New Year's Eve 2011 Denver: ten best nightlife events

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• It was a huge thrill going to Denver where my best friend lived. I wanted to do something for New Year’s that I’ve never done before and my friend told me this was the biggest and best party in Denver. She said that she had gone to the Halloween party that The Collective Events had thrown and the New Year’s party was going to be just as fun! She sent me the invite on Facebook so I could check it out; it was called the White Rosa Gala. Apparently they had been putting on this New Year’s party for a while now and had a ton of past pictures and videos – it looked nuts! After looking at the details I saw there were actually two parties going on. The White Rose Gala featured an astonishing, innovative, and remarkable theatrical performance and décor in an “Asian” themed environment with over 3,000 people that were going to be dressed up and dancing to DJ’s & Bands. Come to find out, we actually were planning on hitting up the Champagne Hotel – this is part of the entire party, but they were throwing the party between two hotels that were right next to each other. This one was the one at the Marriott that was more of a high energy crowd, described as the ultimate party environment with over 4,000 people that showed up. It had awesome music as well and was almost like a club scene with high tech laser lights, multiple themed party rooms, amazing performances, DJs, bands, and dance music. We got there a little early the day of the party just so that we could get checked in, familiarize ourselves with the place, and have enough time to get ready. It was also really nice to have the hotel room so no one had to worry about a safe ride home or designating a driver. I’m lucky that my friend was so prepared as well. She had got us tickets and booked the room well in advance. It was so much fun from the second we got there; my best friend had a ton of friends that we met there and they had all booked their hotel rooms next to each other on the same floor. It was pretty impressive to see everyone setting up to; we had booked an atrium room so we had a view of the party in the center of the hotel. The bands were downstairs doing sound checks and just hearing them got us amped up for the party! We started to pre-game and get ready for the night around 5P.M. and made it downstairs around 7P.M.; our timing couldn’t have been better. We got downstairs just in time after getting ready to pick up our VIP tickets to the party and we didn’t even have to wait in line. These tickets also allowed us to have access to both hotel parties (Hyatt and Marriott). People were pouring into the hotel around this time and it just got our excitement up even more. We went back up to our room to pre-party for a little bit and then we all went downstairs as a group to experience the party. The party was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Yes, I’ve been to a club and been out to bars, but there were dancers everywhere, stilt walkers, the lights were amazing, there were people partying on their balcony from their hotel room and people just everywhere. We had the entire hotel to party in too, there were multiple themed rooms throughout the hotel so we got to adventure around a bit. We danced all night long, and then went back to the room and partied a little more. I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you we saw the sun come up. After the little sleep that we got, we woke up and went down stairs for breakfast and talked about what a great time we had, giggled at some of the pictures we took, deleted a few of them, and swore that some weren’t allowed to ever go on Facebook.  It was such a great time and I was devastated to go back home. It was one of the best New Year’s I had ever had though and would definitely love to go back next year or to any one of The Collective Event’s parties and I can’t wait to plan another trip again soon. newyearseveblockparty.com  

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