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bleepandbooster

Yellow cab ............ Fixed charge + tip !

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David

bleepandbooster

MDUK ........... Which hotel are you staying at .......... if you don't mind me asking.

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David

MDUK

Hampton Inn

M4RKM

garybwn wrote: »

Hi guys

Before I start I just want to say this thread is great...

I was in NY in April and booked my hotel (pennsylvania, not great btw) before I seen this

Just wondered if anyone has any ideas on the best options for a hotel. I am stopping in NY before going to New Orleans for a week from the 1st - 3rd of April. It will be 4 mid 20 yo guys who are really going to do a bit of sightseeing, eating and drinking. We're not too fussy, just looking for a good deal and not a complete dump. Also not fussed on location, preferrably in Manhattan but definitely open to suggestions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

GB

Are you going to spend any significant time in your hotel? If not, and you're just going to be out and about, then bar hopping at night, save money and stay in Long Island City. Look at the Country Inn & Suites for a starter, should be able to get cheap rates there..

M

M4RKM

MDUK wrote: »

Hampton Inn

$52 plus toll and tip ($70) would get you there easily.

$7.50 each will get you there in the same time, by getting the AirTrain to Jamaica, getting the E train through to 50th Street, and walking 1 block.

M

MDUK

M4RKM wrote: »

$52 plus toll and tip ($70) would get you there easily.

$7.50 each will get you there in the same time, by getting the AirTrain to Jamaica, getting the E train through to 50th Street, and walking 1 block.

M

Thanks, do you mean $70 in a yellow cab from the airport for the four of us? (3 suitcases)

M4RKM

MDUK wrote: »

Thanks, do you mean $70 in a yellow cab from the airport for the four of us? (3 suitcases)

Yes. You may need to wait for a minivan, but let the dispatcher decide when you are waiting in line.

M

dseventy

Hello all, what a wealth of information!

After years of thinking about it, I have finally booked New York!

So this is a long weekend mid of Dec, arrive Thursday 5pm @ JFK and leave 7pm Monday from JFK.

This is a surprise weekend for our 10th wedding anniversary, just me and my wife. She does not know and if I can keep it from her, she won't know until the airport! (Though keeping it a secret is hard as I have had to get my MIL/FIL to come to the house to look after our kids and spoke to her boss at work to book the time off!), both sworn to secrecy, so we shall see.

So, I have booked the Jolly Madison Towers. I know is not the best reviewed hotel in NY, but I have got a deluxe room booked on the 17th floor (which are supposed to the best in the hotel). I get some discounted travel perks at work and got AA flights and the hotel all in for £880 for 2 of us.

So down to planning. Can I get some help/ideas on the below :

1) Our anniversary is the sat night. I want to do a special dinner and a show. Something New York esq and soak it up? Any suggestions for eating? A bit of googling shows some restaurants have pre-show menus and some sites do a dinner/show combo deal. Are these any good? I want cracking food in cracking NY atmosphere.

2) Show suggestions? We saw Chicago in London and loved it so I figure theres no point? Jersey Boys rates very highly....

3) What to do on the Thursday night. We LHR->JFK and arrive at 5pm (getting up that day at 6am UK time so long day) at the airport, we are close the Empire State building, but people have said TOTR is much better...?

4) This may seem daft, but I love big cooked breakfasts like sausages, bacon egg etc. Googling diners looks like its pancakes and omlettes, am I wrong?

I am sure I will more!

Thanks for all your help, I promise a trip report in return!

vanilla8

dseventy wrote: »

Hello all, what a wealth of information!

After years of thinking about it, I have finally booked New York!

So this is a long weekend mid of Dec, arrive Thursday 5pm @ JFK and leave 7pm Monday from JFK.

This is a surprise weekend for our 10th wedding anniversary, just me and my wife. She does not know and if I can keep it from her, she won't know until the airport! (Though keeping it a secret is hard as I have had to get my MIL/FIL to come to the house to look after our kids and spoke to her boss at work to book the time off!), both sworn to secrecy, so we shall see.

So, I have booked the Jolly Madison Towers. I know is not the best reviewed hotel in NY, but I have got a deluxe room booked on the 17th floor (which are supposed to the best in the hotel). I get some discounted travel perks at work and got AA flights and the hotel all in for £880 for 2 of us.

So down to planning. Can I get some help/ideas on the below :

1) Our anniversary is the sat night. I want to do a special dinner and a show. Something New York esq and soak it up? Any suggestions for eating? A bit of googling shows some restaurants have pre-show menus and some sites do a dinner/show combo deal. Are these any good? I want cracking food in cracking NY atmosphere.

2) Show suggestions? We saw Chicago in London and loved it so I figure theres no point? Jersey Boys rates very highly....

3) What to do on the Thursday night. We LHR->JFK and arrive at 5pm (getting up that day at 6am UK time so long day) at the airport, we are close the Empire State building, but people have said TOTR is much better...?

4) This may seem daft, but I love big cooked breakfasts like sausages, bacon egg etc. Googling diners looks like its pancakes and omlettes, am I wrong?

I am sure I will more!

Thanks for all your help, I promise a trip report in return!

I am going to be staying at jolly madison in Jan so will be keen for you to let us know how it was.
In response to your questions, i have stayed in that area before -Murray hill area, and there are a few places to get a breakfast close by - American bacon is thin and normally friend to a crisp. The sausages are different - sometimes come like a square patty - like you would get in a mcdonalds breakfast over here. Eggs can be done how you like them. Usually comes with 'hash browns' or pancakes if you wish

I have seen Jersey boys in London, and it was great so would say you would make a good choice if you went for that.

Ideas for a meal may be the view restaurant, think a few people have this booked for thanksgiving - see previous posts, so you could tentatively book that and wait for some reviews?

M4RKM

dseventy wrote: »

1) Our anniversary is the sat night. I want to do a special dinner and a show. Something New York esq and soak it up? Any suggestions for eating?

You can do millions times better than The View. The view is just that, a view, and mediocre food.

Check out ny.eater.com for good information about restaurants. They should have produced their "heat map" which shows all the places that everyone is raving about, and that's updated monthly.

Here are some good choices for amazing restaurants in NYC that would be special. I've tried to make these near to the Theater District, but there are many many amazing restaurants that are not in the theater district.

Ai Fiori - 5th Ave / 37th Street
Lincoln Ristorante - 65th Street
db Bistro moderne - 44th Street (Grand Central)
Ippudo - 51st Street / 8th Ave
Esca - 43rd Street / 9th Ave
The Modern - 53rd Street / 5th Ave
Danji - 52nd Street / 8th Ave

there is a mix here, some you may find special, others you may not, but you've got a varying amount of cuisine, (as you didn't' specify what you wanted), listed, american, italian, japanese, korean.... and this is just 10 minutes research and reading reviews to see if the food is any good. Personally, if I was going somewhere special, I'd want the food to be amazing.

Pretty sure most of these will be on opentable.com and reservations normally open for the ones that are 30 days in advance.

M