I tweak itineraries

Run yours by me; I%26#39;m good at grouping things together in terms of geography. That is, if five stores are walking distance and one is two miles away from the rest, I%26#39;ll let you know.

Likewise:

Central Park items

museums

theaters

restaurants

hotels

Stan

I tweak itineraries

do you have any advice about the today show concert series?

specifically how many people camp out at them, what its like, etc???

I tweak itineraries

Kelly, The Today Show is wildly popular. Too popular. In order to get near Al Roker%26#39;s fence, you have to be there at 6:30 AM. Then you%26#39;re standing until 9 AM hoping to be on TV.

CBS TV has reached out to GANYC, the Guide Association of NYC, to bring people to The Early Show, which typically only has a small crowd in attendance. They offer coffee and doughnuts, autographs/group pictures with celebrities on the show that day, etc. to sweeten the deal.

TourguideStan

WoW Stan! How nice of you. When it gets closer to my trip I might take you up on your offer.

Thanks!

This is so wonderful of you. I really don%26#39;t have things set for certain days but I do have ideas of things that our group would love to see. Here%26#39;s a list of some of the things that we would like to see:

SOL/Ellis Island

Central Park

MoNH

TOTR

Walk the Brookly Bridge

Finanical District(want to pay our respects at World Trade site, see the Bull and possibly go the NYSE, St Patricks and Century 21)

Little Italy (any suggestions of things to do)

Little China (again any suggestions)

United Nations

Wicked (purchased tickets, seeing on June 16)

Grand Central Station

Shopping

Any other suggestions would be appreciated

Sorry, I meant Chinatown. LOL

WOW!! Tourguide - here is ours ~ yes, it is a little anal (what can I say, it is how I plan trips) This will be our very furst time to NY - so we don%26#39;t know true distances %26amp; the places we have picked to eat our only suggestions. Let me know what we have missed ~ alos - some of the remarks below are ';comments'; I have cut %26amp; pasted from other sites. Many thanks!!

New York City

Friday

Fly to NY – check into hotel - Resident Inn - Marriott

Walk to Dinner at Heartland Brewery

Walk to Night tour of Empire State Building (buy tickets later)

Saturday

Subway to The American Museum of Natural History-10 to 5:45 pm

C train to 81st?? cost $ ___________

Keep in mind that in Manhattan, “uptown” means NORTH of where you are standing, and “downtown” means SOUTH.

TAXI RIDE: $ 9.00

Subway to: In Times Square - Dinner at Tony DiNapoli

At the

on 43rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenue.

Walk to hotel

Sunday

BUS to 11:00 am Brunch at Brasserie 8 ½ - call %26amp; see if we need reservations.

TAXI RIDE: $ 6.00

Walk to 3:00 pm Wicked the play @ Gershwin Theater

Walk to Planet Hollywood 6 pm – Dinner!!

Walk back to Marriott

Monday

Do the hop-on-hop off tour %26amp; go to ground zero, do some shopping in china town, the garment district, etc.

The Downtown Loop

Times Square

Empire State Building

Rockefeller Center / Top of the Rock

World Trade Center Site

Greenwich Village

United Nations

New York Harbor and more!

Take the subway to WTC site %26amp; visit the church – then head to Brooklyn.

Head over in the afternoon ~ to catch the sunset back SUNSET IS AT 6:20 PM

Walk Across the Brooklyn bridge – BACK to Manhattan (take subway to Brooklyn) –

To get started, take the A or C train (blue line) to the High Street stop, which is one stop outside of Manhattan. The first stop on our tour is Grimaldi%26#39;s. To get there, from High St, walk north 125 yards on Cadman Plaza East (The first street you should pass is Sands St.) Take a left onto Prospect St and go another 100 yards. Turn right on to Old Fulton St. you%26#39;ll find Grimaldi%26#39;s at 19 Old Fulton St.

Simply walk further down Fulton Street (toward the water) to get to the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. At the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, you can savor some great ice cream while you enjoy the view of the Manhattan skyline.

To get to the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade, walk back up Old Fulton Street toward Grimaldi%26#39;s. Take a left onto Cadman Plaza West, and you%26#39;ll see signs for the promenade. Enjoy the view!

The Brooklyn entrance to the walkway can be accessed from a staircase at Prospect Street and Cadman Plaza East or a ramp at Johnson and Adams Streets, just adjacent to the Brooklyn Federal Court Building and the High Street station on the A train.

Tuesday

Subway to pier

10:00 am 3 hour boat tour of Manhattan

Taxi Ride: $ 8.00

Lunch

Do some shopping!

Wednesday October 14th FLY HOME!!

TAXI RIDES TOTAL: $ 40.00

I thought I%26#39;d bump this up in case someone else has opinions on our itiniary attached.

We want to see %26amp; do so much - we may have to make another trip to NY to do %26amp; see it all!!

I just read where there is a John Lennon show at the Rock %26amp; Roll hall - so maybe we can pencil that in as well.

I%26#39;m not sure I had in the initinary that we want to walk though Central Park - check out the Dakota %26amp; Strawberry fileds.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!!

Linda

Oh yeah and I would love to walk thru some of the neighborhoods, Soho, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, etc....