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Events

One Sunday, One Room Night, Two Refund Terms

The South Florida Seafood Festival runs one Sunday, Nov. 8, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Wynwood Marketplace, with all-in ticket prices from $7.68 to $68.30 and two conflicting refund lines on one page.

The 13th Annual South Florida Seafood Festival runs one day. Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern. The Wynwood Marketplace at 2250 NW 2nd Ave. in Miami holds it.

Eight hours of trading. One gate. A hotel in the district gets one demand curve out of the date.

The night with a clock on it

Saturday, Nov. 7 carries the arrival, the dinner and the ticket decision. Sunday carries breakfast, a late checkout request and a 7 p.m. close.

Price the Saturday night first. Sunday sells to guests already in house.

The listing publishes no partner term

The event page carries no hotel, no room block, no group rate and no shuttle. A search of the page and the event record returns nothing for each of those terms.

A package on this date is the hotel's own. The hotel carries the margin and the risk.

The ladder as a demand reading

The listing prints all-in prices from $7.68 to $68.30. The floor and the ceiling come from the page's own offer block.

Online sales close at 16:00 UTC on Nov. 8, which is 11 a.m. local. The fine print reads: Early bird pricing available online. Prices increase at the door, and entry is not guaranteed.

A full-price decision therefore lands on the gate morning. That timing matters to a hotel holding Saturday inventory.

Two refund lines on one page

The listing carries a Refund Policy field reading: Refunds up to 7 days before event. Its fine print reads: All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges.

Both lines sit on the one page. A guest who asks the front desk to cancel has an answer from the listing, and the hotel's own cancellation term sits beside it.

Seven days before Nov. 8 is Nov. 1. That date belongs in the group contract.

What the organiser publishes

The listing names 15-plus seafood pop-ups, a Kitchen Lab with chef demonstrations, bars, bands, DJs, a vendor market, sponsor activations and a family fun zone. Children under 12 enter free.

It prints no capacity figure and no attendance forecast.

The term sheet to write

Ask for the room rate, the cut-off date, the attrition allowance and the cancellation window as four written lines. Set the cut-off before Nov. 1, so the hotel answers inside the listing's own seven-day line.

A one-day festival gives a hotel one night of pricing power. The contract is where that power converts.

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