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