Why you should celebrate New Year’s Eve in Iceland
, 2022-12-06 09:06:54,
New Year’s Eve? The fun’s gone to Iceland where you can celebrate with massive firework displays that last all night
- New Year’s Eve is the time of year when Iceland lifts its ban on fireworks
- In Reykjavik, the fireworks start at 8pm and parties take place across the city
- Rooms at stylish hotels such as colourful Reykjavik Marina are from £120 a night
Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: New Year’s Eve in Iceland.
It may be ice-cold, but Reykjavik is the red-hot place for New Year’s Eve – thanks to a series of feelgood firework displays that last all night and raise big money for charity.
‘Our firework parties are a local tradition that holidaymakers really love, especially when they hear the reason behind them,’ says Arny Palsson of the Berjaya hotel group, which has six hotels in Reykjavik and six more on the Golden Circle tourist route around the island.
The story began in the 1960s, when volunteers with Iceland’s Search and Rescue charity started to sell fireworks between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s illegal to set them off at all other times in Iceland, to ensure they are not mistaken for emergency…
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