[THREAD CLOSED - SEE PART 2] Anything & Everything New York

traveller

voucherqueen wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if children are allowed in New York bars. We are going in April for a week and have heard it is strictly over 21. Presumably they can get in all restaurants and we can have a drink there?

Also can anyone recommend their favourite restaurants, delis etc that are really good and reasonably priced or is there a thread for this?

Hi spanky's near times square, is brilliant.The staff and food are great.They are great with kids,but it is never swarming with kids and the prices are brill.HTH.Sorry I put up a link, but that was not the place,lol.Try and google,it should be a pig on the site-the link i got up was a dog,lol!

M4RKM

i did some research, well, 10 mins googling and couldn't come up with anything substantial... i found that i can get a photographer to follow me around and take photos of me in things, which, to be honest is my worst nightmare...

i'll just wander aimlessly and see what i can find to be honest...

M

LouBlue

markymoo wrote: »

.. i found that i can get a photographer to follow me around and take photos of me in things, which, to be honest is my worst nightmare...

You won't even know I'm there...honest....:D

Savvy_Sue

voucherqueen wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if children are allowed in New York bars. We are going in April for a week and have heard it is strictly over 21. Presumably they can get in all restaurants and we can have a drink there?

It might help if you said how old the children were?

voucherqueen_3

Sorry, meant to say, they will be 11 and 13.

M4RKM

no "bar" will let children in that young in NYC.

(Un)fortunately, they don't have "childrens pubs" across there.

a Restaurant you'll be ok with, but not a bar.

M4RKM

LouBlue wrote: »

You won't even know I'm there...honest....:D

no.. i don't want to be in any photos..

i wouldn't mind wandering around with someone taking photos of the scenery, the architecture, but the thought of a photographer, telling me to stand there so they can take a photo, is, for me, beyond comprehension.

i like to take photos of beautiful things, rather than beautiful things with me in them, spoiling the picture

M

HGLTsuperstar

Anymore feedback on my original post (#1985) especially regarding that particular hotel and best time to book hotel and flights?

greenface

mark go on the new york wired forum and click onto the photos link there are some arty farty types but all in there are some shots from good photographers from unusual angles

veggie4life

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

IIRC, veggie's son isn't yet 18, and I have a funny feeling that the Nationwide a/c is no good for him for that reason.

We had a varied response using TCs in cafes etc: some quite small places would take them but not everywhere. I'd recommend more smaller 'denominations' over a few 'larger' ones, because, for example, the Post Office couldn't let us buy a few stamps with a TC and get the change, because we weren't spending a large enough percentage of the value of the TC (I hope you can follow that).

I THINK the only place we were asked for ID on using TCs was in a bank, which we only did once. You would hope that in a bank they would have someone experienced at comparing passport photos to real faces to make this OK.

I'd consider sending as much cash as possible / reasonable within the bounds of what your son feels comfortable with and what the school is suggesting, with maybe an 'emergency' fund in TCs. If that makes sense.

(On a side note, I wondered if US immigration would let DS3 in, because the sweet innocent child in his passport photo had been transformed into a long-haired 'youff' who towered over the chap on the desk. He did say "Wow!" but there was no problem.)

thanks so much that is really helpful!