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Christmas and New Year break with a difference ...

Break the monotony of the end-of-year holiday season with a different type of Christmas and New Years' Eve break. Leave behind the stress problems, and work normally associated with the holidays and instead treat yourself to some much deserved fun and enjoyment, or some so if you're so inclined.

We asked our hotel members to send us their most unusual, distinctive and interesting package, and offer entertainment options for Christmas and New Year and we will choose the best ones for your perusal.

You can be sure that in addition to providing you something special for the end of year festivities, all the hotels and also offer to give world-class comfort, luxury and extras.

Party like it was 1999 in the Swiss Alps

Montreux, Switzerland, is renowned music fans as the home of one of the best annual Jazz festivals worldwide. Over the Christmas period it is also home to one of the largest party in the country.

Every year the Montreux Music and Convention Center will host a huge Christmas party with the best DJs in the world congregating there to play music throughout the night. Christmas fancy dress ball away if you do not find a better or more original venue.

Near the Convention Center located within walking distance of the Grand Hotel Suisse Majestic - and there are rooms starting at 150CHF this December, do not delay and enjoy a party to remember this Christmas.

Morning snow, afternoon swim in Cyprus

Please a very memorable Christmas day hotel Londa: start with a hot drink and breakfast up in the Troodos Moutains (an hour's drive from the hotel) surrounded by snow before heading back down to the hotel in the afternoon for a swim in the sea or just a spot of sunbathing.

This unique Christmas break depends on the weather permitting the combination of snow and sun, but should fail the hotel and its surroundings, offering lots to do and see year-round.

Rooms at the beginning 124GBP Londa hotel and the hotel has two Christmas and Nye offer available until the end of December 2009: A target = "_blank"> Nye in Cyprus Christmas package and a Luxury Package package.

Relax in Florence

Best known for its rich cultural and historical heritage, Florence is also an excellent destination for the end of year holidays with a difference.

Monsignor Della Casa, located just outside Florence in a quiet, beautiful countryside resort, is offering a special couples massage during the holiday season complete with Champagne lotion.

The hotel is also offering an exclusive package of luxury until early January with a free night and breakfast package. Hotel rates start from 114GBP.

Ride part in one of the oldest traditions London

London's serpentine Lake is a destination for healthy annual Christmas Day swim. Founded in 1864, the 'SERPS', as they are affectionately known, is one of the oldest swimming clubs in the UK and each year the event attracts a raft of heroic Competitors race the traditional 91m (100 yard) swim.

If you want to compete in one of London's craziest, and most challenging, Christmas tradition we recommend booking a room at The Capital Hotel, right next to Hyde Park. It is the nearest shelter to warm up again once you come out water!

The Capital is also offering an exclusive package Christmas breakfast, afternoon tea and Champagne parking included. Rates from 262GBP.

Or try their indulgence package includes two nights' accommodation, breakfast and access to spa hotel. Rates from 452GBP.

Party, and then relax in style

Wales The Quay Hotel and Spa offers a combination Party for New Years' Eve 2009 sure to please those who want to see the new year in style and need to recover for a day or two, then.

The hotel offers the following:

• Spa treatments and a pre-party pamper in the hotel room for the girls
• Dinner at restaurant in hotel with sparklers and bubbles in food as well as flowing Champagne cocktails all night
• Jazz band
• Sparklers and cocktails on the terrace at midnight
• On New Years Day spend time in the sauna and steam room, before enjoying a renewing massage

Watch the first sunrise of the year atop a volcano

Go to Tenerife this year for a real unique way to celebrate the coming New Year. Luxury stay at Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque which, following Eve dinner with a special New Year's and show at the hotel, you can book a limousine to take you to the top of Teide Volcano and watch the first sunrise of the new year on top of the Canary Islands while toasting with a snow-chilled champagne.

New Year's a memory you're talking about for years to come.

Browse more information, rates and availability in the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque.

Toast the New Year's Eve atop a glacier

Toasting atop a volcano too hot for you? How about a glacier?

The Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne, Switzerland, is offering guests a strong Eve experience a unique New Year's with a Rolls-Royce and helicopter transfers from hotel to a nearby glacier where you'll enjoy a glass of champagne 3,000 meters when the clock strikes midnight. Setting does not get more than it unforgettable.

More inclined to make it to the top of a glacier can Eve dinner may also find the hotel's special New Year's appealing, with a truffle menus designed by Michelin three-star chef Anne-Sophie Pic - each 520CHF people.

Parties, fireworks and healthy New Year resolutions in the Philippines

Mandala Spa & Villas, located in Boracay that island, is a luxurious spa retreat in the Philippines.

The hotel is offering New Year festivities to balance both the need to party and your accomplishments and resolutions for a healthy new year.

The island is often busy during that time of year, with many people congregating to relax, rejuvenate but also party.

Before the clock strikes 12, guests have their resolution set on living a healthy lifestyle: yoga in the morning, massages during the day, and a sumptuous vegetarian dinner at night.

A few minutes before the New Year, everyone was ushered in by the resort to watch the fireworks beach blast off from various hotels as well as from a barge a few meters from shore. After that you can walk, share drinks, cheers, dance and bar-hop with strangers in their crazy hats and trumpets all night long. party ends right on time for your next yoga class at 9:00.

Mandala Spa & Villas is also offering target = "_blank"> a package until late December 2009 that includes breakfast, spa services and a free night. Rates from 140GBP.

Sleigh ride through Black Forest

Buehlerhoehe Schlosshotel in Baden Baden, Germany, has an offer for New Years' Eve be sure to leave a loved one very impressed.

The hotel has a host of special activities to its Christmas and New Years' Eve program - from the more 'standard', such as gala dinners, fondue parties and night, all the way to the more generic and memorable as the castle concerts, ballroom dances.

But his most violent really offer something else - a romantic sleigh ride through wintery Black Forest. If you are looking to impress your other half the new year, it could be the holiday you are looking for.

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New Year's Eve Party in Boracay 2008