Comfort Inn Times Square New York City

Entry containing 8 photos titled: FLW @ MET, Madame Tussaud's NY, New York City, New York daytime, NY @ night time, NY's pride, Statue of Liberty Battery Park, WTC - 9 /11 memorial

After some delay and a long 5 hours flight, we finally arrived at NYC. Subway is a bit confusing, but at about 9 pm, we arrived at the hotel. Quite a decent hotel, room a bit small, but it's newly renovated. BTW, the clerk charged us the wrong price (hope this is only accidentally, not purposely). Good that my husband found this out and the clerk readjusted the price. After unloading the luggage, we went out to explore. So surprise Time Square is only one block away! Busy & flashy, lots ...

Start with continental breakfast at hotel, nothing fancy, just toast & bagels. Head out to purchase the New York Pass, it's located in a building near Times Square. After that, decided to walk to MOMA, on the way we came across a building with the famous skating rink, Oh, it's the Rockefeller Center. The skating rink is very small, not like that on TV! Moma's modern art is not that exited as classic art, and the audio is boring. Oh, I forgot to mention that we came across St. Patrick Cath...

We decide to visit the Statue of Liberty today, Almost an hour line-up, not for boarding the ship but for passing through security check. Finally, we board the ship, first to Liberty Island, The statue is quite impressing. We didn't go up, just took some pictures around. Our next stop is Ellis Island. This is the gateway to US for all European immigrants at the start of the 20th century. The museum on the island with audio tour is amazing! Pictures with detail descriptions gave us a very viv...

Get up a bit early to catch the bus to Premium Outlet. Took about an hour to get there, lots of brand name stores but not much excitement. We did purchase some stuff at our usual stores (Timberland, Northface). You should see people pulling their luggage around, crazing shoppers! Plan to spend only a few hours, took the bus at 3:30 and assumed will arrive back to NYC at around 4:30. Serious traffic jam near the Lincoln Tunnel! We end up arriving at our hotel at 6 pm. Decide to try the Chinese...

Visit Central Park Zoo, even though it's small, the animals & environment give me peace & serenity. After that we walk across Central Park & reach the Natural History Museum, it's huge with lots of display. But because we are quite tired with Eveready's walking, it's just quite boring to us. Still, we've spend a few hours there. Then we visit Macy's, the largest department store in the world. It has 9 floors, two sections, half of the building for men, half for ladies. We are just...

Book a tour at Federal Reserve. When we exit the nearest subway station, we found St. Paul's Chapel. This was the famous church that was untouched during the 911 attack. Inside there were a lot of stories and memories of that particular day and after. Very touching, moves me to tears! Then we visited the Federal Reserve, this is the place where money is made and other countries store their gold here in the underground vault. Very impressing! We even got shredded old money for souvenir. A mish...

Mercredi 21, ça y est, c'est la première fois que je reviens a New York depuis le Marathon de 98, en 10 ans il s'en est passé des choses dans cette ville toujours aussi excitante et vraiment a part des autres grandes capitales, on aime ou on aime pas, moi j'adore. J'ai 3 jours devant moi, pas mal d'anciens collègues a voir, je décide de prendre un billet pour les bus rouges a étage (sightseeing), ainsi je n'aurais pas trop a marcher, a mon âge il faut y aller mollo. Difficile de faire des pho...