Club Infinity

The word club in the name is misleading, so start there. Club Infinity is not a membership club. It is a commercial private event space at 404 Irvington Street in Pleasantville that takes bookings from anyone, and its own contact page solicits enquiries for mitzvahs, weddings, sweet sixteens, quinceaneras and corporate events. What it sells is closer to a production than a room. The wedding package is described as up to four hours of venue use with an MC, a DJ, sound, lighting and video systems, a lighting and video technician, an in house event planner, photography and a photo booth. Full access to an on site arcade hall and a carnival and casino area is included for the duration of the event. Furniture comes with it: banquet tables, chairs, lounge and LED furniture, cocktail tables. The venue publishes no prices at all, and no capacity. It does publish a security ratio, which tells you something about how it thinks.

The package is an entertainment production with a room attached

Most venues sell you a space and then let you hire the rest. Club Infinity does the reverse. The MC, the DJ, the sound system, the lighting rig, the video system and the technician running it are all inside the package, alongside an event planner and a photo booth. Photography is listed too.

Add ons run further in the same direction: LED video walls, LED dance floors, CO2 and confetti cannons, indoor fireworks effects and wireless headphone parties. Whether that is what you want from a wedding is a matter of taste. Whether it is what you are paying for is a matter of the contract, so ask what happens to the price if you bring your own band or your own photographer.

Ask what the MC actually does. At a sweet sixteen an MC runs the room all night. At a wedding most couples want somebody far quieter. If the MC sits inside the package, find out whether you can decline that part, and whether the price moves when you do.

Not one price is published, for the package or for anything in it

The wedding page describes the package in detail and prices none of it. There is no per person rate, no rental fee, no food and beverage minimum, no guest minimum and no service charge or administrative fee. Full menu and beverage packages are said to be available, without figures.

That makes the first call your only rate card. Ask what the base package costs at your date and guest count, what the food and beverage packages add per person, and what the service charge and tax do on top. Then ask the price of each add on you actually want, because a CO2 cannon is not usually free.

Ask about the arcade and the casino area too. They are described as included, with full access for the whole event, which is a real differentiator for a certain kind of party. Whether they are staffed, and whether that staffing is billed to you, is not stated anywhere.

There is no published capacity, only a security ratio

No maximum guest count appears anywhere on the site. What the venue publishes instead is a staffing rule: one security person per 75 guests for weddings, and one security person per 50 guests under 18 for mitzvahs. That is a real operational detail and it is more than many venues disclose, but it is not a capacity.

Ask for the fire code occupancy of the main space, and ask separately what that same space seats for a dinner rather than for a standing event. Ask whether security is billed to you or included.

The security ratios also imply a cost. Somebody is paying for a guard per 75 guests. If that somebody is you, the line belongs in the quote rather than in a conversation during the week of the wedding.

Four hours is the stated length, and nothing states what comes after

The packages are described as up to four hours of venue use. No curfew and no hard end time are published, and nothing says what an extra hour costs or whether one is available. For a wedding running a ceremony, a cocktail hour, a dinner and dancing, four hours is tight. Settle the overtime rate before you sign, not on the night.

Ask when the four hours start, as well. If load in, the ceremony and photographs come out of the same window, the reception is shorter than it looks on paper. Get the timeline written into the contract hour by hour.

Most of what this venue sells is not weddings

The site’s packages cover mitzvahs, sweet sixteens, quinceaneras and corporate events as well as weddings, and the wedding page itself sits at a URL left over from the sweet sixteen page. The published security ratios are written for weddings and for events with guests under 18. This is a venue whose main business is celebration for younger crowds, and the wedding offer is built from the same parts.

That is not a criticism. A room with a professional lighting rig, a video system and a technician on site will run a reception properly. It does mean you should ask what changes for a wedding, and what dinner service actually looks like here, because the package leads with entertainment rather than with food.

Everything happens indoors, and the vendor rules are unwritten

This is an indoor venue, so a rain plan is not a live question here. The vendor rules are. The venue offers in house menu and beverage packages but makes no statement anywhere about outside caterers or outside vendors. There is no published approved list and no published outside vendor fee.

One practical note for anyone searching the site. The wedding page sits at a URL left over from a sweet sixteen page rather than at a weddings address, so it is easy to miss. A dedicated weddings page could not be loaded when we checked.

There is no capacity, no price and no history published for this venue. What there is, unusually, is a clear description of what happens in the room. Use that as your checklist on the tour and ask them to price every line of it.