10 tips for a successful Coronaproof party

Safe party in times of the corona pandemic

How can you organize a party safely and yet successfully in times of the corona pandemic? We get this question regularly and our answer is, yes, you can, but of course with some minor adjustments (coronaproof).

We have listed 10 tips below.

1) Make sure there is adequate ventilation
- Organize outdoors as much as possible. In cold weather, for example, use a tent and make sure the tent is not completely closed.
- You can also organize a party inside, but in that case, open windows and doors facing each other. This includes a large overhead door that you partially open. Fresh air is always nice but indispensable these days.

2) Communicate the measures clearly to the guests
- Send a personal invitation (by mail or even better, just by regular mail)
- Hang up nice posters with the measures

3) Fixed sitting and/or standing positions
- You send a nice invitation and immediately make an overview of the fixed seats and standing places. By means of beautiful table numbers, everyone knows what their permanent place is. Of course, you don't have to sit or stand at it all evening, but this prevents everyone from constantly getting mixed up and changing places.

4) Disinfectant
Place disinfectant at the entrance, on the bar and possibly on all tables. You will notice that people like to disinfect their hands from time to time.

5) Registering invitees
- Let the guests register in advance, we use an online registration tool for this where people can indicate whether they have had a cold in the past 24 hours. This data gives you insight into the health of the attendees. If it turns out afterwards that something has happened, you have all the data ready to use for a possible source and contact investigation.

6) Sufficient distance
Distance between tables, the bar and any other objects. Space is always nice, but at this time, we want our environment to be and stay healthy. That is why it is certainly nice now that the layout of the location is more spacious. You have less risk of being too close to someone unnoticed.

7) The music and dancing
Turn the music down a bit. The advantage of this is that you can really chat with the others without having to shout because the background music allows this very well. An additional advantage is that people are not going to sing and dance along. We're dancing again after the corona!

8) Gloves
Use gloves not only in preparation but also at the bar and change them regularly. Just wearing gloves doesn't help because, of course, we do just as much with our gloves on as we do without gloves. That is why it is the rule that they are changed every 15 minutes anyway and are changed after contact with contaminated surfaces or, for example, money. Apart from corona, personal hygiene and the use of gloves is always an important point when working with food and drinks.

9) Shake hands
Do not shake hands, do not hand over objects. Just saying hello without shaking hands or without the three famous kisses takes some getting used to, but trust us, it gets used to itself. Don't give a drink this time, just put it in front of someone. That works just as well and no one is bothered by it.

10) Last but not least, use your common sense. Every day, a lot of questions still come in about sometimes very small things, and that's a good thing. But often you know the answer yourself. Take, for example, the question about the one and a half meters. Of course, you can accidentally forget the 1.5 meter mark while walking by, but that is of course different than dancing the salsa together for 5 minutes or half an hour sitting at the table and chatting together. The chance of something happening may be very small and maybe you won't be bothered by it yourself and you won't notice that you might have been infected after all and the next day you'll be with your lovely grandmother or grandfather.

With these 10 tips, we hope to have given you the tools to still organize a successful party. Do you want more information about how we can organize your party or do you have other questions? Feel free to call or email. You can reach us 7 days a week between 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. on 023 822 31 13.