New Year’s Eve London fireworks: Tickets cost up to 50 as premium areas and ‘tourist tax’ introduced [Video]

Premium tickets are being introduced to watch London’s New Year’ Eve fireworks – with revellers having to pay up to £50 for the best views.

In another change for the 2024/25 spectacular, higher rates will be charged for the first time for visitors to the capital, who will pay £15 per ticket more than Londoners.

Mayor Sadiq Khan has decided to adopt a “golden circle”-style approach used in stadium concerts to boost the expected revenue from the event in a bid to cover the growing cost of security and crowd management.

The best views – from Victoria Embankment, between Westminster Bridge and Golden Jubilee Footbridge, and from Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge, will cost £50 for out-of-towners and £35 for Londoners.

Other tickets – for the eastern section of Victoria Embankment, the area behind the London Eyeand for the accessible viewing area on the Albert Embankment, in front of St Thomas’s hospital – will cost £35 …