Hens Party Venues in Inner West

Sommelier-guided wine flights in a room of your own make a gentler start to a hens day than most. Private Room @ Flight Path Wine Bar, at 31 Enmore Road in Newtown, seats 15 at the table for the bride-to-be and her closest friends, from $15 per person, before everyone moves on to somewhere louder.

Louder is easy to find. The Botany View Hotel on King Street names hens nights among its functions and has a Tiki Bar, an open-air rooftop among plants and festoon lights, and a mirrored Purple Room for about 10. In Leichhardt, Botanical Bar & Garden Terrace @ The Royal Leichhardt gives a group of 60 to 130 its own upstairs bar and private bathrooms on Norton Street.

A hens itinerary drawn from around the region:

• Cocktails eleven floors up: Semi-Private Rooftop Bar @ Skye Bar & Lounge at 60 Burwood Road welcomes personalised theming, from $70 per person; at street level on Enmore Road, Jacoby's Tiki Bar serves tiki cocktails in carved mugs and coconuts and can be hired whole
• A heritage long lunch: 20 to 30 around the table in The Glebe Hotel's old hay loft, which has its own AV, from $1,000 minimum spend
• Bowling for the bridal party: Room 300 @ Kingpin North Strathfield, 40 seated or 70 standing beside private lanes, or pool and darts with a staff-run knockout at Club 9 on the same street, from $20 per person
• Singing it out: K Galaxy Karaoke Burwood runs rooms from 6 to 8 up to 20-plus, while Empire Karaoke's two VIP rooms suit 20 to 25
• Platters under the trees: The Courthouse Hotel in Newtown, where tidy decorations are fine, from $48 per person

Station-side pubs keep the next stop simple. White Cockatoo Hotel faces Petersham Station, Backyard Beer Garden @ Public House Petersham is walkable from Stanmore and Petersham stations, and The Erko Hotel is a few minutes from Erskineville Station.