Top 50 New Year's Eve Destinations

Las Vegas, New York City at Top of Survey

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. October 14, 2008

NORWALK, CT, December 26, 2006. According to a new priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) hotel survey, the Las Vegas Strip is the most-preferred New Year's Eve destination for the second year in a row.

To compile its list of top New Year's Eve destinations, priceline.com looked at a sampling of more than 30,000 hotel room booking requests made by priceline.com customers for the evening of December 31, 2006. Since the priceline.com study is based on actual booking requests, and not on consumer preference polls or votes, priceline.com believes the study is one of the more accurate predictors of future travel trends.

Priceline.com said it still has plenty of 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. See www.priceline.com for examples and full details.

In addition to Las Vegas, several other destinations showed strong popularity for ringing in the New Year. Florida destinations took 15 of the top 50 spots on the list, the most of any state. New York City took four spots, all within the top 10.

Traditional parade and New Year's Eve celebration sites scored well on the list. New York's Midtown West, home to Times Square, was #5. Philadelphia, with its Mummers Parade, ranked #28. New Orleans' French Quarter continued its post-Katrina rebound, coming in at #31.

Priceline.com customers also showed a willingness to travel some distances for their celebrations. Maui and Oahu appeared on the list five times. Popular international destinations included London (which made the list twice), Paris and Sydney, Australia.

Priceline.com's Top Destinations

For New Year's Eve 2006

Rank City Neighborhood

1 Las Vegas Strip Vicinity

2 New York SoHo/Financial District

3 New York Upper Midtown/Central Park South

4 Orlando Universal Studios/Sea World

5 New York Midtown West

6 Chicago Millennium Park/Loop/Grant Park

7 New York Midtown East

8 Orlando Disney World Vicinity

9 San Francisco Union Square West

10 Las Vegas Convention Center/UNLV Area

11 Chicago N. Michigan Ave./River North Area

12 Miami Miami Beach

13 Orlando Sand Lake Corporate Park Area

14 Key West Key West

15 San Antonio Downtown/Riverwalk

16 New Orleans French Quarter

17 Miami South Beach

18 San Francisco Union Square East/Embarcadero

19 Maui Kihei

20 Maui Wailea/Makena

21 Atlanta Downtown

22 Las Vegas West of Strip Area

23 Orlando West Disney Area

24 Orange County Disneyland Area

25 Nashville Downtown/Vanderbilt U. Area

26 Miami Coral Gables/Coconut Grove

27 Maui Ka'anapali/Lahaina

28 Philadelphia Downtown

29 Oahu Waikiki South

30 Cancun Downtown/Beaches

31 New Orleans Downtown/Convention Center

32 Los Angeles Hollywood

33 Paris Eiffel Tower/Grenelle/Montparnasse

34 Ft. Lauderdale Beach Area

35 Fort Myers/Naples Sanibel & Captiva Islands

36 Los Angeles Beverly Hills/West Hollywood

37 Ft. Lauderdale Downtown

38 London Mayfair/Soho

39 Maui Kahului

40 Ft. Lauderdale W. Ft. Lauderdale/Plantation

41 Toronto Downtown

42 London Bloomsbury/Marble Arch

43 Newark Jersey City

44 Puerto Rico San Juan

45 Indianapolis Downtown

46 Orlando Airport Area

47 Sydney City Centre

48 Fort Myers/Naples Marco Island

49 Tampa Airport Area/Westshore

50 San Diego Coastal Area