re: New Years in Austin or New Braunfels

Assuming it's a family trip?

Both are great. If you have kids Austin has some cool stuff for theM. You can go by town lake and see the bats then stick around for fireworks.

I love New Braunfels so I'm biased. They have a part of town called Gruene which is on the Guadeloupe river. It's an old school strip of shops and restaurants and the legendary gruene hall. We always do dinner down there at Grist Mill or gruene city grille

Kids love it and they have live bands and plenty of beer. Lol

You will already be in Austin for dinner so it really just depends on if you want to be close to the hotel after fireworks or if you want to poke around Austin.