If you could celebrate New Year in any European city except Paris.....

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Where would you go? Looking for top luxury hotel in interesting city with stuff to do/see for a few days after Xmas. Done Paris to death so not there!

How about Budapest? Lots of stuff to do, easy to get around, some nice hotels, and lovely hot springs.

Madrid, definitely.

Amsterdam.

Prague

All of the above, plus Berlin, Barcelona and Prague.

Not amsterdam! They go crazy with fireworks - it's really dangerous - and the cafés close from 8 to midnight.

Krakow

I love Madrid.

Madrid, Vienna, Dubrovnik - thoroughly recommend each and every one of them. Also Krakow, very picturesque.
I would love to spend New Year's Eve in Reykjavik. Financially slightly out of reach atm though

Berlin, I love it there.

Somewhere that would be especially beautiful in winter, like Prague or Munich.

"They go crazy with fireworks"

Well, that describes just about any European city on NYE. I remember NVE in Munich over 20 years ago, when everyone stood around the edges of the main square and fired rockets across the square, more or less directly at the people opposite.

Berlin has a huge and free fireworks display and concert in a central part of town which is relatively safe, because there's security and people aren't allowed in with private fireworks. However, you need to walk through some fairly hair-raising streets to get to the display and back home again. And Berlin can be VERY cold at that time of year.

Thanks all- Madrid had been my first thought. I think flights to anywhere near ski resorts will be spendy which might rule out places like Vienna and Munich. Berlin sounds intriguing though.....

Prague. Great.

Saltzburg and Vienna are both great on NYE. Loads of fireworks though

Thanks Sorrell - but I think that flights to winter sports type places will be prohibitive!

They go crazy with fireworks in Madrid too. Setting them off in the naroow street. They also throw grapes around

I'd go for Barcelona.

They eat 12 grapes in Madrid, one for every stroke of the clock at midnight. It's great fun. Fireworks no worse than any other capital city at NYE (and on a par with Barcelona, I've done (lived in) both!)

There wasn't much eating grapes when we were there. Just throwing them around!

They do the grape thing in Barcelona too,

Vienna flights aren't expensive at Christmas at all, no mountains. Expensive flights to Austria are those to Salzburg or Innsbruck.

Ooh thanks dahlia!

Istanbul is great at New Year, there is so much to see there too.

We did the sleeper train to Vienna on NYE. It was great fun.

Edinburgh, great street party as U.S. scots take new year parties seriously.