New Year's Eve Planning
Just think ahead
The great day may still be ages away but it is worth researching and planning now before everything gets booked up/subscribed/taken. It’s well worth getting something on your trip plan well before the event. New Year’s in London can either be an affordable affair or an overpriced one. Tip to all readers: do not just go out on New Year’s. You can’t. The door fee is extortionate. It doesn’t matter if you thought you were clever and went out and snagged a good spot to see London’s fireworks show for free. You might as well have paid for a ticket and while you were being clever and pre-planning, to then also buy a ticket for entrance to the club you want to go to afterwards. It would work out cheaper than buying a ticket to get in somewhere on the day.
Worse, you’ll be drunk, it’ll be cold, and you’ll just say screw it and get it anyway. Planning on New Year’s is the way to go in London. As great as spontaneity can be, New Year’s is not the time to do it.
That being said, wandering the streets drinking with friends as you try to find said place is a heck of a lot of fun on its own. There are a lot of merry people partying everywhere – all of London (Zone 1) seems to be one great big party. Last year I was lucky, in a way, because I had just come back from Canada a few days before and my phone had for some reason not set to the correct time zone. We went to watch the fireworks, were late, as per usual, only to find not only a great spot to watch them from but also to find out we weren’t late at all, but appropriately early.
And as a result, we had some wonderful fireworks as a result. The price for entry still hurts though. We could have done better there.
