Inn at Great Neck

Ten to 200, and a ballroom that splits three ways

The hotel's social events page puts the range at 10 to 200 people. That lower bound is the interesting half. Most Nassau venues will not talk to you below 100 guests, and a good many enforce a 150 guest minimum without saying so in public.

The mechanism is the ballroom. It runs roughly 2,700 square feet and divides into three rooms, the Manhattan, the Gotham and the Empire, usable separately or thrown together. So a 40 person dinner does not sit marooned in a room built for 200. Large windows, a patio and a garden handle cocktails. There is a boardroom as well, and Marco Polo's Restaurant and Bar for private or semi private catered events.

$5,850 and $1,743 cannot both be right

WeddingWire lists a starting price of $5,850 for this hotel. Wedding Spot lists a starting price of $1,743 for 50 guests. The Knot publishes no price at all. Both marketplace figures were fetched on 10 September 2026 and both are whole event numbers, not per person rates.

We print both because they are what exists, and we are not reconciling them. They are probably measuring different things: one a full reception package, the other a minimum spend on a small function room. Nothing published says which. The hotel's own social events page describes buffet and plated table service and puts no figure against either.

The consequence is simple. Neither number belongs in your spreadsheet as a per person cost, and anybody who tells you the Inn at Great Neck starts at $5,850 a wedding is quoting WeddingWire.

No reception site fee, per WeddingWire

WeddingWire states there is no reception site fee here, and puts the ceremony site fee at $500 in peak season and $300 off peak. It does not say which months are peak. Wedding Spot also states there is no rental fee for the reception.

WeddingWire lists what that covers: a bridal suite, setup and cleanup, tables, chairs, china, flatware, glassware, linens, lighting and sound, parking and event planning. Wedding Spot adds that a wedding coordinator is required, which usually means the hotel's own coordinator rather than yours. None of that is confirmed on the hotel's own pages, so carry the list into the meeting and have somebody initial it.

Capacity reads 135, 150 or 200 depending who you ask

The hotel says up to 200. WorldHotels, which carries the property, says up to 200 for a banquet at roughly 2,700 square feet and up to 150 for the ballroom at roughly 2,695 square feet. WeddingWire says 200. The Knot puts it in a 151 to 200 band. Wedding Spot says up to 135.

That is a wide spread for a single room, and the likeliest explanation is that different sources are counting different setups: a seated dinner with a dance floor is not the same number as a seated dinner without one. Nothing published says so. If your list is between 135 and 200, this is the question that decides whether the venue works, and it has to be answered by somebody standing in the room with a floor plan.

The room block is the strongest argument here

Eighty five guest rooms sit above the ballroom, across five floors, and the property is bookable through WorldHotels. For a wedding where half the list is coming from the city or flying in, that is the practical case for this venue over a standalone Nassau hall.

Nobody publishes a room block rate, a minimum number of rooms or a cutoff date, and those three terms are where hotel wedding contracts get expensive. A block with an attrition clause on it can leave you paying for rooms your guests never took. Ask for the block terms in writing at the same time as the event terms, and ask whether taking rooms changes the ceremony site fee at all.

Great Neck is also a Long Island Rail Road stop on the Port Washington branch, which matters for guests who would rather not drive home from a wedding.

The restaurant has two names in the record

The hotel's own page names the on site restaurant Marco Polo's Restaurant and Bar. WeddingWire names it Brasserie Americana. One of those is out of date and the record does not say which.

It is a small discrepancy and it points at a larger one. The hotel describes art deco styling that nods to the Gatsby associations of Great Neck, and publishes no construction year and no opening year, so the building's history is unverifiable from the site. The WorldHotels Crafted affiliation is current and bookable, and the property runs 85 rooms across five floors. If the restaurant matters to your rehearsal dinner plan, confirm the name and the current operator before you print anything.