Public transport is the best way to travel. Visit the 131500 website for details of how to get into the city.
The Fireworks and the Harbour
Every year, there is a theme to the night, this year it is Embrace. Kylie Minogue is the Creative Ambassador this year and she announces this year's theme in this video. (click on Kylie!)
This year the City of Sydney has produced a New Year Eve App! With the app you can -
- Find the best spot around Sydney Harbour to watch the fireworks
- Write a message for the chance to see it projected onto the Harbour Bridge Pylons during the celebrations
- We’ll send up to 50 free SMS messages to your friends and family from midnight on your behalf, so all that’s left for you to do is enjoy the party
- Plus, this year we’ll be lighting up four Telstra Colour Moments on NYE. Download the app to find out how you can take part in one of the world’s largest interactive NYE light shows. So yes you have to download it to find out how you can be part of the fun! http://www.sydneynewyearseve.com/app/
Line up -
6pm - Arial Acrobatics
6:50 pm - Ted Noffs Fire Tub
7:30 pm Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Smoking Ceremony
8 pm - Aerial Acrobatics
8:30 pm - Pylon Projections
8:40 pm - Acknowledgment of Country
8:45 pm - Bridge Effect
9 pm - Family Fireworks
9 pm - Fireworks Competition Shell Firing
9:15 pm - Harbour of Light Parade
10:15 pm , 11 pm, 11:30 pm, 11:45 pm - Telstra Colour Moment
Midnight Fireworks
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Our Top Ten picks for 2012
New Year's Eve Sydney Harbour Cruise
Sydney is famous around the world for its New Year's Eve Fireworks display, and what better way to experience this extravaganza and to see in the New Year than from the waters of Sydney Harbour.
Our New Year's Eve Celebration Cruise offers you a delicious four course dinner including drinks package and some great entertainment. Get some great photos with the iconic Sydney skyline as your backdrop and create some lifelong memories of a great New Year celebration with your loved ones and friends.
Get your mates together or treat a loved one to good times, great entertainment and a chance to see one of the worlds greatest New Years Eve fireworks displays while cruising around one of the worlds best loved harbours.
New Years Eve Cruise Includes:
• Delicious 5 course meal (including a seafood buffet selection)
• 6 hour cruise around Sydney Harbour
• Party DJ playing classic hits and pumping chart dance tunes!
• Drinks package (champagne, beer, wine, soft drinks, tea and coffee)
• Full view of the Harbour fireworks
Boarding: 37 Bank Street Pyrmont
Booking 02 9879 3942 or Book online
The Opera Galas on New Year's Eve
There's nowhere in the world like Sydney on New Year's Eve and there's nowhere closer to the action than the Sydney Opera House. Celebrate the arrival of 2013 with Opera Australia and choose from Puccini's heartbreakingly romantic La bohème or a dazzling concert, The Opera Gala, filled with some of the most popular arias ever written. Watch Sydney Harbour explode with the world’s greatest fireworks display while you enjoy canapés and live music into the new year.
For more information visit their website - www.opera-australia.org.au
New Year's Eve at the Cruise Bar
Destination - Fantasea & Gilligan’s Island
Cruise Bar's world famous NYE DESTINATION Party is back again this year, bringing you a New Year's Eve experience you will never forget!
Gather your friends and dress to impress for the year's ultimate party with unforgettable views of the Harbour firework display against the stunning backdrop of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour.
Let your Fantasea become a reality on the harbour waterfront. Join the best NYE dance party, with the boys from The 14th Minute kicking the evening off.
On the Next Level, step foot onto Gilligan's Island. Light up the dance floor and show off your best moves to the soulful sounds of Yogi & Husky performing live to warm up the night.
Beat the chaos & get down to Cruise early on NYE to claim your spot - be one of the first 500 to arrive and you will receive an exclusive NYE DESTINATION souvenir gift bag filled with limited edition goodies! Doors open at 6pm.
Please note that food & drinks are not included in the ticket price and this is an Over-18’s Event.
Upper Deck
Party with the elite at Cruise Bar's exclusive NYE UPPER DECK with uninterrupted views of the Opera House and Sydney Harbour. Experience an unforgettable night under the stars while drinking in the mesmerising display of the world famous fireworks display from the top balcony.
Indulge yourself with a sumptuous canapé selection crafted by our Head Chef, Beau Lawson, sip on some delectable cocktails and dance the night away to the sounds of Peppermint Jam. Our live 6-piece band will be pumping out the greatest party anthems of all time to keep you going until the early hours. Keeping the dance floor full is their specialty with classic medleys ranging from Disco, Pop, Motown & Rock as well as the latest dance tracks.
Doors are open from 7pm-2am, with our sumptuous canapés served from 7.30pm. There is also a Limited Edition NYE 2012 UPPER DECK Souvenir gift bag for each lucky guest. Tickets on sale from from www.oztix.com.au
http://www.cruisebar.com.au/NYE2012/index.php
Please note that drinks other than the cocktail on arrival are not included in the ticket price and this is an Over-18’s Event. Tickets for this premium event are limited to only 270 guests so be quick to secure your spot.
GlamFest NYE
Tickets have gone on sale for Sydney’s ultimate New Year’s Eve party GLAM FEST NYE, at Sydney Opera House, one of the most anticipated New Years Eve parties of the year, with a ‘glam rock’ inspired theme.
Guests will party on the western boardwalk, of the upper concourse of Sydney Opera House, with the best possible view of the fireworks, non- stop entertainment and a festival-inspired menu.
GLAM FEST NYE revelers will see in the New Year with a front row view of the city’s most extravagant light show (designed this year by Kylie Minogue) with non-stop music by The Big Hit Orchestra and world renowned DJ Stephen Ferris. The evening will feature a rock theme with all night entertainment featuring hula-hoop girls, a tattoo parlour and interactive photo booths.
With mobile food trucks serving festival-inspired food designed by Matt Moran of ARIA Catering, cocktails will be flowing along with quality wines and beer, brace yourselves for the biggest night of the year and keep the party rockin’ at GLAM FEST NYE.
The ticket price is $495 per person (premium beverages including Australian sparkling and wine and select cocktails, festival inspired menu and non-stop live entertainment)
GLAM FEST NYE is an over 18’s, ticketed event with doors open from 7.00pm – 1.30am and tickets are limited
Buy tickets: www.glamfestnye.iwannaticket.com.au
Facebook www.facebook.com/AriaCatering
Website: www.ariacateringsoh.com.au
New Year's Eve in Style at Wildfire
Wildfire welcomes you to a join us for a spectacular New Years Eve Party, celebrate this momentous occasion in style on our majestic harbours side terrace, view the spectacular fireworks over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour.
Doors open at 7.30pm for our cocktail party, where we will be serving a varied selection of hot and cold canapés and premium beverages including cocktails on arrival. With live entertainment all night you can dance your way to 2013 in style.
Ticket price is $350 per person, book now the best place to celebrate NYE 2012, for further details email info@wildfiresydney.com or call 02 8273 1222, visit their website www.wildfiresydney.com
Wrecked New Year's Day Cream Tangerine
Bondi's infamous New Year's Day party is a sell out event every year, with live music and DJ's all day long, located up on the Deck Bar of the Swiss Grand Hotel with direct access to the beach.
Come together on New Year's Day and celebrate all that's to come in 2013, sun-drenched and amongst friends, overlooking Australia's most iconic oceanfront, Bondi Beach.
The tickets include entry all day and 2 drink tokens redeemable between midday and 3pm.
The theme of the party is stranded, shipwrecked and lost in paradise!
Visit their Facebook page - facebook.com/creamtangerineevents
Tickets are available through http://www.moshtix.com.au
Bon Voyage New Year's Eve Cream Tangerine Party
"Aptly named 'Bon Voyage', Cream Tangerine's NYE party features live bands and DJs all night, complimentary cocktails and canapés for two hours kicking off the night from 6pm - 8pm, a midnight flute of bubbly, and views across one of the greatest beaches in the country, which also means views of Bondi Beach's famous NYE fireworks. This year's theme is 'the golden era of the high sea', which loosely translates to glamour-meets-desert island. So spend NYE with friends by the beach"_pagesdigital
Join the local's favored NYE party- on the deck of the Swiss Grand Hotel overlooking Australia's most iconic oceanfront, Bondi Beach.
There are 4 rounds of tickets selling, but this event sells out every year, so organize who's where this NYE and glamour up 'high seas' style.
Acts Include: The Rascals, Myall High Club, Bobby Disco, Shipwreck, Friendly, Grizzle, LC, BHDJS, Matt Saville, Von Audio, Dan De Caires
Visit their Facebook page - facebook.com/creamtangerineevents
Tickets are available through http://www.moshtix.com.au
NYE 2012 Firework Extravaganza and Party
Northern Beaches most famous NYE institution, The Newport Arms Hotel, will be hosting another HUGE NYE BEERGARDEN PARTY for over 18s with a FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA over the Pittwater waterway, Sydney’s 2nd largest waterway. Every year thousands of punters flock to 132 year old hotel affectionately known as The Arms to enjoy Australia’s largest waterfront beergarden where they can party under the stars until late, and it has been that way for 20+ years.
• Fireworks Extravaganza Over Pittwater at midnight and NEW 9pm display, so get in early!
• Strictly an over 18s Beergarden Party in Australia’s largest beergarden
• Smooth sounds mixed up from Sunset (7pm) & moonlit dancefloor to party under the stars.
• Entry = FREE
• Transport: To and from venue EVERY ½ Hour till close
• Trading Hours: Open until 2am
• Location: Newport Arms Hotel, 2 Kalinya Street, Newport
• Enquiries: 02 9997 4900 or http://www.newportarms.com.au/promos/nye-2012.html
Pacha Sydney New Year's Eve
A colossal explosion of talent and energy over 4 levels, 10 bars and 4 stages will set the scene for NYE glory. Starting as a vibrant day party with a festival twist and easing into an electric evening of lights/beats/DJ feats, our headliners AN21 & Max Vangeli, Junior Jack & Kid Crème and Infinity Ink will ensure you have the best NYE of your life.
From 4.00pm on Monday the 31st December 2012
ivy – 320 George St, Sydney NSW 2000
Cost: (Tickets available at www.pachasydney.com)
- First Release: $99
- Second Release: $120
- Pool Club Platinum VIP $220 (Includes exclusive access + a 2 hour drink & canape package at Poolclub from 4pm-6pm)
New Year's Eve at Bungalow8
HedKandi, the international clubbing icon with over 100 record releases, 4 million album sales and thousands of events across the hottest party spots in the world - From London to New York, Paris to Tokyo, Rio to Ibiza and beyond - are transforming your NYE into house music heaven at Bungalow 8 and theloft! Final Release tix now selling $89 on moshtix and www.bungalow8sydney.com/nye2012
New Year's Eve at The Cargo Bar
After selling out its last two years, NYE "On The Harbour" is back at Cargo Bar in 2012 with its biggest line-up yet. Topping the bill will be Pnau, out for this exclusive Sydney performance off the back of their collaboration with none other than Elton John, Good Morning to the Night. They will be joined by Ajax, YesYou, Elizabeth Rose, DJ Flagrant, SoSueMe DJs, Emoh Instead (half of So What Not), Plus many more.
Tix now selling on www.cargonye.com
New Year's Eve at The Retro Hotel
The Retro is ideally located in the heart of Sydney's vibrant nightlife, nightclub, bar and restaurant district. The Retro combines fun, lively entertainment and fantastic service to deliver the best in hospitality and entertainment.
Every week Retro offers a new and exciting theme. The theme for New Year's Eve is Fire and Ice which means dress up in red and white, the crazier the better.
VIP tickets for this unmissable night are available through the link below and include access to our rooftop terrace bar which provides a view of the fireworks from Darling Harbour and a selection of local beer, house wine, vodka, bourbon and canapes available between 7pm and 12 am. The best part is you get to enjoy all of this while listening to Sydney's's best DJ's spinning a mix of retro and dance tunes all night!!
Retro's other floors will also be open and it's free for those with a general admission ticket.
So come and join the party!!! It is the perfect way to kick off your New Year with a night of Retro madness! We open at 4pm and the party finishes at 6am!
The Bristol Arms Retro Hotel, 81 Sussex Street NSW 2000
Ph: 02 9262 54 91
Web: www.theretro.com.au
Facebook: facebook.com/retrohotelbristolarms
El Circo New Year's Eve
Celebrate New Years Eve the Euorpean way! at Slide
Part circus, part cabaret, part burlesque and entirely original, El’ Circo is a truly magical experience that captivates, the moment you enter the room.
Created by French born Marc Kuzma, the show features a range of circus acts influenced with the matchless charm and flavour of Parisian cabaret.
Encircled by mesmerising circus acts, including hypnotising trapeze, pole, silks, illusion and vocal performances with interludes of enchanting fine cuisine you will be captivated throughout the evening.
9pm fireworks LIVE on the big screen
A full night of entertainment and fine dining.
9 Course Degustation | 9 Naughty NYE Circus Acts | Beverage Package | $189
Bookings: info@slide.com.au 028915 1899
Visit their website - www.slide.com.au
New Year's Eve at Delicado
We have 2 special promotions on at Delicado in McMahons Point for NYE. Special access passes will be issued so that people can come down into the closed off section of Blues Point Road.
1. Champagne and Seafood Masterclass - 1 group of 15 for a Champagne and Seafood Degustation inside from 7pm-11pm. They can then head on down to the fireworks.
2. 8 course degustation menu in restaurant with matching wines (menu can be provided) - space is still available for the 5pm - 8pm sitting
For bookings call 9955 9399
New Year's Eve at The Glenmore
After 9 months of renovation, The Glenmore reclaims its title as Sydney’s NYE hotspot with a New Years Eve party not to be missed.
On December 31, 2012 The Glenmore invites guests to enjoy:
* Sensational views of Sydney’s world famous fire works display
* Exclusive access to The Rooftop and Glenmore Lounge
* 12 Piece Premium Canape Package
* 3 Hour Premium Beverage Package
* Complimentary glass of Moet & Chandon at midnight
* Featuring DJ Babysham
TICKET PRICE: $275 per person (incl of GST)
To book tickets contact functions@theglenmore.com.au
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