to think we may be spending new years eve with older people??

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My boyfriend and I would like to arrange something for new years eve to avoid the usual disappointment attached to it all. last year we went to Berlin for the weekend which we loved. This year we thought about Paris but the accommodation is so expensive.

I have found a really lovely hotel/restaurant in Windermere which is doing a package which includes two 5 course meals , afternoon tea, stay in hotel, breakfast and evening entertainment for 2 nights. I'm just really worried that it will be full of OAPs. We are both 25 and enjoy nights out but just hate the chaos of New year. What should I do??

One of the best NYE's DH and I ever had was in a place where we were the youngest by about 30 years! We'd had a shitty year and decided, on Boxing Day, to jet off somewhere, anywhere that was available.

We ended up in Benidorm. All the pubs were full of 'Snowies' (as my 80 year old mum calls them) and we had a bloody fabulous time! DH was forced onto the dancefloor by a gang of ladies who wouldn't take no for an answer. I was doing shots at the bar and was taught how to Samba by some chap who danced rings round me.

We were on the plane back with some of them - and the stewardess had to ask them to stop being so rowdy! I would thoroghly recommend it.

im in my 20s and would love to.spend NYE at a hotel with a tea dance and afternoon tea. even with.the oaps at least theyre more likely to.know how to.dance properly!

those oldies like a party too bet they will have you up all night dancing

you could book edinburgh they have the party scottish hogmany is great fun from what i can remember i am in my pjs my 10pm

Huh! I'm mid-50s and could probably beat you both climbing Helm Crag. I think the Lake District would be wasted on you. Your OP is full of ageist assumptions, and YABU.

I tend to find people in their 20s conservative and dull. They know very little about interesting ways to enjoy themselves apart from drinking too much cheap cider. And they are overly materialistic, and pretty ignorant about politics and history.

See?

< Waves to Up the Chimney .

OAP is a state of mind. My parents won't go on cruises because they view them as full of 'old people'.
I suspect a quiet weekend at the Lakes fits into this category. My nana raving in Marbella would not. :)

Would just like to add my view.
I live in the lakes and have worked NYE in a hotel on 3 different occasions.
In my experience they do tend to be more sombre affairs! Dont get me wrong it is lovely and relaxed, but if it is any sort of party and exciting atmosphere you are looking for, here is not the place to have it!
Most guests are about 40 plus and in couples, cant actually remember any families booking in during that period.

Im not saying 40 plus is old by any means before people jump on me. Just being honest about the actual ages of people who came and stayed with us!

A lot of the hotels around here do this. They put on a meal, a disco and some fireworks and a pipe to play Auld Lang Syne at midnight. You get a room and breakfast in with it. I know a lot of people who do it, and they are all ages.

Anywhere in the Netherlands will be party-central on New Year's Eve, not just Amsterdam, which is expensive. Everyone goes out into the street at midnight and sets off fireworks. And BBC 1 and BBC 2 are standard TV channels here so you can still watch the pre-recorded Jules Holland.

I am the worst company on NYE. I hate staying up late, loud music, cheap champagne (vintage or nothing, daaaahlinks) and too many strangers in a hot room. I will be almost 52 on NYE but I have been an antisocial sod all my life when it comes to these things. In fact I am probably nicer about it now than when I was 16.

This would be why I am not going on a hotel break, to Lake Windermere or anywhere else. Probably people that are, are prepared to have a good time.

But you might well have to be a bit flexible. It might not be your music. It certainly won't be a road full of different bars and clubs so you can move around till you find the perfect one for you.

I have to say that Dublin or Edinburgh or Glasgow would be my picks for you two. Or Budapest.

Have a great time.

Check what time the bar closes and if there is anything happening on NYE otherwise you might be the only two people in the bar with a yawning bartender. I am quite envious of the sound of the break, afternoon tea and bracing walks in the freezing cold sounds great, I would probs sneak a bottle of bubbly in if it were me.

Would the posters who don't mind spending their free time with OAPS be equally as happy being at a family hotel if you were childless?

elskovs I think the point that some of us are making is that the term OAPs is quite derogatory in the way you and the OP are using it, and inaccurate as well. I'm 6 years off a bus pass (yikes!) yet I can outrun, outparty, outdrink, and outthink most people in their 30s let alone their 20s.

The OP would have put her question better if she'd asked whether a NYE with afternoon teas and walking in the Lakes would be a bit quiet after Berlin or Paris.

Personally, having spent several NYEs in Berlin, I think anyone who enjoys being corralled in around the Brandenburger Tor and treated like a drinking animal in a cage needs their head examining, but then I know a different (far more interesting) Berlin. You see, because I'm almost an OAP, I've done rather a lot ... But then I come from a family of redoubtable women who live to good old ages, and laugh at the prejudices displayed in this thread.

Don't do it! You'll trip over all the walking frames and after a few drinks you'll probably accidentally drink someone's dentures and then the next day you'll wake up with a blue rinse.

Just wanted to wave to upthechimney and beccagain before my poor old gimmer arm gets too tired....
and to say, what lovely sensible points they make.

(Trundles back to knitting.)
(This is a lie. I'm currently running a charity)

Well, last weekend I did the Fairfield horseshoe, and a bit of scrambling around St Sundays Crag. It's gorgeous 2000 feet up.

OTOH, the joy of being 50+ is that I never have to worry about Paris accommodation being "too expensive." It isn't. For me.