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 friendlived. I wanted to do something for New Year’s that I’ve never done before andmy friend told me this was the biggest and best party in Denver. She said thatshe had gone to the Halloween party that The Collective Events had thrown andthe 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 NewYear’s party for a while now and had a ton of past pictures and videos – itlooked nuts! After looking at the details I saw there were actually two partiesgoing on. The White Rose Gala featured an astonishing, innovative, andremarkable theatrical performance and décor in an “Asian” themed environmentwith 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 upthe Champagne Hotel – this is part of the entire party, but they were throwingthe party between two hotels that were right next to each other. This one wasthe one at the Marriott that was more of a high energy crowd, described as theultimate party environment with over 4,000 people that showed up. It hadawesome music as well and was almost like a club scene with high tech laserlights, multiple themed party rooms, amazing performances, DJs, bands, anddance music.

We got there a little early the day of the party just sothat we could get checked in, familiarize ourselves with the place, and haveenough time to get ready. It was also really nice to have the hotel room so noone had to worry about a safe ride home or designating a driver. I’m lucky thatmy friend was so prepared as well. She had got us tickets and booked the roomwell in advance. It was so much fun from the second we got there; my bestfriend had a ton of friends that we met there and they had all booked theirhotel rooms next to each other on the same floor. It was pretty impressive tosee everyone setting up to; we had booked an atrium room so we had a view ofthe party in the center of the hotel. The bands were downstairs doing soundchecks and just hearing them got us amped up for the party!

We started to pre-game and get ready for the night around5P.M. and made it downstairs around 7P.M.; our timing couldn’t have beenbetter. We got downstairs just in time after getting ready to pick up our VIPtickets to the party and we didn’t even have to wait in line. These ticketsalso allowed us to have access to both hotel parties (Hyatt and Marriott). Peoplewere pouring into the hotel around this time and it just got our excitement upeven more. We went back up to our room to pre-party for a little bit and thenwe all went downstairs as a group to experience the party.

The party was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Yes, I’vebeen to a club and been out to bars, but there were dancers everywhere, stiltwalkers, the lights were amazing, there were people partying on their balconyfrom their hotel room and people just everywhere. We had the entire hotel toparty in too, there were multiple themed rooms throughout the hotel so we gotto adventure around a bit. We danced all night long, and then went back to theroom and partied a little more. I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you we saw thesun come up.

After the little sleep that we got, we woke up and went downstairs for breakfast and talked about what a great time we had, giggled at someof the pictures we took, deleted a few of them, and swore that some weren’tallowed to ever go on Facebook.  It wassuch a great time and I was devastated to go back home. It was one of the bestNew Year’s I had ever had though and would definitely love to go back next yearor to any one of The Collective Event’s parties and I can’t wait to plan anothertrip again soon. newyearseveblockparty.com  

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