My wife and I are from Seattle and will be flying to New York to see our daughter for Christmas. We have to leave from New York by Dec 30 and thought it might be fun to spend a few days in Europe before coming home. We've been to Europe quite a few times and enjoy it a lot.
What city would you recommend for New Years? Not just New Years Eve but shopping and celebrating the next few days. We are in our 60's and early 70's and in good shape but don't really like huge crowds and the wild nightlife of the younger crowd. That being said we do enjoy some activity and excitement. We love Paris and London but would be willing to expand our horizons to other possibilities (Prague? Budapest? Amsterdam?) So many options! We've even thought about the Northern Lights in Iceland.
We know it won't be cheap but can't afford to be too extravagant!
Any suggestions?
Posted by
Edinburgh
2681 posts
I spend a lot of time in Prague and New year is pretty good there.On the 1st January there is a big fire works display at 6.00pm which is pretty good. At the "Bells" there is a free for all regarding fireworks and it can be quite manic and scary but always good friendly fun I spent last new year in Letna Park, no where near as busy as the Old town of Prague but ypou can see all the fireworks going off from there.. Most places will be open on NY day and there are plenty of places to see in the New year ,some place charge a fair bit some quite cheap but you do need to book some place .Public transport is great and very cheap even at New year the trams and metro run late and from midnight to about 1.30am are free to use.
Posted by
Reno, Nevada
1025 posts
The ultimate holiday season abroad would be London for Christmas and Scotland (probably Edinburgh) for New Years Eve. These places truly celebrate those respective holidays well.
Posted by
Chicago
8159 posts
Paris or Amsterdam or Orvieto Italy are the 3 places I have rung in the New Year. All great but the most adult friendly was in small town Orvieto. They combine it with fireworks at midnight and a gospel choir in the Duomo on New Year's day as part of the Umbria Winter Jazz fest.
The big city ones I mentioned are pretty wild and best if you can get a spot indoors as kids drink in the streets smashing bottles.
In Amsterdam we rung the New Years in at this club with a view of the fireworks over the city.
https://www.bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/
They had a big band and retro disco dancing at midnight
Posted by
Reading, PA, USA
40 posts
Vienna! Christmas markets morph into New Years markets. Great food and music indoors and out. We did it last year and enjoyed it so much we're doing it again this year.
Posted by
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
93 posts
Reykjavik!!!! Fireworks like you have never seen before!