Anything & Everything New York (PART 2) - [please search thread before posting]

fordy

im getting really despondant now

if I get a hotel at a good price, i cant get the flight to match and what im saving on the hotel goes on the flight so im not saving anything

watpoae

ninestonecreature wrote: »

You really don't need to do the Empire State building if you're doing T.O.T.R.....it could easily take up a lot of time, whereas the T.O.T.R, you get up quickly, the views are much better in my opinion and you have more time to do other good stuff.

Have you plans to eat at all?? ;-)

For me, it's a mega important thing that I eat well, you're in New York, it would be a sin not to! I would get on over to Trip Advisor and look at the restaurant recommendations there...There's a great big list for you:


http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurants-g60763-New_York_City_New_York.html

Ah it sounds daft but with it being the first trip we've done to NY we're wanting to do the Empire State once just to say we've done it. I guess the different views you get compared to the rock will good to see anyway.

Yeah we're planning on eating, and eating well! We're not big proper sit-down restaurant type eaters.. it'll mainly be steakhouses / pizza places / diners etc we'll visit mostly so these shouldn't take too long really.

M4RKM

fordy wrote: »

im getting really despondant now

if I get a hotel at a good price, i cant get the flight to match and what im saving on the hotel goes on the flight so im not saving anything

keep trying.. flights from MAN when i want to go at the moment are £440, but from London £336... maddening that MAN doesn't seem to be getting and decent flight prices...

M

M4RKM

watpoae wrote: »

Thanks a lot for the brilliant (and quick!) responses everyone, been a great help!

I've combined the two suggestions from both of you and came up with the following (I missed off empire state at night and times square at night off the original list):

Day 2

Rockerfeller Center
Times Square
Grand Centrale Station
Madison Square Garden Tour
Little Italy & China Town
Soho
Greenwich Village

Day 3

Ground Zero
Wall Street
Staten Island Ferry
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Promenade
Williamsburgh bar crawl


Day 4

Yankee Stadium
Central Park
Bleeker Street area

Day 5

Do our own thing
Citifield


Any better? We're staying in the cosmopolitan hotel.

Thanks again all.

Ps mark - the mets are NY's number 1.. last nights 15-0 defeat by the yankees was just a fluke

Aaah.. Cosmo Hotel is a great place to stay... *grins*

Times Square is boring, trust me, it'll take you 12 mins to get up from the Cosmo and 12 minutes to take photos, so you can do that any evening when you have some spare time. maybe sneak it in on the way back down from *spit* Citi Field *spit*. I'll reiterate the don't bother with ES Building either, as it is cramped and takes ages to get up and down. You get herded around and up and down, and that's it, but with TOTR you can wander for as long as you want as it's much more spacious.

btw.. it is Grand Central Station, i subtly corrected it, but this time i'm pointing out the mistake..

Also, days without plans are sometimes the best days you can have..

M

watpoae

markymoo wrote: »

Aaah.. Cosmo Hotel is a great place to stay... *grins*

Times Square is boring, trust me, it'll take you 12 mins to get up from the Cosmo and 12 minutes to take photos, so you can do that any evening when you have some spare time. maybe sneak it in on the way back down from *spit* Citi Field *spit*. I'll reiterate the don't bother with ES Building either, as it is cramped and takes ages to get up and down. You get herded around and up and down, and that's it, but with TOTR you can wander for as long as you want as it's much more spacious.

btw.. it is Grand Central Station, i subtly corrected it, but this time i'm pointing out the mistake..

Also, days without plans are sometimes the best days you can have..

M

Haha I don't know where I got that spelling from! For some reason I thought they put an 'e' on the end..

Yeah I think we'll just tag times square in somewhere else.

Cheers for your help.

Savvy_Sue

Do the SI ferry at night as well as during the day. It runs all night, so wait until it's good'n'dark. And stay at the back, fewer people in the way!

ninestonecreature

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Do the SI ferry at night as well as during the day. It runs all night, so wait until it's good'n'dark. And stay at the back, fewer people in the way!

He has 5 days....that seems a little bit of a waste of time if you ask me...sorry!

Savvy_Sue

ninestonecreature wrote: »

He has 5 days....that seems a little bit of a waste of time if you ask me...sorry!

We were only there for 3 days, but going on the ferry late one night was one of the highlights! Just there and back ... then walking through Battery Park back to the Cosmo. Fantastic fireworks one night too, over on SI.

We were there in August, and it was HOT and HUMID, but lovely on the ferry.

becky_rtw

I love the ferry too - I did it twice the first time - battery park at night is amazing and you can take a bottle of wine down and a picnic for before you go on the ferry and watch the sun go down - *sigh* very cool

ninestonecreature

I just think there's more things to be doing then doing that twice...it's New York, there's ALWAYS more things to be doing! I enjoyed my ferry trip, but it certainly isn't something I would say to people you must do, and do it night and day! Perhaps do a night cruise around Manhattan, that for me would be 100 times better?!

I guess if you like ferry trips though, go for it