, all unreserved rooms are released back to the hotel and will be available at the regular rate.

To ensure that you receive the best available room please contact the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Hamilton directly. You may reach it by telephone at (905) 528-3451 or via email at info@ramadahamilton.com. If you use any toll free number (i.e. 1-800- 2RAMADA) to make your reservations, the Ramada Plaza Hotel's head office will be making the reservations for you. This means that you may not be assigned the best available rooms in the hotel.

When contacting the hotel for reservations please provide the following information to the hotel:

The contact information for the hotel is:

RAMADA PLAZA HOTEL
150 King Street East
Hamilton, ON L8N 1B2
Tel: (905) 528-3451
Fax: (905) 522-2281
Email: info@ramadahamilton.com
Web site: http://www.ramada.ca/hamhot.html

Hamilton's Ramada Plaza Hotel has the following facilities and services available:

Directions from the Ramada Plaza Hotel to Marquis Gardens (wedding location):

  1. Start out traveling West on King Street East towards Catharine Street North
    (Please note that King Street is a one-way towards West)
  2. Turn LEFT (South) onto Catharine Street South
  3. Turn LEFT (East) onto Main Street East
    (Please note that Main Street is a one-way towards East)
  4. Turn RIGHT onto Wellington Street South
  5. Stay on the 2 LEFT lanes on Wellington Street to get onto Claremont Access
    (this highway will take you to the top of the escarpment/Hamilton Mountain)
  6. Keep traveling on the 2 left lanes of Claremont Access to get onto Upper James Street once you are at the top of the escarpment
  7. Keep traveling south on Upper James Street
  8. Turn LEFT (East) onto Rymal Road
  9. Marquis Gardens is located on the Right Hand Side (South Side) of Rymal Road East, between Upper Gage Avenue and Upper Ottawa Avenue, at 1050 Rymal Road East

More Accommodations

There are many other hotels/motels in Hamilton. The following are also recommended but do not feature discounted rates for our wedding:

Hotel Telephone No. Rates
The Admiral Inn
149 Dundurn St. North
(905) 5292311 $90 + 15% tax per night
Howard Johnson
112 King St. East
(905) 546-8121 Call hotel
Sheraton
116 King St. East
(905) 529-5515 Call hotel

Full contact information for the hotels above and even more accommodations can be found through the City of Hamilton's web site at:



Beauty Salons for our Lady guests

There are a few different Beauty Salons in the vicinity of Ramada Hotel. We have contacted a few of them and asked them if they will take appointments for Saturday April 06/2002. The following salons will take appointments for that day.

Hair Care Beauty Centre
140 King E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1B2
Phone: (905) 527-3792

This salon is conveniently located in the lower lever of the Ramada Plaza Hotel. However they only have a few available. They encourage you to call them to make your appointment as soon as possible.

Carlo's Hairstyling
177 King E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1B3
Phone: (905) 529-1666

Bruno's Schools Of Hair Design
117 King E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1A9
Phone: (905) 528-0428

These two Beauty salons are only a block away from Ramada Hotel (less than 5 minutes walking). They have quite a few appointment slots free. However they encourage you to call them and make your appointment as soon as possible. They may need to have more hairstylists working that Saturday, if they are going to be busier than usual. For this they need to know how many hairdressers they need ahead of time.