New Year’s Eve Welcoming 2024 Celebrations!
Enjoy your New Year's celebration the Key West way!
Key West is a magical place to ring in the New Year! With usually balmy temperatures at midnight, island style countdowns dropping everything and everyone from famous drag queens to slices of key lime pie happen all over the island. Enjoy festive parties, acclaimed street food or fine island dining, and ring in 2024 in island style!
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 – Countdown to Midnight Celebrations
Enjoy your New Year’s celebration the Key West way!
Tuesday ,Dec. 31: Key West New Year’s Eve “Drops.”
The “Red High Heel Shoe Drop”
Key West. Ring in 2025 with a “conch shell drop” at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 201 Duval St.; the descent of a super-sized red high-heel shoe carrying a female impersonator at the Bourbon St. Pub/New Orleans House complex, 724 Duval St.; and the lowering of a pirate wench at midnight from atop a tall ship’s mast at the Schooner Wharf Bar, 202 William St. Revelers can also witness the “flight” of a uniformed “stewardess” in a section of a replica aircraft and enjoy a ticketed Gatsby-style party at First Flight Island Restaurant & Brewery, 301 Whitehead St. Visit sloppyjoes.com, bourbonstpub.com, schoonerwharf.com, facebook.com/SunsetPierKeyWest/ and firstflightkw.com.
December 31, 2024 New Year’s Eve – Sloppy Joe’s 31st Annual Dropping of the Conch Shell.
The arrival of 2025 is to be heralded on Key West’s Duval Street with the “drop” of a gigantic manmade conch shell, the symbol of the Florida Keys, to the flat roof of Sloppy Joe’s Bar, 201 Duval. Spectators gather on Duval for the annual gala, emceed by a rooftop host and featuring dancing in the street and a countdown to midnight recorded on a huge clock.
More information to follow.
This year the conch shell will drop for the 30th time at the corner of Duval and Greene Street. The idea and implementation of the conch shell is that of local artist Tobias McGregor. In 1993, McGregor approached Sloppy Joe’s Management about the New Year’s Eve plan.
“Before the dropping of the conch shell, everyone would just wander around Duval Street, celebrating the New Year when their watches read midnight. The crowd was just not in sync,” said McGregor.
The initial conch Shell was rigged on a frame, the shell was lowered manually, and timed by watch or by looking across the street into a window and watching the count down in Times Square on someone’s TV. The conch shell redesign was done by Toby in 2005.
Customers inside the bar will be able to view the dropping of the conch shell on Sloppy-Tron.
New Year’s Eve Lowering of the Pirate Wench
The Unique Schooner Wharf Bar’s Seaport Tradition – Lowering of the Pirate Wench at Midnight. Party starts early in the day with 3 Local and National Acts – Party Favors – Champagne & Fun!
202 William Street, Key West, FL 33040
Event Start Date 2024-12-31
Event End Date 2024-12-31
https://www.schoonerwharf.com/special.htm
(305) 292-9520
New Year’s Eve Gatsby Gala at First Flight Island Restaurant & Brewery
8 pm – 1am
Ring in the New Year in style with The Crew at First Flight! At the stroke of midnight, a replica of an old Pan American Plane with a real-life stewardess will take flight in the garden surrounded by guests dressed to the nines in their finest Gatsby-era costumes. Enjoy a 4 hour open bar, champagne toasts, chef-manned stations, live band and DJ for a NYE you won’t forget.
Dress to impress in your Gatsby-era best for First Flight Island Restaurant & Brewery’s New Year’s Eve gala. Enjoy live music, DJ tunes and the Plane Drop at midnight. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, chef-manned food stations and an open bar. Purchase tickets in advance to ensure entry.
LOCATION: First Flight Island Restaurant and Brewery, 301 Whitehead St
