Some companies need, or want, to hold a virtual holiday party again in 2025. A common reason is a remote team spread across the country, or even across different countries.

We believe that despite the circumstances, a festive holiday mood can still be created among colleagues. Together with our event department, we've gathered innovative ideas and summarized them in this article. So you might be wondering: what does it mean to organize and plan a holiday party remotely? What concepts exist, and how do I figure out what suits us best? Find out here! We've curated the 10 best ideas for virtual holiday parties for you.

Which virtual holiday party suits us?

Some of you will be asking yourselves this question this year. What kind of virtual celebration would you like to hold, and with how many participants? First, it's important to clarify the framework at the start of your holiday party planning. Should a shared activity be planned, or maybe even a team game played? Or would you rather entertain your staff and set a more formal tone? Do you want to send your team a holiday party care package? Once all these questions are settled, it's also important to clarify whether the event will be entirely remote or a hybrid event. Once headcount, content framework, and event format are set, the detailed agenda and all its contributors need to be planned.

Idea 1: Virtual holiday dinner

A gala dinner, digitally—in 2025, your holiday party gets extra special! How about sending this year's traditional formal holiday meal straight to your colleagues' homes? A wonderful 3- or 4-course menu paired with good wine, decorated with festive table settings, held virtually together with the company, brings holiday spirit right into everyone's home office! Your virtual Christmas dinner can be wonderfully accompanied by a virtual magic show or an online concert! Hire a show chef who walks your team through preparing and plating the gala menu at home, just like in fine dining. Online conferencing tools like Zoom also let you and your guests use a virtual background of your choice, so everyone can really set the scene digitally and enjoy the perks of a virtual holiday party.

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Idea 2: Virtual holiday cooking

Planning to cook together with your team? Should everyone prepare their holiday meal from a recipe in front of the screen? Then a holiday cooking box is exactly right for you! Virtual holiday cooking differs from a gala dinner mainly in the level of pre-preparation. While the holiday gala dinner delivers pre-cooked sous-vide dishes, with a holiday cooking box, you and your team cook the entire meal yourselves. All ingredients are curated fresh, in the right quantities, in a cooking box and shipped directly to each employee. You can even book your cooking box online right here. Have fun with this team activity, and enjoy a lovely digital holiday party, wishes your heycater! team.

Idea 3: Virtual Christmas cocktail party

Shake up virtual holiday drinks right in your home office! If you're up for this kind of virtual fun, host an online cocktail class as your holiday party with your team! Arrange a bartender, have a cocktail box with all ingredients and tools shipped home, and celebrate your holiday party remotely. We recommend trying several different cocktail recipes, or different variations on one type of cocktail. You can sweeten the deal even more by giving out the cocktail set with glasses as a holiday gift too. That way, the evening is sure to be unforgettable, and the mood will be electric!

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Idea 4: Virtual wine tasting

Kicking off the holidays with wine—that sounds like a cultured event evening! But jokes aside, how wonderful is it to try different wines together with an experienced sommelier, round off the experience with a matching cheese pairing, and still get this fine taste experience despite the virtual setting? Have the wine pairing shipped to your team's remote offices and get to know different wines together. Set the holiday atmosphere and give the evening a matching theme. Include a personalized wine list, and delight your team with a virtual wine tasting. That way, your holiday party stays a treat even digitally!

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Idea 5: Virtual après-ski party

For the party animals on your team, a virtual themed party might be exactly the right holiday celebration. With an ugly Christmas sweater, homemade punch, and a synchronized '90s playlist, bringing the après-ski feeling straight into everyone's living room sounds like a holiday party you wouldn't want to miss. To get even closer to that cabin party feeling, your team could alternatively wear '80s ski gear and goofy ski goggles. Bring your laptop out onto the balcony, into the garden, or onto the rooftop terrace, and turn your virtual Christmas party into an epic event! We'll happily provide the matching punch and party snack care package.

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Idea 6: Virtual holiday gift exchange

Remember how nice your last Secret Santa gift exchange was? This year, we're doing it virtually. Come up with a small gift and send it to your Secret Santa's home office. Take the time to prepare a gift personally, or have a gift delivered to your team. Exchange your gifts in a matching virtual reality holiday living room, with festive music playing in the background. Our event experts say: "Just as special as an online event, guaranteed, everyone loves a personal gesture." A virtual white elephant gift exchange is popular too. Come up with something especially funny for this, a bizarre tool, an ugly lamp, or an old-fashioned ceramic figurine that matches your event theme? This virtual holiday event can be a huge amount of fun too.

Idea 7: Virtual Copacabana Christmas party

A holiday party on a dream beach, as a contrast to the cold winter temperatures? If you're longing for warm weather and like choosing a theme for your virtual corporate party, you'll have a lot of fun organizing a virtual Copacabana party. Throw on a "Carnival in Rio" outfit or your favorite Hawaiian shirt. Mix up matching Copacabana cocktails remotely and get a Brazilian cooking box delivered to your home party location for the virtual event.

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Idea 8: Virtual retro party

Virtual retro Christmas, there's no limit to your imagination for your online celebration. Redecorate your home office, or find a retro background on Zoom, and hold your virtual holiday party in retro style. You can make virtual retro-Christmas-style umbrella drinks, deviled eggs, Hawaiian toast sandwiches, or a meat tartare hedgehog. It gets truly retro when you dress up in front of the screen for your virtual holiday party. In keeping with the retro theme, dig out your bell-bottoms, put on colorful sunglasses, and slip into a nice patterned shirt. As a team, you can hold an online contest for the coolest costume and give the winner a small prize.

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Idea 9: Virtual holiday baking

For the bakers on your team, a virtual bake night is especially well suited as a team event for your 2025 holiday party. Baking and decorating delicious cookies together, exchanging recipes, or even booking a pastry chef for your virtual Christmas party, this baking fun can take many different forms. The nice side effect: your virtual bakery will keep sweetening the evening for your loved ones at home afterward too!

Idea 10: Virtual escape room

A virtual escape room as the ultimate party adventure for your holiday celebration! This is guaranteed to bring plenty of suspense to the party. Solve a criminal case, fend off the virus, or crack another virtual puzzle, the escape room isn't just a perfect exciting team game in person, it also offers a genuine sense of experience for online activities digitally. For your holiday party, you can also give your challenge a matching Christmas theme and adapt the puzzle formats accordingly. Give your online holiday party a truly unique experience and organize a virtual escape room! Our tip: this team activity also fits wonderfully into a larger virtual Christmas party agenda. Request your virtual escape room directly here, or book a complete package with a virtual escape room as part of the program.

6 more virtual Christmas party ideas from heycater!

1. virtual holiday theater
2. virtual holiday karaoke
3. digital Christmas dance contest
4. virtual holiday scavenger hunt
5. craft beer tasting as a virtual holiday party
6. Oculus Rift Christmas party

How heycater! supports you with your virtual holiday party

heycater! specializes in organizing virtual events and experiences. Through our blog articles and webinars, we help companies plan their virtual events. Demand for virtual events remains high in 2025. Our experienced team helps you find, plan, and execute the right concept. We support you in organizing food, gift, or event boxes, as well as with the content side of your event.