My wife, our children (25 & 21) and I will be in Paris for New Year's Eve. This will be our first trip to Europe. Any recommendations for the evening of December 31, 2024?
Posted by
Savannah, GA
1400 posts
Well the norm generally is choosing a restaurant for their Saint-Sylvestre menu and paying a ridiculously elevated price because it comes with a coup de champagne. Nous, we buy a plateau de fruits de mer (a seafood tower) and celebrate à la maison.
Depends on what you want to do really.
Posted by
Chicago
8183 posts
You could do what you normally like to do on New year's eve if you can find it in Paris.
For example, I rung in 2015 and 2016 in a live music jazz club in Paris; I did the same in 2017 in Orvieto, Italy, in Amsterdam in 2018, at a Flamenco show in Seville in 2019 and at a firework show in Collioure, France in 2020. Each time there was a count down 10 seconds to midnight in the local language.
Posted by
Setubal, PT
45 posts
Whatever you do, at the very least, book tickets for a midnight bateaux mouches cruise so you get a great celebratory launch to 2025 viewing the special light display on the Tour Eiffel. (Be sure to check with the bateaux mouches folks so you're still on the bateau at midnight...). If you do end up having to dine early by Parisian standards, consider it an opportunity to grab a nap and head out to join the revelers along the Seine. It will still be a spectacular evening. (Can you tell I'm jealous?!)
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I have spent several NYE in Paris and am lucky to have been there many times, but one of my favorite days there was a one day layover on the way home to NY from Berlin, 15 years ago on NYE. Many things close early that day and if you are planning a special dinner, reservations are a good idea. However, we winged it - we were staying in the 6th and had lunch nearby at Polidor, stopped for a bit of shopping on Rue de Grenelle in the 7th on the way to an exhibit at the Jeu de Paume, a quick stop at Charvet in Place Vendôme for a fancy dress shirt for my husband, and dinner at Café de Flore - champagne, soupe à l'oignon, omelettes...and watched the lights twinkle at the Eiffel Tower from one of the bridges with the rest of crowds. A bit of culture, luxury, and local flavor all in a perfect day, no planning. Have a wonderful time!
Posted by
Jaipur
1 posts
I have spent several NYE in Paris and am lucky to have been there many times, Whatever you do, at the very least, book tickets for a midnight bateaux mooches cruise so you get a great celebratory launch to 2025 viewing the special light display on the Tour Eiffel.
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