I was fortunate enough to be in New York for 10 days last year on business. This unfortunately did mean that I was alone in the city when I was not at the offices.
Before I flew out I decided to see what the Internet had to offer in the way of advice and visitor excursions. While I was ... Read review
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Advantages: Its free, you get a local view. Disadvantages: You have to make a definate appointment.
I was fortunate enough to be in New York for 10 days last year on business. This unfortunately did mean that I was alone in the city when I was not at the offices.
Before I flew out I decided to see what the Internet had to offer in the way of advice and visitor excursions. While I was quite happy wandering around Tiffany's alone, exploring the winding roads of Greenwich Village alone seemed a little too daunting.
So I visited the web site (www.bigapplegreeter.org). ... ...They will usually cater for group from 1 to 6, though if you are a family of more they are willing to make exceptions.
The idea is you tell them where you are staying, when you are going to be there. This means that they can contact you through your hotel. Which day you would like your greeter on, so they can see who is available. Through the week is possible as the people are from all walks of life, mine was retired and loved Manhattan so much ...
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Advantages: So much to see and do Disadvantages: Exhausting if you try to. Might not want to come home, leading to forgetting to paying the mortgage and having the house re-possessed!
..., pushing a wide variety of tasty snacks from hot pretzels (the real ones) to hot dogs so you don’t have to wait till you’re starving before partaking of some well-timed in-flight refuelling. In theory, this should keep the cost of your evening meal down. In practice, you just get fatter by eating both. I did, along with a lot of native New Yorkers too, by the looks of things!
For sheer value-for-money, we surpassed ourselves this year, with a huge Greek-style lunch at The Tramway Diner, near the Roosevelt Island Tramway. With drinks, this came to the equivalent of about £12 for two including 8% tax and that hefty 15% tip.
PEOPLE TO SEE, PLACES TO MEET
One little gem we stumbled upon before leaving for New York the first time was the “BigAppleGreeter” organisation. They will assign you your own personal living breathing New Yorker...
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