madurai hotels in the city have made elaborate arrangements to welcome the new year offering multicuisine gala dinners games music and dance shows magic shows and lucky draws among others to give their customers a good time many hotels here have been witnessing an increase in the number of visitors to celebrate new year they are roping in television stars video jockeys standup comedians and singers to add vigour to the celebrations due to traditional contour of the city hoteliers have left out cocktails and drinks restricting the festivities to grand dinners and events some however offer drinks separately outside of the celebration packages hotels have also largely kept out stag events entry ticket for a couple mostly range between rs 2000 and rs 4000 to comply with city police instructions and to keep the celebrations safe most hotels plan to wind up the programmes by 12 30 am events will begin from 730 pm we have been seeing an increase in the number of people coming to hotels every year to welcome new year we are gearing up to give them the best environment to celebrate a large range of events are in place said s ravisundar manager food and beverages fortune pandian s ashok kumar associate director of sales grt regency in madurai said that they had kept free entry for children up to the age of twelve years earlier they used to charge for children aged above six years arul murugan vice president of poppys hotel said that they had set up two separate places for celebration to cater to the needs of all kinds of customers the entry for a celebration with food and simple events was kept at rs 799 per head while a grand celebration with multi cuisine dinner was available for couples at rs 3000 he said