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I have seen prints from 35mm negs blown up to 3x4 meters, and they looked fucking great. Really.
It was rock and roll photography, shot from the crowd, with an M6, with flash, on slide film, nefarius please cover your ears, cross processed.
So colours were of course totally wack, you could most definately see the grain even standing a meter away from the print, etc. etc.
It all depends on what you want, where stuff is going to be hung in the end, and of course what kind of image it is.
And what is 'acceptable' for you, in terms of grainyness.
I must admit up until some weeks ago I could not accept / enjoy grain in analog colour photography at all, especially when people / skin was involved.
Then I had a really good roll of Portra 800 that changed my view completely.
And concearning the other part of your question -
traditional printing will of course be nicest, but also the most expensive.
If that's not an option scan the very best quality you can, and set up an uncompressed file in photoshop / gimp / whatever -
with the exact dimensions, resolution and colour space the people who are going to print it need.