Everything & Anything New York City

greenface

LadyL2013 wrote: »

This may sound like a stupid question but is the city busier on weekdays or weekends?

great question to which i honestly dont properly know the answer . NYC is more populated in the week but its a working city and work has to go on . Tourists travel into NYC and want to do touristy things at weekends so it seems busier and probably is . Early and late big touristy things can be much better and you get to enjoy the flow of the place better too.joy the

purplemusky

Hi - i'm after some help and advice. We want to go to NYC next February to celebrate my 40th, there will be me, husband and our two boys aged 13 and 8 when we travel. It's our first time and we want to do all the normal tourist attractions as well as have a good shop.

Not too bothered if we have a hotel room or a suite. Looking to fly from Manchester and will either go 3 Feb 2015 for 4 nights or maybe half term later that month.

What should I expect to pay for flights and any suggestions on somewhere good to stay, and any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

PeacefulWaters

purplemusky wrote: »

Hi - i'm after some help and advice. We want to go to NYC next February to celebrate my 40th, there will be me, husband and our two boys aged 13 and 8 when we travel. It's our first time and we want to do all the normal tourist attractions as well as have a good shop.

Not too bothered if we have a hotel room or a suite. Looking to fly from Manchester and will either go 3 Feb 2015 for 4 nights or maybe half term later that month.

What should I expect to pay for flights and any suggestions on somewhere good to stay, and any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I'd say budget £450 pp for flights and £200 per night per hotel room. It might work out cheaper booking both together via someone like BA (BA Holidays sometimes appear on Top Cashback, we got 5% back last year). Flights will probably cost £550 pp at the moment.

Manchester does have a daily direct flight or two, although it can be cheaper to get a connecting flight into Heathrow and on to New York.

I'd suggest a hotel as close as possible to Times Square but a mile in any direction combined with a good walk should cover it. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Midtown West which was fine if unspectacular and needed a lot of walking. But there are scores of other hotels.

But NYC is best seen on foot.

purplemusky

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

I'd say budget £450 pp for flights and £200 per night per hotel room. It might work out cheaper booking both together via someone like BA (BA Holidays sometimes appear on Top Cashback, we got 5% back last year). Flights will probably cost £550 pp at the moment.

Manchester does have a daily direct flight or two, although it can be cheaper to get a connecting flight into Heathrow and on to New York.

I'd suggest a hotel as close as possible to Times Square but a mile in any direction combined with a good walk should cover it. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Midtown West which was fine if unspectacular and needed a lot of walking. But there are scores of other hotels.

But NYC is best seen on foot.

Thanks for your response. Those are prices I thought for flights. Which airport is best to fly into?

PeacefulWaters

purplemusky wrote: »

Thanks for your response. Those are prices I thought for flights. Which airport is best to fly into?

Newark is cheaper to travel in to NYC from, and I think there's a cheapish public transport option.

So we ended up paying $70 each way, including tip, for a taxi to / from JFK.

John259

purplemusky wrote: »

We want to go to NYC next February... and any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

This is a useful YouTube video which explains how to ride the NYC subway system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayp0ZUjfZRA

x0emz0x

Hi all

Finally booked the flights last month! 2 months to go so very excited!

I just have a question regarding spending money. Our hotel includes breakfast, so that is all sorted and I have also pre-paid for most of the attractions we want to visit. Do you think $75 each per day would be enough? This would be for lunch, snacks and dinner. I know you wont be able to give me a definate answer, but we're not majorly keen on going to expensive restaurants-maybe just one and will have snacks etc off of the food carts.

I will have my Halifax Clarity credit card too just in case.

Thanks
Emma

greenface

you can eat for $75 a day . Think big city London prices with offers and deals and cheap Delis everywhere

PeacefulWaters

Hot dog off a cart $3.

McDonalds prices similar to UK. Deli choices everywhere. Order in a pizza for a cheap evening meal.

(Personally I'd do at least a couple of special meals).

The thing I found tougher was buying soft drinks cheaply. If anybody has any tips on buying multiple cans / bottles 250ml - 500ml sizes cheaply in NYC please. I got eight cans of Pepsi for £2 in Tesco the other day. Where can I stock up at this sort of price next time I'm in New York?

I will have my Halifax Clarity credit card too just in case

Research where your nearest TD Bank ATM is. It's about the only one that won't charge you if you need to withdraw cash.

Claremac

Re the TD Bank - does it depend on which card you are using in them whether you get charged a fee? I'm planning on taking my Halifax Clarity and my Fairfx $ currency card. Will either Halifax or Fairfx charge?