Where do you suggest spending New Years Eve? London? Or Switzerland?

[CGK]

I am planning a trip and the schedule will take me arriving in FRA on 31 December very early morning. The only two countries I can visit without a visa are the UK (for less than 24 hours) or Switzerland.
Which city I should go for a memorable NY Eve? London will be too crowded and expensive for lodging. Switzerland? Romantic small town?
Or should I be on SQ flight for NY Eve?

[jhm]

How about New Year's Eve in a ski resort up in the mountains in Switzerland (rather than a big city) ?

Something like this I just found on Google:

http://www.panoramas.dk/new-year-2005/FS1_zermatt.html

may be nice.

[CGK]

Hmm alone in a romantic place in Switzerland might not be good for my recovery!

[SQflyergirl]

erm... how about SYD, with Leroy, Bubba and ME

[nickbot]

Zermatt is indeed lovely, but probably completely booked out already...

I'd say London would be good too, but I think the key thing is that you celebrate with good friends or else it might well be miserable wherever you are; for this reason, if no SQTalkers or other friends are around in either Switzerland or London, then the next best thing would surely have to be be the SQ flight

mrs nickbot and I are in Austria skiing at NY, but assume you need Schengen visa for there...

[SQFAN]

I am planning a trip and the schedule will take me arriving in FRA on 31 December very early morning. The only two countries I can visit without a visa are the UK (for less than 24 hours) or Switzerland.
Which city I should go for a memorable NY Eve? London will be too crowded and expensive for lodging. Switzerland? Romantic small town?
Or should I be on SQ flight for NY Eve?

SQ flight
you'll never be alone

For New year eve, best bet is to spend it with people who are deear to you. In the absence of that, IMHO the alternative is a long haul SQ flight. I was thinking of doing the same but could not get last minute redemption tickets. So I have settled for being in S'pore for two short days. I'll be alone too in terms of you-know-what.

[blast-off]

erm... how about SYD, with Leroy, Bubba and ME

CGK....Come down under.....Kelab members wanna meet you...

[jhm]

I'm not sure I agree with spending it on a 12-hour SQ flight.

For me, I'd prefer being somewhere where - even if there's nobody else there with me - it's lively, there's lots going on, stuff to see and do etc. (Not how I spent a New Year's Eve one year in a dead bar in Yunnan with about a dozen people!)

How about Hogmanay in Scotland on 31 Dec ? For example, the celebrations in EDI:

http://www.edinburghshogmanay.org/

[Lobster]

Would definitely recommend EDI if you spend new year in the UK much better than London.

I did spend new year on a LHR to SIN flight once. They made no mention of new year on the flight at all.

[QSG]

Cancel said flight, stay in YVR (if that is where you are still?)get a good book, some over-taxed bubbles from wine store , turn on the fireplace and enjoy!

[hon2]

Hey CKG, then you're in FRA at the same time, I m arriving at 07:55,
I would suggest going to Switzerland. Geneva is nice. And you can still see some fireworks. There I can recommend the Rocco Forte hotel Le Richemond.

regards hon2

[impresta]

CGK i think you should stay in BC and goto Mt. Robson for new years eve, i heard its beautiful there at winter.

[flo]

i'd recommend switzerland! geneva, as hon2 already mentioned is a dream. lac léman is a great location for new year's eve. but zürich, lausanne (!) and lugano would also be options to consider!

anyway, i hope you'll be having a great new years eve!

[singaporu_kooku]

CGK, when you are alone, I think it's best to head down under. There are quite a number of SQTalkers here and I'm pretty sure you can get a visa pretty easily. We would definitely be delighted to meet the SQ's super VVVVVVVVVVIP

[CGK]

CGK, when you are alone, I think it's best to head down under. There are quite a number of SQTalkers here and I'm pretty sure you can get a visa pretty easily. We would definitely be delighted to meet the SQ's super VVVVVVVVVVIP

It's not that easy for me to get a visa to go down under.