This is a review of their banquet/reception business. And of the members of this club...
This place was horrid, plain and simple. Not sure where the other reviews are coming from with this place, but I cannot say much good about the Boulder Country Club.
Starting off with the Club its self, its the most highly pretentious, overly self important place I have ever been. I should have known it was gonna be a fiasco when the first thing you see is the Nazi-esque policy on cell phones plastered all over the place on big signs. "No cell phone use anywhere on the grounds" sums it up, which is fine I suppose if I was there to play golf, but when you're trying to do a wedding reception, its a pain in the ass that is above and beyond.
One of the things this place might want to consider is in investing in some outdoor carpets or runners for outdoor weddings. More than a few of the female guests, including my date, ate the ground walking out to the seats for the wedding as there were holes, uneven ground and plenty of places to twist an ankle if you're wearing heels. Slip and fall lawsuits based on negligence of a venue can be very, very expensive.
Then, during the ceremony, one of the asshole members of this club pulled up next to one of his buddies, and fired off an air horn, in the middle of one of the readings. How rude are your members that they cannot even respect someone giving their wedding vows?!?! Then the douche bag squealed the wheels of his golf cart and swore at his buddy in the middle of his swing, while the officiant was reading from his script. I don't even have the words...
Next up is the bar. I understand that the bride and her family paid for a well cocktail, beer and wine bar. I love a good open bar, but when I am drinking and I can still taste what it is I am forcing down my gullet, I am old enough to want to pay for the better booze. However, this wasn't an option as they don't take cash or cards. Maybe invest in a card scanner for an iPhone or get a point of purchase system so people who aren't members can get a decent drink?
Then there was the food. Maybe, Boulder Country Club, if the bride and groom are VEGETARIANS that maybe, just maybe, you should make the vegetarian entrees edible?!?! I have never had blander food. It was so bad, if you looked at the plates on the tables of the vegetarians, none of the entrees were eaten. Absolutely horrible.
To top out the fun, there are no restrooms on the banquet/bar level. This means if you're old, injured, or have had too much to drink, you're going to be going up and down two flights of stairs. Genius layout there BCC!
And then as a cherry on the sundae, when I got my bag back to my hotel room, I opened it to find someone had gone through my bag and had stolen my sunglasses. Mind you, these were prescription glasses, so I suspect that after one of the members or one of the workers who stole them found out that these were Rx that they just tossed them. Nothing I enjoy more than having my $500 glasses stolen and then later tossed.
I called the Monday after the wedding, to be informed finally at 10:00am that they "weren't really open" on Mondays, and that I would need to call back on Tuesday. Normally if I called a venue where someone had just had a wedding I'd be put on with the events coordinator immediately to get this solved. Guess that isn't how you do business at BCC...
Just a suggestion BCC, maybe you should have had the groom and his guys dress in a private room where our gear and possessions would be secure. It was an insult to have us dress in the locker room. You don't anticipate having to bring a locker lock with you when you come to get ready for a wedding.
All and all, this place is a total joke. I don't know if your choices are just super limited in Boulder, but if you can find anywhere else to host an event or a wedding, I'd suggest you go there. Anywhere has got to be better than BCC... read more