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Mintedmatty, if they have them in store during your visit, Bloomingdales had lots of lovely Christmas decorations last year. I was rather excited there seeing everything related to the holidays

bleepandbooster

Mintedmatty ................... There is a Christmas Shop in the South Street Seaport Shopping Mall ! I think you will have to get your skates on to make the 9/11 for 5pm #justsaying !

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David

koobkool

mintedmatty wrote: »

Well we land around 2pm on 14th October at Newark. We have booked tickets for the 9/11 memorial at around 5pm that day and the rest of the day is pretty fluid.

For Tuesday we plan to go up to see everything Central Park area and further 'up' Upper West/East Side. Included is the Met, Strawberry Fields, The Guggenheim, Pomander Walk, Dakota Building, Friedsam Carousel, Belvedere Castle, Lincoln Centre and Bloomingdales etc.

In the Evening we have booked the Brooklyn Brewery Tour then tickets for the Brooklyn Nets Basket Ball at the arena in Brooklyn.

On the Wednesday we are hoping to do everything 'Times Square' including Empire State, The Rock, New York Public Library, Chrysler, Grand Central Station, Flat Iron building, Paley Park, Macys Etc.

On the Thursday at our hotel we can hire bikes so hoping to cycle the southern stretch of the green route on the map link below

Also for Thursday possibly Roosevelt Island, Wall Street, Battery Park, High Line (The High Line I am possibly most excited about the whole trip) The Ghostbusters Firehouse (Childhood dream to see it - See also Friends TV show Apartment)

Then we have allday Friday to catch up on anything we may have missed before flying out around 6pm ish. I have a long list of roof top bars, pubs etc and places to eat but all recommendations welcome! Will definitely be making a trip to Abercrombie, Carhartt and the Onitsuka Tiger shop.

Finally, would anybody know the best place to get a New York Themed Christmas Tree decoration? Bit of a family tradition!

Thanks for this, this will help me build our 5 day itinerary!

Any chance you could share your list of roof top bars, pubs and places to eat?

From reading the previous pages I've noted:

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miss_r24

wonderwallet wrote: »

I am going in May too and was getting worried as the hotels I was looking at seemed to be getting booked up quickly! (there are 3 adults going so less choice of good rooms). Anyway, I decided to book it yesterday and paid £560 each for flights MAN to JFK. Not sure if this is a good price for May but it's done now so I'm not looking anymore!

Although Manchester Airport is the closest airport to us we'll be looking to fly from Heathrow. I've heard the MAN to JFK planes aren't that great. BA codeshare with AA on this route and they fly the Boeing 757-200. The seats are only grouped in 3's and there's no personal IFE which is important to us.

System

Are there any surcharge free ATMs in Manhattan?

I've got Halifax Clarity but have found some regions/states (in the US) have surcharge free machines and others seem to have none!

System

Have you tried United?

miss_r24 wrote: »

Although Manchester Airport is the closest airport to us we'll be looking to fly from Heathrow. I've heard the MAN to JFK planes aren't that great. BA codeshare with AA on this route and they fly the Boeing 757-200. The seats are only grouped in 3's and there's no personal IFE which is important to us.

M4RKM

Heng_Leng wrote: »

Are there any surcharge free ATMs in Manhattan?

I've got Halifax Clarity but have found some regions/states (in the US) have surcharge free machines and others seem to have none!

Halifax don't have any relationship with any US bank, so it's pot luck if you can find a fee free one. Try Sovereign, or TD Bank first.

M4RKM

koobkool wrote: »

list of roof top bars

Roof Top Bars tend to be closed in November.

Nick_C

Heng_Leng wrote: »

Are there any surcharge free ATMs in Manhattan?

I've got Halifax Clarity but have found some regions/states (in the US) have surcharge free machines and others seem to have none!

Bank of America only charge $2

koobkool

M4RKM wrote: »

Roof Top Bars tend to be closed in November.

Cheers Mark, I'll check with bars before adding to Itinerary.