Community-hall parties in Herne
One price, written down before you book. Hall, tables, string lights, sound, set-up, clean-up and two of us there on the night. You bring the people and the food.
Family celebrations · birthdays · Kına nights · christenings · anniversaries
02 — Three packages. Pick by guest count.
Move the slider and the package picks itself — you never pay for a size you don't need. The bar at the bottom of the page keeps the running total in view wherever you scroll.
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Selected by your guest count
The living-room-is-too-small party
€690Flat price
Round tables for fifty, lights up, sound checked, and the hall handed back clean at midnight. The one most birthdays need.
The whole family plus the neighbours
€1,190Flat price
A bigger hall, two extra hours, a third pair of hands and a proper buffet line so nobody queues past the door.
The one people talk about for years
€2,190Flat price
Two hundred seats, ten hours, five of us, a stage-end set-up for speeches and a cloakroom that is actually staffed.
03 — What the price covers
Everything below is in the package price. We wrote this list so you can hold it against any other quote you get.
We hold the date with the hall, sign the contract and hand you the keys. Tables and chairs are set to the seating plan you send us.
We arrive four hours early and stay until the last chair is stacked. You never have to be there for either.
Warm fairy lights across the ceiling, runners, tea lights and jars on every table, in your colour if you tell us one.
Speakers, mixer, cables and a radio mic for speeches. Plug your phone in and it works.
Real crockery for your full guest count, plus serving dishes and a tea urn. Returned dirty — that's our problem, not yours.
Floors, kitchen, toilets and every bag of rubbish. The hall gets handed back in the state the caretaker wants it.
Two to five of us, depending on the package, on site from the first guest to the last. One named person is yours for the evening.
Noise notification, the music licence and the hall's own forms. We file them; you never see them.
We would rather say this here than on the invoice.
04 — Add-ons
Tick one and watch the bar at the bottom change. Nothing here is compulsory and nothing gets added without you touching it.
+€280
Five hours with one of the three DJs we work with, all of whom carry German, Turkish and Arabic sets and take requests from the floor. Own kit, own lights, arrives an hour before your guests.
+€240
The décor for a kına gecesi, the henna evening a bride's family holds before the wedding. We set the henna tray with candles and rose petals, lay out the red veil and embroidered cushions, place the copper ewer and dress a low seating area for the bride and her guests. The ceremony itself stays entirely with your family — we set the room and then get out of the way.
+€120
A curtained-off corner with a play mat, a pop-up tent, cushions, crayons and paper, set far enough from the speakers that small children can actually fall asleep in it.
05 — Is your date free?
Type the date. The answer comes back straight away, and it tells you which of our four halls are still open — filtered by the guest count you set above.
Checked against 249 dated rows in our calendar export.
Nothing is checked until you enter one.
Our office exports the booking calendar every night. That export ships with this page as a plain table of dates and halls, so the check runs in your browser: no request goes anywhere, nothing about your party is sent to us until you press send on the form, and the answer is the same one our office sees.
Calendar last exported on Friday, 4 September 2026. 249 dates in it have at least one hall taken; every other date has all four free.
One honest caveat: a hall booked today shows up here tomorrow morning. If a date matters, send it and we will confirm it by phone the same day.
06 — The halls we know
Four halls in Herne. We have worked all of them dozens of times, which is why set-up is quick and the caretakers let us in early.
Sodingen
The big one: a high pitched ceiling that takes string lights beautifully, a proper stage end for speeches and a kitchen two caterers can work in at once.
Wanne
Two minutes from the tram stop, which matters when half your guests come without a car. Warm parquet, good acoustics, a wide serving hatch.
Baukau
Tall windows on one side, so an afternoon christening still feels like daytime. Quiet street, easy unloading at the back.
Holsterhausen
The smallest and the cosiest. Ninety people in here feels full in the good way, and the neighbours are used to us.
All four are inside Herne, none more than fifteen minutes apart by car.
Bahnhofstraße 41, 44623 Herne
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Bahnhofstraße 41, 44623 Herne
07 — What people said afterwards
Four of the notes we were sent. We asked before putting them here.
We had been quoted three times for my mother's seventieth and every quote grew by the time it was signed. Paketfest sent one number and that number was what I paid. The hall was lit and ready when we walked in at six.
They set the kına table properly — the tray, the candles, the veil, the cushions — and then they stepped back and let my aunts run the evening the way it should be run. That is exactly right. Nobody was performing anything.
Two of them were there all night. When the coffee machine died at half nine one of them drove home and came back with his own. I did not find out until the next week.
The kids corner is the reason we booked. Eleven children under six, all of them asleep on cushions by eleven, and the parents stayed until the end for once.
08 — Questions people ask first
For fifty guests, yes — that is the hall, our work, the lights, the sound, the crockery, the clean and the paperwork. The only things that can be added to it are the add-ons you tick yourself, overtime you agree with us on the night at €90 an hour, and the €200 deposit, which comes back. Food and drink are yours to arrange.
Yes, and most people do. All four halls have kitchens you are allowed to use, and we will tell you which one suits your menu. If you would rather someone else cooked, ask and we will name three caterers in Herne who know these kitchens — we take no commission from any of them.
The check offers you the nearest three dates that work for your guest count — one click puts one into the form. If the date itself is fixed, call us: we sometimes hear about a cancellation days before it reaches the calendar, and we know two more halls outside our regular four.
A kına gecesi is the henna evening the bride's family holds before a Turkish wedding. Our add-on is the room, not the ceremony: the henna tray dressed with candles and rose petals, the red veil, embroidered cushions, the copper ewer and a low seating area for the bride and her guests. Who sings, who leads, who brings the henna and how it is done stays with your family, and we do not comment on it.
€200 to hold the date, the balance plus the €200 deposit fourteen days before the party. Bank transfer or card. The deposit is back in your account within five working days if the hall is undamaged, which it almost always is.
Tell us as soon as you know and we move you up a package, paying only the difference. If ten extra turn up unannounced we will find them chairs and say nothing — the package is priced on the hall, not on heads at the door.
Rarely. We are quick and cheap because we know four halls extremely well, and we lose both of those the moment we leave the city. Wanne-Eickel and Castrop-Rauxel border cases: ask.
More than 60 days out, you lose nothing but the €200 booking fee. Between 60 and 14 days, half the package price, because the hall is already ours. Inside 14 days, the full price. Move the date instead if you can — a move costs you nothing once.
09 — Book it
Send this and you get a written quote with the exact number back the same working day, usually within two hours. Nothing is charged and nothing is held until you say yes to that quote.
Paket S
50 guests
Total, all in
€690
Running total: 690 euro for 50 guests on package Paket S.