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Reykjavik New Year Fire & Ice

Reykjavik New Year

Reykjavik New Year

See the world famous Reykjavik new Year fireworks

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Reykjavik New Year Fire & Ice

Celebrate New Year in a style peculiar to Icelanders that attracts visitors from around the world not least because unlimited fireworks can be had by anyone which Icelanders take maximum advantage of and garland the city with displays. Start the evening with our ‘Buffet on Ice’; blow out the Old Year on our bonfire tour; bring in the New with champagne and fireworks and then dance the night away. Choose between staying at the Plaza in the centre of town or in the spacious Grand Hotel where the New Year’s entertainment takes place.

 

Over the next few days, snowmobile across a glacier, search for the Northern Lights or simply chill out in the Blue Lagoon. Reykjavik is an unlikely city to warrant the description “as hip and happening as it is possible to be”. The shops are stylish and according to A.A. Gill, the women are “the most beautiful in the world”. The locals have developed a legendary and prodigious reputation for being able to enjoy themselves. This ultra-modernity and party town atmosphere dramatically contrasts with the island interior with its geologically sculpted scenery; glacial ice fields, sand deserts, lava fields, volcanoes, waterfalls and geysers. All of which you can see either by horseback, Super Jeep, snowmobile or, for the fainthearted, from the comfort of a reclining coach seat.

 

29 DEC 
Scheduled Icelandair flight from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester to Reykjavik. Transfer on arrival to Grand Hotel for 4 nights.
30 DEC 
Optional private Aurora cruise
31 DEC 
Optional excursions (see page 31)
 
New Year’s Eve programme
5.30 Sparkling wine and strawberries reception
6.30 Buffet on Ice accompanied by Icelandic folk entertainment
9.00 Optional guided tour around the best of the city’s bonfires, blowing out the Old Year in Reykjavik’s time honoured manner. Return to hotel.
10.15 Dessert and coffee
11.45 Sparkling wine and canapés on hotel’s 4th floor balcony with one of the city’s best views for watching the fireworks display and midnight countdown.
12.30 Dancing and live music in the hotel’s Gullteigur ballroom
2.00 To bed or bar
 
1 JAN 
Optional excursions (see page 31)
2 JAN 
Morning at leisure before transfer, via the Blue Lagoon, for a relaxing bathe. Continue to Keflavik for return flight to UK.
Hotel Plaza

In the heart of the old city on “Ingólfstorg” the main square with restaurants, shopping and nightlife on your doorstep, the Plaza’s glass edifice is unmissable. The hotel has recently been given a complete makeover and renovated to provide a bright modern décor marked by contemporary oak furnishings and bright fabrics. All 180 rooms have their own free high-speed internet connection, TV, WC/shower, hairdryer, tea & coffee making facilities and much more.

• City Centre • Lobby bar • Breakfast restaurant

Grand Hotel Reykjavik
Grand Hotel Reykjavik

The Grand is the perfect union between quiet surroundings and proximity to the city centre (about a 20- minute walk). All 209 rooms in the new tower block (where our room allocation is), are particularly spacious with either twin, queen or king sized beds and private WC/bath tub/shower with heated tile floors, radio, telephone, satellite TV, hair dryer and mini-bar.

• Quiet convenient location • A la carte restaurant • Bar • 24hr room service • Spa • Non smoking rooms