Uncork the champagne, keep your pets inside, and half-heartedly promise to use your new gym membership, because New Year's Eve celebrations are shaping up across the regions.
In Queenstown, New Year's Eve goes off with a bang with a lakeside fireworks display, street parties, and live music on the lakefront.
For the more maritime, Queenstown Real Journeys is offering a ride aboard the historic TSS Earnslaw.
The one-hour cruise passes the Frankton Arm of Lake Wakatipu, with entertainment from a local jazz band, and returns to Steamer Wharf at midnight for the fireworks display.
In Arrowtown, bars and restaurants will have local artists to mark the occasion, and further afield, Te Anau will have a bonfire and band at Lions Park on the lakefront, and midnight fireworks over the lake.
District police forces have been bolstered to deal with the expected influx of visitors.
An extra 76 police officers have been sent to Queenstown, Wanaka and Hawea.
Senior Sergeant John Fookes, of Queenstown, said 60 officers would be on patrol in the Wakatipu area on New Year's Eve.
Sergeant Tod Hollebon, of Te Anau, said seven additional officers would be on duty in Te Anau, five of them from Invercargill.
The district-wide 24-hour liquor ban which came into force on Monday, still stands in several Queenstown Lakes town centres, and will continue until January 6.
The ban applies to areas in Queenstown, Frankton, Arrowtown, Wanaka and Lake Hawea.
Geoff Woodhouse, of Remarkable Vets, in Queenstown and Arrowtown, asked people enjoying the celebrations to think about their pets, as the vets often saw an increase in stressed animals.
''Keeping them indoors is certainly the most sensible idea,'' he said.
