Places you might not be able to stop in 2024

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This year was all about making up for lost time. Following the pandemic, visitors flooded Europe’s biggest cities and America’s national parks as a form of “revenge travel,” going to – or returning to – some of the destinations that had been inaccessible during the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, the world has changed a lot since the start of the pandemic. Many businesses closed their doors when other people transitioned to remote locations and not all tourist attractions survived this period unscathed.

Whether they’re closing permanently or temporarily, here’s a list of places you may not be able to stop in 2024.

Although the Parisian museum inside and out still looks eerily modern, the Centre Pompidou is in its sixth decade. After the Summer Olympics in the French capital this summer, the Pompidou will rest to undergo a 260 million euro ($282 million) modernization. program.

“Notre-Dame des Pipes” will remain closed until 2030. Meanwhile, the sister Pompidou museum in Brussels is under construction, with an opening date scheduled for 2025.

Plan B: The biggest challenge facing art lovers in Paris is narrowing down their options. The Palais de Tokyo also has a formidable collection of fashion art, while the Musée du Quai Branly opened in 2006 with a historical collection of art and artifacts from around the world. world.

One of Disney’s best-known attractions had its last rides in 2023: Splash Mountain. The log flume ride was originally inspired by the film “Song of the South,” which has long been criticized for what the NAACP once called a “dangerously glorified picture of slavery.”

Splash Mountains at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida will reopen with new changes such as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, animated through the movie “The Princess and the Frog. “

Plan B: The reopening of Asia makes it the best time for Disney superfans to visit the company’s parks in Japan and China. The smallest park, Disneyland Hong Kong, introduced the first Frozen World in the fall of 2023.

The world’s best restaurant is officially hanging up its crown.

Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that popularized New Nordic cuisine, will serve its final customers in 2024. However, it won’t disappear completely.

In 2025, Noma will reopen as “a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavors,” according to a statement on its website.

Plan B: The most productive place to eat in the world is Central, in Lima’s food district. Even if you can’t find a table, there are many wonderful places in the Peruvian capital that offer quinoa, potatoes, herbs, fish, chili peppers, and other local ingredients.

After 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances, the iconic musical “The Phantom of the Opera: Retired from the New York level in 2023.

It retired with the honor of being the longest-running showing on Broadway, beating out other musicals such as “Cats,” “Les Misérables” and “A Chorus Line. “

Plan B: Even though Phantom disappeared into the night, Broadway is still as fun as ever for moviegoers. Nowadays, however, it’s less difficult to buy tickets for “Spamalot” or “Kimberly Akimbo” on the TodayTix app than it is to wait in the well-known TKTS Queue. Once you’ve booked your spots, get to Times Square early to notice the oddly cool places that even the most snobbish New Yorkers love to visit.

Home to the famous Ishtar Gate, the Pergamon Museum is part of Berlin’s Museum Island complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The museum will remain closed until 2027 as part of an ambitious modernization project, which will create a new central pedestrian zone, expand the exhibition halls and much more.

Plan B: Travelers who need to get to know the Pergamon Museum can make a stop near Das Panorama, where some of the museum’s pieces will showcase the renovation. Other attractions on Museum Island are also open, such as the Neues Museum (which has a rich collection of Egyptian art and artifacts).

This popular Taiwan photo spot – which did, in fact, resemble an elephant’s trunk – collapsed into the sea on December 15, 2023.

The site, on the island’s northeast coast, had long been threatened by erosion and had been closed to the public since 2010.

Plan B: Travelers who need to revel in the allure of Taiwan are spoilt for choice. The Cuifeng Lake Loop Trail, the world’s first qualified “quiet trail,” debuted last year. And if you prefer to drive, the Southern Cross-Island Highway passes through some of Taiwan’s most beautiful scenery.

Widely considered the first Western-style luxury hotel in Japan’s capital when it opened in 1994, the Park Hyatt has had a glamorous life.

But for its 30th birthday, the hotel will close in May 2024 to go through what Hyatt calls a “property-wide renewal.”

The New York rooftop bar, which moviegoers will recognize from the movie “Lost in Translation,” will close early and renovations will begin in January. The reopening will take place in 2025.

Plan B: Consider leaving Tokyo and spending some time exploring the rest of the country, as well as its other high-end accommodations. Two notable rural getaways are Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a ryokan that happens to be the oldest hotel in the world, and Treeful, a series of cottage treehouses in the center of Okinawa’s forest.

In 2019, the world watched in horror as the chimney of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris caught fire and donations temporarily poured in to repair this popular icon.

French President Emmanuel Macron had first supported a more modern reconstruction of the celebrated church, but traditionalists prevailed and the 850-year-old charm will return to its original appearance.

Notre Dame is slated for a December 2024 reopening.

Plan B: When it comes to churches, France has an embarrassment of riches. Beyond the capital, highlights include the imposing Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille, pink-tinted Strasbourg Cathedral, or a more modern design like Le Corbusier’s Colline Notre Dame du Haut in the town of Ronchamp.

The first building that received the Smithsonian’s call is taking a while to renovate.

The main building of the museum complex, known as Smithsonian Castle, closed in February 2023 and will remain closed for “approximately five years” for maintenance work and innovations on the structure, which opened in 1855. Digital tours, conferences, and other events will take place in the meantime.

Plan B: Although the castle is off-limits for now, two major museums in Washington, D. C. are open after their own renovations: the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

It was a tourist destination for part of a century, but a billionaire client acquired the remains of Leonardo da Vinci’s Italian winery as personal property.

French billionaire Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury conglomerate LVMH, purchased the Milan property in December 2022 and has not made any statements about when – or if – travelers will ever be able to visit it again.

Plan B: Although Leonardo da Vinci’s former estate is not available to the public, many of his most notable works still are. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence exhibits several paintings, adding a self-portrait, “The Last Supper” is in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan and “The Vitruvian Man” is in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice.

Despite a brilliant introduction and connection to one of the world’s best-known intellectual properties, the Star Wars-themed Galactic Cruise at Walt Disney World closed its doors in 2023.

The immersive experience at a full-service hotel also included lightsaber training, encounters with droids and movie characters, and drinks at Oga’s Cantina. Disney called the decision to shut down Galactic Cruiser a “business resolution. “

Plan B: Some real-life Star Wars filming locations are wonderful vacation destinations. The Sidi Driss hotel in Tunis played the role of the Skywalker family’s home on Tatooine, and the black sand beach of Reynisfjara, Iceland, the planet of Eadu in “Rogue One. “

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