New World Hotel New York

... I then booked the cruise, an 18 day odyssey that would depart Ft. Lauderdale on the 27th of April and after cruising up to New York City to pick up more passengers, would make intermediate port calls in the Azores, Spain, Portugal, England and eventually ...

At 10.44am this morning, Goatgirl and I created a new World Record for this trip. We were seated at out favourite bar restaurant in Santo Domingo, underneath the large Aspen tree that drops leaves, buds and bird poop on you unless you are definitely ...

... of course sleeping. Ben and I arrived at 8:30 in the morning after a pretty uneventful 30 hours of travel from New York via Doha. As planned, our hotel had sent a driver to pick us up from our Terminal. Figuring we knew nothing about Delhi, or its ...

... but a nice sunny 20 in the day. Metro system is fab, modern, and light years ahead of similar in London, Paris, Singapore, New York and way cheaper but ...... it has thousands squashing in and out at every station. A final mutton curry and chicken ...

... after Santa was so very generous with the Apple Products before we left. Right next door to the Apple Store is F A O Shwarz which is a world famous Toy Store. When I was a kid mum would take me to the one is San Francisco (it has sisnce closed). The San ...

... in a Boutique hotel in NYC! As a leaving present, Phin's work kindly gave him/us two nights accommodation at the Ace Boutique Hotel New York! Wohoo!!! We packed our bags (we didn't lug all our stuff!) and jumped on the subway bound for west 29th street! ...

... from the World Trade Center site, we finally got there.  You can't see much because basically it is a construction site, but the new World Trade Center buildings are going up.  We didn't stay long and headed back "Uptown" (the northern end of ...

... We ordered a slice each and 2 Heinekens as no local beer was available and sat at a high table with stools on the footpath and watched New York go buy.1 Slice was enough. We then set of to the Empire State building to see where we were going to catch the ...

... as the M&M store in Time Square, but more on that in the other blog. We proceeded to walk the streets towards New York's Grand Central Train Terminal, impressive from the outside and even more stunning on the inside, it feels so classy inside, lovely ...

... cities voted to join together. It was the unifying of Brooklyn, Manhatten, Queens and Staten Island that made New York City, the second biggest city in the world, behind dear old London... yes Yanks take that one!!! Our first day was to see Central ...

... States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and ...

So here I am at last, in the world-renowned megalopolis that is New York City. Believe it or not, it's my first time here, despite being a U.S. native. My parents did all sorts of trips with my brothers and me as I was growing up, yet we never made it ...

... you are constantly surprised. its like a 1000 cities together in one town, you always explore kind of a new world at every corner! well my hotel wasnt that magical at all. its very simple and not quite comfortable. i dont really feel comfortable ...

... day. We returned to the mainland and went to the site of the World Trade Centre. This is now a massive construction site where a new world trade centre is being built. There is a memorial plaque on the wall of a nearby building but apart from that ...

... brand new and held around 30,000 fans. Honestly though it had been done on the cheap and did kind of remind me of the New York Red Bulls soccer team stadium as it was made from scaffolding like this one. The fact the stadium was fully covered did make ...

... style and there was a gorgeous carved screen behind the altar. They had a big organ in back and stained glass windows of new world saints. I particularly enjoyed the large Christmas tree.     Next we went to the museum in the Palace of ...

... machine guns.  We took a ride on the Delhi subway yesterday…whoosh, that was crowded.  New York City on steroids.  Upon entering the hotel each time every car and bus are screened and they take large mirrors and hold them under the ...

... as cars I am used to driving. They are fast, though. My guy apparently wanted to show he could drive like a New York City cabbie because he raced to the hotel like we were being chased by Carlos the Jackal. They drive on the British side of the road and ...

... Fries and Plain Spaghetti for the kids, and Lamb Biryani (rice dish) and shrimp turmeric curry for us. But we paid for it - New York prices - $85 for lunch! Worth it for the food safety factor, though. One more tourist stop - Humayun's Tomb. Huge ...

... hard working all the women who took care of the breakfast rooms seemed to be.  I could go on, but I won't.  The real world beckons. Your 'still trying to decide whether he likes this blogging stuff' pal, ...

... However our journey through customs was not nearly so long, and after being concerned about getting grilled about baggage - this was New York, after all- we whizzed through, after all except Chelsea were fingerprinted, and found a taxi big enough to take ...