| What are you doing for New Year? It's the question | | | | with your tenner can take anywhere from 15 to 45 |
| that everyone starts asking each autumn when | | | | minutes. When you've finally got your drinks, you've |
| thought's turn to Christmas and the end of another | | | | probably lost your mates, and when you do finally find |
| year. There seems to be a great deal of pressure to | | | | them, the music is so loud that you can't hear what |
| do something big at new year; go out to a top | | | | they are saying anyway. And to anyone trying to get |
| nightclub, get completely plastered to a big name DJ | | | | a taxi back home - good luck! |
| like Pete Tong or Judge Jules, or see the New Year in | | | | Though, of course most people have a great time at |
| at a massive street party along with thousands of | | | | New Year, many wake up on New Year's day with |
| other revellers. Whilst such party plans seem like a | | | | an expensive hangover and the nagging feeling that |
| great idea on paper the reality doesn't always live up | | | | maybe New Year's Eve is a little over rated. |
| to the hype. | | | | Because of the high cost and often over hyped nature |
| One of the biggest set backs to a big new year is | | | | of going out on New Year, more and more people are |
| money. Every pub, club and bar owner sees New | | | | choosing to stay in. But staying in doesn't mean being |
| Year as a huge opportunity to make big bucks and | | | | boring; more and more groups of people are clubbing |
| they will ramp up the drink prices and normally charge | | | | together and renting a holiday cottage and having their |
| a hefty entry fee. It's not unusual to pay £50 or | | | | own party for the New Year, often choosing a remote |
| more for a ticket to a nightclub on New Year, but you | | | | location in a beautiful part of the UK or mainland |
| won't get any more for your money compared to any | | | | Europe. |
| other night of the year, in fact you probably get less - | | | | Here, all of the problems associated with New Year |
| less opportunity to get to the bar, less opportunity to sit | | | | are solved; you're guaranteed to get a seat, buying |
| down and less space on the dance-floor! | | | | booze won't require a bank loan, the music will be as |
| Thus brings us to another problem associated with a | | | | loud or as quiet as you want and there's no need to |
| big New Year - the crowds. Getting a seat in a bar is | | | | get a taxi home, because your bed is just upstairs! |
| next to impossible and trying to attract the bar maid | | | | |