What is the best shared Christmas party in London?

There isn't a single best one, because the right answer depends on what your evening has to do. The picks on this page are grouped by need — best production, best value, best for a team that doesn't know each other, best all-inclusive — rather than ranked, because that is the decision organisers are actually making.

How do you choose these?

We look at what each party genuinely includes, how the evening is paced, what the room is like, how the drinks are structured and how many dates it runs — then match that to the briefs we get asked about most. We don't publish ratings, reviews or scores, because we'd be inventing them.

What if none of these suit us?

There are 19 parties on the site in total. Use the party finder to filter by area, budget, date and format, or tell us the brief and we'll come back with the ones that fit.

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The Best Shared Christmas Parties in London 2026

Eight picks, grouped by what your evening actually has to do — with the reasoning, so you can disagree with it.

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From £85 + VAT per person

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Which is the best shared Christmas party in London?

It depends on what the evening has to achieve, so these picks are grouped by need rather than ranked.

Best production: Cirque de Noël at Tobacco Dock. Best value: Cirque at the Bloomsbury Big Top from £85 + VAT. Best for a team that doesn't know each other: the Murder Mystery at Tower Hill. Best room: Masquerade at 60 Great Queen Street. Best all-inclusive: the Grand Masquerade Ball at St Paul's.

We don't publish star ratings or review scores. Every pick below is a judgement with a stated reason, and every reason is checkable against the party's own page.

1Best overall production

Cirque de NoëlTobacco Dock, Wapping · from £95.50 + VAT per person

Nothing else on the site programmes an evening this densely. A welcome act, roaming performers, aerial and interactive acts between all three courses, a live band, a DJ, interactive dessert stations and a survivors' breakfast at 11pm — in a historic warehouse with enough interconnected spaces that the night genuinely moves between zones. That it starts at £95.50 + VAT on its ticket-only nights is the part that surprises people.

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Wapping

Cirque de Noël

Tobacco Dock

£95.50+ VAT per person (from)

4 dates, Fri 4 Dec – Thu 17 Dec

All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band

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2Best for a team that doesn't know each other

Murder MysteryDoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London, Tower Hill · from £149 + VAT per person

The hardest Christmas party problem is a room of people who have never spoken. The Murder Mystery solves it structurally: roles assigned in advance, a costumed detective interrupting twenty minutes in, suspects questioned between courses. Your group gets a private dining room for the meal, which means the format works whether you are twelve people or sixty. It also finishes half an hour earlier than the other Tower Hill parties, which some organisers actively want.

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Tower Hill

Murder Mystery

DoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London

£149+ VAT per person (from)

5 dates, Thu 3 Dec – Thu 17 Dec

All-inclusive · Dinner · Casino

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3Best value

CirqueBloomsbury Big Top, Russell Square · from £85 + VAT per person

£85 + VAT per person on Wednesday 16 December buys a sparkling reception, a three-course seated dinner, aerial and fire performers, stage acts, a fun casino and a DJ in a genuine big top seating 700 — five minutes from Russell Square and ten from Euston and King's Cross. Nine dates means real flexibility, and the £30 spread between its cheapest and dearest night is the clearest illustration on this site of what date flexibility is worth.

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Russell Square

Cirque

Bloomsbury Big Top

£85+ VAT per person (from)

9 dates, Fri 27 Nov – Fri 18 Dec

Dinner · DJ · Casino

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4Best room

Masquerade60 Great Queen Street, Holborn & Covent Garden · from £145 + VAT per person

A Grade II* listed Art Deco landmark on Great Queen Street, with towering ceilings and interiors that need almost nothing doing to them under theatrical lighting. Most shared Christmas parties dress a room; this one starts with a room worth dressing. Free cloakroom and free car parking in WC2 is close to unheard of. Two dates only, so it needs deciding early.

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Holborn & Covent Garden

Masquerade

60 Great Queen Street

£145+ VAT per person

Sat 12 Dec, Thu 17 Dec

Dinner · Live band · DJ

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5Best all-inclusive

Grand Masquerade BallLeonardo Royal London St Paul's, St Paul's · from £149 + VAT per person

Five dates — more than any other party in the premium tier — and the most complete version of the all-inclusive format. Red carpet and Prosecco, costumed performers, a candlelit three-course dinner with live music and circulating performers, then a party band, casino tables and a glitter bar from 10pm. Drinks from 8pm to 12:30am are in the ticket. For an organiser who wants one number approved and nothing left to manage, this is the cleanest answer.

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St Paul's

Grand Masquerade Ball

Leonardo Royal London St Paul's

£149+ VAT per person (from)

5 dates, Thu 3 Dec – Thu 17 Dec

All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band

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6Best for a group that doesn't want a sit-down dinner

Winters of the WorldFinsbury Square, Moorgate · from £125 + VAT per person

Forty minutes of Eisstock — Bavarian curling — does more for a mixed team in the first hour than any seating plan. Food from globally inspired stations rather than a seated service, drinks on a per-person token allocation across themed bars, après-ski bands from the French Alps. Twelve dates, groups from 10 to 750, and a midday slot as well as an evening one. The most flexible thing on the site.

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Moorgate

Winters of the World

Finsbury Square

£125+ VAT per person (from)

11 dates, Wed 25 Nov – Fri 11 Dec

Live band · DJ · Interactive

Minimum booking: 10 guests

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7Best music

Motown ExtravaganzaPark Plaza Victoria London, Victoria · from £125 + VAT per person

A full live Motown set from 10pm to midnight with dancefloor performances. Motown is the one genre that reliably moves a mixed-age corporate room, and it does what no theme can: it gets people up who came with no intention of dancing. All-inclusive drinks from 8pm, a short walk from Victoria station, and three dates to choose from.

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Victoria

Motown Extravaganza

Park Plaza Victoria London

£125+ VAT per person (from)

Thu 3 Dec, Thu 10 Dec, Fri 11 Dec

All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band

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8Best for a team with mixed tastes

Urban FunfairMagazine London, North Greenwich · from £125 + VAT per person

A working indoor fairground — dodgems, a carousel-style bar, immersive lighting — split from a dining room with floor-to-ceiling views across the Thames to Canary Wharf. Dinner is deliberately short at two courses plus dessert stations. Afterwards nobody is confined to one activity: some go to the dancefloor, some to the rides, some to the quieter spaces, and the energy holds all night without depending on a single focal point.

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North Greenwich

Urban Funfair

Magazine London

£125+ VAT per person (from)

Fri 11 Dec, Sat 12 Dec, Thu 17 Dec

Dinner · DJ · Funfair rides

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is the best shared Christmas party in London?: There isn't a single best one, because the right answer depends on what your evening has to do. The picks on this page are grouped by need — best production, best value, best for a team that doesn't know each other, best all-inclusive — rather than ranked, because that is the decision organisers are actually making.
How do you choose these?: We look at what each party genuinely includes, how the evening is paced, what the room is like, how the drinks are structured and how many dates it runs — then match that to the briefs we get asked about most. We don't publish ratings, reviews or scores, because we'd be inventing them.
What if none of these suit us?: There are 19 parties on the site in total. Use the party finder to filter by area, budget, date and format, or tell us the brief and we'll come back with the ones that fit.

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