The end-of-year party, hosted properly.

There is a version of the work Christmas party that everyone politely endures, and there is the version where the office steps aboard a private vessel, the city slides past, and somebody else has thought of everything. We host the second kind.

Elizabeth Anne takes a maximum of 38 guests, which is precisely the point: one office's worth of people, one crew looking after them, and a room — restored leather, polished teak — that does the atmosphere for you. The party runs cocktail-style: canapés and drinks roaming the saloon and decks, music on, and the city sliding past as the backdrop.