Everything for 18th Birthday Parties
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An 18th is the first birthday where the bar is open to the guest of honour, yet plenty of the friends invited will still be under 18 or only just over. In Newcastle that tends to split the night in two: something the whole group can play together, then somewhere for the over-18s to carry on.
For the first half, Red Alert Laser Tag in Warners Bay runs 15-minute games across a carpeted two-level arena, and its party packages add a private room and pizza from 10 guests. Novacade VR on Hunter Street books its free-roam arena privately by the hour, and UnrealVR Charlestown has racing simulators, screens above every station and a room for cake. Newcastle Supa Putt in Broadmeadow charges from $15 per person for unlimited rounds on two 18-hole courses, with a free barbecue on the side.
For the second half, Jams Karaoke & Bar in Newcastle West has a soundproof Party Room for 11 to 20, or the whole bar for up to 40. Jewells Tavern has an upstairs loft with its own bar, and its party packages from $1,000 minimum spend roll room hire, platters and a bar tab together. A bigger crowd can charter Calmer through All Event Cruises and spread across two licensed levels and a sky deck.
Ways to make it feel like an 18th:
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Red Alert Laser Tag in Warners Bay, Novacade VR on Hunter Street, UnrealVR Charlestown and Newcastle Supa Putt in Broadmeadow all take private groups, so the whole guest list can play before the over-18s move on.
Red Alert Laser Tag in Warners Bay starts from $12.50 per person, with party packages from 10 guests that include a private room, exclusive arena use and pizza.
Jams Karaoke & Bar in Newcastle West has a soundproof Party Room for 11 to 20, and hires out the whole bar for 20 to 40 from $400 room hire, with Japanese street food on the menu.
CMC Party Buses runs three themed buses for up to 35, each with a dance floor, pole, karaoke and LED lighting, and BYO drinks are allowed for over-18s with ice buckets supplied.
Level Up Booths has an open-air booth, a 360 slow-motion video booth and an audio guest book from $400, and Photobooths Newcastle offers mirror, kissing and 360 booths from $439, plus slushy and popcorn machines.
All Event Cruises charters Calmer, an 87-foot vessel on Newcastle Harbour for up to 470 standing, with in-house catering, drinks packages, a sound system and microphones.
