Damn I wish I would have seen them. Normal pirice is $100 per person. Hopefully he will cut me a deal, if not then it sounds like I'll just have to bite the bullet.
You still out of town Dave?
I'm sure it will be somewhat of a culture shock to me.
yea, I was supposed to be transplanted for 3 months for construction, I expected to be back this week in NYC. Last week, I'm told not until end of October, they need the space to move bodies around. The commute is way better, but it's so damn dead out here....
just be mindful not to stop in the middle of the sidewalk to look around, move to side near the buildings, that always makes me nuts when I'm walking around the city!
it's a very fast moving place - the people are generally nice IMO and not like what is portrayed in the movies
I'm ready to see what the buzz is all about. Im more excited about the game than anything else. I know my wife will enjoy all the site seeing and what not.
That's cool. We pretty much have our trip planned out. We will be at the ball park all day on Monday, and this is why I booked the tour as well. I want to learn about the city more so than just walking around looking at buildings. Anyone can do that.
I'm a big history buff, so hopefully this will make the tour enjoyable for me.
if I didn't say so before, take here CCs away! 5th ave from about 54th street up is a very pricey area for shopping, all the high end shops are there. Tiffany, Bulgari, Harry Winston, Coach, Armani, Saks, Gucci, Diesel, Prada, Piget... you get the idea....
def a lot of history there - where did you end up booking a hotel?
ahh, near Penn and MSG, also not far from the Empire State Building.
that's a good location to travel around the city from, you are just a few blocks from several subway lines (A, E, C, D, V,Q, 1, 2,3, & 9)
if you want I'll PM you my cell so if you have a travel question you can hit me up
have you made any dinner plans?
Definitely move to the side of the sidewalk when you stop for anything!!! I'm don't even live there all the time and it bugged the shit out of me how many damn tourists there are stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to take pictures or look at maps.
He's not kidding about the high end shopping haha. That whole damn side of the city is nothing but crazy high end shopping. I'm glad my fiancé isn't crazy about all that higher end stuff. We walked into the Macy's which is ridiculously big. Made it about 10 min before we both were saying the hell with this, we weren't looking around at all the floors they have haha.
Yankee game will be cool man. Like I had said before, if we were there 1-2 more days I would have gone to a game also. Nothing like sitting in a stadium watching a game.
You can spend a lot of time just at central park alone. It's HUGE and a relaxing/quiet getaway from the city. You'll learn about it from Fred.
We spent a few hours walking around ground zero and it's surroundings after we did the ground zero memorial tour. Buy tickets online and print them out to avoid lines man. Book a time online also. IMO best time to go is later in the afternoon right before the sun sets. Not sure what time they close it but it's nice to see it when it starts getting dark.
Same thing for statue of liberty tour. Buy tickets online and go there early to avoid the big rush. We were one of the first people to head over that day. Hope it's open now for you guys to go up inside it. It was closed for remodel when we went but still got to walk up to it when we got off at the island.