Top Of The Rock

As most of you know, two weeks ago I went to New York City. Thank you to everyone who has read and rated my previous New York reviews, and I would also like to tell you that this will be the penultimate review on attractions in the brilliant city. For those of you, who want to have a little happy dance at this, please do. The Top of the Rock is one of the places I really wanted to visit when in New York, however when I said it to friends and family, only about half of them had even heard of it before. Of course a lot of them had heard of Rockefeller Centre but not Top of the Rock. This Art ... more

...or "How To entertain 6 kids and 5 adults in Manhattan on a Saturday afternoon" When I arranged my latest trip to the US I also arranged to meet up with my friend Wendy, who lives in New Jersey. Wendy and I connected online as both of us have autistic children and despite having “known” each other for six years we had never managed to meet up so we made it a definite arrangement when I was booked for New York. The problem was – what to do? Wendy lives nearer Philadelphia than New York but does go to the city a handful of times a year so her kids weren’t going to be that impressed with ... more

Top of the.. what? Top of the Rock is an observation deck covering three floors at the top of the Rockefeller Center. It boasts great views of the city, including a view of the Empire State Building, and is also well known for shorter queues than the aforementioned. After carefully planning my recent trip to New York, my mind was made up that I'd much rather go up to Top of the Rock than the alternative, the Empire State Building. The main reasons being a shorter queue (and I didn't fancy spending an hour or two waiting to go up the Empire State Building!) and also Top of the Rock offers good ... more

I have just returned from a 5 day break in the wonderful New York City and on our first full day we visited the Top of the Rock observatory at the Rockefeller Centre which is located on 6th Avenue and 50th Street on Manhattan Island. Upon arriving at 11am on a Thursday we were pleasnatly suprised that there was no queue and we managed to purchase our tickets straight away. The tickets cost $20 each for 2 adults and we also purchased a map of the sites you can see from the observatory for $3 as a souvenir. After purchasing our tickets we went up to the mezzanine level where there is an ... more

I have just came back from a 2 week holiday in New York last week. This wasn't my 1st time there and people say to me "why do you want to go for so long?". I know that New York can typically be a place where a lot of people just go for a few days, and this could be because it is so expensive over there for Hotels but we could afford the 2 weeks so we went for the 2 weeks. This was my 1st time going up "The Rock". Opening Times/Tickets/Pricing ----------------------------- This is open from 8am-midnight 365 days a year! Not sure if the opening times vary depending on holidays though. You can ... more