Hot answers tagged public-holidays
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Probably not.
I checked national rail, every coach company I could think of (National Express, megabus, etc).
There aren't even any direct flights available from Bristol.
The only thing that I could find, and that is if you are really desperate, is flying Bristol - London via Amsterdam with KLM for around £200. The only problem then is to get to Bath. ...
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Try one of the following sites:
TimeAndDate. pick up a country and a year, it will list all holidays for the chosen country. Very nice!
Holiday Calendar it gives you holidays in different countries.
Wikitravel provides holidays information for each country.
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No, Tokyo is not a disaster area during golden week. However, flights out of Tokyo may well be more expensive, crowded, or already sold out on the first weekend, and queues may be longer. Another factor is that on the national holidays, some (not all) stores will be closed down, as will be banks (and that includes ATMs in most cases). Possibly also some ...
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I'm Brazilian and I live in Rio, and I can tell you from first-hand experience. Buses do work on New Year, but if you plan on taking a bus to either go to the most crowded spots, or to leave from them after the fireworks, keep in mind it will be slow. Painfully slow.
Anyone going to Copacabana beach after 5~6pm of Dec. 31 will experience traffic jams and ...
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OK, December 31st is not a public holiday in Brazil but January 1st is. The Wikipedia article on Rio de Janeiro states in the public transport section that buses run 24 hours, but the metro runs a Sunday service on public holidays (new years day happens to be a Sunday next year anyway)
Rest of week metro service: 5am - 12am
Sunday metro service: 7am - 11pm
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Depending on where you plan to stay in Bosnia, you'll meet predominantly Christians or Muslims.
Easter and Easter Monday are public holidays there so larger cities like Sarajevo or Banja Luka will have shops and monuments closed. Most of the bars, cafes and restaurants will be open and perhaps some smaller shops.
But if you decide to you stay at smaller ...
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Christmas Eve and New Years Eve are both not official holidays in Germany. It might be, that a lot of shops close earlier on these days than usual, but generally, you will nevertheless have enough options to buy food. And at last shops at airports, main stations and similar locations are open 365 days a year, so you want have to starve.
Also hostels and ...
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New Zealand doesn't treat Christmas eve as a holiday, this year the 24th falls on a Monday so it should be service as normal. Unlike some countries, New Zealand in my experience does offer some form of public transport everyday of the year in the main 3 centers. Id suspect Dunedin and Hamilton would also.
Auckland I have only spent a short amount of time in ...
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In Bosnia (and Herzegovina), the government does something slightly differently, due to the diversity of religion. In addition to certain public holidays (including Easter), each person is permitted two working days per year to fulfill their religious needs. These days are not considered official public holidays, but if taken around other public holidays ...
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I haven't done a Times Square New Year's Eve in over a decade, but I'd say if you can manage changing trains at 42nd Street during rush hour, it's no great challenge.
Compared to most American cities (if not, say, Mumbai), New York City is an "unyielding crush of humanity" on any ordinary day. The sidewalks are crowded, the subways are crowded, the stores ...
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To get a decent vantage point you should probably get into a restaurant like Olive Garden on Times Square or some similar, menu is not that fancy but the location is great and you might want to reserve the seat by the glass now.
Generally it used to be that to get a place by the fence you will need to be on Times Square the morning of the 31st (times have ...
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My experience with public holidays in Japan is that traveling via the roads is a disaster. If you are not driving or taking a bus it should be busy but tolerable, else expect to be moving at a few kilometers an hour-even on the more popular country side roads outside of Tokyo. Getting a car park is also near impossible.
Accommodation is also very difficult ...
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Many of the stations en-route from Bath to London would be operated by South West Trains and the service itself would be operated by First Great Western - and the network itself shuts down for 25 and 26 December - so I don't think there are any bus or train services at all. How many people will be travelling with you? If it's a few people, then your best ...
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I think you'll struggle to find public transport over that sort of distance. There are some local buses on Christmas, but that tends to be about it.
One of the few exceptions I know of is the Oxford Tube, which is one of the two express buses between Oxford and London (and not a train as the name might suggest!). On Christmas day, there'll be buses from ...
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Contrary to the popular opinion The City is not that big. So let's lay out a few rules that will help your search:
If you are going to stay in Manhattan there are very few places that have more then a 4 block walk to a subway that will take you almost anywhere you want to go, so drop a pin and there you will stay (just don't stay in the parks police ...
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Holi supplies is a seasonal industry, similar to how fireworks are a seasonal industry based around Diwali. Most commercially available Holi dyes will be hard to find outside the festival season, although you should also be aware that most of them are unsafe due to presence of heavy metals such as lead and mercury! Yes it looks fun, but many of them can ...
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According to the airport web site, since your connection is longer than 6 hours, they won't even let you hang out airside anyway.
If your transit time exceeds six (6) hours, you will be required to
exit Immigration and Customs and enter Fiji
Might as well make a virtue of necessity. That website includes timetables for three bus lines that run to ...
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Does anything happen at Lady Bay, Sydney on New Year's Eve, or is it closed like some other beaches?
Lady Bay is a part of the Sydney Harbour National Park.
In general, Sydney Harbour National Park is only open sunrise to sunset. During special events like New Years Eve they do open parts of the park outside of these times, but this only applies to specific areas, and normally requires tickets purchased in advance. The list of such sites for NYE 2013 is ...
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Only the March 29th and the April 1st are bank holidays in Spain. Between them there is a weekend that may be affected. Also the March 28th is bank holiday in some regions.
There are not less transports in buses and trains, really there are more than a normal day, but there is more people trying to take it. In my experience, you should book your long ...
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I got a partial answer from the TKTS booth folk:
There are no Broadway shows on New Year's Eve. Some off-Broadway
shows will play if out of the Times Square district. Also, the tkts
booth has to close around 3PM on New Years Eve.
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Does anything happen at Lady Bay, Sydney on New Year's Eve, or is it closed like some other beaches?
As Doc said in his answer, places within a very short walk were open for New Year's Eve - even beaches.
There was a partial view including skyline but not including the Harbour Bridge or Opera house.
As Doc also said Lady Bay is within an area which is closed overnight every night of the year anyway. The sign at the walkway said that all of South Head is ...
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Hatsumōde (the year's first visit of a Shinto shrine, less commonly a Buddhist temple) happens not necessarily on the 1st - some people do it on the 2nd or 3rd (or already on new year's eve). Expect popular shrines such as the Meiji Shrine to be extremely crowded so that it can take an hour or more to get to the front - but many people will wear traditional ...
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I can't comment on Laos as I've never been there for Songkran/New Year (although it is probably my favorite place on the planet otherwise!), however...
I was in Bangkok during Songkran several years ago (2004 I think), and it was an amazing atmosphere and experience, especially around Kao San Road. If you're in a different part of the country there will ...
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The list of French legal holidays can be found on a French government website (in French) or simply on Wikipedia. They are:
January 1
Easter Monday, April 9, in 2012
May 1
May 8
Ascension, May 17, in 2012
Whit Monday, May 28, in 2012
July 14
August 15
November 1
November 11
December 25
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If anything, I'd say that a show like HIMYM understates just how bad the heart of the midtown Times Square festivities are, post 9-11. Because people are so heavily penned in and the lanes of traffic are so controlled by security, there is little to no mobility for actual revelers.
As for the rest of the city, it's busy, but not any worse than any other ...
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No, it seems like you're not missing much. US to Taiwan appears to be surprisingly expensive.
I got 1264 euros on momondo.com, 1764 USD on Google's flight search and 1525 USD on matrix.itasoftware.com.
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I ended up going to Luang Prabang for Lao New Year, and it was an awesome experience. From what I've heard of Songkran, it seems the atmosphere is very similar. 3 days of getting absolutely soaked with water from buckets, squirt guns and hoses and being covered in corn starch, black, orange and red food coloring. There were parades, a Miss Lao event, stupa ...
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While there are many calendaring apps / services that show public holiday information, this in itself may not be enough information to judge whether it will affect your travel. Public services may be shut...but sometimes holidays themselves can be part of your trip because it's something unique to each country's culture. The best way to find out the impact ...
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You shouldn't have too many issues getting to JFK via points North - your route doesn't really intersect with any of the main routes into Manhattan, which is where the NYE traffic will be headed for the most part.
That said, you may want to take the Throggs Neck instead of the Whitestone - check traffic while heading south on 1010 or 880 or your resource ...
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It appears that Slovakia does not celebrate Mary's Assumption, unlike Austria:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Slovakia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Austria#Austria
So, it's pretty safe to say that shops and museum will be open in Slovakia on the 15th of August.
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