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

Quassi75

northernlass wrote: »

Has anyone ever been to Coney Island? I was chatting with my sister last night about places we want to go to whilst in NY and she mentioned she would like to go to Coney Island, now personally i had never heard of it so looked it up today and it doesnt seem to be anything spectacular or spectacular enough to waste several hours on, what do yo lot think? Bearing in mind we are going in June so tyhe weather should be nice, fingers crossed...

I have taken a couple hours out to go visit Coney Island. You have the worlds oldest wooden rollercoaster, nice sea life center. And nice beach...

And the trip down there with the subway is also intressting.. I thought it was a very nice day out..

Quassi75

Only 5 more days left to wait.

And then on the 27th, New York here I come again. (For some reason I always play Ready to go by Republica and Boys are back in town.. :rotfl: )

- Hotel: Courtyard New York Manhattan/Midtown East (Changed it last minute): £55.00 per night agent rate
-Flight from Bristol to Newark: £250.00
- Samsung Camera: Charged
- Sony Handycam: Charged
- Insurance: Covered
- Train to bristol Airport: Covered
- Some lose $$$ change (£100.00 worth): Covered
- Passport: Covered
- Visa Online: Covered
- Laptop Charged: Covered

And I think thats everything... Unless there's something I can't think off that i'm forgetting??

:money: :money: :money:

M4RKM

kdowner wrote: »

And I think thats everything... Unless there's something I can't think off that i'm forgetting??

You worked out how you're getting from Newark to your hotel?

Quassi75

markymoo wrote: »

You worked out how you're getting from Newark to your hotel?

I'm going to plan it when I get there. I might either take the bus to the train station and go to Penn or I might take one of those shuttle mini van's. Not sure yet...

Quassi75

Actually just booked SuperShuttle from the airport...

M4RKM

SuperShuttle isn't my thing. I heard someone once tell me that it took them 2 hours on the shuttle to get from JFK to their hotel. It just went around everywhere else, before their hotel..

on another note, I've plugged in my camera batteries to charge up now, and also packed most of my cables in a bag.

For most of my electronic items, i actually have US cables (laptop, iphones, cameras), so i don't need to find any adaptors or anything, just need to make sure I have picked them up.

Only thing to pack in that bag now, is my actual chargers for my laptop, which I'll do the night before I go.

One reason i'm being a bit more organised than normal, is that on the Wednesday night before i fly on the Thursday morning, is that I'm out at the Theatre with my mum, so I've got less time to get things organised!

M

Quassi75

Actually thinking that I might need to go and buy a new suitcase.. (My old Samsonite hard shell just weighs so much...)

Savvy_Sue

kdowner wrote: »

Actually thinking that I might need to go and buy a new suitcase.. (My old Samsonite hard shell just weighs so much...)

Is it worth going out with the Samsonite and buying a new one over there to come back with?

Adapters and things like that which I only ever need on holiday all live in a suitcase at home. And (of course!) I have a holiday purse which holds my overseas credit cards, my EHIC (OK I know it's no use for the USA but it's still where it lives!) and any leftover small change from previous trips. I've now bought a wallet cheap from Tesco where I can keep travel documents.

Quassi75

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Is it worth going out with the Samsonite and buying a new one over there to come back with? quote]

I have thought about it, but the Samsonite was my grand dads before he passed away.

But I could go accross with just hand lugagge and come back with a suitcase...

Is that possible??

KarenG

kdowner wrote: »

But I could go accross with just hand lugagge and come back with a suitcase...

Is that possible??

Absolutely!

We are flying out BRS - EWR one day after you