My NY itenarary

[Briar_Rose]

Wednesday 7/3 Flight at 09.30 - Col getting me there to meet group at 06.00
Arrive at hotel at about 13.30 - 1 hour to unpack.
Lunch at Grand Sichuan International - Cheap Chinese - 229 or 745 ? 9th Ave.
Subway to World Trade Centre - Shopping at Century 21 http://www.c21stores.com/nyc.asp for several hours!!!!!
Back to hotel - YEAY - yellow cab!!! Change for evening
Dinner - Pizza @Johns of Bleeker St http://www.johnsofbleeckerstreet.com/ (CASH only)
Finish evening at The Comedy Cellar - http://www.comedycellar.com/ for 11pm show. Print off free pass in the morning for same night.
Crash

Thursday 8/3
Breakfast - http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/eisenbergs-sandwich-shop/index.html
174 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10010 near 22nd St.

Walking Tour??? With college group
Until lunchtime-ish?
Lunch wherever we’re near
Afternoon shopping – Housing Works Used Book Café 126 Crosby Street, NYC 10012
Then wander around Village.
10pm Blue Man Group (Get tickets - $68 no disc)

Dinner - Blue Ribbon, Sullivan Street, (taxi)
97 Sullivan Street (bet. Spring and Prince streets)
New York, NY 10012
212.274.0404
http://blueribbonrestaurants.com/manhattan_about.html


Friday 9/3– Breakfast bright and early – 8.00am
10.00am Gourmet tour - http://enthusiasticgourmet.com/ $45
Bus from Port Authority later for Woodbury Common Shopping Outlet.
Home on last bus
Evening – find club
Dinner – Jekyll & Hyde Club at 1409 Avenue of the Americas. Spooky haunted Mansion !!
http://www.eerie.com/


Saturday
Brunch at 11.30am Dim Sum at http://www.chinatownbrasserie.com/ 380 Lafayette St (taxi)
• Address:
380 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10005
• Cross Street: Great Jones Street
• Phone: (212) 533-7000
Then last minute shopping until time for transfer to airport
Flight back at 21.45 so check in should be around 18.30.
Home at 09.25 Sunday Morning!!!


Whoohooo

[signtalker]

elise dont miss out Macys!!!!

Jules

[Briar_Rose]

that comes under shopping - lol

[signtalker]

Macys do the BEST pepporoni pizza here that i have ever tasted!!!!!

The shoppings not bad either!
Jules

[Suzieq]

I was'nt impressed with Century 21 at all, the shelves were too crowded and there were just racks and racks of the same things in different sizes and colours, we left after about 10 mins......

Dont forget to go to customer services with your passport or drivers licence in Macy's and Bloomingdales and get your discount card;) .

[ukdiva]

Yeah, i'm with Suzie, i hated Century 21, too messy, like a jumble sale! We only stayed there about 10 minutes. Macy's is much better, and if you are going Woodbury Common, i'd give Century 21 a miss altogether.

You might find you won't eat lunch, we never did, too full on the big breakfasts! I don't think i've ever eaten lunch whilst in the US actually! *lol*

[Bozza]

Some good stuff there Elise - has given me some ideas too.

Want to plan my trip for me? ;)

[Tartan Tigger]

I didn't like Century 21 either. Again it was like a jumble sale, stayed for 20 minutes and then left, never bought a thing.

[Dissuziq]

I also vote against century 21, a bit like TKMaxx on acid, but its worth going to have a runmmage in the sunglasses and handbags on the bottom floor not impressed with the clothes. BUT got a very nice hilfiger handbag for $9 and some guess sunglasses for $5 what can i say but would not bother with teh rest of the clothes .

[Briar_Rose]

Ahh - but I'm just going for the shoes in the basement!!!!LOL:pgig: :pgig:

[ukdiva]

Trust me, there are NO decent shoes in the basement, we looked, and i love shoes!

Best place for shoe shopping is 6th St & 8th Ave, get the subway to 14th St (the A,C,E or L trains), walk down to 6th St and walk all the way along 6th St, loads of shoe stores, and lots of them were having sales when i was there. This area is SoHo, and there are loads of funky boutiques here. Walk along 6th St, till you hit Broadway, turn right into Broadway and continue along, you will find lots of the big stores here such as Guess, Bloomingdales, Victoria Secret, David Z (only store in Manhattan to still have Ugg boots!), Kenneth Cole, Levis etc, you will hit Canal St, after walking along Broadway for about 15 minutes. Canal St is famous for it's fake designer bags... brilliant copies for a fraction of the price, if you are into that kinda thing.

I was given these tips by a Brit who has lived in NY for 10 years, and i have to say, i probably won't shop anywhere else in NYC now (apart from Macys!). Try it if you have time, and let me know what you think.

[m17]

didnt like century 21 at all to messy but i would move into macys if i could last time we were there i think dh thought we had moved in we spent that much time there :pgig:

[happytraveller]

Has anyone been to jersey gardens outlets?And if so, how does this compare with woodbury common?

[ukdiva]

I have, it's nowhere near as big as Woodbury Commons, if you want to do serious outlet shopping then Woodbury Commons is the place to go! Jersey Gardens doesn't have all the big name outlets that Woodbury Commons does.

[poppyland3]

I would recommend Joe's Shanghai on Pell Street (I think) for their soup dumplings if you fancy a chinese "canteen"!! Fabulous place! xx