Party Venue Hire in Southern Highlands

Choosing the Right Venue for Your Event

Function venues across the Southern Highlands range from village pubs with a back dining room to heritage estates that hand over the whole property for the night. The region you pick shapes the feel of the event as much as the room does.

Bowral and Burradoo hold most of the boutique hotels and restaurants, while the country around Moss Vale and Sutton Forest leans towards manor houses and estates set in old gardens.

A quick guide to the main areas:

Bowral and Burradoo: restored guesthouses, a vineyard restaurant with an upstairs private room, a golf clubhouse, a farmhouse restaurant taken over by groups of up to 52 and two old pubs with private function rooms
Moss Vale and Sutton Forest: a 1930s guesthouse beside a golf course, an art hotel with a glass dining room, estates where couples have the grounds to themselves, and a winery with a lakeside function centre for 150
Berrima and the Western Highlands: a sandstone inn with a beer garden for groups of 10 to 100, plus a farm retreat with suites for work getaways
Bundanoon and the Southern Villages: a 1920s pub opposite the station, a community club on the oval, a guest house you can book out entirely and an Exeter country house hired as a private estate for weddings
Robertson and the Eastern Highlands: two timber and manor-style hotels with ballrooms, gardens and rooms for up to 200
Mittagong and the Northern Villages: a heritage Main Street pub with courtyard and laneway rooms for up to 110, and an 1836 sandstone inn whose garden marquee seats 160

Prices run from $35 per person for a club function to $175 per person for an exclusive farmhouse dinner, with some pubs setting a $1,400 minimum spend and a private Exeter estate hired from $10,000 room hire. Narrow it down by occasion on wedding reception venues, birthday party venues or Christmas party venues.

Frosty winter nights make an open fire or a heated dining room worth asking about before you sign
Christmas-in-July lunches are a Highlands habit, so June and July weekends fill early at the hotels
Autumn colour in April and May and the spring gardens of September and October draw the most outdoor bookings
A sunny afternoon can turn cold fast after dark, so plan a warm indoor space even for a garden event

Overnight stays and getting around

Many guesthouses and estate hotels have rooms on site, which lets guests stay the night rather than head home late
Ask how many rooms the venue will hold for your group and whether a two-night minimum applies on weekends
Villages sit a fair way apart, so book transport between accommodation, ceremony and reception

Questions for the venue

Which room fits your numbers seated and standing, rather than the capacity of the whole property
Whether the price is per person, room hire or a minimum spend, and what it covers
Whether catering is in-house or brought in, and what a wet-weather fallback looks like for lawns and verandahs
What time the music has to stop, as several venues sit beside homes or other guests

Venues: Your Questions Answered

Which Southern Highlands town has the widest choice of function rooms?

Bowral and Burradoo carry the most, from boutique hotel dining rooms for 12 to 40 guests to a vineyard restaurant that seats far larger groups. Moss Vale and Robertson add guesthouses and hotels with ballrooms.

What do function venues in the Southern Highlands charge?

Headline prices on this page start at $35 per person and $39 per person for club and hotel menus, with set dinners at $85 per person, $95 per person and $175 per person. Pub function menus start at $65 per person, and one pub uses a $1,400 minimum spend. Room hire is $400 room hire at a vineyard restaurant, $1,080 room hire for a heritage garden estate and $10,000 room hire for a private Exeter estate.

Can guests stay overnight at a Highlands venue?

Yes, several of the hotels, guesthouses and retreats here have rooms on site. Ask early, as weekend rooms in Bowral and Moss Vale are often held for weddings.

Are Southern Highlands venues busier in winter or summer?

Both have peaks. Winter brings Christmas-in-July lunches by the fire, and late spring and autumn bring garden weddings and long lunches outdoors.

Do any Southern Highlands venues only host weddings?

A few country estates take weddings only and host one couple at a time. Check the occasions a venue accepts before planning a birthday or work event there.

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