Wonder Nights
City Central at the HAC
Fri 4 Dec, Fri 11 Dec
Dinner · Live band · DJ
Minimum booking: 8 guests
View partyNine shared Christmas parties within the Square Mile and its edges — from an après-ski curling rink at Finsbury Square to black-tie ballrooms at Tower Hill.
The City is where the London shared Christmas party market is concentrated, and for a good practical reason: almost every guest can walk to it from their desk, and almost every guest can get home from it afterwards. If your offices are anywhere between Old Street and Tower Bridge, this is the shortlist to start with.
The nine City parties split cleanly into three kinds. There are the large-production party nights — Wonder Nights at Moorgate and Disco Nights in the vaults under Old Billingsgate — where the room is the event. There are the hotel ballroom balls clustered at Tower Hill and St Paul's, all-inclusive and black-tie in feel. And there is Winters of the World at Finsbury Square, which is not a dinner at all.
Price is the clearest dividing line. The ballroom parties are all £149 + VAT per person (£180 for the Plus drinks package) and include everything. The party nights sit at £125 + VAT with drinks included only to a point. Winters of the World starts at £125 + VAT. If you are working to a number, start with the budget pages.
City Central at the HAC
Fri 4 Dec, Fri 11 Dec
Dinner · Live band · DJ
Minimum booking: 8 guests
View partyFinsbury Square
11 dates, Wed 25 Nov – Fri 11 Dec
Live band · DJ · Interactive
Minimum booking: 10 guests
View partyThe Vaults at Old Billingsgate
Thu 17 Dec
Dinner · Live band · DJ
View partyLeonardo Royal London St Paul's
5 dates, Thu 3 Dec – Thu 17 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band
View partyLeonardo Royal London Tower Bridge
Thu 10 Dec, Fri 11 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band
View partyDoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London
5 dates, Thu 3 Dec – Thu 17 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Casino
View partyLeonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge
Thu 3 Dec, Fri 4 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band
View partyLeonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge
Thu 10 Dec, Fri 11 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band
View partyLeonardo Royal Hotel London City
Thu 10 Dec, Fri 11 Dec
All-inclusive · Dinner · Live band
View partyMoorgate — Wonder Nights at City Central at the HAC (EC1Y) and Winters of the World at Finsbury Square (EC2A). Both are walkable from Moorgate, Liverpool Street and Old Street. Two completely different formats at a similar price.
Monument — Disco Nights at the Vaults, in the brick cellars beneath Old Billingsgate on Lower Thames Street. One date only: Thursday 17 December.
Tower Hill — five parties across three hotels, the densest cluster in London. Winter Wonderland Ball, Gatsby's Grand Soirée and Hollywood Gala at the Leonardo Royal Tower Bridge, Royal Nutcracker Banquet at Leonardo Royal London City, and the Murder Mystery at the DoubleTree by Hilton Tower of London.
St Paul's — the Grand Masquerade Ball at Leonardo Royal London St Paul's, with five dates across December, more than any other City ballroom party.
Most City parties finish at 12:30am or 1am, which puts them past the last Thameslink and most mainline services. Worth knowing before you set a date:
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