Christmas 2025 recs for a family of 9

Hello!

My husband and I have some how become the people responsible for the Christmas magic and given how expensive everything has become, we are trying to plan everything as early as possible to have it sorted sooner rather than later. There are no children, its just my husband and I, my brother and his partner, My sister in law, and both sets of parents.

In previous years we have taken everyone to Rome, staying at Hotel De La Ville, which was honestly beyond spectacular. We’ve done Vienna at the Rosewood, again beyond magical. Other years we have hosted in our NYC and Hudson Valley homes.

For 2025 we had the crazy idea of Paris for everyone. It would require 5 separate hotel rooms for about 8/9 nights basically just before Christmas to just after new years. I think at max we want to spend about $120K all in, bearing in mind that we pay for the flights as well ( food, activities, accommodation, transportation etc).

The biggest issue with our initial thought of Paris is that it is a much more expensive city, so to stay at the same caliber of hotel as we have in the past, is coming out a bit beyond our budget (entry pricing at many of them being around 2200 to 2900 Euro per night).

So basically I am just curoius to hear people’s thoughts, be it city recommendations, hotels that would be good or any other thoughts you guys might have!

Thanks so much!

Edit: one thing I forgot to mention was destination ease. If suggesting an alternative, the preference is a destination with direct flights or a single easy connection from: New York, Chicago, Johannesburg and Orlando

Edit 2: I caved. Booked Cheval Blanc. It’s gonna hurt but it will be a good Christmas! Thanks for the input everyone