Eryl and I are paying the most we have ever spent on a hotel room (£350, ouch!) to stay at the hotel in the old County Hall building on the Thames.

http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/LONCH

I just hope that the fireworks on the Thames are as good as last years, otherwise there won't be much to see from our balcony room...

But it looks promising:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4456482.stm

P.S. this is very much atypical for us, we are normally at home by ourselves on New Years Eve, recovering from Christmas