I am 24 yr old office worker, live in Bedford, I enjoy books, films and being on the internet as wel...
I am 24 yr old office worker, live in Bedford, I enjoy books, films and being on the internet as well as socialising with friends and shopping! I have been a member of Ciao for a few years doing surveys but have now started reviewing too.
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I have never been to Madame Tussauds in London so on my recent trip to New York me and my boyfriend decided the visit the one there as its located at West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, Times Square and we walked past it every day of our trip.
We went to the attraction on a Monday and we only had to queue for about 5 minutes to get our tickets, they also have are fast track queues for people who have booked online or had the New York City Pass.
Our tickets cost $35 and we had the all access pass which included the following:
General admission to Madame Tussauds NY SCREAM Cinema 4D movie featuring Sponge Bob Squarepants Madame Tussauds Story Behind the Scenes
On reflection we should have brought the cheaper tickets at $25 as we only saw the waxworks themselves.
Once we had our tickets we walked upstairs where we had a picture taken with the Hulk with my boyfriend being captured and me trying to rescue him which was quite funny, we then went in the glass lift up 5 floors where the attractions begin.
The first room we entered was red carpet style with celebrities including Brad and Angelina, J-Lo, Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta and Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne to name just a few, the room had sound effects of flashing cameras and most people were dying to have there pictures taken with a lot of the waxworks in here.
As we walked through the attraction we passed through a BLING style section just after the Hollywood/Red Carpet room and onto a room filled with the past presidents of America and other important historical figures including Barack Obama who we had our picture taken with bu the official photographer using our own camera, he was obviously interested in making them some money....or perhaps not.
Through the other areas of the attraction I felt that all the waxworks were just chucked together, Steven Speilberg was right next to the Spice Girls and they were missing Geri Halliwell anyway, they had a Simon Cowell who looked nothing like him and unfortunately I wasn't aware of most of the sports stars on display, now I know this is because I am not American but one room towards the end had waxworks of sports players with no labels!
We did the SCREAM experience which was supposed to be scary but was just walking through a room with some guy running around it, it made me jump once but I was expecting a lot more from what the lady said about it who was trying to get us to go in.
We didn't see the 4D Spongebob Square Pants film, if you have kids great but not my thing and I didn't want to wait 30 minutes to see it and we missed the history of Madame Tussauds as it wasn't labelled clearly.
It took approximately 45 minutes for us to get around, not worth $35 in my opinion, the Empire State building is only $20!
In the gift shop there was a computers survey where you could enter your thoughts. I did put that I wasn't very satisfied with my visit.
I can't really recommend going here, I am not sure if I would go to the London one now either but at least I would know more people in that one.
One for a day where your very bored and trust me thats hard to be in NYC!
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Advantages: A few really great wax figures, got a special deal Disadvantages: Overpriced, the tour is over very quickly, some very disappointing figures
Delicate_Orchid 08.03.2005 (26.03.2005)
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Review of Madame Tussauds, New York
Advantages: A few really great wax figures, got a special deal Disadvantages: Overpriced, the tour is over very quickly, some very disappointing figures
Delicate_Orchid 08.03.2005 (26.03.2005)
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