Lakeside Inn in Haltern am See hosts company parties, team-building days, product presentations and weddings, with 400 seats in the restaurant and a site of 10,000 square meters on the lakeshore. The venue has its own sandy beach, open meadows and an indoor space that can be reserved for a single group, which suits large summer events that move between inside and outside.
Seminars and company events
The venue is built for company events rather than classic seminars in a meeting room. It lists summer parties, company anniversaries, Christmas parties and brand or product presentations among the occasions it hosts. For team days, the house team runs a Beach Olympiade with beach volleyball and tug-of-war, and can add a photo booth, a mechanical bull ride and other team games. Evening programs can include live music, DJs, light shows, fire shows and drone shows. Event planners on staff help put the day together, and the venue says it supplies the equipment the event needs. A Kriminal Dinner, a murder-mystery evening, is also on the program. For company family days, a children's program with face painting, bouncy castles, clowns and magicians is available.
Weddings and receptions
Non-religious ceremonies (freie Trauung) on the sandy beach are a specialty of the house. Both small ceremonies and large celebrations of several hundred guests are possible. The venue supplies part of the decoration, in styles ranging from boho to western, and couples can add their own. A network of partners covers celebrants, DJs and photographers.
Rooms and capacities
The restaurant seats 400 guests. The outdoor area is roughly the size of two soccer fields and includes the beach, a beach bar, lounge corners, fire pits and a wooded corner the venue calls the Zauberwald. An indoor space can be set aside exclusively for one event. The venue does not publish a capacity for each area, so the layout for a given headcount is agreed with the events team.
Accommodation
Lakeside Inn has no bedrooms. Groups staying overnight book hotels in Haltern am See or the surrounding area.
Catering
Catering comes from the in-house kitchen. Options include grill buffets, American-style buffets, Mediterranean dishes and barbecue with live cooking, including a flame-grilled salmon show. Guests can join a live cooking session, and cocktails are served at the beach bar. Menus are adjusted to each event, and the venue also runs a food truck.
History and setting
The site sits directly on the lakeshore at Stockwieser Damm, on the edge of Haltern am See. The mix of sand, grass and water gives it the feel of a beach club, used by day as a restaurant and at night for parties. It opens from 9 am to 10:30 pm Sunday to Thursday, and from 9 am with no fixed closing time on Friday and Saturday, so late company parties run best at the end of the week.
Getting there
The address is Stockwieser Damm 291, 45721 Haltern am See. Haltern am See lies at the northern edge of the Ruhr area, where the Münsterland begins. Ask the events team about parking and arrival for large groups.
