Traveling: New York City 2008

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

New York City 2008 - Part 1

Arriving In Manhattan

Due to the time difference between Las Vegas and the east coast, we arrived in New York City in the evening. After we picked up our luggage, a taxi brought us from JFK airport to our hotel. New York isn't the cheapest city, but we found a very nice hotel, called Herald Square Hotel, in Manhattan. The rooms were really small and with all our luggage we hardly could move in our room, but it featured a bathroom, a TV and free internet. The hotel is very proud of their matresses and we have to say, that we slept well. Since it was already late, we just walked around Fifth Avenue and had dinner at Burger King.

Tuesday - January 8th 2008

Time to explore Manhattan. After s small breakfast in our hotel, just coffee and cookies, we were on our way to Times Square. Since the weather was really nice, we decided to do the Empire State Building first. The building was just two blocks away and it would be the perfect start for our New York City trip. The line wasn't very long and soon we were on top of the building, from where you have a fantastic view over Manhattan.

Empire State Building

Manhattan

Before we walked to Times Square, we paid a visit to the Grand Central Station and other New York City landmarks, like the Met Life Building. Finally we made it to Times Square, which was smaller than imagined, nevertheless all the illuminated advertising boards were amazing. Afterwards my Claudia and I went to Columbus Circle and visited the Time Warner Center, where we had a coffee and relaxed a bit.

Manhattan

Met Life Building

Grand Central Station

Times Square

Time Warner Building

It was already early afternoon and so we had a pretzel and enjoyed the sun in Central Park. Unfortunately my girlfriend didn't feel good, we decided to walk back to the hotel, but before we stopped at the World of Disney Store and bought a NYC pin.