NYE Parties in Sydney: 14 Best Places to Say Goodbye to 2024

Fireworks over the Sydney Opera House on New Year's Eve.

We’re less than a month from “that” countdown, and it’s high time Sydneysiders and visitors start to shuffle their New Year’s Eve plans into place with the best NYE parties in Sydney. To help, Sydney Travel Guide has put together a round-up of Sydney’s best New Year’s Eve parties, from Sydney Opera House’s big end-of-year … Read more

Things to do in Sydney on New Year’s Day 2025

Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel in Sydney with the pier in the foreground.

Wondering what to do on New Years Day in Sydney? Not only are there several New Year’s Day events to get across but Sydney’s biggest attractions are also popping open to help you start 2025 right. It is, after all, the busiest season in Sydney for both locals and tourists so you’ve got plenty to … Read more

Relax: The Argyle closing doesn’t mean Sydney’s nightlife is dead

The Argyle in Sydney

“Sydney is dead” has become a mindlessly repetitious slogan for cynical ex-partygoers who don’t actually go to nightclubs anymore. While the city’s night-time economy still has a long path to recovery from the sad sludge of misguided lockout laws, the pandemic and an inescapable cost-of-living crisis, significant efforts have been made to stop the doom … Read more

Sydney’s big holiday season kicks off with the sound of music

The Killers perform at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena

The first big weekend of Sydney’s summer season has come and gone, with numerous events happening around town, particularly in the live music space. What do The Killers, Jamie XX, Zapp, Korn and rave institution Boiler Room all have in common? Each propped up one of the first really big weekends in the lead-up to … Read more

Darlinghurst nightclub named one of the best in the world

People dancing in Carousel nightclub in Oxford Street in Sydney.

Sydney’s nightlife was dead and it had been for years following the notoriously misguided, small-minded and ineffectual lockout laws, then the double-whammy from the Covid pandemic felt like a nail in the coffin. So it’s a great sense of pride for Sydneysiders that one of the city’s most advanced and tech-forward nightclubs has just been … Read more

Over 30 Kings Cross venues are offering deals and discounts this month

A bar in Kings Cross, Sydney

Talks about a Kings Cross revival have been buzzing ever since the pandemic, but the conversation has never stood taller than it does right now. This month, the Kings Cross Quarter, a collective of local business owners and folks who just really want to see it spring to life again, is presenting somewhat of a … Read more

6 new late-night spots have opened as Sydney’s nightlife climbs

A nightclub in Kings Cross

The highly touted return of Sydney’s night-time economy is tracking nicely as discourse around the city’s many infrastructural changes continues. Last week, the Office of the 24-Hour Economy Commissioner hosted an industry forum called NEON Forum with many night-life experts from around the world flying in to discuss the future of night-time economies and how … Read more

Sydney Opera House reveals big New Year’s Eve plans

The Sydney Opera House is planning two big performances for New Year's Eve.

Sydney already puts on one of the world’s most famous New Year’s Eve fireworks displays each year, but now Opera Australia and Sydney Opera House are stepping things up with a festive double-bill. Anyone who wants to spend NYE inside one of the world’s most iconic buildings have two options to choose from this year. … Read more

Is Sydney finally on track to become a 24-hour city?

The notorious Kings Cross nightlife district was once decimated by Sydney's lockout laws

It looks like things are starting to really pick up for Sydney’s night-time economy, if the latest plan from the City of Sydney Council is anything to go by. Announced this morning, Sydney’s new 24-hour entertainment precinct plans will make it possible for clubs, pubs, nightclubs and even cafes and retail shops to extend trading … Read more