Who's been to New York ???
12-02-2006, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Thrush
Ł343 return ticket from Heathrow to JFK late Sept 06 with American Airlines.... Gotta be cheaper than that! 
12-02-2006, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Fastmaul
Thrush, I would offer you to stay over with us but, I doubt you'd want to be here with a newborn..probably crying all night!!
I'd deffo come to visit you if I do get over there this year tho! Just looking on afew sites now for flight and hotel deals... Cheapest is around Ł400 for flights + 5 nights, but they are for hostels - it jumps up to over Ł850 for flights + 5 nights in a HOTEL...
Not gonna be cheap this!!!
12-02-2006, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Thrush
Erik - reccommend me any hotels in Jersey City that aren't $$$ ??? Just chatting to Taryn on MSN right now and she reckon's I'd be better off in NJ than NY.... Probably wants me to babysit lol....
12-02-2006, 06:08 PM
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okay, hows this sound..... 20th Sept to 25th Sept (5 nights) at the Milford Plaza, West 45th Street, NY - Ł645, which is $1124....
Not that cheap But Taryn says it's nice down there and the Hotel looks really nice.... but with air fare I'm looking at Ł1000 before I even get there!
Not that cheap
But Taryn says it's nice down there and the Hotel looks really nice.... but with air fare I'm looking at Ł1000 before I even get there!
12-02-2006, 06:18 PM
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Oooooooh.... Ł735 all in : flights, hotel, the lot (alledgedly)
Says the hotel is Pan American Hotel, 79-00 Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst, NY 11373 (if that means anything to anyone) : 5 nights, direct flight from Heathrow to NY, another direct flight from NY to Heathrow (both with American Airlines)
Map of the place (again if it means anything to anyone, I dunno lol)
Says the hotel is Pan American Hotel, 79-00 Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst, NY 11373 (if that means anything to anyone) : 5 nights, direct flight from Heathrow to NY, another direct flight from NY to Heathrow (both with American Airlines)
Map of the place (again if it means anything to anyone, I dunno lol)
12-02-2006, 11:09 PM
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Big up to Erik (Fastmaul) and Taryn (Ztee24) for both being TOP peeps and helping me out trying to sort all this NY trip stuff out - so gratefull for your advice with places and locations of where and where not to stay : wouldn't know where to start without your guys!!!
REALLY looking forward to this trip now - firs time out the country in 8yrs! (unless going to Wales counts, lol ) and it will be sooooo good to meet Erik and Taryn out there
REALLY looking forward to this trip now - firs time out the country in 8yrs! (unless going to Wales counts, lol
) and it will be sooooo good to meet Erik and Taryn out there
12-02-2006, 11:10 PM
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Friends when there last year, they flew out on 9th of September But was 80% cheaper cause no bastid wanted to travel on 9/11...
Would love to go myself it's the just major factor of ŁŁŁŁ
But was 80% cheaper cause no bastid wanted to travel on 9/11...Would love to go myself it's the just major factor of ŁŁŁŁ
13-02-2006, 01:05 AM
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I went in April 2004.......absolutley loved it, shame i haven't got a scanner because i took so many pictures. I stayed in the Roosevelt Hotel, only a couple of avenues away from times square i believe. I only went for 4 days, the day we got there it was hailing and all sorts.....the rest of the weekend i got sun burnt.....some twisted weather out there but i loved it. We got a lot done in them 4 days, went on the boat that took you to liberty island....done the empire state, central park on the horse and carriage, times square, maceys, all the designer shops , urm, done all the classic sights, china town, ground zero, grand central station....i loved it for some reason, i think it was the fact i knew that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones had been in there 
, but i really really want to go back i loved it!
, urm, done all the classic sights, china town, ground zero, grand central station....i loved it for some reason, i think it was the fact i knew that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones had been in there , but i really really want to go back i loved it!
13-02-2006, 06:31 PM
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Girlfriend works for a company that advertises hotels for conference meetings, all around the world so they offer free rooms to them 
Cousin works for Virgin and got me Friends and Families discount.... Flight prices are actually only Ł100 but have to add on tax, air-fuel etc etc
So we're only paying for the flights 
Cousin works for Virgin and got me Friends and Families discount.... Flight prices are actually only Ł100 but have to add on tax, air-fuel etc etc
So we're only paying for the flights
14-02-2006, 06:15 PM
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My wife and i were there November 2004 and again this year from 23rd December to 3rd January 2006. Fantastic city . Helicopter 
trip is good , The Rockefeller centre was open this time to go up , much better than Empire State and just as cold Canal Street is a must on a saturday , great place for fake Watches , designer handbags , I love that street We have booked for 23 December to 4th January 2007 again this year. Cant wait
trip is good , The Rockefeller centre was open this time to go up , much better than Empire State and just as cold Canal Street is a must on a saturday , great place for fake Watches , designer handbags , I love that street We have booked for 23 December to 4th January 2007 again this year. Cant wait
14-02-2006, 11:47 PM
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Id love to go to NYC. Been in New York State though!!!
I got back from Toronto and Niagara Falls 3 weeks ago. Canada is amazing so id imagine USA would be too. Deffo wanna go someday.
I got back from Toronto and Niagara Falls 3 weeks ago. Canada is amazing so id imagine USA would be too. Deffo wanna go someday.
15-02-2006, 11:04 AM
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If you get time, go drinking in Hoboken, Used to be known as the mile square city, it has the densist quantity of pubs and bars. Possibly ever lol swweping statement. It has got some record though. Fantastic night life, drink till 4 then go and have breakfast.
16-02-2006, 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Mongo
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If you get time, go drinking in Hoboken, Used to be known as the mile square city, it has the densist quantity of pubs and bars. Possibly ever lol swweping statement. It has got some record though. Fantastic night life, drink till 4 then go and have breakfast.
Hoboken is ok, it's kind of a yuppy crowd though. It's changed a bit. I used to be a DJ in this place called "The Cadillac Bar" I was the main DJ when they opened and did that for a couple of years.
It's gone now something happened to the building itself and it had to be torn down. Good thing is that there is a lite rail (very quick and local above ground tube) that goes from where we live to Hoboken.
16-02-2006, 06:44 AM
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new york is wicked, Kacey loved it so much she pretty much asks me every day to go back there, and she was only 3 when we went 1yr ago.
I stayed in the belverder (spel?) hotel which is right next to times square and it was fooking wicked place to stay in, well busy, (breakfasts were soooo cooool) ground zero was sereal, did all the sights, statue of liberty etc, couldnt do the helicoptor cos Kacey didnt want to back then, but a mate did it and said it was superb.
cant wait to go back again best hol ever imo
I stayed in the belverder (spel?) hotel which is right next to times square and it was fooking wicked place to stay in, well busy, (breakfasts were soooo cooool) ground zero was sereal, did all the sights, statue of liberty etc, couldnt do the helicoptor cos Kacey didnt want to back then, but a mate did it and said it was superb.
cant wait to go back again best hol ever imo
16-02-2006, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Fastmaul
Originally Posted by Mongo
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If you get time, go drinking in Hoboken, Used to be known as the mile square city, it has the densist quantity of pubs and bars. Possibly ever lol swweping statement. It has got some record though. Fantastic night life, drink till 4 then go and have breakfast.
Hoboken is ok, it's kind of a yuppy crowd though. It's changed a bit. I used to be a DJ in this place called "The Cadillac Bar" I was the main DJ when they opened and did that for a couple of years.
It's gone now something happened to the building itself and it had to be torn down. Good thing is that there is a lite rail (very quick and local above ground tube) that goes from where we live to Hoboken.
I got that boat back after going drinking in wall street (slightly expensive!!!! lol). It lands near the PATH?
17-02-2006, 02:56 AM
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Mongo, Hoboken's always been a "College Town" All the bars are right off Washington St (couple blocks from the Hoboken Path where all the Taxi's are. Expensive for a boat ride from Wall st to the Path?? did you go to Jersey City Path or by the Hoboken one? To go to Jersey city is only 4 dollars.