The Ballroom @ The Palais Hotel
ProHighlights
- Top-floor ballroom looking straight out over the Semaphore coastline
- Balcony beside the room fits around 100 for arrival drinks
- Waiter-served cocktail food from $30 per person
About The Ballroom @ The Palais Hotel
The Palais Hotel stands on the Esplanade at Semaphore, right on the beachfront. Downstairs it trades as a beach bar, bistro and beer garden, while the Ballroom on the top level is kept for private functions. The Ballroom has wide, unbroken views along the coast. It seats around 180 guests on the main floor, with extra seating up on a mezzanine, and the hotel says it can take at least 300 people for a cocktail event. A balcony runs directly outside the room and looks over the water. Weather permitting, it holds about 100 guests, which makes it a natural spot for a wedding ceremony, arrival drinks or canapés before dinner. Every event is catered. Hosts can choose platters set out buffet style, cocktail food carried around by wait staff, grazing, share plates or a formal seated meal, and you are welcome to bring your own cake for a small cutting fee. Drinks can be a timed beverage package, a bar tab, guests buying their own, or a mix of these. Room hire for cocktail and platter events includes the room's audio-visual equipment. The hotel hosts birthdays, engagements, weddings, bucks and hens nights, going-away parties, Christmas parties and corporate events such as gala dinners and product launches. Functions generally run for up to five hours, and a security guard is needed for some events, including 21st birthdays.
Inclusions & amenities
Venue type
Budget
Food & drinks
Features
Facilities
Pricing
Combined food and four-hour drinks packages are $100, $110 or $125 per person. Wedding packages start at $90 per person for cocktail style and $110 per person seated, plus room hire.
Food
Seated wedding menus offer alternate or choice mains and shared starters. Dietary requirements need to be confirmed two weeks before the event.
Beverages
Bar tabs, a $5 drink subsidy or guests buying their own drinks are also options.
Availability
Frequently asked questions
How many people fit in The Ballroom?
The Ballroom seats around 180 on the main floor, with more seating on the mezzanine, and takes at least 300 for a cocktail-style event. The balcony outside holds about 100 when the weather allows.
What does it cost to hire The Ballroom?
Room hire for a cocktail or platter event is $500 and includes the audio-visual equipment. Waiter-served cocktail food starts at $30 per person, and a minimum food and bar spend applies, which the function coordinator confirms.
Can we bring our own cake?
Yes. A cake-cutting fee of $2 per person applies, or $5 per person to have it served individually with coulis and cream.
Is security required?
Some events, including 21st birthdays, attract a security charge. Generally one guard is required for every 50 guests.
How do we secure a booking?
Tentative bookings are held for two weeks. To confirm, the hotel asks for a signed hire agreement and a non-refundable $1,000 deposit, and a refundable $500 security bond may also be required.
Where we are
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Dean “Deano” Helmers
a month ago
We really enjoyed this place. Cracking views and a really cruisey establishment. The ticket was quite good also.
ReginaC
5 months ago
Went here with our beautiful friend Irene and she ordered the oysters Kilpatrick...and boy were they delicious...maybe the best I have had of possibly 80 different places....and while we watched the sunset and it was mag…
Stacey B
5 months ago
Friendly staff. Even though it was a cold, wet winter day, it was still a nice atmosphere for lunch on the deck -under the heater. Unfortunately, the schnitzel was really average, slaw wasn’t great and chips were over sa…
Chloe James
6 months ago
"Visitors from QLD" Visitors from QLD but can't take all the credit...our SA fambam suggested the Palais Hotel was the place to go before we left and let me tell you they weren't wrong! OMG...OMG...OMG Firstly the staff…
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