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

Savvy_Sue

greenface wrote: »

Tip of the day if you dont like heights Dont go up anything

:rotfl: OK ceebeeby, are you an absolutely don't do any heights at all kind of person, or are you like me DH, who is fine as long as there is a barrier of some kind between him and the drop? Or maybe somewhere in the middle, where you are OK as long as there is a solid and non-see through barrier to about waist height with glass above that?

If you are like DH, you'll be fine going to the roof garden of the MoMA, which gives a very fine view of Central Park and the skyline, and I'm not sure I remember that being recommended very often.

People will be more helpful if you pick out from your guidebooks things you think you'd like to see, and ask for suggestions about a logical order for visiting them / time to allow for visiting them.

LouBlue

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

or are you like me DH, who is fine as long as there is a barrier of some kind between him and the drop? Or maybe somewhere in the middle, where you are OK as long as there is a solid and non-see through barrier to about waist height with glass above that?

Probably not helping SS. :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

LouBlue wrote: »

Probably not helping SS. :rotfl:

Sorry! I can't help it if he's weird ... you can put him on the edge of a high cliff, and he's fine as long as there's a post and rail barrier there. Put him 6 feet off the ground with no barrier, and he goes all woozy on me! :rotfl: So to me it's a valid distinction.

He's just read this and says I'm exaggerating. It's the lethal drop bit he doesn't like. Sorry that probably doesn't help either.

It gives us a very different approach to small boys running towards edge of cliff. If there's a barrier there, they'll be fine in his worldview. If there's a barrier there, in my worldview they are not going to stop in time and will trip and fall headlong OVER the barrier.

I'm ambivalent about heights, btw, but Top of the Rock was fine for me. I'm not so good with escalators.

LouBlue

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Sorry! I can't help it if he's weird ... you can put him on the edge of a high cliff, and he's fine as long as there's a post and rail barrier there. Put him 6 feet off the ground with no barrier, and he goes all woozy on me! :rotfl: So to me it's a valid distinction.

:rotfl:

My OH is fine with heights, I am normally ok, but just before we went to NY last time, which was May, I had started getting panic attacks, no idea why, so some of the stuff we did was a little scary for me (first time I went, it was no problem) but I wanted OH to see the best views so I was a brave soldier.

greenface

Im a joiner and from a family of scaffolders i dont like heights that much. But my rule is if someone has been there before me i'm ok with that so ESB - Eiffel -Blackpool even scaffold regardles of height just as long as im not the first to try it out. dont like absailing stupid sport

M4RKM

ceebeeby wrote: »

Please be gentle with me - I can't read 29 pages of hints and tips (I've just read two guide books!!)

I'm going in 10 days time for 5 days .... what MUST I not miss (I don't do heights!!) and how much spends will I need (I'm not too frivalous)

Thanks for your thoughts xx

29 pages? what about the previous 100 page thread?! *grins*

what not to miss... i'm still going to recommend top of the rock, very spacious, it doesn't even feel like you're high in the sky, but you get beautiful views. spacious, and you can't really see over the edge and down, just across... but.. if that's a no.. .erm..

how much spends do you need..

well.. i'm splashing out on this trip, but if you budget for $75 a day spends, so no beer, cheap eats, subway, no cabs, that is the bear minimum I personally think you should take.. if you want a decent meal, add on another $25 a day, if you want to have some beers etc in the evenings and enjoy the nightlife in the city that never sleeps, well that could easily be another $50 if not more....

Quassi75

markymoo wrote: »

no.. not at all.. I'm going for the following


1 - to walk over the brooklyn bridge
2 - to walk around central park
3 - to sample in excess of 50 different types of beer
4 - to sleep off a huge hangover
5 - to take an internal flight and see washington dc


so unless you class item 3 as shopping, i'm not planning on any really

M

Done all of those alreadt..lol...(but only managed about 30 different beers, and then cant remember what happend )

sodamnfunky

Got back yesterday, and I am so glad to be back in the UK. I hated NY with a passion, I went out really looking forward to it, did a bit of research on places to go and places to avoid, and the rest just see where we end up.

What a let down the place is IMO, if you like looking at skyscrapers then its the place to go, if you like going up high things to look over skyscrapers, then you will enjoy Top of the Rock (personally we did not enjoy it).

There were 2 things we really enjoyed, Serendipity on 3rd (anyone who has seen the film will know it) for frozen hot chocolate, and upper west side and the history museum. The rest, I wouldnt care if I never saw it again.

We are both glad we went, to experience it, but would not personally recommend it to anyone. I thought we would be the only ones who hated it, but on our flight home, there were two other couples who hated it too. So its not for everyone.

I wanted to love it, I really did, and even at times kept saying, come on its not that bad, BUT it is really that bad.

aussiedogga

sodamnfunky wrote: »

What a let down the place is IMO, if you like looking at skyscrapers then its the place to go, if you like going up high things to look over skyscrapers, then you will enjoy Top of the Rock (personally we did not enjoy it).

There were 2 things we really enjoyed, Serendipity on 3rd (anyone who has seen the film will know it) for frozen hot chocolate, and upper west side and the history museum. The rest, I wouldnt care if I never saw it again.

Wow. A little reasoning please? You didn't tell us why you don't like it... just that you don't.

greenface

sodamnfunky wrote: »

Got back yesterday, and I am so glad to be back in the UK. I hated NY with a passion, I went out really looking forward to it, did a bit of research on places to go and places to avoid, and the rest just see where we end up.

What a let down the place is IMO, if you like looking at skyscrapers then its the place to go, if you like going up high things to look over skyscrapers, then you will enjoy Top of the Rock (personally we did not enjoy it).

There were 2 things we really enjoyed, Serendipity on 3rd (anyone who has seen the film will know it) for frozen hot chocolate, and upper west side and the history museum. The rest, I wouldnt care if I never saw it again.

We are both glad we went, to experience it, but would not personally recommend it to anyone. I thought we would be the only ones who hated it, but on our flight home, there were two other couples who hated it too. So its not for everyone.

I wanted to love it, I really did, and even at times kept saying, come on its not that bad, BUT it is really that bad.

thats horrible you didnt enjoy youself because its alot of money spent but there was some parts of america that i didnt like too but other parts i loved.
You havent really said what it was you hated was it the people or the hustle /hassle or prices commercialism ?? what is your favorite ever holiday
ever and what is your age range if you dont mind me asking (just nosey because i went to ny with a wheelchair user, made me aware if i was dodgy on my feet you can get swept along beyond the pace you dont want to go)