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For many people, New Year's Eve parties begin and end with a bunch of people drinking, dancing, kissing and watching the ball drop in Times Square. This need not be so, however. New Year's Eve offers the opportunity to enjoy a party that isn't bound to tradition like a Christmas or Halloween party. When you’re looking for New Year’s Eve party ideas, let your imagination run wild.

Try a New Year’s Eve Cruise
Single-night cruises on New Year's Eve are becoming one of the hottest tickets in the cruise industry. These ships typically set sail for about five or six hours and are jam-packed with fun and excitement. Expect dancing, champagne, dinner and the most spectacular view of the New Year's fireworks display in town. From New York to San Francisco to Hawaii, New Year's Eve cruises offer perhaps the most memorable goodbye to the old year and hello to the new that you'll ever experience.

New Year’s Eve Adventures
New Year's Eve cruises aren't the only new game in town. In fact, New Year's Eve as a travel holiday is becoming bigger and bigger. You can find New Year's Eve travel packages that will have you celebrating the big day all around the globe. New Year's Eve in Las Vegas has become the biggest night of the year in a city where it often seems as if every night is New Year's Eve. All the big casinos offer special travel deals, but in order to take advantage you absolutely have to make plans early. It doesn't really even matter which resort you intend on falling asleep in around five or six hours into the new year; most of those who spend New Year's Eve in Vegas engage in what is called the “casino crawl” as they make their way from one jam-packed gambling mecca to another.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is enjoying your New Year's Eve party at Walt Disney World. Much more family friendly than Vegas, you should also plan on making arrangements well in advance. You also need to realize how vitally important it is to get to the park of your choice early and plan on staying there throughout New Year's Eve. Unlike in Vegas, crawling from one park to another is not only inadvisable, it will probably be impossible. Choose the Disney World park at which you'd most like to spend all of New Year's Eve and plan on staying there.