According to a new priceline.com® (Nasdaq: PCLN) global
hotel survey of top New Year’s Eve party spots, the Las
Vegas Strip is the #1 destination among Americans, while Bangkok was the
favorite among Asian travelers and London was the top New Year’s spot for European revelers.
Priceline.com’s list of top U.S. destinations comes
from a sampling of hotel room booking requests made by consumers on www.priceline.com.
The European top destinations list was based on New Year’s Eve hotel bookings made by European consumers on www.booking.com,
priceline.com’s European online hotel reservation
service. And the Asia top destinations list was based on hotel booking requests
made by Asian consumers on www.agoda.com, priceline.com’s
Asia-Pacific online hotel reservation service.
Priceline.com said it still has hotel rooms, vacation packages, cruises,
airline tickets and rental cars available for those wishing to celebrate the New
Year in a special place. In addition to its broad selection of published-price
travel products, priceline.com enables customers to save even more by using its
Name Your Own Price® services for airline
tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars.
U.S. Top 10 New Year’s Eve
Destinations
Among U.S. residents, the top 10 New Year’s Eve
destinations are: #1 Las Vegas Strip, #2 New York’s
Soho/Financial District, #3 New York’s Upper
Midtown/Central Park South area, #4 New York’s Midtown
West, #5 New York’s Times Square/Theater District, #6
New York’s Midtown East, #7 New Orleans’ Downtown/Convention Center area, #8 Orlando’s Universal Studios/Sea World area, #9 San Francisco’s Union Square West, and #10 New Orleans’ French Quarter.
Europe’s Top 10
New Year’s Eve
Destinations
Among European residents, the top 10 New Year’s
destinations are: #1 London, #2 Paris, #3 Berlin, #4 Amsterdam, #5 Barcelona, #6
Madrid, #7 Rome, #8 Brussels, #9 New York, and #10 Vienna.
Asia’s Top 10
New Year’s Eve Destinations
Among residents of the Asia-Pacific region, the top 10 New Year’s destinations are: #1 Bangkok, #2 Phuket (Thailand), #3
Hong Kong, #4 Pattaya (Thailand), #5 Sydney, Australia, #6 Singapore, #7 Tokyo,
#8 Samui (Thailand), #9 Krabi (Thailand), and #10 Bali (Indonesia).
Since 2004, priceline.com also has compiled an expanded list of its top 50
New Year’s Eve destinations for U.S. residents. This
list is based on more than 30,000 hotel room reservation requests made by
priceline.com customers. Here is the expanded list of the top 50 destinations
for New Year’s Eve 2007:
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Priceline.com’s
Top 50 Destinations For New Year’s Eve 2007
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Las Vegas |
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Strip Vicinity South |
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New York |
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SoHo/Financial District |
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New York |
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Upper Midtown/Central Park South |
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New York |
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Midtown West |
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New York |
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Times Square/Theater District |
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New York |
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Midtown East |
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New Orleans |
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Downtown/Convention Center |
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Orlando |
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Universal Studios/Sea World |
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San Francisco |
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Union Square West |
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New Orleans |
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French Quarter |
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Chicago |
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Millennium Park, Loop & Grant Park |
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Orlando |
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Disney World Vicinity |
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Orange County |
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Disneyland Area |
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Miami |
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Miami Beach |
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Las Vegas |
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Las Vegas Strip Vicinity North |
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Chicago |
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North Michigan Ave., River North Area |
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San Francisco |
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Union Square East/Embarcadero |
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Key West |
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Key West |
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Orlando |
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Sand Lake Corporate Park Area |
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San Antonio |
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Downtown, Riverwalk |
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Oahu |
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Waikiki Marina Area |
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Nashville |
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Downtown/Vanderbilt/Metro Center |
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Miami |
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South Beach |
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Orlando |
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West Disney Area |
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Miami |
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Coral Gables/Coconut Grove |
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Atlanta |
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Downtown |
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Oahu |
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Waikiki Beach Area |
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Cancun |
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Cozumel/Cancun |
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Los Angeles |
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Central L.A./Hollywood |
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Boston |
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Copley Area |
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Fort Myers/Naples |
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Sanibel/Captiva Islands |
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London |
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Bloomsbury/Marble Arch |
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Maui |
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Wailea,Makena |
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Ft. Lauderdale |
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Ft. Lauderdale Beach Area |
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San Diego |
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Coastal Area |
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Paris |
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Eiffel Tower/Grenelle/Montparnasse |
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Los Angeles |
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Beverly Hills/West Hollywood |
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Fort Myers/Naples |
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Bonita Springs |
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Puerto Rico |
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San Juan |
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Toronto |
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Downtown |
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San Francisco |
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San Mateo |
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Seattle |
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Downtown |
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Newark |
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Jersey City/Meadowlands |
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Boston |
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Downtown/Charlestown |
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Tampa |
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Airport Area/Westshore |
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Fort Myers/Naples |
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Naples |
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New York |
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Midtown South |
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Sydney |
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City Centre |
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Philadelphia |
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Downtown |
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Orange County |
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Laguna Beach |
About Priceline.com® Incorporated
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com, a leading
U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and
Booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service.
Priceline.com also operates Agoda.com, an Asian online hotel reservation
service. In the U.S., priceline.com gives customers more ways to save on their
airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises than
any other Internet travel service. In addition to getting great published
prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com’s TripFilter advanced search technology, create packages to
save even more money, and take advantage of priceline.com’s famous Name Your Own Price® service, which can deliver the lowest prices available.
