Getting ready for NY

[Demon Cleaner]

I'm going on holiday to New York this week on Saturday, with my girlfriend of course. We will stay for one whole week, and I'm starting to get quite excited. There's so much stuff we want to do, and of course everything culinary related, we just love good food. She also bought me 2 tickets to see the NY Rangers against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday in Madison Square Garden as St Valentine present, I only can image how great that will be, so far I only know the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, where I have been twice for a game, and there you can already fit 15.000 people, and it's amazing.

We're staying at the Giraffe Hotel, took us some time to find one, but this one seems to be awesome, it's in the 29th, so pretty much close to everything.

http://www.hotelgiraffe.com/

[rossi46]

Awesome!

I'm a huge baseball fan and I was lucky to go to NYC twice last year to see them play at citi field. First time for 3 days and the second time for 5.

Best holiday of my life.

[rossi46]

Sorry, in my excitement I forgot to say it was the Mets we went to see. Lol just in case you thought I meant the Yankees :( :)

[Demon Cleaner]

I'm a huge football fan, but unfortunately that season is over. But we planned that we would perhaps go to Green Bay in September.

[rossi46]

Sorry my post seems very random! I'm not sure what happened to my initial post about baseball and going to new york :(

[Teho]

Spam filter ran off with it. It does that sometimes, nothing to worry about. ;)

[Harrison]

Have a great time. I want to go to New York soon. My wife went years ago with her best friend (blizzard 2006) and wants to go again. As you say, so much to do.

Your hotel looks great too.

[zapiy]

Same as, for the first time in out lives we have the money to do whatever we want when we want but due to health reasons flying that far is a nightmare we can not get past. One day. Have a good one matey.

[Demon Cleaner]

Damn British Airways :mad:

The flight was cancelled, and we had to rebook. Everything went fine in the end, and we even got a better flight, which is now one hour earlier in NY, and we're landing on JFK instead of Newark. The flight is a little bit earlier than the previous one, and the stay in Heathrow is shorter, so I'm glad it worked out fine.

In the beginning the new flight was only from Sunday, so we would have needed to call the hotel to reschedule our stay, which is not obvious, and we would have to take Monday off when we come back, as we only arrive the next day at 11am. Plus the hotel is not refundable, in case we couldn't go at all. And the flight back would also have been rebooked. Then a bit later there was another flight available, the one we booked now. The flight back is still the same now.

But the problem is, British Airways didn't inform us about it, no mail, no call, no notice whatsoever!! If my girlfriend wouldn't have checked yesterday to see about the check-in, we wouldn't have noticed it until the very last day.

We're going to contact British Airways anyway now to complain.

[Harrison]

That is a shame because I've always had good service from BA in the past.

[Kin Hell]

I agree with H. BA are just about the best wherever you fly & it's a shame it's tarnished things slightly.

When you complain @ BA, they usually do pull out the stops. GL fella. :thumbs:

[Harrison]

When we went on our Honeymoon to Italy in 2008 we flew with BA, and on the return journey we had just taken off and one of the stewardesses asked if we had just got married and gave us a free bottle of champagne and chocolates.

[Demon Cleaner]

I'm back, was quite amazing, gonna post some pictures once I've them ready.

[Demon Cleaner]

I was in my yearly cure for my back, returned today again to work, so I'm probably gonna organise the photos next week, then I'm gonna post some.

[Kin Hell]

Did you complain to BA after all this?

[Demon Cleaner]

No, everything went fine.

[Kin Hell]

Good stuff! :thumbs:

[Demon Cleaner]

So here are some pictures:

Chinatown (for Chinese New Year's day)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20148_zpskjnvmig7.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20148_zpskjnvmig7.jpg.html)

Little Italy

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20161_zpssun3op6y.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20161_zpssun3op6y.jpg.html)

Empire State Building (5 blocks away from our hotel)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20199_zpsqmynuyec.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20199_zpsqmynuyec.jpg.html)

Empire State Building Rooftop

Frozen East River

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20209_zpsnzwqzff1.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20209_zpsnzwqzff1.jpg.html)

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View to Downtown Manhattan

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20233_zpswe2ojdqa.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20233_zpswe2ojdqa.jpg.html)

Me freezing, even with the beard

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20241_zpsoldwh6fe.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20241_zpsoldwh6fe.jpg.html)

Madison Square Garden (NY Rangers vs. Calgary Flames)

Jack O'Donnell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_O%27Donnell_%28lobbyist%29) was attending the game

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20305_zpsqls26x3o.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20305_zpsqls26x3o.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20301_zpshzv4tchm.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20301_zpshzv4tchm.jpg.html)

Times Square

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20350_zpsft5m3isr.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20350_zpsft5m3isr.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20361_zpsvghu6twd.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20361_zpsvghu6twd.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20365_zpssjetz7tm.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20365_zpssjetz7tm.jpg.html)

Central Park

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20398_zpsk8p7phqj.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20398_zpsk8p7phqj.jpg.html)

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Chrysler Building

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20458_zpserguvcs8.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20458_zpserguvcs8.jpg.html)

One World Trade Center & Ground Zero

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20479_zpsv5iufagp.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20479_zpsv5iufagp.jpg.html)

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20500_zpskbshtixk.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20500_zpskbshtixk.jpg.html)

Boat trip to Staten Island

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20513_zpsixzf0ua1.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20513_zpsixzf0ua1.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20520_zpswzjvr0re.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20520_zpswzjvr0re.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20540_zpsoiv4czko.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20540_zpsoiv4czko.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20562_zpsb2n3wfok.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20562_zpsb2n3wfok.jpg.html)

Grand Central Station

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/cioprgr/New%20York/New%20York%20461_zpspzryqmzr.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/cioprgr/media/New%20York/New%20York%20461_zpspzryqmzr.jpg.html)

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[Teho]

Nice pictures. :) Looks like you got to see a lot of the place.

[Demon Cleaner]

Nice pictures. :) Looks like you got to see a lot of the place.
Yeah, but still missed many, one week is too short to visit NY, at least I went to the main "attractions" there. And of course, the highlights were having great meals twice a day.

[Harrison]

Definitely some great pictures. Really makes me want to visit NY soon.

I really want to visit the museums and art galleries.

[Demon Cleaner]

I really want to visit the museums and art galleries.
We didn't have time for that, probably next time, because it was definitely not the last time that I went there.

[Kin Hell]

Great Pics DC. Thank's for sharing. :thumbs:

[DonAmiga]

Great Stuff we're hoping to go at the end of the year :)