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New Years Eve in Istanbul
Tue, 12/02/2008 - 21:27
Hey everybody!
I just booked my hostel in Istanbul from Dec 30-Jan 1 2009. I’m traveling alone and would love to have something awesome to do on NYE – does anyone have any suggestions or experiences of Istanbul on New Years? I’ve been doing some poking around, but a lot of the stuff I see is sort of crap touristy stuff (very expensive!), but I’d be up for something tacky if it was fun!
Thanks!
19-23 November 2008 – Stockholm, Sweden <—it was AMAZING
10 December 2008 – 25 January – Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Budapest, Bucharest, Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus, Nis (Serbia), Herceg Novi (Montenegro), Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam
The guys that worked at my hostel were really friendly, they took a group of us out one weekend night, even got us free cover at a club with a live band near Taksim. I think that is just standard Turkish hospitality. Alcohol is very expensive anywhere you go though.
The Istanbul Couchsurfing group is very active and has regular get-togethers, usually at a cheap dive bar type place (which can be hard to come by in Istanbul). They might have something planned for NYE. I assume there would be a fireworks display somewhere in the city. Taksim should be crowded until the early morning hours as usual.
I’ll be somewhere in Turkey for NYE, just haven’t yet decided where.
I took a ferry from greece to turkey spent a few days traveling around and made my way to Istanbul had an awesome time and got some really cool gifts to bring back. I think they call traveling or vacation, ‘tatil’ in Turkish