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Festival Drive, Adelaide City Centre, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia Reception 24/7
Events

Weddings & Gala Events

The heritage ballroom under original chandeliers, the river terraces and a planning desk that has run four hundred events without a visible seam.

480 banquet · 900 receptionFull productionHeritage wing
480
Banquet seats
6 m
Ceiling height
400+
Events produced
2
Divisible halls
Overview

A room that doesn't need decorating

The 1901 ballroom carries its own gravity — chandeliers, sprung floor and arched windows on Festival Plaza. Production adds to it; it never has to rescue it.

Smaller events spread across the private dining room, the conservatory and the rooftop terrace — the events desk scales down as comfortably as up.

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Ballroom Setup
Highlights

Event capabilities

Weddings

Ceremony in the conservatory, dinner in the ballroom, suite upstairs — one venue, zero transport.

Galas & awards

Staging, lighting and broadcast infrastructure the production teams already know.

Event catering

The signature kitchen runs banquets to the same standard as the dining room — same brigade.

Floor plans

CAD layouts and capacity charts for every configuration — sent with the first quote.

Room blocks

Negotiated suite rates for your guests with a dedicated booking code.

Event director

One named director from first site visit to last dance — no handovers.

Wedding reception in the ballroom
Gala dinner production
Rooftop terrace event
How It Works

From enquiry to doors-open

The planning sequence every event follows.

1

Site visit

Walk the ballroom and terraces with your director.

2

Written quote

Full itemisation — hire, catering, production — before you commit.

3

Production

Menus tasted, layouts signed, run-sheet rehearsed.

4

The night

Your director is on the floor until the last guest leaves.

Weddings in practice

Most weddings use the conservatory for ceremony, the terrace for cocktails and the ballroom for dinner. The suite floor holds the wedding party; guests take a negotiated room block.

Corporate and gala

Product launches, awards dinners and end-of-year galas run through the same desk — broadcast-ready lighting, lectern and stage stock in-house, and the casino floor stays a separate world two doors away.

Rate

$6,500 ballroom hire from

Quotes in writing

Ballroom hire from $6,500; gala packages from $185 pp; wedding suite + ballroom from $9,800. Every quote is itemised before signature.

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Included

  • Named event director
  • Floor plans & capacity charts
  • In-house AV & lighting
  • Kitchen by the signature brigade
  • Guest room block rates
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Four hundred events and the staff still treat yours like the first one they ever got right.

Event planner · Adelaide

Questions

Frequently asked

The details guests check before booking this service.

480 for banquet, 900 for reception, divisible into two halls of roughly half that each.
Yes — outside vendors are welcome after a short compliance check the events team manages for you.
No — events use the heritage wing entrance on Festival Drive; the gaming floor is a separate precinct entirely.
Weddings typically 9–14 months; corporate events 8–12 weeks is usually workable.

Walk the room

Site visits run most days — forty minutes with the event director answers more than forty emails.