Everything & Anything New York City

poor_johno

phatbear wrote: »

i've used stubhub in the past for yankees tickets, give them a go

Thanks! Im getting roughly the same prices......$90 per ticket! Is that the standard for bball and ice hockey?

I don't even pay that to see the mighty Seagulls!

phatbear

Price depends on the seat, ive paid $15 for a seat in the bleechers and paid $80 for a seat in the gods at yankee stadium

ixia

I've bought basketball tickets from stubhub for my trip in April. I think they were about 70 dollars each.

scoobyju1

I've used Ticketmaster.com in the past & I've purchased Ice Hockey, Basketball & Baseball for American games.

Depending on where you want tickets for, I have, on occasion got tickets on the day from the venue (Knicks tkts for example from the booth at Madison Square Garden)

If you want floor seats expect HUGE prices but for a tkt to see the Knicks at MSG, a $40-$60 ticket will give you a good view. Tbf, a $10 nosebleed seat wouldn't be that bad!

M4RKM

Saint_Chris wrote: »

I was just wondering which is the better of the airlines, american airlines or continental, i can book with aa for £100 cheaper than continental, one of our group is 6 ft.

Both are much of a muchness. Delta would be slightly better as they offer 32" pitch rather than 31" pitch. I'm 6'4 and found AA the most uncomfortable flight I'd been on for years. That 1" makes a HUGE difference.

M

M4RKM

poor_johno wrote: »

Where the best place to get tickets for sports events.

Im going in April and would like to see a sport. Im thinking Ice Hockey/Basketball/American Football so I've been looking at the NY teams websites. The tickets I've found seem to be steeply priced compared to the UK even for the cheapest seats.

Has anyone got any tips for buying tickets to sports events?

You're going to have trouble seeing American Football as the season ends this weekend with Superbowl, and won't start again til September.

Ice Hockey, will be reaching the end of the season, and with the NY Rangers actually playing well this season tickets are harder to get hold of, and the ones left will be more expensive.

Basketball will probably be the best. The Knicks are dreadful and there are always tickets available. $80 is a fair price (£52) - you'd pay that to see a Premiership Football Match.

M

daisiegg

Hi everyone

Well, this August my OH and I will be heading to the East coast for our summer holiday.

We will be spending a few days in NYC, then doing Toronto, Niagara Falls, Finger Lakes, and a bit of time in/around Boston.

Obviously as this thread is all about NYC, that's why I'm here!

I've been doing lots of reading and research. Have spent the best part of a few days (I'm off work atm) reading through this thread, have bought a couple of very recently published guide books, been trawling the web etc.

I think if anything, I'm full of information overload! Feel quite overwhelmed, and having trouble coming up with a decent itinerary.

We arrive at JFK on Thursday 16th August at 5.15pm. We are staying in the Setai Hotel on Fifth Avenue. We leave to fly to Toronto at lunchtime on Monday 20th, so effectively we have three full days - Friday, Saturday and Sunday (assuming we won't do anything more than wander round and eat something before falling into bed on the Thursday evening, and that we just check out of our hotel and go to the airport on Monday morning).

I have been to NYC before on a family holiday as a child and did LOADS of the sights then. OH goes there about 6 times a year on business, so in terms of eating, drinking, getting around, and NYC as a working city, he knows it fairly well - but he hasn't done many of the touristy things.

Our holiday is quite busy and we're moving around a lot, so we don't want our weekend in NYC to be TOO frantic. We're pretty confident this won't be the only time we ever go so we're not bothered about shoving as much in as possible, and we don't want to wear ourselves out at the start of a two and a half week holiday.

SO! with that in mind - there are only a few things we definitely want to do/see:

• Central Park (lunchtime picnic? presuming it won't be too hard to find a Whole Foods somewhere nearby to buy some lunch? Wait...they do HAVE Whole Foods in NY?? I'm used to being in Cali where there's one on every corner!)
• TOTR - probably looking to do this rather than ESB, having read lots about both on this thread. OH is scared of heights so it will probably be a fairly brief visit!
• Grand Central Terminal - wander around, have a drink
• Ellis Island (but not bothered about actually going to the Statue of Liberty)
• Times Square in the evening (we're hoping to get tickets to a show so we'll see it at the same time)
• Chinatown (walk through/have a meal - how does it compare to Chinatown in San Francisco, anyone know? I was really disappointed with that, but not sure what I was expecting)

So far, that's all on the list!

Before anyone says it, I know there are no museums on the list - we may visit the Museum of Sex (just as it's not far from our hotel and I find that sort of thing fascinating) but that's it. It's a decision we've made, we live v close to London and go to lots of museums regularly, so not too bothered about doing that in NYC when there are lots of other things to see/do.

However, even if we want to be pretty relaxed I can see that the list is quite short for three days.

We're not bothered about doing lots of shopping - will wander in and out of some of the big names on Fifth Avenue as we're staying there anyway - but that's it.

So, two things I'd love it if you lovely people could help me with -

1. What, in your opinion, are the 'must sees' that I have missed from my list?
2. How would you arrange that itinerary over three days, with our hotel on Fifth Ave as a base?

I've seen soooo many helpful posts in this thread where knowledgeable people have stepped up and helped to sort out a suggested itinerary for clueless people like me, and I'd really really appreciate it if anyone had the time to help me with it too

THANKS in advance!

phatbear

A bit of feedback on what your post.

I hate and I mean hate heigts but I can spend hours up the top of the rock, I even attended a wedding there last summer, so im sure hubby will be fine.

Chinatown in San Fran is better than NY, in other words the NY one is seriously disappointing, unless your into knock off purses etc, however if you are there I would highly recommend the Chinatown Ice Cream Factor.

Must sees is quite a indivdual thing,

But for starters

Walk the highline
if youre at grand central go and gawp at my fave NY building which is the chrysler buidling
mooch around soho
pop into tiffanys (well its a must do according to the Mrs)
Go to a sports event
Jump on board the staten island ferry
Visit the site the twin towers, not a lot to see there but makes you realise the scale of what was there, visit st pauls whilst there
Have a pic taken with the charging bull just off wall street
etc etc etc

phatbear

oops how woud i arrange the time, well i'd go on googlemaps and plan what you want to see, drop pins on the map then you know what close to you, or, whats close to a subway station

daisiegg

Thanks phatbear - great replies! Hadn't thought of the googlemaps thing. I'm going to have a go...