New Years Eve - Ideas?

[maz]

We will be in Buenos Aires for a few weeks and our anniversary is on New Years Eve. Does anyone have any ideas for dinner / dancing / club spots? Thanks!!

 

[syngirl]

In BA New Years is very much a family thing, so if you go to any clubs they will be dead until about 2am or later (ie not too much of the countdown to midnight at a club here)

Restaurants -- consider the hotels -- how much do you want to spend? Glam out at the Faena or the Alvear, or a restaurant like Toma Uno, or Rodizio does a New Years party. The other might be Million, though not sure if they'll open this year or no. Rodizio has live entertainment, everyone gets hats and masks and noisemakers, the food is good etc. Family friends go every year -- however they do go in a group of about 10-15 so may be more fun for them than going as a couple....

 

[ellbee]

where are the fireworks? puerto madero? is it infested with mosquitoes around that time?

any other ideas , peeps?

 

[SaraSara]

Traditionally, Args. see the New Year in at home with their families, and around 1:00 a.m. head out to parties. Most clubs have parties - both expensive private clubs and inexpensive neighborhood "Clubes Sociales" have some kind of celebration.

Check the papers in early December; that's when hotels and restaurants advertise their New Year's parties. Argentines do not like to plan in advance - one gets invited for dinner with a two day notice at best, and often on the same day.

All the church bells ring in the New Year at the stroke of midnight, and all home fireworks are lit at that time. This noise spooks sensitive dogs no end. Once I dog-sat for some friends, and welcomed the New Year buried under eleven panicky dogs, with a twelfth one hiding under my pillow. With each firecracker that went off, one more dog would jump on the bed....

 

[gsi16386]

Can I please recommend that you not stay in BA for the holidays? It's horrible here...

Last year I was here for Christmas and New Years and I had to keep all sharp objects out of my reach otherwise I would have slit my wrists. It's not a big celebration down here like it is in the States. You might see a strand of lights every 5 blocks and if you want to find Christmas ornaments and the like, there are a couple stores that sell it, but it's all smaller lights. Oh, and don't forget the fact that if you hear something like bombs going off outside, those are just "fireworks." It's going to sound like a war zone so get prepared. This year, I'm going back to the states, I don't care what the cost of the ticket.

Go to Rio for the New Year, I heard that place gets nuts!! This is just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt...

 

[mobri1130]

Can I please recommend that you not stay in BA for the holidays? It's horrible here...

Last year I was here for Christmas and New Years and I had to keep all sharp objects out of my reach otherwise I would have slit my wrists. It's not a big celebration down here like it is in the States. You might see a strand of lights every 5 blocks and if you want to find Christmas ornaments and the like, there are a couple stores that sell it, but it's all smaller lights. Oh, and don't forget the fact that if you hear something like bombs going off outside, those are just "fireworks." It's going to sound like a war zone so get prepared. This year, I'm going back to the states, I don't care what the cost of the ticket.

Go to Rio for the New Year, I heard that place gets nuts!! This is just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt...

The fact that it's not a big public celebration with decorations going up six weeks ahead of time and Christmas carols being played everywhere (to the point where I want to slit my wrists) is one of the things I love about BA. It's a nice change of pace from the overly-commercialized US version.

 

[gsi16386]

The fact that it's not a big public celebration with decorations going up six weeks ahead of time and Christmas carols being played everywhere (to the point where I want to slit my wrists) is one of the things I love about BA. It's a nice change of pace from the overly-commercialized US version.

I guess that's where you and I differ. I love to celebrate the holidays, enjoy a good carol or two, and relish time spent with loved ones over Christmas. Is Christmas overdone in the States? Hell yeah!! haha But I found myself missing that when I was down here last year. If I had family down here, maybe it would have been different.

Needless to see, I have a flight out of here Dec 15th and am coming back Jan 2nd so I can get my fill of overly commercialized Christmas cheer!

 

[syngirl]

I do think having family here makes Christmas / NYE great fun.

However the first year I was here I went down to Bariloche / Calafate and had a lot of fun -- you can go as far as Ushuaia and celebrate NYE at midnight with the sun still up.

 

[tangobob]

In the centre of Palermo enclosed by Armenia, Costa Rica, Malabria, and Nicaragua, You will find firewoks At the midnight hour. as the year changes over people compete to have the best explosion, the noise is the nearest you will get to being in a war zone without dying.
Leave BsAs and miss this? you would have to be crazy.

 

[fifs2]

Agreed that this is really a family time (and mercifully less consumer based) but it´s so nice that your good friends will invite you to join them and their familes which is something extra special...my own experience of new years is..get a designated driver as you will NEVER be able to find a taxi ...I have walked home in heels 2/6 years..this year my bunions won´t allow so I´m staying within 10 blocks of home or bringing sleeping bags for the family! Enjoy whatever you find to do. If the governments plans for the 10 day of celebrations starting in mid December (I think) come to pass it will be an awesome year to be here, a piece of history in the making.