Good stuff Chazz. A far better analysis of your luxurious trip than Carmines efforts. He's almost gone full Brady on us with all that lot.
I stayed in Hell's Kitchen, the area not the poncey restaurant owned by Gordon Ramsey. It's the up and coming gay area of NYC. Yep, you read it right. Gay area. Beat that Chazzbo.
TBH.... I prefer Chicago to New York...Fly into O'Hare and the view as you fly in over the lake is great, then take the Blue Line train to the downtown loop and cruise the bars along Michigan Avenue....
Ive always wanted to do Chicago, it just seems to me to be The American City as NYC - as much as i loved it - is more a global melting pot and LA just ****ing mental. I take it you recommend then?
Been a couple of times to Chicago..Last time 2012, stayed near to Grant Park, just a half a mile or so from Solider Field. North side of Chicago is best, stay out of the South Side which is well dodgy. Check out some video on Youtube look under Wallydaft... Recommend it for sure. Not as busy as NYC but still a great city..and worth a visit for sure...
I prefer just about everywhere to New York. It is my least favorite city in the US (if we are talking large cities and discounting places like Detroit of course). The best large city in the US is clearly New Orleans.
Been to : San Francisco (good) Las Vegas (crap) Dallas (boring) Driven from Flagstaff /Sedona/ to Phoenix (too hot) Washington DC (interesting) Boston (nice) New York (several times, always great) Chicago (great). Driven through Buffalo on several occasions on way to Niagara (where my relatives live) Once got lost and ended up in Cleveland!!!....Also Tampa/ Clearwater in Florida...very nice...Once took bus from New York to Toronto...12 hours of hell..never again!!
I like New York, I've been many times, I've also been to Vegas many times(which I liked less), I've also been to LA, Florida, Hawaii and overnights in a couple of other places i didn't really see, but New Orleans is the place I'd most like to go.
If you want to see America, get out of the big cities. NYC, Chicago, San Fran, and other big cities mentioned here are aberrations, often representing the worst of our country.
Have been to New Orleans several times but never to NY. Many business trips have seen me at San Fran, Philli, LA and Chicago and my wife has numerous relations in the US who I visited during these trips. These took me to Reno, St Louis, San Antonio and Fort Worth among many others. San Antonio (Venice of Texas) will always be my favourite.
Its great, its own food, its own music, bars that serve beer on the street, its own architecture, its own dialect, plantations down the road, swaps down the road. Its really the only city in the US that feels like no other city in the US.
Anyone got any thoughts on San Diego? Not mentioned thus far yet ive heard from a few people that its amazing.
Going to NYC a week on friday but fancied venturing into New Jersey for a day or two, can you recommended any decent places to visit there?
