If you dream about this exotic, celebrating New Year in the middle of the ocean warm and affectionate, you can choose not worth bothering sea voyage and a cruise on the warm seas. Very popular in recent cruises to the islands of Oceania, and South-East Asia, around Australia and New Zealand. Such trips are usually associated with minimal visiting the coast, but the ship enters the biggest ports where tourists usually organizes study sightseeing tours. The advantage and disadvantage of these cruises simultaneously becomes that on the ship there are people from different countries, so that such a trip, considering its price, you can safely go, just having a sufficient level of knowledge of English or French. Hope for the carriage speaking guide can be used only if all tickets are subject to Russian tourist companies and agencies that exotic cruises is quite rare, but the language practice and communication skills with native speakers in these travels - the maximum.
More affordable and familiar climate for the Russian cruises along the rivers of Western Europe (fortunately, they almost never the New Year do not freeze), or cruises on the ferry in the countries of Northern Europe or the Mediterranean. In these travels much more likely to meet compatriots, because the team and staff on ships are usually well enough speak Russian. If you are afraid of the huge body of water and a similar cruise - the first trip on the water, the preference should be given to an embodiment of the river, because almost daily passengers go on excursions to the coastal cities. And you can get acquainted with a number of countries and states within a relatively short time, and the trip will take place with more comfort than traveling by bus.