>haven't been outside of UK my entire adult life
>considering going on holiday alone to New York because I've never been
>looks like it will cost £3,000 for hotel and flights alone for around 12 nights
Is this worth it?
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Hotels in NY are £200 a night?
Not saying there aren't 12 nights of things to do in NY but that's a long time for a single city break to somewhere you've never been.
How can you truly learn the culture of a place if you don't stay there long time.
A week is more than enough.
Take the bus around Brooklyn and you'll get the full cultural experience in maybe an hour, anon.
12 nights in New York is too much.
if you're young, thin, and don't have too much body hair, you can stay with me for free. I will need to ensure that my valuables remain secure so no clothes inside the apartment and you automatically consent to a full cavity search at any time for any reason
L rizz
I was planning to visit around new years when hotels were only $150-$200 CAD/night but they've doubled since then
Do not go to New York for New Year's as an adult. It's a fricking nightmare. There are a million people packed into Time's Square shitting and pissing on the ground. You stand in the freezing cold for 5 hours to watch 10 minutes of fireworks. It's claustrophobic and 90 percent of the people seem miserable
Wouldn't bother. I booked flights there for May when they came up cheap before really considering how much it will cost me. Now I'm just writing off the £300 instead of spending like £3k more because I'd rather just spend that £3k for a couple months in SEA
Boomers must pay for what they've done
Boomers were the first generation to have a lot of rich people so this makes sense.
total boomer death, day of the pillow when
Would you truly enjoy that hellhole? I need to be paid to go there.
Bali would be nice.
I’ve never been to NY so I’m curious on OP’s behalf, is there a New York version of Paris Syndrome? I’m guessing not, because no one really expects NY to be nice.
People who expect to enjoy New York usually like it more than they expect to because there is so much that doesn't get captured on TV. People who aren't expecting to like it usually like it more than they expect to because the bad parts aren't as bad as they expect.
OP, would you pay the same price for London? London and New York are very similar in everything except for Americanness. If you'd pay $3k for the American (and better) version of London go for it. Personally I think you can make a trip for a bit less than that.
>people usually like it more than they expect
>the bad parts aren't as bad as they expect
I love New York City. I want to live, breathe, eat, work, shit, and die, in that city. But no.
For one people expect the tourist areas to be even semi-decent like Europe, but they're not. It's usually in some way disgusting and slightly lawless, especially the worst offender, Times Square. So going there and "seeing the sights" is a good way to hate the city.
Second, if you want an example of hell on Earth, just take the 2 to 125th st or anything further into Harlem. Jesus. Central Brooklyn and parts of Queens, despite being as black, are not even close to as bad as central Harlem.
the worst parts of queens are Jackson heights and kew garden hills because all of the migrant gangs have moved in there. there are prostitutes everywhere, can buy pussy and drugs on Roosevelt ave, stabbings and shootings every night. it's pretty rough. really makes me hate chamos kek
This was my impression. The city of NY was neither worse nor better than I thought it would be my expectations were pretty accurate. NYC doesn't have a lot in common with anywhere else in the US, but everyone should see NYC at least once.
then you tell the boomer to enjoy your Black person filled nursing home
>Dropping so much money on a shit city.
Go for a week tops, then leave, if you really must go. 12 nights is way too many.
Also, how have you never been outside the UK? Euros befuddle me sometimes.
I went on many family holidays but am a loner so I never went on holiday anywhere. I was also a brokegay for some of my 20s.
I'm doing a solo trip to New York next month as well, first ever solo trip, i'd advise you not just stay in New York for the full extent of the trip, get a train to DC/Philly or something. I'm moving around a lot while i'm there to make things a bit cheaper, probably spending about a week in NYC itself, then 2 days in upstate new york (staying with a friend so don't have to pay anything), then a few days in Boston.
I should say though, if you're worried about price etc but also worried about "missing out" while you're in NYC; don't. People go for weekend trips from the UK even though it's so far away for a reason. You'll have a good time but it is fricking EXPENSIVE. Like, i'm sort of coping with the fact that i've spent so much money already with the excuse of "well i'm not JUST in new york".
Boomers delenda est
I honestly cant believe as a generation, millenials knew how destructive boomers can be, we got a golden chance with covid to have a disease wipe out the entire boomer generation, and the general response was 'no, lets lock everything down for multiple years and frick our great grandchildrens economic prospects over so that linda and ray can continue being a plague for the next 30 years'.
WHAT THE FRICK
homie Flixbus to Paris/Amsterdam for £100 return and spend £100 a night for hotels.
NY is only good with a strict agenda and a good head for travelling.
WTF are you gonna do?
Times Square? Statue of Liberty? Empire State?
>Bozo tier attractions
Muh Starry Night? Muh Greenwich Village
>Also Bozo tier
what are your interests or hobbies? You could probably do an Africa safari for the same price, idk but I'd rather see elephants and lions and giraffes and shit than NYC.
Dont bother, New York is a multicultural hellscape. Depending on what you're looking for I can recommend a few places to visit that I would recommend for someone never been to America.
If you want pleasant, safe and historical I recommend visiting any city along the coast of Connecticut, very pleasant and quaint.
If you want capitalism, its history and monoliths of power, go see Washington DC. Very powerful place, you can even go see the white house.
If you want normal? Day to day? Just city life of an average joe, go see Pittsburgh PA or Columbus OH.
These are just a few cities of course, but I would very much recommend visiting a rural area as well as this is where many aspects of life in america shines brightest. Especially car culture, farming, hunting, fishing, if you've never been, make sure to visit the gun range while you're here! America is a lot more than just new york. And if you ask me ide say it's kind of a poor reflection of our culture here in the grand scheme of things.
Oh also none of the places I mentioned are even close to the price of being In new york, you would probably end up spending 30% less money and having a way better time.
Also another couple honorable mentions you could visit are Norfolk/Virginia beach
And ocean city Maryland if you like beaches, I would only visit during late spring or summer however
Connecticut sucks
Bridgeport, CT very pleasant, safe and quaint. Laughable.
NYC is not a hellscape. It's just a big city, and yes, it does reveal a lot more about America than you want to admit. In any case, NYC has fewer homeless people and street drug users than many other American cities, at least in the parts that tourists visit.
Rural America is dreary and depressing in the cold rainy months of spring. Too yucky to leave your vehicle, nothing to do but drive around. Once the trees leaf out and everything greens up, then it gets beautiful.
You guys don't know what you're talking about
In Connecticut you can go see historical shit from Colonial America all week long and eat fresh oysters for breakfast lunch and dinner if you want to.
I went to mystic last year and had a great time.
they have an aquarium, cool beaches, old forts, fishing piers,
military museums, all sorts of shit.
Connecticut kicks ass.
>NYC is not a hellscape. It's just a big city,
So, yeah, a hellscape.
>Rural America is dreary and depressing in the cold rainy months of spring. Too yucky to leave your vehicle, nothing to do but drive around.
You sound like a weak onions boy
Wow! Just like every other state on the East Coast! How unique and exciting!
oysters are disgusting.
I hate nyc but its the only worthwhile city and place to visit in the US. The rest are just copes for flyovercels and ruraloids. At least you get your moneys worth for the most part in NYC, most other major cities in the US pale in comparison, cost just as much (maybe Chicago is exception, dont cope with failed cities like philibongo or some literal who city), have less to do and have horrible transporatation which almost doubles the price of your trip. if youre looking for quaint and history than you cant go wrong with savannah or charleston but clearly OP wants the cosmopolitan globohomosexual experience
I wouldn't go to NYC as baby's first holiday. 12d is too long by far plus NYC is expensive as frick
what attracted you to NYC? if you want an easy mode first trip abroad book a sun reader package holiday to one of the canary islands or something, you might even get to pump some bird from Rochdale
I'm euro and fricking love ny. Could stay for years there and enjoy it.
Thing is I like live music especially avant-garde/jazz and shit and it's certainly the best place on earth for that. I love literature and books in general which helps too.
I can understand that someone who has no hobby and just do the tourist spots don't want to spend more than 3 days there, but if you have hobbies outside of the internet or hiking, I don't understand how you could get bored here.
Imagine bragging about stealing your children's future. How can one generation be so evil?
because you are heckin ruining their retirement holiday by not wage slaving hard enough. God have some thoughts for the poor upper middle class Boomers
The western hemisphere is a flyover hemisphere. For £3,000, you can travel all over Europe for a month or more if you stay at youth hostels and airbnbs and take the bus, rail, or budget airlines.
anon, use ita matrix to book the flight, and at £3000 it'd be cheaper to just rent an apartment month-to-month
if you've never been abroad then 3k is better spent somewhere cheaper so you can enjoy yourself for much longer
you'll kick yourself for spending that much money in just 12 days
try
>eastern europe
>asia
>south and central america
if you've never been abroad eastern europe will be the easiest region
go in summer, any other season isnt worth it, and then go to Long Island, Fire Island and Montauk specifically. Big holiday towns, decent beaches, really only worthwhile thing around here. Unless you want drugs or to watch minorities assault other minorities and old people, then any season is fine in nyc. You could come in fall and do the outdoor type crap upstate or skiing in winter. Either way, the city is a good place to start from but try to get as far away from it as possible if you can.
I don't see why you'd go that far and spend all that money for your first time out of the country, somewhere in Europe would be much better value. Go and see Rome, Vienna, Krakow, or go and visit a Greek island, the Dalmatian coast, or the south of Spain. You could do most of them over the course of few holidays for that money.
America will nickle and dime you like you wouldn't believe. I don't even like going on vacation here.
i had no expectations other than knowing it was a popular and it was kinda meh. everything is stupidly expensive and it was just kinda dirty, people seemed a bit crazy, i got shouted at by hobos in the morning
i liked the museums though, though the moma was closed when i was there i wish i had seen it
That's a normal trip to another country though? idk I'm american so I don't have to worry about expenses when I travel lmao
>That's a normal trip to another country though?
No it isn't, even when i stayed for 3 weeks in Norway (which is expensive as frick) i only spend like €2000, ferry, gas etc included.
Just fly to Denver and rent a car to see Grand Teton. Buy some camping gear at a Scheels, pay the $20 nightly fee at the campground, and return everything when you're done. If you can't return it, just leave it at Union station for the needy. Just set it on the sidewalk out front, it'll be gone in minutes.
I live in NJ and let me tell you that a spending over a week and a half in NYC is far too much. 5 days tops is all you need. 8 if you also want to go up to Boston or down to DC via the train.
What the frick can you do in just 5 days?
Last year I visited LA and I felt 12 days wasn't enough to visit everywhere I wanted to go, so what's your idea of tourism in NYC?
>Never been outside of UK as an adult
>Decide to go on a trip to a London clone
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new york is not the place to visit
NYC is a dump go to Chicago. It gets a bad wrap as a boomer talking point but is the only actual nice "true" city in the US
Chicago stinks it’s filled with F/Ns visit San Diego that’s America’s finest city
Stay at the Omni see a padres game go to Lou and Mickey’s steakhouse in the gaslamp district, take a harbor cruise, visit old town for the best Mexican food anywhere, take a trolly tour, and visit the hotel Del in coranado for a beachside lunch complete with navy helicopters overhead and a beautiful view
Top notch b8 m8
I would do a week max in NYC and then head up stare or into the other New Englamd states.
You've never left the UK and you want to go to New York? In all seriousness are you moronic?
I love New York but it's basically just a less cultured London, if you have never been abroad you should go somewhere genuinely interesting like South East Asia or if you don't want to go somewhere too foreign travel around Brittany for a few weeks, it's a more cultured England