R Y Booking trends show that many people remain undecided about how to spend New Year's Eve. Hotel rooms, though pricey, are still available at such New Year's carousing headquarters as Times Square, New Orleans and the Disney parks in Orlando, Fla., and Anaheim.
Cabins remain open for millennium ocean cruises.
Revelers still can line up a limo in Las Vegas or a baby sitter in Manhattan. Many travelers may be in a holding pattern, hoping exorbitant hotel prices will drop as the new year approaches. Some fear to travel because of possible problems from the Y2K bug, in which some computers may fail to recognize the year 2000. Others want to spend New Year's quietly with family and friends. And some have a sense of millennium malaise, viewing the year 2000 as just another flip of a calendar page.