The GOP Bonn offers a three-course meal at its New Year's Eve Gala. Guests are welcomed from 6:30 pm with an aperitif and finger foods in the foyer. Appetizers and the main course are served in the theater, while the acrobats perform their show "Toys" on stage. The pause is sweetened with a little dessert.

At midnight, visitors are treated with a glass of champagne as well as German jelly donuts called ‘Berliner’. Afterwards, you can dance to live music in the piano bar until the early hours of the morning or listen to the sounds from the DJ booth in the Leander restaurant. The tickets are already sold out, but you can be put on the waiting list by calling 0228 / 422-4141. If you can do without the vaudeville show, you can enjoy tickets for a four-course meal from 7:30 pm at the Restaurant Leander for 89 euros. For 19 euros you can party with the other guests from 10pm until midnight. Information about all three offers can be found here: https://www.variete.de/spielorte/bonn/angebote/events/silvester/

At the Bonn Opera, a New Year's Eve party with gastronomy, dance and fireworks takes place after the evening performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard". The party begins at 10 pm. The play is based on the film of the same name from the 1950s, in which Billy Wilder tells of the tragic downfall of a silent movie icon in the age of sound film (German). Tickets are available for adults from 39.60 euros. More information can be found here: http://www.theater-bonn.de/spielplan/monatsspielplan/oper/event/sunset-boulevard/vc/Veranstaltung/va/show/

New Year's Eve on a Bonn passenger ship (BPS) includes, for example, live music and a New Year's Eve gala buffet on board the party yacht Poseidon. Admission: 7:30pm, boat ride: 8:30pm to 1am, finale until 2am. The event is sold out, tickets for 98 euros may be purchased via the waiting list. Phone number 0228/636363. Information at www.b-p-s.de.

The Bonn Hilton Hotel organizes a New Year's Eve gala with a buffet or six-course meal. The buffet will open at 7 pm with an aperitif and costs 109 Euro per person. The six-course meal starts at 6 pm, also with an aperitif. This is served in the restaurant "The Grill".

For 29 euros, guests can expect a trio of quail with lentil salad and pea sprouts, lobster cream soup with curry foam and wasabi chili shrimp, grilled scallop in vanilla oil on enoki mushrooms and pak choi with young garlic, Thai basil sorbet with Bombay sapphire gin, Black Angus Fillet with pepper crust on green parsley root puree and white cauliflower purée with Szechuan pepper cherry confit and roasted almond cream with chocolate biscuit and avocado mango tartare.

Whether you choose the buffet or menu, you can dance to a live band in the foyer after dining. At midnight there will be a reception on the terrace overlooking the Rhine and fireworks. A selection of drinks and parking is included in the price. Alternatively, one can spend the evening from 10pm in a relaxed environment at the Kennedy Bar with finger foods for the cost of 24 euros. Reservations can be made by calling 0228/72694302 or by e-mail at events.bonn@hilton.com.

The Kameha Grand Hotel has several offers to make it stand out. In the Yunico restaurant, visitors can enjoy a menu of unusual Japanese creations beginning at 7:30pm. In the Brasserie a culinary fireworks is promised from 7pm. For a more relaxed evening, you can have a Bavarian meal from 8 pm in the Rheinalm. The Universal Hall offers a generous New Year's Eve buffet from 8 pm. Those who want can spend the evening in the spa of the hotel starting at 8pm. For the younger guests there is also something: Children can can celebrate the New Year while in child care from 6pm until 2am.

The highlight is the Grand Gold New Year's Eve Party, celebrated under the theme "Masked Ball" this year. Guests are greeted with a welcome drink by candlelight and "imposing decorations", as the hotel writes on its homepage. To keep the evening mysterious and authentic, guests are asked to dress in evening wear and to wear a mask.

Please visit the homepage for more information: https://www.kamehabonn.de/de/grand-gold-silvester.html

The Maritim Hotel Bonn has again planned its New Year's Eve Gala Maritim Royal. This costs 69 euros and includes ticket and drinks. If you can’t or do not want to go home at night, you could book an overnight package. For 350 euros (double room) or 366 euros (single room) per person guests receive two nights including admission to the New Year's Eve gala and other extras.

You can purchase tickets for the gala on their Website or by calling 0228-8108555. The offer with accommodations is available from December 30, 2017 until January 2, 2018.

At the Hotel Königshof on the Rhine, there is an after-job party on December 31. It starts at 9 pm in all the event rooms of the hotel. At midnight, guests have the best view of the Rhine, fireworks and Siebengebirge from the Rhine terrace. There is also a New Year's Eve raffle.

The tickets are available for 25 euros under bonnticket.de

The best view of the fireworks in Bad Godesberg and surrounding area is offered by an evening up on the Godesburg. Here guests can expect a champagne reception, a New Year's Eve buffet, piano music to get you into the mood and later a live band and DJ. Among the menu choices are duck, shrimp from a giant pan in safran aioli and pina colada cream with pineapple chutney. All this is available for 150 euros per person. Reservations are necessary and can be made on the website of Godesburg: https://www.godesburg-bonn.de/silvesterfeier/

At "New Year's Eve in the Harmonie" in Bonn-Endenich this year, the Legendary Ghetto Dance Band and DJ H2O-Lee will provide for a great atmosphere. The band is known from the Cologne boxing event "Night of the Raging Bulls", where they regularly get the place cooking. "The Legendary Ghetto Dance Band stands for wild, sweaty shows that put their mark on every party night", writes the Harmonie on their homepage. The "Ghetto Dance" is all about a wild party and a big show. Covered is everything from the Beasty Boys to Nelly.

It starts at 8pm. You can get a ticket in advance for 29 euros. Contact: 0228 / 614-042.

The Brückenforum in Beuel celebrates with the best music from the 80s, 90s and into the year 2018. There the New Year's Eve parties will be in full swing. Among the acts are DJ Chris, DJ Manu POP and of course Lommie and the original Biskuithallen crew.

It starts at 9pm, tickets are 17.90 euros and available at bonnticket.de.

In the town hall in Bonn-Bad Godesberg, the Bonn gymnastics club puts on a New Year's ball. The tickets cost between 28 and 38 euros in advance and can be booked by calling 0228 / 207-6667. For 34 euros extra , one can also order a three-course menu via the Stadthalle (0228 / 528-810).

The Günnewig Hotel Bristol in Bonn city center invites you to a New Year's Eve ball. After a champagne reception, guests can dance their feet off doing everything from the disco fox to the Viennese waltz. There will also be a New Year's Eve gala buffet and a glass of sparkling wine at midnight to kick off the New Year.

Tickets cost 129 euros per person and can be purchased by calling (0228) 26 98 814 or by E-Mail . Here table reservations are also accepted.

The improvisation theater of the Springmaus moves to the Rhein-Sieg-Halle in Siegburg for New Year's Eve 2017. With skits, songs and improv comedy, the ensemble wants to shorten its audience's waiting time until midnight. As always, there is no fixed program; instead, the audience can influence the program with their votes. Fitting for the occasion, the overall theme is: What are we actually doing on New Year's Eve? Everything that happened during the last year should be covered. The cheapest tickets are available here for 29.90 euros: http://www.springmaus-theater.de/programm-und-tickets/programmuebersicht/detail.html?t=1781

Germany's longest New Year's Eve fireworks (according to their own information) are at Phantasialand in Brühl. The music-synchronized fireworks will go up from Kaiserplatz in the Berlin themed area. In addition to various gala dinners in the hotels of the amusement park, you can officially celebrate in the park. In Wuze Town, you can dance to chart hits and party music on two floors or let yourself be shaken up by the roller coasters Winja's Fear and Force. Non-alcoholic drinks but also cocktails, mixed drinks and beer are included in the price of the evening. Those who buy their tickets early can get them for 99 euros, later they cost 105 euros per person. Reservations are possible at 02232 / 36-600 or on the Internet .

Cologne's biggest New Year's Eve party will be back in 2017 at the Lanxess Arena. For the 19th time, Bläck Fööss, the mother of all Cologne bands, is celebrating an unforgettable new year with its huge song repertoire and unique show concept.

Kafi Biermann, Ralph Gusovius, "Bömmel" Lückerath, Hartmut Priess, Peter Schütten, Erik Stokklosa, Mirko Bäumer and Andreas Wegener will keep their fans in the best mood until way after midnight. Tickets are available from 30 euros at the ticket shop of the Lanxess-Arena, Willy-Brandt-Platz in Cologne or by calling 0221/8020.

Anyone who wants to spend money on New Year's Eve is in the right place at Kölner Wolkenburg. The tickets cost 199 euros in advance. You can save 4.50 euros by purchasing the tickets locally. Guests will receive champagne at the reception and at midnight, a five-course meal, a wine-tasting menu, beer, coffee variations and non-alcoholic drinks, as well as live music from the seven-member party show band "Fantasia World Beat Orchestra". The organizer promises "A fireworks of beats and aromas", and says the ballroom will be decked out in gold.

An overview of the menu is available on the Website of Wolkenburg. Reservations can be made by calling 0221 / 921-326-10.

Orig. text: ga.de

Translation: ck