Everything & Anything New York City

jackieblack

janajay wrote: »

Tick Tock for breakfast and John's Pizzeria for dinner. Oh gawd my stomach.

:drool: mmmmmm......:drool: Tick Tock breakfasts.......
So much to choose from :dance: and so few days to try everything ......

Eurosaver

M4RKM wrote: »

Flights starting to resume tomorrow, (1st), and it will take around a week to recover, with some creative routing from the airlines.

M

No sign of any creative rerouting here. We flew from Heathrow to Montreal on 18th October (Air Canada, Lufthansa codeshare), were due to fly to Newark with United on Monday and on to Heathrow on Friday with United (Lufthansa codeshare). We have pleaded with Ebookers to reroute us from Montreal to London but they refuse to do so even though a number of alternative routes are available. Currently we are booked on the first flight from Montreal to Newark tomorrow with a two hour connection on to Heathrow. It will only work if everything runs to clockwork which seems unlikely at the moment.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

cazziebo

Managed to get home eventually! United and Lufthansa were brilliant and although a tortuous route (EWR - Ham - FRA- EDI) we're back just a day late. Had a bit of a hairy scary moment when we couldn't get a cab and when we did the driver gave us an estimated journey time of 2 hours to Manhattan from Williamsburg then 4 hours to EWR. He was miles out (probably didn't want to spend 40 minutes on the only open bridge at the time!) and we got to Grand Central in an hour and airport bus was less than 30 minutes.

Williamsburg is good if you're happy to just go out and walk. At no time, even when we were wandering around lost, did we feel unsafe. On the contrary, complete strangers would greet us with "How you doin?' and "how's that wind?". Lots of nice little bars and indy restaurants and shops. We found an absolute gem on Tuesday night when everything was still quite quiet. https://www.nitehawkcinema.com is a very nice bar on Metropolitan Avenue with a tiny cinema where they serve interesting food and drinks to your seat while you watch the movie.

For some odd reason a lot of bars don't have their names on the outside so I can't tell you what they are, but many around about had live music, good atmosphere and some were serving lovely hot cider.

Thanks everyone on this forum for your help. All in all, we had a great time despite the storm, and in many ways it was quite a privilege to share the experience of what was a historic time for NYC.

And the Dolphins beat the Jets so all was well! (and I can say I shared a stadium with Colin Farrell and Woody Allen. Saying nothing about Donald Trump being there too)

M4RKM

Eurosaver wrote: »

No sign of any creative rerouting here. We flew from Heathrow to Montreal on 18th October (Air Canada, Lufthansa codeshare), were due to fly to Newark with United on Monday and on to Heathrow on Friday with United (Lufthansa codeshare). We have pleaded with Ebookers to reroute us from Montreal to London but they refuse to do so even though a number of alternative routes are available. Currently we are booked on the first flight from Montreal to Newark tomorrow with a two hour connection on to Heathrow. It will only work if everything runs to clockwork which seems unlikely at the moment.

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

The key thing here, is that you booked with ebookers. If you book directly with airlines, (and everything is al the same airline), then you'd contact lufthansa and organise it that way. Because you're contacting a third party, you're stuck with poor customer service.

I've had issues in the past with a Delta booking, because I booked directly with Delta, they re-routed me without any issues, by using twitter. I know I may end up paying £50 more for my flight, but booking direct with the airline is always beneficial.

M

Eurosaver

M4RKM wrote: »

The key thing here, is that you booked with ebookers. If you book directly with airlines, (and everything is al the same airline), then you'd contact lufthansa and organise it that way. Because you're contacting a third party, you're stuck with poor customer service.

I've had issues in the past with a Delta booking, because I booked directly with Delta, they re-routed me without any issues, by using twitter. I know I may end up paying £50 more for my flight, but booking direct with the airline is always beneficial.

M

Thanks. In hindsight that seems likely really good advice that we'd certainly follow next time and I'd urge anyone to do the same.

In the end it worked out okay. They put us on the first flight yesterday from Montreal which got us into Newark in time for our booked flight home. I hadn't realised that we would clear US immigration and customs at Montreal which made a big difference.

So instead of four nights in New York we got two hours at Newark Airport and a tantalising glimpse of the Manhattan skyline as we landed. Probably just as well in the circumstances.

Good luck to anyone who's there at the moment or trying to get home.

RedBern

Looking to visit New York in April, and seen flights ranging from 489 down to 429, just wondered what is considered decent prices at the moment? Thanks

M4RKM

RedBern wrote: »

Looking to visit New York in April, and seen flights ranging from 489 down to 429, just wondered what is considered decent prices at the moment? Thanks

Around £450 direct from London Heathrow is around the cost I'm seeing. Hasn't really shifted in the past 12 months (oops, I shouldn't have said that!).

M

RachVG

Hi Mark,

I had bookmarked your post to another poster a couple of weeks ago telling her how to get to her hotel using the Air Train & Subway - I'd used that to figure out what I needed to do, but obviously not everything is back open yet. I know things are reopening all the time, but not being at all familiar with the system it's hard for me to figure out what I can and can't do as things stand at the moment!

Could you help me out? We're flying to JFK on Wednesday and our hotel is on West 71st Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Ave) - it looks like we're between a couple of stations so we have options, just struggling to figure out what's the best route!

M4RKM

RachVG wrote: »

Hi Mark,

I had bookmarked your post to another poster a couple of weeks ago telling her how to get to her hotel using the Air Train & Subway - I'd used that to figure out what I needed to do, but obviously not everything is back open yet. I know things are reopening all the time, but not being at all familiar with the system it's hard for me to figure out what I can and can't do as things stand at the moment!

Could you help me out? We're flying to JFK on Wednesday and our hotel is on West 71st Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Ave) - it looks like we're between a couple of stations so we have options, just struggling to figure out what's the best route!

Hi, this is todays subway map - http://alert.mta.info/sites/default/files/pdf/hurricane_recovery_map_bw_Nov5_0.pdf - it's changing daily with more stations opening each time.

If you were travelling today, Get the E, change to the D train at 7th Avenue. I'm not 100% sure if the airtrain is open, last I heard there is a bus through to Federal Circle, and then the airtrain to Jamaica. This may have changed, and the airtrain is running normally.

RachVG

That's great, thanks! Backup plan is what I wanted