PLENTY OF WAYS TO PARTY IN BRISBANE

Bright begin … about 100,000 people have been approaching to applaud New Year's during Brisbane's South Bank

ECONOMIC downturn? There have been copiousness of options for creation New Year's Eve memorable, whatever your budget.

Reddacliff Place, Brisbane City: GET your dancing boots upon as well as conduct to Reddacliff Place during a tip of a Queen Street Mall for giveaway Latin dance lessons in between a New Year's Eve dance party. From 6pm. Info: www.queenstreetmall.com

Queens Arms Hotel, Fortitude Valley: THE iconic beer hall will horde a Fire as well as Ice New Year's Eve Party, with a categorical club open to a public, a DJ, as well as cooking packages available. Dinner as well as libation package $75. Info: 3358 2799

Manx, Portside Wharf, Hamilton: WITH dual sets of fireworks being set off upon a boat without delay in front of Portside Wharf as well as manifest from a front as well as outward seating of Manx upon a large night, conduct to a grill to be entirely catered to for a dusk with a four-course meal. Tickets $95. Info: 3216 4999

Brisbane ride as well as services beam for Christmas-new year

Fridays, Brisbane City: DON your raciest red delegate as well as paint a locale red during Fridays. Enjoy food, song as well as midnight fireworks. Tickets $30 during a door. Info: 3832 2122

Monsoon, Fortitude Valley: MONSOON will horde a night-in-Bangkok-themed New Year's Eve with a six-course Thai celebration or a la grant menu options as well as giveaway limo send inside of a 5km radius. Tickets $80. Info: 3852 3533

Conrad Treasury, Brisbane City: CHOOSE from a preference of prohibited jazz as well as excellent food during Conrad Treasury Casino for New Year's Eve. The barbarous Wiley Reed will perform whilst guest suffer a six-course degustation menu. Tickets $190. Info: www.conradtreasury.com.au

Hotel Bravo, Fortitude Valley: THE French Connection during Hotel Bravo will see guest entertained with a cover-up theme, giveaway froth during midnight, live song as well as DJ Mark Thompson. $10 entrance after 9pm. Info: 3852 3533

Palace Barracks Cinemas, Petrie Tce: PALACE Barracks will horde a initial New Year's Eve celebrations with a 9.15pm screening of Seven Pounds starring Will Smith, followed by a epicurean repast with sparkling, white as well as red booze as well as a perspective of a fireworks. Tickets $45. Info: 1300 627 385 or www.palacecinemas.com.au

Belvedere Hotel, Woody Point: THE Belvedere Hotel will horde a B celebration upon New Year's Eve. Guests have been invited to come ready to go as their prime "B" animal, intent or impression as well as a celebration starts during 8pm. Or stick upon a Naughty NYE celebration with Rushmore playing. Tickets $15-$55. Info: 3284 2245 or www.belvederehotel.com.au

Scarborough: ENJOY Big Show Queensland's Scarborough Fair with markets as well as live entertainment. Fireworks during 8pm as well as midnight. Free entrance from 10am though cost for rides. Scarborough Beach Park, Landsborough Ave, Scarborough. Info: 0438 661 904

Iceworks Precinct, Paddington: CHEF James Williams will put together a appetizing menu for a Iceworks Precinct's glamorous New Year's dinner, that will suggest guest plasma TV screenings of festivities around a nation as well as glimpses of a Brisbane River fireworks. Tickets have been $100. Info: 3367 9800

Empire Hotel, Fortitude Valley: THE Empire Hotel is set to suggest multiform DJs conflicting a club areas, with 21-year-old UK trade Foamo (aka Kye Gibbon) as well as Brisbane prolongation crews Shifty as well as Adicts upon a top level. Entry is $10 prior to 10pm. Info: 3852 1216

River Canteen, South Bank: AN form of options will be open to diners during a River Canteen whilst they take in a festivities during South Bank. An eight-course degustation menu is upon suggest from 7pm to 1am for $200 per person, a five-course preference is $150, as well as there will be live entertainment. Info: 3846 1839

Cirque du Soleil, Hamilton: AS THE round drops in Times Square upon New Year's Eve, Cirque du Soleil is set to keep theirs in a air with dual shows. Under a Grand Chapiteau during Hamilton, Cirque will take to a theatre during 4pm as well as 8pm. Tickets $35-$119.00. Info: 1300 130 300 or www.cirquedusoleil.com

Emporium Hotel, Fortitude Valley: FORTITUDE Valley's Emporium Hotel has denounced a brand brand new bubbly beverage menu. The hotel's brand brand new Imperial Rouge signature cocktail, jarred with Wyborowa Exquisite vodka, orange freshness H2O as well as hiss as well as partnered with morsels similar to cheese croquettes as well as crispy tempura prawn parcels, is certain to impress. Info: 3253 6999

Story Bridge Hotel, Kangaroo Point: BRISBANE'S iconic Story Bridge Hotel will horde a high-rolling 1970s casino-themed celebration in a Martini Bar as well as Heritage Room. There will additionally be a VIP Rio Carnivale spectacular in a Shelter Bar as well as a five-course degustation in Deery's Restaurant. Tickets $20-$139. Info: 3391 2266

Byblos club as well as restaurant, Hamilton: LEBANESE grill Byblos will horde an Arabian Nights party, with fireworks, costumed dancers, live music, glow performers, swordsmen, camels as well as more. Tickets $165-$200. Info: 3268 2223

Gianni Events, Hamilton: GIANNI Events is receiving a root out of a book of Sean Combs' White Party with a White Night-themed event. Gourmet canapes will be served among live entertainment. Tickets $159. Info: 3868 3603

Redlands RSL, Cleveland: CATCH a Beach Boys reverence band, The Beach Boyz, during a Redlands RSL upon New Year's Eve. Info: 07 5533 8370

Zuri, Fortitude Valley: FORTITUDE Valley nightspot Zuri is set to spin up a luminary dial, engagement Entourage star Adrian Grenier's rope The Honey Brothers. The 'A night in Vegas' themed dusk will see ticketholders embrace $50 in Zuri dollars to fool around black jack, roulette or craps as well as tall rollers will have entrance in to a VIP lounge. Tickets: Entourage pass $199, High Rollers pass $249. Info: 3257 4999

South Bank: THE venue of preference for around 100,000 people annually, South Bank will once again horde Brisbane's greatest New Year's Eve celebrations this year. There'll be live entertainment, Mario Cart as well as Guitar Hero Wii competitions, an all-ages dance party. Fireworks 8.30pm as well as midnight. Info: 3867 2051 or www.visitsouthbank.com.au

Brisbane Arts Theatre, Petrie Tce, City: JOIN Brisbane's heading makeshift humerous party association as they demeanour behind during a uncanny as well as smashing stories of 2008. 2008: Thank God it's Gone will flog off during a Brisbane Arts Theatre, Petrie Terrace, during 8pm. Tickets $45 for cooking as well as show. Info: 3369 2344

GOLD COAST

FIREWORKS displays will dot a seashore from Coomera to Coolangatta as well as everywhere between.

• Coomera: Entertainment from 5pm. 9pm as well as midnight fireworks. Grass area subsequent to Boathouse Tavern, Lot 101 Dreamworld Parkway. 5502 9800

• Paradise Point: Entertainment from 6pm. 9pm fireworks. Paradise Point Foreshore Park. 5577 2387

• Southport: Entertainment from 6pm. 9pm fireworks. James Overell Park, Brighton Parade.

• Surfers Paradise: Fireworks during 9pm as well as midnight. Surfers Paradise Beach, Nerang River boat conflicting Appel Park, 34 Ferny Avenue as well as Q1, 9 Hamilton Avenue, Surfers Paradise. 5584 3700

• Broadbeach: Entertainment from 6pm. 8pm as well as midnight fireworks. Kurrawa Park. 5539 8416

• Coolangatta: Fireworks during 9pm as well as midnight. Coolangatta beachfront. 5536 1181.

Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort as well as Spa, Gold Coast: The Gold Coast Marriott Hotel will horde a initial New Year's Eve Charity Ball this year. The black tie eventuality will embody gift auctions to good a Humour Foundation's Clown Doctors project. Tickets from $195. Info: 5592 9800

Gold Coast celebration tour: HOP upon a celebration train as well as get VIP entrance in to 5 Gold Coast clubs, photos, prizes as well as food for a evening. The celebration starts during 5pm. Tickets have been $90. Info: 1300 463 648

Wet 'n' Wild, Gold Coast: KIDS can dash down during Wet 'n' Wild with face painting, karaoke, sailing characters, competitions, The Tale of Despereaux film screening during 7pm as well as fireworks during 9pm. Gates open 10am with rides using until 8.30pm. Info: 5556 1660 or www.wetnwild.myfun.com.au

Odyssey NYE, Carrara parklands: SHAPING up to be a single of a greatest all-in parties for over-18s this New Year's Eve, Odyssey NYE upon a Gold Coast will underline Grinspoon, The Butterfly Effect, Juke Kartel as well as more. Plus rides as well as drinks enclosed in a sheet price. Tickets $150/VIP $210. Info: 03 9421 5489 or www.odysseynye.com.au

ELSEWHERE

Warrego Wines, Marburg: WINE lovers will have a possibility to douse themselves in a Warrego Wines vineyard as well as ring in a New Year with a five-course cooking as well as live jazz rope Honey. Tickets $199. Info: 5464 4400

Nindigully Pub, Goondiwindi: HEAD to a single of Queensland's oldest pubs, a Nindigully Pub, west of Goondiwindi, for a New Year's fireworks show, live music, a pool celebration as well as heaps of freebies. Entry is $20 with giveaway camping. Info: 1800 688 949 www.darlingdownsholidays.info or www.westerndownsholidays.info

Mooloolaba: CATCH dual fireworks displays during a upon a water from a Mooloolaba green upon New Year's Eve during 8pm as well as midnight. Free celebration from 5pm. No ethanol or glass. Info: 1300 007 272

Blue Angel restaurant, Noosa: A FIVE-course degustation menu will be served with French champagne during Noosa's Blue Angel restaurant's New Year's Eve dinner. Menu equipment embody Petuna sea fish swell as well as white asparagus as well as Alba truffle risotto. Tickets have been $150. Info: 5473 0800

Jondaryan Woolshed, nearby Toowoomba: THE ancestral Jondaryan Woolshed, located half an hour west of Toowoomba, will horde a annual New Year's Eve eventuality together with live celebration from 8pm. Dinner will be upon sale during a Woolshed from 6.30pm. Activities embody guided tours, shearing demonstrations as well as a bushman's breakfast a following morning. Info: 1800 688 949 www.darlingdownsholidays.info

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