Feeling crisp in the Big Apple-*COMPLETE*

**debojahh** · 17 Mar 19, 07:00 PM

Hi

I've already done a food report from my trip in October 2018 but thought an NYC full report might be beneficial to somebody.

We flew from Heathrow on 17th October and flew onto Orlando from NYC on 21st October.

In NYC we stayed at the Distrikt hotel which is on W 40th Street.

So I won't be putting many food photos in here but some days might be quite photo heavy!

This will be...

Day 0-Pre travel.

Day 1-Travel & wander.

Day 2-SOL, 9/11, Ghostbusters and Broadway.

Day 3-ESB, Chelsea Market, High Line & cinema.

Day 4-Central Park, Natural History & TOTR.

Day 5-Onwards to Florida.

**debojahh** · 17 Mar 19, 07:42 PM

Day 0-Tuesday 16th October 2018

We started off the day by heading into Brighton city centre where Arron got some new sunglasses. This proved to be quite the task in October

Found some in Burton that ended up being �3!

We popped to Morrisons where we grabbed meal deals(can be seen in the food report!) and headed home.

We did a final check in the flat before going out to catch our National Express.

It was lovely weather today which was good for our little walk, we just had to get over to Pool Valley coach station.

We arrived around 12:20 and our coach was already there, so we perched for a few minutes before checking in.

This was super straightforward & the driver asked which terminal we wanted to stop at. I had only booked for the Central 1 & 2 so it was ace to know we could stop at Terminal 4.

The drive was easy, we left Brighton at 12:40 andv had a pretty smooth driver all the way to Heathrow, we got to T4 at 2:45.

The driver had written the terminal in chalk on our cases & it was really difficult to get off

We headed into the terminal and followed the signs to the hotels, it was quite a maze style walk to the Hilton & Premier Inn and took around 15 minutes through a tunnel!

When we started to approach Premier Inn the lights were purple hued.

We checked in and paid �52.96 for the meal deal & booked dinner for 6:30 before heading up to Room 738.

We used the lift this time as we had cases, but decided we would use the stairs where possible instead.

The room was nice.

We had a sky view and I always like Premier Inn's compared to similar hotels.

Arron was feeling abit ropey from the bus ride so we chilled in the room for a while with a cup of tea.

I watched Tenable while Arron set up his Switch & played a couple of things.

Around 5pm we decided to go to Terminal 3 to have a practice of our morning journey!

This seemed like there were so many escalators, which we thought was weird considering we were still in the airport.

It was quick to get across as the train was at 17:11, now you know this won't happen tomorrow

We got into T3 and found the Virgin desks, so we were all prepared for then morning.

Also saw Darwin, which was a restaurant but also the name of a project i'd been in the midst of for months. Work follows me!

Back on the train to T4 at 17:45, we were both quite sleepy and the train was dead quiet too

We walked back up to our room and saw this lovely sunset on our walk over.

We went downstairs for dinner at 6:30 which was very enjoyable and delicious. We were down there until 8pm having a nice time and eating lots of food!

Arron plumped for a Costa before we walked back upstairs.

We got back upstairs and watched Home Alone until bed.

**debojahh** · 24 Mar 19, 06:35 PM

Day 1-Wednesday 17th October

Woke up at 5:40 after not sleeping particularly well. The bed seemed quite hard compared to my usual one!
I had a shower and we were dressed and down for breakfast at 6:15

The breakfast was great and it was quiet in the restaurant so we managed to eat plenty and were finished by 6:55. We walked back up to our room and finished packing up.

We watched the Wheel of Fortune with Bradley Walsh and Jenny Powell. It was very old and funny to see!

We left the room at 8:30 after our test run yesterday. Annoyingly we realised trains weren't running so often this morning so we were sat on this train until it left at 9:11

Luckily we had checked in online so we only needed to do bag drop.

Once we did get to the Virgin desk area it only took 15 minutes to get through the bag drop. The desk lady was very interested in whether we were doing 2 weeks in NYC, I explained it was only 4 days, she looked a bit confused to start with ha!

We headed straight for security which was quite entertaining. The American guy in front of us had mislaid his passport and was shouting about it, the guards were rolling their eyes a lot.

I went through the body scan and they took a swab of my shoes to check for explosives

.

By 10am we were through to Terminal 3. Arron thought we should sit so we plumped for Strada and sat at the bar, our server was Fabio and Arron just got a beer.

Our gate was announced while we were in there and I was getting restless so we left at ten to 11. We headed to WHSmith where I got a puzzle book, water and Glacier fruits and Arron got a Graze flapjack.

I started going to Gate 31, luckily we looked on the board again and saw we should be at Gate 16 instead. Yikes!

We boarded and were seated by around 11:15.

We were on Diamond Girl and took off at 12:10.

There was a good film selection and our lovely in front neighbours reclined IMMEDIATELY

. I watched Love, Simon and Arron watched Jaws.

We had all the standard food and I watched Frozen followed by travel Man in Miami.

It was a pretty uneventful flight and we were off at 3:30.

Security looked so chaotic as the queues were a mess and it was very loud! However, it was actually pretty easy to navigate and we managed to get our bags and join the cab queue before 4pm

The queue was very straightforward and all the cabs accept credit card which was super good as I didn't want to use our cash for this.

We were assigned a cab and began driving just after 4.

The journey was mega interesting for someone who has never been to New York, seeing all the neighbourhoods and school buses. The driving was fast but seemed ok around here.

And then we saw the Men in Black saucers

As we came towards the city we could see the skyline coming into view and it was very exciting.

At this point the traffic got horrific as got closer to our hotel. So we got to the Distrikt at 5:45!
I think our driver was really fed up as we had been stuck in this area for most of the journey, but luckily the taxi was a fixed rate.

I don't have any photos of the hotel haha!

We checked in and were given 2 drinks tokens which we never got round to using. We got given room 504.

We put our bags in and then went back out after 6pm to just wander around.

One of the hotels on our road had some cool Fall/Autumn decorations outside.

We just walked around the block to get our bearings and see what we had nearby. I think we walked the wrong way as the area was a little rundown. But we saw 2 Bros pizza and decided that was our dinner choice.

We went back to the hotel to eat it too.

Excitingly we perched in the room to tuck into our pizza and again went back out straight afterwards!

We headed to W42nd street as we knew there were shops and things there.

We just kind of took in the atmosphere for a while and ended up in Spirit Halloween store which was kitsch but cool to see.

We were hunting for Times Square which we had loads of trouble finding

Somehow we made it to Madison Square Garden! Which was interesting as there seemed to be a game on and it was busy around there.

After our random walk I managed to direct us correctly to Times Square around 8pm. We had a browse in the Disney store and elsewhere but were getting pretty tired by this point!

We headed back to the hotel and went to bed at 9pm out of sheer tiredness.

Infinity Red · 25 Mar 19, 09:37 AM

Looking forward to reading more 😀

**Kat11** · 25 Mar 19, 10:20 AM

Following along.

Great travel day.

We are thinking of doing 4 nights NYC then 10 nights Florida next time. 😃

Kat

Infinity Red · 25 Mar 19, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Kat11

Following along.

Great travel day.

We are thinking of doing 4 nights NYC then 10 nights Florida next time. 😃

Kat

I'd like to do that next time we go to Florida.

**debojahh** · 25 Mar 19, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by Infinity Red

Looking forward to reading more 😀

Originally Posted by Kat11

Following along.

Great travel day.

We are thinking of doing 4 nights NYC then 10 nights Florida next time. 😃

Kat

Thanks both!

We did 4 nights NYC then 14 nights Orlando. It was quite the long trip. Ended up booking it through Travel Planners as it seemed easier!