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The Gaylord National Hotel Rings in 2009 with Big Night Out

Where: 201 Waterfront St. [map], National Harbor, MD, United States, 20745

New Year’s resolutions are overrated, if you ask us. We’re more the types to draft long lists of vices we should really ditch, then resolve to this year not be so hard on ourselves when we can't make a decision. If you’re bad decision makers like us, you might like Wednesday’s blowout party at DC’s “ridonkulously large” Gaylord National Hotel.

Just like the sprawling property, Big Night DC’s New Year’s Eve Extravaganza promises to be epic, with open bars, 12 themed party areas, six dance floors, party bands and DJs, party favors, and more for $119 (9 p.m. to 2 a.m.). That’s right, 12 themed party areas, so you don’t have to choose if you’d rather go Mardi Gras or ShamrockFest, hip hop or electronica. You can drunkenly wander through it all, like it’s a perverse cultural rite of passage. And if that’s not enough debauchery, $200 VIP tickets award access to a private casino lounge as well as food and drink upgrades plus exclusive ballrooms and seating areas.

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Verdict on DC's New Gaylord: "Ridonkulously Large"

Where: 201 Waterfront Street [map], National Harbor, MD, United States, 20745

Reviewing DC's shiny new Gaylord National Hotel, a writer for The Washington Post felt adjectives like "glorious" and "mesmerizing" weren't enough to describe the sheer enormity of this sprawling hotel and convention center.

"Ridonkulous" would have to do.

This $86 million dollar complex, part of the Gaylord chain, busts at the seams with atriums and banquet halls, 470,000 square feet of conference facilities, a four-star spa, even on-site shopping.

It's fair to say this place can brag it's a small city -- literally. There are 2000 rooms of all sizes (traditional, premium, and suites).  According to the Post, it's a half-million square feet, looking out over the National Harbor docks along the Potomac, and Old Town Virginia, where you can catch a water taxi to Georgetown or Mount Vernon.

And inside the gargantualific atrium are two full-scale recreations of Colonial-era buildings. Bloody hell!

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