Party Venue Hire Hobart

The harbour city packs a lot of function space into a small footprint. Georgian sandstone warehouses around Salamanca Place and Battery Point hold cocktail lofts, grill rooms and pub parlours, while the old wharf sheds of Sullivans Cove take gala dinners in the hundreds. Out past the suburbs, wineries, farm halls and cider sheds in the Coal River, Derwent and Huon valleys trade city convenience for space and scenery.

Where the different kinds of room sit:

• Sullivans Cove and the piers: hotel function rooms looking over the river, seafood restaurants above the docks, and wharf sheds hired dry for very large events.
• Salamanca Place and Battery Point: upstairs rooms in old stone stores, a historic pub's small dining rooms and cocktail bars with private lofts, suited to 20 to 100 guests.
• The city centre and North Hobart: rooftop and rum bars, heritage hotel reception rooms, brewery taprooms with whole-venue hire and pub halls along Elizabeth Street.
• Kingston and the Channel: a beachfront pub, a hop-shed brewery at Margate and waterfront dining at Woodbridge, an easy coach run south.
• Richmond, Cambridge and the Huon Valley: cellar doors, a farm hall seating several hundred, a Georgian country house and a cider shed hired exclusively.

Share packages start from $25 per person at a central taproom, set menus at grill and seafood rooms run from $60 per person to $89 per person, and fine dining reaches $140 per person. Bars more often quote a minimum spend, from a $500 minimum spend for a private upstairs floor to a $3,500 minimum spend for a whole brewery. Narrow it down with the birthday, wedding or Christmas shortlists, or the private dining rooms.