new york itenery- Nov 2018

[cam6278]

Hi,

I've started our trip planning- looking for feedback if its to much or missing anything crucial . .. I still have Thursday and Friday to plan.
Should I spread things out more to have more time but we are not coming back again so want to get as much in as possible.

I've used google maps to plot the routes to stop to much back and forth and tried to group the attractions

We are 3 girls, staying Monday to Friday. All fit and healthy for lots of walking



Day one- Monday 26th
Land 11.30 am// Minibus picks up around 12.30// 45 min transfer//Bag drop if can’t check in.

Ellen diner – Lunch 2pm ish
M&M world (free)
St Patrick’s cathedral (free)
Trump tower (free)
Carnegie hall (free)
Top of the rock – (sunset is at 16.30)


Day 2- Tuesday 27th

Statue of liberty & Ellis Island
• Subway at 50 st Broadway. Red 1 line to south ferry station
• Takes 26 min

Once back at ferry stop :-
Walk to charging bull (free)
Wall Street (free)
9/11 memorial
Brooklyn Bridge (free) sunset 16.30, see lights)
• Subway back to hotel. Brooklyn bridge station
• Blue C line
• Get of at 50 st 8 av


Day 3- Wednesday 28th

walking day

Empire state building
Grand central station
Bloomingdales
5th Avenue
Allice in wonderland at central park
Strawberry fields in central park
Natural history museum
Hells kitchen

[mouli1]

That's a lot of walking on Wednesday

[jools1302]

Originally Posted by mouli1

That's a lot of walking on Wednesday

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I would agree, and also a lot to fit in! Central Park is huge and so is The Natural History Museum! I don’t know if you will fit all that in one day

[cam6278]

With the walking it works out at around a couple hrs... we are happy for that or equally we will jump on the tube if needed... we will likely get the tube over to helps kitchen.
We won't be spending a lot of time in the museum- prob the entrance and the outside .
Again with central park we've chosen just 2 areas to visit
5th avenue etc will just be passing by and taking photos etc

[orlando_newbie]

Are you arriving through domestic rather than international? I’d allow a lot more time to reach Manhattan from touchdown if you’re going via international arrivals.

[cam6278]

We are going direct from Heathrow.
More than an hour to get through ?

Our 1st day is mainly free non booked places so we can swap them around to Friday or other days

[orlando_newbie]

We were over 4 hours at Newark last November from landing to getting to our hotel in midtown. It was Thanksgiving though.

[Jen3675]

I don’t think you will have time to do all the things!

[mouli1]

Originally Posted by cam6278

We are going direct from Heathrow.
More than an hour to get through ?

Our 1st day is mainly free non booked places so we can swap them around to Friday or other days

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Our last trip via JFK took ages to get through immigration .our cases were just left stacked up by carousel as everyone has gone from our flight .Need to allow a good couple of hours to deplane and get out of airport

[littlelish0544]

I think you have underestimated how tired you will be and are trying to fit too much in. We went for three nights/ four days and found that doing the open top bus tour for a two day ticket was great. If course much more expensive than the subway, but you dont see anything on the subway! Things like wall st and the bull, trump tower and Carnegie hall we were happy to see just from the bus (bus you can hop on and off of course) but you get loads of info about places and buildings you may not otherwise know and will see things such as the flat iron building, Chrysler etc which are iconic New York landmarks. When you say Empire State building, do you mean to go up? We gave this a miss due to time and only did top of the rocks as we figured we wanted to be able to see the empire in the landscape and also from top of the rocks you get a better view of central park... which is HUGE it was our first trip, and I honestly felt like we were just doing a research trip for a proper visit another time. There is so much going on, its amazing. Im sure you will have a lovely time.