Everything & Anything New York City

richardw

http://sarabethsrestaurants.com

BB88_2

Wow Sarabeths restaurants look gorgeous! I'm thinking the Central Park one ��

Mr_Wangers_Wang

Been asked it flying from the middle east (saw someone get refused boarding Doha - Miami). Was asked in Singapore and Malaysia. Get asked by BA every time from the UK. Never been asked by United anywhere.

Why wouldn't you just take it.

surfboard2

Hi, i'm off to NYC within the next few days and thinking about how to get from the airport to the hotel.

We're happy to get the Airtrain + Subway and will each have one main suitcase.

Is there a bigger gate one can use like on the Tube if one has luggage/buggy e.t.c

Thanks.

minimacka

mark_steps wrote: »

Me and my hubbie fly out to NYC in a few weeks for 4days. We arrive about 4pm. We are just getting a taxi to the Pennsylvania hotel.

Been looking at what we wanna do, these include Central Park, Empire State Building, Rockefeller centre, 911 memorial, manhattan cruise, Staten Island ferry, Times Square, subway, plaza hotel (I'm home alone 2 daft) flat iron building, bus tour, broadway show, and Brooklyn bridge.

I know it's all about the planning and google maps will help me. Is there an app I can use to help plan? Will it be worth getting a city pass ticket for certain tourist things?

Any advice? Should I avoid anything of the above?

Thank you

I am flying out for my very first visit to NYC in just under 2 weeks and I have been on the trip advisor forums website. It has a lot of itineraries that people have planned and suggestions from people who live there or who travel there a lot. I have also read a lot of trip reports off people and got a lot of ideas from there. It might be worth having a look and then loading google maps up so that you can see how far one place is from another. I have been planning our trip for weeks, tweeking and amending it when I find something else to do.

peachyprice

Any tips on which hotel websites actually give you a price including all the taxes?

I keep finding good deals for 5 nights next July, then you have to add on 14.5% tax, plus $3.50 city tax per night, then service charge for some hotels. What looked like a good deal turns out to be a bloomin fortune!

SW17

peachyprice wrote: »

Any tips on which hotel websites actually give you a price including all the taxes?

I keep finding good deals for 5 nights next July, then you have to add on 14.5% tax, plus $3.50 city tax per night, then service charge for some hotels. What looked like a good deal turns out to be a bloomin fortune!

If you're talking about hotel's own websites, fairly difficult with the possible exception of some chains. As I'm sure you know, with most things in the US being sold excluding taxes, the culture extends to the websites. Most hotels don't have the sophistication (or can't be bothered) to internationalise their websites to the extent of showing different pricing to different markets.

If you use intermediaries who are taking payment, then you can usually see a tax inclusive price on the non-US versions of their site. For example, if you do the same search on Expedia.com and Expedia.co.uk, the former will show tax-exclusive prices and the latter tax-inclusive, since the UK pricing culture is tax inclusive.

Of course certain charges are excluded on both, such as taxes that have to be paid at hotel (doesn't apply in NYC), or things like resort fees that have to be paid at hotel (starting to creep into a few properties in NYC).

Zesty1

If you had the option of going in April or at the end of May (over Memorial Day weekend) which would you choose?

richardw

Zesty1 wrote: »

If you had the option of going in April or at the end of May (over Memorial Day weekend) which would you choose?

Late April after the Easter holidays.

flea72

As a rough guide adding 15% to the price covers all fees/tax.