Rajahmundry: City is gearing up for the New Year bash as the hoteliers are coming up with grand plans to entertain the revellers to welcome it.
A three-star hotel Shelton is organising unlimited cocktail and mocktail beginning from 7.30 pm until late in the night.
A lavish buffet is being organised at cost of Rs 3,000 per couple and Rs 500 per child below 15 years of age.
Playback singer Raju of ‘Tara Taluku Tara’ fame along with three other female singers will be rendering special numbers.
Rocky DJ from Hyderabad is roped in to thrill the audience with his rocking music while Red FM Swathi from Visakhaptnam will be anchoring the entire event on the premises of the hotel.
River Bay is organising the event on a small note as the people are preoccupied with Samaiky-andhra agitation.
However, bar and restaurant will be open and a DJ from Visakhapatnam Sharief will be entertaining the audience.
Candle light dinner and multi-cuisine restaurant will provide special delicacies to the revellers. Wine and Dine is being organised in the open place on the banks of the river where the hotel is located.
River Bay operations manager D. Balaji says, “As the agitation for Samaikyandhra is still going on and the market is down, we intend to organise the new year event on a low key.
Moreover, the film actors have doubled their remuneration to play as an anchor for the event. We are hopeful of organising the new year event in 2014 in a grand manner as speculation is rife that the market will boom during that period.”
Anand Regency, a three star hotel, is also limiting the new year celebrations as the agitation is going on for Samaikyandhra.
They will be keeping the bar and restaurant open and the hotel has come up with a package to allot a room for a minimum number of four persons including those from corporate sector and officials at a cost of '10,000.
The revellers will be served liquor and food in the room up to '10,000. The hotel authorities maintain that they are not organising any major event unlike earlier as the agitation for Samaik-yandhra is going on.
Meanwhile, police are imposing curbs on revellers. All wine shops should be closed by 11.00 pm and all bars by 12.00 am.
No speed and drunken driving, high decibel honking of vehicles and triple riding on bikes.
Urban SP T. Ravi Kumar Murthy said, “We advise people to celebrate new year happily and not to indulge in unlawful activities.”
