TAKE A TASTY BITE . SAVE MONEY, TOO, WITH THE PASS THAT MAKES THE MOST OF MANHATTAN TIME
The new World Trade Center Tower One is a magnificent memorial to a tragic event. |
action-packed CityPASS
maximizes precious time, gives options that show off a dozen of the world's most lively cities
Times Square is ablaze at night. CityPASS offers money-saving admissions and you skip the lines. |
STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS
PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER
IF YOU HAVE only five or fewer days in New York, and want to savor a large, tasty bite of The Big Apple, we recomend CityPASS.
Enroute back from Europe recently, we decided to enjoy New York with this nationally known money-saving booklet.
A trip to Ellis Island is a must for many visitors to New York, and a trip and visit are offered through CityPASS, or you can choose a river cruise. |
A dozen cities and regions -- 11 in the U.S., and Toronto -- offer bargains on their town's best and most popular attractions.
Bruce Keller and Christene Meyers enjoyed both day and nighttime visits to the Empire State Building, and the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center. |
You can visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, or have a bird's eye view of both Liberty and the immigration museum from a Circle Line tour, part of your CityPASS options. |
CityPASS helps you sort, taking confusion out of the equation.
Experienced travelers and consultants who have lived in the cities pick the best attractions and present them in a user-friendly ticket booklet.
YOU HAVE six admission tickets, with entries good for nine consecutive days. From the Empire State Building to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Circle Line cruise and a visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, you will get your money's worth and more.
Adults save 42 per cent by paying $114 (rather than $196 if you purchased tickets individually) or $89 for kids 6-17, compared to $171 over-counter price if you just walked in and purchased tickets.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers antiquities and a splendid collection of art through the ages. |
BESIDES CityPASS, we had tickets to five Broadway plays, in a 30-block area, ranging from Midtown Manhattan;s theater district to Lincoln Center, where we saw a fabulous production of "The King and I" at the Vivian Beaumont. We tied in the play with a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with time for a stroll and cocktails at Central Park's Tavern on the Green.
We loved seeing the city that never sleeps at our own pace, by-passing queues and making the most of our Manhattan time.
If you're sandwiching plays in, CityPASS is great, too. Having 2 p.m. matinees on a couple days -- and curtains at 7 and 8 p.m. each evening made us exercise discipline with CityPASS options. We planned at least one activity in the morning and one in the afternoon or evening, depending on our theater commitments. On the same day, we visited the magnificent Empire State Building in the morning, then returned in the evening after our play, for the delightful 360-degree open-air view of the city lit up. The nighttime entrance is an exclusive CityPASS bonus.
You can also hook up with CityPASS in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Southern California,Tampa Bay and Toronto.
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Large pools offer comfort to mourners and beauty and tranquility as international visitors pay homage to those lost in the tragedy of September 11, 2001. |
UP NEXT: A visit to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum left us sad and awed. We'll share our morning there in the next blog. Meanwhile, remember to explore, learn and live, and catch us each Wednesday as we enter our fourth year of global arts and travel with photos and adventures at www.whereiscookie.com
We know about CityPASS from a wonderful San Francisco visit. And the writer is correct: once you've paid, you get up and get going to get your money's worth. Loved not having to get in line at the various venues. Good tips, fun photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the CityPASS info. We are headed to Toronto for the famous film festival next year, and plan to book CityPASS there. Have used it in Seattle, too. Great value, good idea.
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