Here are a few tricks to reduce cost and increase impact with your hotel flower arrangements.

1. Categorize your current flower arrangements. Put them into three categories: 1. Background arrangements, 2. Close proximity arrangements, 3. Focal arrangements

2. Arrangements that are on a side nitch, side table, along a pathway are usually good to have but not necessary. This type of arrangements are the least effective since they are located either in the background or along a path way. Do a test, take them away for a few days and see if anyone noticed. If no one did, hurray! An instant floral budget saving. If you are a little concern about the empty nitches or side tables, you can replace the arrangements with live indoor plants such as orchids or greens.

3. Instead of having a large arrangement behind the front desk staff, place a smaller one right on the counter where guests can appreciate the flowers up close. Size them down and move them closer. Close proximity arrangements impress the guest the most. Small exotic arrangement on the coffee table or the concierge desks are good places for this close proximity arrangements.

4. If you have a few arrangements in the lobby but none of them really stand out, think about reducing the number to just one or two larger one. These couple focal arrangements should wow you guests. Don’t settle on ordinary arrangements, with your saving from step 2 and 3, you can have exotic flowers for your focal arrangements. To maximize the effectiveness of it, pick spots so that the arrangements can be seen from many directions and from far and near. Pick spots that the guests can get up close to appreciate the flowers.

5. A small arrangement in the bathroom can make a great impression on your guests. Try ask your florist to throw this in as a freebie. Nothing fancy. A few anthurium in a special vase can be easy enough.

6. Guests appreciate seeing different flowers. The orchid, red anthurium sometimes is just too ordinary. So go for broke when it comes to using exotic flowers. Try protea, pin cushion, beehive ginger, tower ginger, purperia, caribaea or dendrobium.