NY the Big Apple......bite it now or later?

chancesare_2

visidigi wrote: »

Miami would be my option in the US if you dont want to do west coast.

Of course you could do South Africa too - their summer and all that.

NYC is one of those places that you don't need to spend alot of money to get to IYKWIM - the routes are so competitive one airline has a sales on at some point.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE NYC, but its not cheap, there isn't great shopping if thats what you do and in November its going to be chilly...

Don't mind the cold. Would actually like to do some decent outlet shopping.....where would you suggest?

chancesare_2

jackieblack wrote: »

I would fly to Vancouver. We had a 3 week long road trip a couple of years ago, around Washington State, Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and we've wanted to go back to that area ever since

Thanks, was only looking for a few days away, have had a couple of long trips this year.

visidigi

chancesare wrote: »

Don't mind the cold. Would actually like to do some decent outlet shopping.....where would you suggest?

Miami/Orlando has plenty of shopping, as does Las Vegas.

LA isn't bad from what I've read (im going in October) but you've done that before now...

NYC has two outlet malls, a smaller Jersey Gardens location next to Newark Airport and then there is a premium outlet upstate (not been to that one, could never justify giving up the time to travel there and back..).

jackieblack

chancesare wrote: »

Thanks, was only looking for a few days away, have had a couple of long trips this year.

Fair enough, but no reason why this would need to be a long trip - the flight to Vancouver is only a couple of hours more than NY, about the same flight time as Miami.

*smurfy*

I'd pick Toronto and then go down to Nigara and for outlet shopping cross over to Buffalo.

visidigi

If you do go to NYC, just remembered, there is Century21 you could go to, its down near Ground Zero...

A bit of a scrum, but the other half loved the stuff they had...

Nick_C

If you can use it for an open jaw, fly to NY, take the train to Buffalo, taxi to Niagara, bus to Toronto, and fly back from there. The train journey up the Hudson Valley is beautiful at any time of year.

vintner55

San Diego is beautiful. Bilboa Park and zoo, historical old town, whale watching tours, day trip to Mexico, up the coast to La Jolla or day trip to LA.. We had 6 nights there a few years ago and there is lots to do.

chancesare_2

Some great suggestions. I hadn't thought of splitting each leg. Really do want to keep it short though.....Miami would be interesting, we've only flitted in and out of Florida with our son for theme park holidays! Speaking to the OH, it's definitely shopping at the top of that list!

visidigi

in that case I would seriously consider Orlando...Outlet mall city