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New Year in Reykjavik,
Iceland...
4 nights from £759 per person
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Celebrate New Year in real 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 you can 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.
Itinerary... (departs 29th December)
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 below for details)
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.
What is included...
- Return scheduled Icelandair flight(s) from Heathrow, Gatwick or Manchester to
Reykjavik
- Pay on board cabin service
- All airport departure taxes and passenger service charges
- 4 nights accommodation in twin room(s) with private WC/ shower
- 4 breakfasts - New Year’s Eve Buffet Dinner and programme as per itinerary
- Blue Lagoon excursion.
- Optional Aurora Cruise £39pp. Bonfire tour £45
Accommodations...
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
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
To book call us on 01543 258631 or 0845 003 2211