Christmas Party Venues in South Melbourne

December work functions in this pocket of the inner south run through three pubs. Golden Gate Hotel takes Christmas functions across four rooms upstairs and down, Main Hall @ Bells Hotel is pitched at presentation nights and end-of-year parties, and on Cecil Street Lamaro's Hotel adds a private seated room, The Wine Room @ Lamaro's Hotel, for the leadership table.

Headcount, and whether the team sits down for thank-yous, decides which one fits.

From the board table to the whole staff:

• Senior team or board dinner – The Wine Room @ Lamaro's Hotel seats 24 around one oak table and has in-room AV for the year-in-review slideshow, from $2,000 minimum spend.
• A department of 40 to 60 – Lamaro's Main Dining Room has its own entrance and seats 60, from $1,500 minimum spend, while Golden Gate Hotel's ground-floor Dining Room seats 40.
• Stand-up drinks after work – the upstairs Coventry Room at Golden Gate Hotel runs around a central private bar for 120, with canapés from $37 per person.
• Presentation night with dinner – Main Hall @ Bells Hotel seats 150 to 160 under a retractable roof, with audio-visual gear, from $35 per person.
• Everyone at once – Golden Gate Hotel can be taken over whole for 370 standing.

Mixed-seniority groups can split the night between rooms: a seated dinner for the leadership table, then drinks for the wider team somewhere bigger.