Best Western Mill River Manor

Three packages with actual numbers on them, which is rare here

Almost nothing else on this list will print a per head figure. Felico's does, on its own hall rental page, in three tiers. Gold Coast is $54.95 per person, described as promotional against a normal $59.95. Rockefeller is $64.95, normally $69.95. Vanderbilt is $74.95, normally $79.95.

Each package includes a four hour hall rental with the doors opening two hours before for setup, and staff for four hours. Each carries a 50 person minimum. That combination, a low floor and a small minimum, is the reason this address belongs on a list for couples planning something modest, and it is a genuinely different proposition from a Nassau County ballroom quoting a 150 guest floor.

One important caveat about the wording. These are general hall rental packages and the page does not label them wedding packages. Ask directly whether the same rates apply to a Saturday wedding, because at many venues the answer is no and the difference is not small.

What the $54.95 does not include

The page states that package prices are plus tax and service fee, and describes staff gratuities as separate from the package. Neither the service fee nor the gratuity is given a percentage anywhere. So the published rates are a food and room number, and the actual per head cost is that number plus two unquantified additions plus sales tax.

That is not unusual on Long Island. What is unusual is having a real base number to add them to, which is why this record is more useful than most despite the gaps. Get the service fee percentage and the gratuity expectation in writing at the first conversation and do the arithmetic yourself before you compare this to anywhere else.

The page also does not say whether any bar service is included in the packages. On a wedding, the bar is frequently the second largest line after food, and a package with no stated bar is a package with an open ended hole in it. That is the first question to ask about the Gold Coast tier in particular.

Felico's is the caterer, and the hotel is the building

Name the operator, because they are different businesses. The building is a Best Western hotel on Sunrise Highway. The banquet operation inside it is Felico's Catering, which describes itself on its own site as operating at Best Western Mill River Manor, and which Eventective names as the venue's exclusive on site catering partner.

That means your contract, your tasting, your menu and your invoice run through the caterer rather than through the hotel front desk. It also means that questions about guest rooms, blocks and check in times run through the hotel while questions about food run through Felico's, and neither party is obliged to coordinate them for you.

The exclusivity claim itself is marketplace. Felico's own site says it operates at the hotel without stating that it is the only caterer permitted, and the hotel publishes no vendor policy we could read. If you had a caterer in mind, ask the hotel directly rather than assuming the Eventective description is binding.

The hotel's own domain is served over plain HTTP and redirected repeatedly when we tried it on 10 September 2026, so its own weddings and celebrations page could not be read. Everything first party in this record therefore comes from the caterer.

Every source names the rooms differently

This is the most confusing part of the record and it needs sorting out on a tour. Felico's own rate page names The Crowne Room, maximum 200 guests, and The Crystal Room, maximum 100. Eventective names a Crowne Ballroom at 250 and a Krystal Ballroom at 130, with about 5,000 square feet of total meeting space. The Knot names an upper level Gramercy Ballroom plus a lower level ballroom. WeddingWire cites 5,700 square feet across a Crowne Ballroom, a Krystal Room and meeting rooms.

So there are two ballrooms and four sets of names for them, with capacities of 200 or 250 for the larger and 100 or 130 for the smaller. We prefer the caterer's own 200 and 100 figures because they are first party, and we are printing the marketplace figures alongside rather than reconciling them.

Practically: on your tour, stand in the room, write down what the staff call it, and get the seated capacity for that named room in writing on your contract. A booking made against a room name that appears on only one website is a booking waiting to go wrong.

A 50 guest minimum, and only four hours to use it in

The 50 person minimum is the most useful number in this record for a certain kind of couple. It means a 60 guest wedding is a normal booking here rather than an awkward exception, and that is not true at most Nassau County halls.

The four hour event window with two hours of prior setup is short by Long Island standards, where five hours is the common package length. That is a real constraint on a wedding with a ceremony, a cocktail hour, a full dinner service and dancing, and it is worth mapping your timeline against four hours before you decide the price is a bargain. No clock time curfew is published.

Two ballrooms in one building also means the hotel can run two events at once. Nothing published states a one wedding at a time policy, and with a 200 capacity room and a 100 capacity room under the same roof, simultaneous events look possible. Ask what else is booked on your date and where those guests will be standing.

All published event space is indoors. There is a seasonal outdoor pool at the hotel but it is not sold as event space, so a rain plan is not really a question here. Eventective describes the facilities as newly renovated as of 2023, and Felico's own site describes a freshly renovated banquet hall.

The add on list, and how quickly it moves the number

Felico's prices its extras openly, per person, which is unusually candid. Coffee and tea is $5.95. Cake and pastries is $9.95. Shrimp cocktail is $5.95. Signature drinks are $7.95. An ice cream sundae bar is $9.95. Fresh fruit is $2.95. Enhanced cocktail hour service is $10.00.

Add cake, an enhanced cocktail hour and signature drinks to the Gold Coast package and you are at $82.85 per person before tax, service fee and gratuity, using the caterer's own published figures. That is still a modest number for Nassau County, and it is a long way from $54.95.

This is the honest use of a published add on list: it lets you build your own realistic number rather than being surprised by one later. Take the tier you want, add the extras you actually intend to have, then ask for the service fee percentage and add that too. Only then compare this venue to anything else.

One last note on the marketplace figures, which run higher. Eventective gives $69.99 to $139.99 per person and $3,500 to $7,000 for 50 people, and WeddingWire lists a $69 starting price. The top of Eventective's range sits well above the caterer's own most expensive package. Where a marketplace and a first party rate card disagree, the rate card wins.