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Customs House Hotel
- From: From $58 p/head
About
Overview & Vibe
Customs House Hotel has stood on Newcastle’s harbour foreshore since 1877, when it housed the Australian Customs offices. It is heritage listed, built in Italianate Renaissance Revival style, and has been a fixture of the Newcastle CBD for well over a century.
Setting & Style
The wedding spaces are upstairs. Customs Hall is the large one — an open room with an ornate marble fireplace and a bar overlooking the water, holding two hundred for cocktails or a hundred and forty seated. The Harbourmasters Lounge is smaller and higher-ceilinged, with timber floors, harbour windows and its own private bar, for sixty cocktail or forty seated. Below them the Collectors Room seats twenty beside a bay window over the beer garden and fountain, with the Examiners Room, the Long Room and the Old Pool Room filling in around them. A ground-floor restaurant, bar and beer garden run underneath the lot.
Ideal For
Couples wanting a heritage building on the harbour, with rooms that scale from twenty to two hundred.
The Need-to-Knows
- Twenty to two hundred guests across four principal spaces.
- Function pricing is based on a five-hour period; extended hire can be arranged four weeks ahead.
- There is no disabled access to the upstairs spaces.
- Fully catered and licensed — no external food or beverage, except a cake at $50 cakeage.
Standout Feature
An 1877 heritage building on the harbour foreshore, with a marble fireplace and a bar looking out over the water.
Amenities
- Heritage Listed 1877 Building
- Harbour Foreshore Location
- Ornate Marble Fireplace
- Private Bar
- Bar Overlooking the Harbour
- Dedicated Wedding Planner
- Multiple Event Spaces
- Ducted Air Conditioning
- In-house Sound System
- Handheld Wireless Microphones
- Parquetry Dance Floor
- White Linen Tablecloths and Napkins
- Silverware and Glassware Included
- Tables and Chairs Included
- Beer Garden
- Ground Floor Restaurant and Bar
- Cash and EFTPOS Bar Facilities
- In-house Catering
Ceremony Setting
- indoor
- heritage building
- waterfront
- courtyard
Dietary Options Supported
- Kids Meals
Nearby Landmarks
- Newcastle Harbour Foreshore – Directly outside
- Queens Wharf – On the foreshore
- Nobbys Beach and Breakwall – A short walk east
- Fort Scratchley – On the headland above the harbour
- Newcastle Museum – In the Honeysuckle precinct
- Newcastle CBD – Immediately surrounding
On Site Accommodation
No details available.
Price Notes
- Catering: two-course alternate drop $69 per head, three-course $79, buffet $58 (minimum 30 guests), restaurant dining $65 (maximum 30 guests). Additional canapes are $8 per head standard, $9 premium and $12 substantial; grazing tables $12 standard, $14 premium and $16 dessert; platters range from $150 to $180 for a light snack for ten. Beverage packages are priced per head for 3, 4 or 5 hours of service with no price caps: Bronze $59/$69/$79, Silver $69/$79/$89, Gold $79/$89/$99, with a spirits add-on at $29 per head for a maximum of three hours. Bar tabs and cash bars are also available; subsidised bar tabs are not offered. Add-ons include a cocktail on arrival at $16 per head, an oyster station at $10 per head and French champagne at $99 per bottle. Function prices are based on a five-hour period, with extended hire arranged at least four weeks in advance. The venue is fully catered and licensed, so no external food or beverage may be brought in with the exception of a cake, which incurs a $50 cakeage charge. Room hire is non-refundable and final numbers are due 21 days before the event.
Price Per Head
- From $58 p/head
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Contact
- Website
- customshouse.net.au
- Phone
- (02) 4925 2585
- Address
- 1 Bond Street, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
1 Bond Street, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
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