VR Christmas Party Southampton
Southampton does its Decembers in waterfront hotels, stadium suites and office floors with the lights turned low — and every one of those rooms has the same quiet gap between the meal and the music. We fill it with a tournament the whole company plays.
Made for a Solent Christmas
Waterfront rooms, handled
The harbour hotels and Ocean Village venues host most of the city's big nights, and their service corridors, lifts and load-in windows are familiar territory. We agree the build slot directly with the events team so your evening starts polished.
Built for uneven Decembers
Port, cruise and hospital employers can't land everyone in one room on one night. Scored qualifying stretches across the whole evening — latecomers off a shift still get their turn, and the fairest scoreboard in the company settles the rest.
A centrepiece beyond the bar
Every December party has drinks and a playlist. Far fewer have a moment the whole room gathers for — four finalists on a big screen produces one, and it's the part people retell in January.
Your running order, upgraded
The tournament wraps around dinner and hands the room to the DJ warmer than it found it.
In through the service route, built in the signed-off corner, cables taped before dessert. The reveal is the screen coming alive.
Short scored turns between coffees and catch-ups. The screen's running order does the persuading; we just keep the rotation honest.
Best scores face off with the room gathered in. Someone's quiet colleague turns out to have a suspiciously good swing — it's a December tradition.
Podium photo, kit cased and gone while the dance floor takes over. All that's left is the argument about next year's title.
How it plays in Southampton
The venue spread runs from grand to gloriously practical: the harbour-view hotel ballrooms, the hospitality floors at St Mary's, the cricket ground's party nights out at the Bowl, Guildhall's civic scale, and — increasingly — companies clearing their own office floor and spending the venue budget on better everything else. The rig suits all of them because it carries its own turf, its own screen and its own power plan; the only thing a room must supply is a corner and a socket.
December here also means working around the season itself: cruise-terminal traffic on turnaround days, the winter influx around Westquay, and venue diaries that compress hard once the first frost lands. We watch the sailing schedule the way Nottingham watches its fair — a detail most entertainers never think to check, and exactly the kind that decides whether a build runs early or late. Yours will run early.
Southampton Christmas packages
After-work party
2 hrs · 1 experience · host included · ideal for teams up to 30
Party night
Evening · 2 experiences + leaderboard tournament · up to 80 guests
Company Christmas showdown
Full evening · multi-station Virtual Sports Day with finals & prizes
Travel across Southampton and the near M27 is included all December. Portsmouth, Winchester and New Forest venues carry a single itemised travel line — visible on the quote, never sprung on the invoice.
Asked before every booking
How early do Solent Christmas dates go?
Can you run alongside a hotel party-night package?
Our people work rotas — can everyone still compete?
Do sequins, suits and heels survive a go?
What about an office party instead of a venue?
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Book the Solent's missing hour
Give us a date and a rough headcount — we'll check the December diary and the cruise schedule today, and hold your slot while the invite goes round.
Quicker by phone? 020 3411 1264
Roughly how many guests?
This decides how many stations you need — the main thing that moves a price.