The best places to celebrate the New Year. Six ideas for an unusual New Year's Eve

New Year on the Indian Ocean

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Some might say that partying in Goa is no longer the same... but we strongly disagree! Can anything compare to dancing on the beach, with your feet buried in the warm sand and the soft moonlight streaming through the palm trees surrounding you? New Year It's time for the biggest party in Goa! Volleys of fireworks and cheerful echoes of the holiday are heard along the entire coast of one of the most famous Indian states.

According to tradition, the most mischievous and loud fun will take place in Anjuna, while at the same time the Palolem area will be a haven for more private and quiet parties.

Where to stay

What has really changed in Goa is the quality of hotels. On Candolim beach, very close to Anjuna, is located new The Park Hotel. Modern design, designed in light colors, 30 spacious bedrooms, detached houses and a luxurious swimming pool, and to top it all off, a private beach and a bar on outdoors, where the DJ plays the unobtrusive Baleriac Beat ( a pleasant surprise for everyone who has difficulty in psychedelic Goa Trance).

In the evening, Bayfront Park will offer a special holiday concert. And around midnight take a walk to the side South Beach to watch the grand fireworks display.

True revelers can head to the countless hotels and clubs located directly across the road from the beach on the Ocean Drives Strip. A great choice is The Clevelander, which hosts an exclusive rooftop party with a pool and a special DJ set.

The Mansion, a popular place among partygoers, is in no way inferior in terms of fun. Tickets for the New Year's Eve party are $150, which includes a three-hour free bar.

If you prefer a softer holiday, join us sea ​​party at Nikki Beach and spend your main winter holiday at an outside temperature of +25C.

Where to stay

Soho beach House is a private club-hotel, decorated in retro style, located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. It offers stunning views, a private beach, 2 outdoor pools and a luxurious spa. New Year's Eve spent at Soho Beach House will certainly leave the best memories.

One of the latest additions to the city's stunning Art Deco-style downtown is The Marlin, part of the multimillion-dollar Mantis Collection. If the customized menus don't wow you, the customizable LED lighting and 360-degree sound system will.

Endless dancing on Koh Phangan beach

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More affordable, but not inferior in the beauty of the views, the Mama Ruisa Hotel is a wonderful, cozy place with a homely atmosphere, decorated in Vintage style.

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The world's largest fireworks show in Sydney

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Celebrating the New Year under a sparkling, roaring sky that shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow is an extremely tempting idea. On this night, Sydney Harbor will be filled with boats with curious revelers wanting to enjoy the fantastic extravaganza that will play out at exactly midnight right above their heads.

You too can rent a boat, grab some champagne and start the countdown at your own pace. Or head to Cockatoo Island and have a little picnic at moonlight, until a magical midnight glow flashes in the skies. You can even set up a small camp there if you look for a place in advance.

Beginners in maritime affairs may prefer a cozy table in one of the restaurants located on coastline and enjoy a front row seat to one of the world's most stunning holiday shows. The table must also be booked in advance.

If a hangover doesn't get in the way of your accomplishments, then on New Year's Day, grab your gear and head to the top of the Harbor Bridge for the annual fireworks display.

Where to stay

The Four Season Sydney Hotel offers magnificent views of the harbour, Harbor Bridge and the world famous Opera theatre. By booking a waterfront room, you'll have the exclusive opportunity to experience the largest light show on the planet right from your bedroom.

Toronto Disco Carnival

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A huge party in Toronto, sponsored by a local television station and school. biggest rock and pop stars, starts at 10 pm at Nathan Phillips Square. Book a table at Restaurant 360, located at the very top of the famous CN Tower.

For those who like to spend time in a more extraordinary style, the neo-Gothic castle-museum Casa Loma organizes a costumed masquerade ball.

Where to Stay (and Have Fun!):

One of the hottest New Year's parties will take place at the trendy Thompson Hotel Toronto. And when you get tired of music and dancing, go up to the roof and enjoy the stunning view of the city flooded with New Year's lights.

Do you still yearn for the bygone era of disco and dream about the days of Studio 54? If so, pack your flares and head to the Drake Hotel for a night of exclusive New Year's Eve party. Famous disco bands and trendy DJs will play for you all night long. Don't hold back your imagination when choosing an outfit. And if you don’t find anything suitable in your wardrobe, don’t worry, because one of the many advantages of Toronto is great amount vintage clothing stores, where you can find the most original disco-style models.

New Year's Eve in Amsterdam

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To make sure you don't miss out on any of the magnificent fireworks that will burst into the New Year's sky in Amsterdam, head straight to the roof of the largest science museum NEMO (Oosterdok, 2), which will be specially opened on the festive night. Or take a seat on the famous "skinny" Magere Bürg bridge to enjoy views of the Amstel River.

But don’t go too far from the epicenter of the fun and be sure to visit one of the many squares. Rembrandt Square, Newmarket, Museum Square, Dam Square - each of them will have its own party. The streets will be filled with the sweet smell of traditional Dutch Oliebollen donuts, which are not only a delicious treat, but also easily turn into a great snack.

Where to stay

Of course, in the very center of the city! For example, at Hotel the Exchange. The hotel was opened with the support of exuentric cultural center The Lloyd. The interior design was carried out by specially invited students from the Amsterdam Fashion Institute, who were faced with the task of creating a truly stylish place and it must be admitted that they really did it with a bang.

New Year's Eve running in Berlin

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Work up an appetite at the annual race, Berliner Silvesterlauf. Participants, dressed in carnival costumes, cover various distances of two, four, six, ten and even fifteen kilometers, moving from the artsy Grunewald district and tossing pancakes as they run.

Towards evening, the largest celebrations take place not far from the Bradenburg Gate. Find a prime spot on Mount Toufelsberg or in Victoria Park for views great view for the fireworks display, which will take place around midnight.

Where to stay

The Berlin branch of Soho House attracts the same creative and distinctive crowd as its London sibling of the same name. Club members have 40 bedrooms, a restaurant, a bar, a cinema, a swimming pool on the top floor, a library and Gym. The building also houses the Cowshed Spa, where those who wish can relax properly and, if necessary, negate the consequences of a night of too much fun.

Hogmanay in Edinburgh

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The pagan Scottish holiday Hogmanay is celebrated on December 30th. A daring crowd, illuminated by the fire of torches, goes from Parliament Square straight to Highton Hill to watch the magical fireworks light up the skies. Join the eighty thousand people who will fill the streets of Edinburgh in New Year's Eve to sing Auld Lang Syne or the Good Old Time (the largest and loudest performance of a Scottish song with lyrics by Robert Burns). Sing along, and if the words are not familiar, just enjoy the general fun!

The largest New Year's party with music and dancing in the United Kingdom will also take pride of place on this day. Immediately before the fireworks, the crowd will enjoy a traditional concert in the gardens on Princess Street, where famous rock musicians will put on an exclusive show.

The celebrations will continue on New Year's Day in the old town area, where local artists will entertain you various games and performances.

Where to stay

The Balmoral is one of Edinburgh's finest hotels. A great place to take a break after Hogmanay celebrations.

Double room from 305 euros

Stylish audience obvious reasons prefers the bar at the Missoni Hotel to all others. After tasting the cocktails, you can go to your room and get a good night's sleep. But keep in mind that bright striped wallpaper, designed in classic style Missoni can really scare you in the morning with its catchiness.

Double room from 160 euros

New Year's bustle in London

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Every Londoner, as well as every tourist, will face a difficult choice when it comes to where and how to celebrate the New Year. There really are a lot of options, from grandiose fireworks in Tameside to crazy parties in countless pubs in London. And for those who want to spend this night in a more comfortable and relaxed atmosphere, luxury hotels located in the very heart of the capital of Great Britain will open their doors.

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One of the most stunning hotels in Mayfair, 45 Park Lane, decorated in Art Deco style, organizes a magnificent celebration for its guests. DJ, cocktails prepared according to a special recipe, a menu developed exclusively for New Year's Eve - a deliciously crusted escalope, brioche buns baked with black truffles and poached Dover flounder.

The cost of a first-class room, which also includes New Year's dinner, starts from 975 euros

And just around the corner, the legendary The Ritz throws a stately party with live music, dancing and an elaborate light show.

Room rates from 696 euros
New Year's Eve dinner 575 euros per person

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, in Knightsbridge, transforms the iconic Golden Room into a huge bar, with cocktails, champagne, music and traditional dim sum.
Without forgetting about the party, you can start the celebration a little earlier - in the hotel restaurant Dinner. The menu, including oysters, ox tongue and white truffles, will make a great start to the first and main holiday of the year.

new Year party will cost 200 euros per person (or 145 if you dine at the hotel Dinner restaurant or Boulud bar)
The cost of dinner at Dinner is 195 euros per person

Hotel La Savoy will also keep its guests from getting bored on New Year's Eve. This is where the New Year's Eve party Stompin' at the Savoy, which is broadcast on the BBC, is filmed. A champagne reception, a star-studded dinner, the famous Guy Barker Orchestra and much more awaits you on this unforgettable night.

The cost of a ticket for two, including room accommodation and gala dinner, is 2600 euros

Until recently, some ten years ago, we didn’t wonder how unusual it would be to celebrate the New Year, because we always knew exactly how we would celebrate it - at a party or at home, in the company of friends and family, with the chimes on television, with traditional salads on the table and champagne in glasses. At that time, even notorious cosmopolitans thought it was wrong to leave new year holidays home and family.

But life is changing before our eyes. We began to earn more, so our opportunities and our ideas about decent rest have changed. Old habits are being replaced by new ones, and the traditional New Year's Eve may now seem boring and banal. Therefore, now we plan New Year's holidays long before their onset - we reserve tables and rooms, book tours. And for an unusual New Year 2015, we only have to decide the fundamental question - snow or sun.

Expendable ways to have an unusual meeting

For the well-to-do - on the beach

Without any doubt, a warm beach for us, residents of high latitudes, is one of the most unusual and desirable places to celebrate the New Year. But for this you need to have certain financial capabilities, because in warm resorts prices double at this time.

In Egypt you can see Santa Claus riding through the streets in a sleigh drawn by... camels. In Thailand, following local New Year's traditions, you can pour water on each other in the forty-degree heat or swim in the warm January water of the Gulf of Thailand.

Australia and the UAE are famous throughout the world for their grandiose New Year's fireworks. On New Year's Eve in Sydney, the world's largest fireworks display takes place in the famous Sydney Harbor. At least a million people come out to see this spectacle at the same time. The Emirates are also not lagging behind; last year, the New Year's fireworks display in Dubai was called the largest on the planet.

If a visit to other continents is not affordable, residents of the middle zone can turn their attention to the Black Sea coast. In Sochi or Abkhazia in January the temperature is above zero, but the sea does not freeze. There you can celebrate the New Year at the edge of the surf, getting drunk not only from champagne, but also from the sea air. Palm trees growing everywhere will also add a touch of unusualness to the holiday.

Are you not attracted to subtropics? Well, there is a “cooler” option for an unusual New Year’s Eve.

For lovers of fairy tales - visiting Santa Claus

A wide variety of Grandfather Frosts, Santa Clauses and Yolo-Pukas live in their own residences in Belarus, Finland, Denmark, and our Grandfather Frost lives in Veliky Ustyug, a beautiful ancient city located in the Vologda region. This very successful tourism project was opened in 1999 and now a lot of people gather there for the New Year holidays, and, of course, there are always especially many families with children there.

Lovers of Russian antiquity and Russian fairy tales will certainly not leave Veliky Ustyug without unforgettable and very pleasant impressions. The estate of Father Frost immerses guests in the atmosphere of fairy tales and childhood fairy tales. On the territory of the estate there is a wooden Terem of Father Frost, winter Garden, bathhouse, sauna, zoo, hotel, attractions. You will be taken along the Fairy Tale Trail, where the animators will excite even adults and take you for a ride on a reindeer sleigh. The owner of the Tower will allow you to sit on his throne and take a photo with you as a souvenir.

Fans of sports and everything modern can choose a New Year's tour to any ski resort - Russian or European - instead of Veliky Ustyug. Celebrating the New Year on skis and snowboards - now it’s fashion brand. On any ski resort on December 31st is necessarily assumed The cultural program and a festive treat.

For travelers - on the road

If you cannot make a choice where you would like to spend New Year's Eve more - among palm trees or snowdrifts, then you can consider an intermediate option and celebrate the holiday on... the road. Not only is this option quite unusual, it also carries other pleasant nuances.

Tickets for trains on January 31 are sold at huge discounts, so it may turn out that buying several nearby compartments will cost less than renting tables in a cafe. All that remains is to load the whole cheerful company into the carriage along with food supplies and decorate the compartment with festive paraphernalia - balloons, New Year's toys, pine branches. You can celebrate all night long, and the rest of the passengers will probably join in too. It is better to plan the route in such a way that you will be at your destination station on the first of January. Upon arrival, you can walk around unfamiliar city, see the sights, and at the same time clear your head and work up an appetite. After which it’s just as fun to go home.

Celebrating the New Year on a plane makes sense only for those who don’t want to waste a single day. New Year holidays. Having finished work on the 31st, you can board an airliner in the evening and fly away - to Thailand, Europe or the USA. The very moment of celebrating the New Year will be modest; everything here will have to be left to the discretion of the crew. Champagne will most likely be delivered, but Father Frost, Snow Maiden and holiday program Airlines do not provide their own safety rules in the air. Concerning fun company- then depending on your luck, the options diverge from: “We slept through everything in the world in the entire salon,” to: “We sang songs in chorus, fraternized, and also drank without limits.”

The ship has the most opportunities to celebrate the holiday. You will be offered a full program, with animators, a disco, festive table. Travel agencies offer a choice of sea and river cruises - from a walk along the Moscow River to a tour of Europe. In the Baltic countries, it is becoming fashionable to celebrate the New Year on luxury ferries plying between Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

Travel, expenses... And if you want just the opposite - savings, but in such a way that you don’t feel deprived of communication and fun on this national holiday? The solution is city Christmas trees.

Economy options for celebrating the New Year

For adventurers - at the city Christmas tree

The tradition of celebrating the New Year in the main squares of cities is becoming popular. The city authorities are doing everything possible for this - building ice towns, installing giant television screens from which the President will offer congratulations. There are real shows. Therefore everything more people dress warmly, take sparklers, firecrackers, champagne and plastic cups and go to celebrate the holiday at the main Christmas trees in their cities.

The flavor of the holiday depends on the region. Somewhere people come to the Christmas tree right after twelve, somewhere they wait for the chimes to strike right on the square. Many come in carnival costumes. You can meet anyone there; this method is especially suitable if you have someone to celebrate the New Year with. At the city Christmas tree there is a chance to meet people and even meet your destiny, because this night is magical.

For the well-equipped - in the forest

There is a forest nearby coniferous trees, and a crowded crowd is not at all what you dreamed of? Then it makes sense to get into the cars and go out into nature with the whole honest company. Find a beautiful Christmas tree (no need to chop it!), dress it up and dance around. In the team there will always be a variety of craftsmen who can fry kebabs right in the snow, dress up as Father Frost and the Snow Maiden and put on a fairy-tale performance.

For large originals – on the Internet

No need to be surprised - yes, there are already those who like to move virtual glasses at midnight on their favorite chats. You definitely won’t be alone online on New Year’s Eve. Have circumstances developed in such a way that your friends are scattered all over the world, or are you on a business trip and couldn’t get away to your family? Skype, video conferencing, social networks and chats - the choice depends only on your Internet savvy.

These are not all the ways to celebrate the New Year 2015 in an unusual way. Can be done at home themed parties, go to the village, attend a masquerade ball in a real castle, even just climb onto the roof for this. Originals and irrepressible dreamers will always figure out how to avoid routine and break all patterns. But even inveterate conservatives need new impressions from time to time, and the New Year is a good reason to change something in your life, because it has long been known that how you celebrate it is how you spend it.

Creative ideas for a New Year gift

The beginning of the New Year is a holiday and celebration. All over the world, people are trying to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the brightest, most beautiful and in an original way. Fireworks, concerts, festivities - all this makes New Year's Eve the most spectacular. But there are some places in the world where New Year's Eve becomes truly magical.

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New Year's Eve is celebrated in a big way in Las Vegas. The city hosts massive celebrations with more than 9 hours of live music and famous artists. Nightclubs strive to impress their guests in ways you won't soon forget. The fireworks are simply breathtaking. Every year more than 300 thousand people come to Las Vegas to celebrate the New Year.

You can buy the coolest pyrotechnics on saluti.by, but fireworks on New Year's Eve in Bangkok are something. Perhaps Bangkok is ideal place to celebrate the New Year. It's no surprise that people from all over the world come there. In addition to spectacular fireworks, there are parties and open-air cruises with amazing food and beautiful views.

Originality is the word that describes the New Year celebrations in this city. Live music and parades, food trucks, digital video shows and colorful fireworks displays.

The City of Lights offers an elegant celebration. Fireworks around Eiffel Tower And Arc de Triomphe. The romantic Parisian air makes this city ideal for celebrating the New Year together. Gourmet dinner with wonderful music and wine will make New Year's Eve in Paris unforgettable.

The old center of Vienna turns into a huge banqueting hall December 31st, offering great atmosphere, music, food and drinks. For romantics, a boat ride on the Danube will be a great way to celebrate the New Year. And music lovers can visit the opera.

Prague is a city that will satisfy all the tastes of those who decide to celebrate the New Year there. For partygoers, there are clubs and bars that host themed parties with food and drinks. You can watch beautiful fireworks in the city center or near the river. Cruises and romantic dinners are also popular on New Year's Eve.

New Year's fireworks direct from the London Eye attract thousands of people. People are having fun in the streets, dancing, singing and drinking champagne. Numerous clubs host parties to suit every taste, so fun is guaranteed.

New York never disappoints when it comes to celebrations. Times Square is a party destination, with the city's bars and clubs opening their doors until the early hours. The fireworks and decorations of the city also look like something out of a fairy tale.

Copocabana beach parties attract people from all over the world to enjoy the unique atmosphere that Rio has to offer. Magnificent landscapes, amazing music and tasty food make Rio one of the most popular cities to celebrate the New Year.

Sydney is well known for its spectacular fireworks displays and parades on New Year's Eve. About a million people gather in different parts city ​​to see beautiful fireworks. Considering the fact that Australia has excellent weather at this time of year, festivities go on until the early morning.