Sight seeing, Top of the Rock is better than Empire State, Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge, Statue of Liberty is nice, Times Square is **** as is the stinking Chinatown, 9/11 museum a must see. If done my way I would have sat in the excellent bar The Oyster Bar at Pier A and took in the view of Liberty, then gone to 9/11 and spent a lot of time there. Then done Top of the Rock as it's a quick one and you have a great view of the city. Other than that just explore at your own pace and find nice places to eat and drink you'll get a better feel of the place doing that and when I did go off on my own and chatted in a bar there seemed to be a nice place buried under the bullshit. Go see an NBA game it's ****ing great.
Personally I love the place, but I’ve never done it with kids in tow, so I can understand why that might make it a different experience.
They used to have a cash machine that dispensed Flashdancer Dollars that you could only spend in there. Top tip: don’t use your company credit card in there.
From the short time I managed to grab going off on my own then yes it's nice and friendly. It's the outlaws that spoiled it by running around every tourist trap in the place. 5 days and I have seen every tourist place there was to see as if it was a ****ing tick list. Idiotic.
We ****ing walked as those things are obviously for millionaires. Central Park is just a big park, I didn't get it.
I did... Empire State Rockefeller Central Park Brooklyn Bridge Chinatown Halloween parade Liberty Times Square 9/11 In 5 days FFS.
I used to stay just off Times Square. It is a place I hate. Did you make it to Little Italy? It’s a cool place.
When we went to NYC last year my wife insisted that we go to MOMA. She pretended to find it interesting, the rest of us were bored to tears.
If you pay card then the owners sometimes take a chunk of the tip. Also they have to report it to IRS and get taxed on it. Pay cash and they most likely won't report the tip and greedy owners can't take a chunk of it if they work for ****s.
You didn't go to the museum of sex? They apparently have a bouncy castle for adults there with boobs all over the walls.
How long ago did you go, I've not been to little Italy, but I read when doing research for my own trip to NY that it's been swallowed by China Town now... It's essentially just a few Italian shops on one street these days. Speaking of Chinatown, I hear Flushing in Queens is the better Chinatown now. The one in Manhattan is over commercialised and a tourist trap now. More Chinese in Flushing than Manhattan too.
I went a lot on business between 2001 and 2004. Little Italy was already being swallowed up by Chinatown back then. We went for a weekend break last year and, you're right, there's hardly any of it left, which is a shame.
I'll probably still try finding it when I go in February, didn't get to see it my last trip (last time was a three day conference and I only had the afternoons to explore). I will go to Chinatown and Flushing so might as well see Little Italy when looking at Chinatown.
That's what I thought so around 10% seemed fine and there were no complaints, I gave extra when the service was good.
they may not have complained but 10% is pretty insulting. 15% is the standard for mediocre service. I usually do 20% unless they were bad, and then I do the obligatory minimum of 15%. New York though with so many foreign tourists they're probably used to people not tipping well. I give 40% to the woman that cuts my hair, but that's because I always leave it so long and give very specific instructions and the place is dirt cheap ($10) to begin with, so even after tip paying less than anywhere else.
