Millennium Broadway Hotel New York

... dollar bills. So having been forced off the bus the driver then seemed to have an immediate change of heart or a guilty conscience (must be a New York first) as he invited us back onto his bus and allowed us to pay with the change we had on us which was ...

... went out to a Mexican joint where they had $1 draughts, although pretty tiny glasses, still a good deal (especially for New York).  Another beauty sleep lastnight with an early morning knock-knock from housekeeping.  Just getting showered and ...

... was dull, but we were appreciative of the extra 5cm of legroom on United Plus. On arriving in New York we checked into our enormous and delightfully quite hotel room then decided to have a look around Times Square. There was hardly a place to put your ...

... next to a 70's mafia figure that detracted from the fun, the show itself wasn't working for us. It was really a play for a New York audience, it didn't translate very well to us. Half English and half Spanish, the accents were hard to hear around and the ...

... on the correct side of Broadway... If you're planning on seeing a lot of Broadway shows, find a hotel on the West Side of Broadway. Any hotel near Times Square is going to be close to many of the theatres but if you're on the East Side of the Square, ...

... was more like 50. We began at our hotel on 44th street, and wandered down 5th Avenue (past all the shops), merged onto Broadway around 34th street and continued down past 1st street, into Soho, into Tribeca, into China Town, into Little Italy, across the ...

... it was, again, midnight. Tomorrow we're planning on some real shopping at Macy's (if Steven's up to it) and we're really excited because we're going to see Broadway's newest success, winer of this year's Tony Award for Best Musical, 'In The ...

... through Greenwich Village - again very different to the Greenwich we have in London which only seems to be famous for the Millennium Dome - and had a look in the market and stopped by an Internet cafe where I chatted to some Italian tourists and emailed ...

We went out and got some ...

Just a quick photo update before we go out today. Most days we're up by 9, back from breakfast by 11 and out and about by midday. Today is no ...

... to LA, New York, San Francisco and home. We've got a room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in LA, the Broadway Millennium Hotel in New York and the Westin in San Francisco. We've got seats for Hairspray, Chicago, In The Heights, Young Frankenstein and ...