Change of Itinery

Ok I have been reading the forums and been speaking to people how dows this sound?

Mondays 16th June

Arrive in JFK at about 2.40pm, get a taxi to the Grand Union hotel (32nd Street), arrive about 5ish. Take a walk up to the Grand Central Stantion, have a look round then walk up to Times Square find a nice resturant to have tea.

Tuesday 17th June

Go up the Emire state building, then walk to broadway have a look up there and go and do some shopping.

Wednesday 18th June

Wake up early and walk to Ellens Stardust Diner so we can go on the tour at 11 for 3 hrs. After walk up to Central Park The walk back down to Times Square to find a nice resturant to eat.

Thursday 19th June

Get a taxi at about 7am to south Ferry go and visit the Statue of Liberty. Then Walk over to see Ground Zero. then possibly walk to Brooklyn Bridge if that is possible?

Friday 20th June

???

Sat 21st June

Fly to Vegas.

Can I please have some Ideas on what to do on Friday and at night please?

Thankss

Change of Itinery

On Monday and Wednesday you plan to go out of your way to go to Times Square to find restaurants. This simply makes no sense. Sure, you%26#39;ll find restaurants there, but none that are worth going out of your way. On your Cental Park day (to be determined by weather, not the calendar), why not check out the Upper East or West sides? Both are worth wandering and have lots of places to eat.

Change of Itinery

You could go to see a Broadway show, comedy or hear some live music in the evenings.

What are your interests? I was confused by your 3 hour tour. Are you doing a hop on hop off bus tour? You will have seen a lot of exterior Manhattan but maybe you want to go inside a museum?

Also what part of ';Broadway'; are you talking about shopping on? It is a LONG road and depending on what kinds of goods you want maybe we can point you in a better direction for shopping tips.

If the Empire State Building line is too long people suggest Top of the Rock at Rockefeller center which usually has less of a line and allows you to see Central Park during daylight hours from above...and you can see the Empire State Building from there.

Also I would say Times Square is not the place to find good ';eats.'; Since it caters to tourists prices tend to be higher and the food not so good but if you tell us what you like perhaps we can make specific restaurant recommendations. There are a few places in Times Sq I can recommend but mostly over on Ninth Avenue which is a short walk but ends up providing more ';local'; options.

When you%26#39;re at Grand Central, check out the Grand Central Market. I found this on my last visit and thought it was neat. It%26#39;s small, but I thought it was cool. Anyways, it seems to me as though you are spending a lot of time in Times Square. I would branch out more and check out some of the other neighborhoods. Greenwich Village is one of my favorite areas. Also, I would recommend TOTR over ESB. I mean if you have to, then do it, but in my opinion, TOTR was better, and the building is a million times better then EBS. Hope you have a great trip! :o)

We r going on a new york city tour to see where films have been filmed. we were considering doing the hop on and off tour but have been told you stad ages waiting for the bus as queues r really long.

We are considering going to see the Lion King on broadway. We would also like to visit the bubba gump resturant and M%26amp;Ms world.

Sue

have you booked your Statue of Liberty tickets. You can do it on line to save one of the queues and to make sure that you get passes to go into the statue.

I am lousy at making those links, but google Statue of Liberty

Yes I have jus booked my tickets online to go to the statue of liberty, but not the monument pass as they didnt have times we wanted to go, but not too fussed to go inside.

Is it best purchaseing tickets online for the Empire State Building?