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New Year’s Even invariably winds up being a disappointment for most relatively young people who make big plans for the celebration. Plenty of bars, clubs, and restaurants offer enticing all-inclusive packages for the evening, where you and your friends/significant other pay up-front for “everything.” On paper, it all sounds great. After all, you are taking care of everything in advance and seemingly being responsible.
However, the all-inclusive ticket is usual a sucker bet, as the “all you can drink” special usually means that there is one bartender assigned to serve hundreds of people at a bar packed four-deep, serving you a small plastic cup filled with bottom-shelf booze that would have been rejected during even the driest days of Prohibition.
The “all you can eat” ticket or “Prix-Fixe” menu at a restaurant, however fancy, almost always entails the junior varsity team in the kitchen leaving the good stuff off of your plate, and instead replacing it with something close to a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner.
Finally, the New Year’s Eve ticket you and your boys buy for that hot club with the smoking’ hot girls will find you at some point during the night surrounded by a sausage fest so blatant that it puts the Jimmy Dean holiday office party to shame, while you watch the handful of girls become so inebriated that they pretend the booze-laden dance floor is a slip ‘n slide apparatus.
In sum, you are better off doing just about anything EXCEPT to celebrate New Year’s Even the way you think you are. Sure, hang out with friends, loved ones, and booze it up and eat fine foods. It’s just that you can do all of that without the aggravation of an all-inclusive sucker bet.
DISCLAIMER: If you find the idea of standing in the middle of Times Square while you freeze your ass off, caged in by the NYPD, appealing, then disregard this entire post and make sure you hit up the clubs on New Year’s Eve, baby!
u just described my nye.
Indeud. Telling it like it is.
YOu got that right.
I hit it hard right here on my couch!
Chess..I find Concerts are the best bets for New Year Celebrations.
New Years Eve is amateur night. Glad to be at home having lobster and champagne. Thanks for a great year Chess. 12631, best trading room for 2011 and for years to come!
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I appreciate the trouble Chess, if you didn’t tell me how to spend my free time on nye this year, as a fully functioning adult I almost certainly would have never known or been capable of deciding on a venue myself.
LoL!
Cheers!
I did NYE on Las Vegas Boulevard on Dec.31st 06. Would absolutely not recommend it to anyone, ever. A suite overlooking the bridge by MGM and NYNY would be a lot of fun though.
I did NYE in vegas before too..and agree about not recommending. Fireworks are lame, clubs have too many tourist, etc. I stayed in that suite location too (but not on NYE),at NYNY..that was ok..but who stays in the room?
I say enjoy the evening, but don’t “go retail”
I’d say enjoy a movie. Just got back from ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ and found the story quite enjoyable.
Disclaimer: Never read the book series as I do not know how to read fast enough to make reading non-fiction worthwhile.
Hi Chess
You forgot to mention that once the girls go potty they have to get back in line. Perfectly describes my night at an old abandoned church somewhere in NYC where some celebrity got married?
HNY…CNW!
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Alf – wow. A big hello.