Day 4 in New York
By traveltripz on Jul 6, 2007 in New York, USA
This morning we made our way down to Times Square to find the Gray Line Bus Company to buy our hop-on hop-off bus tickets.
From what we can tell there are two bus companies in New York running these types of tours. The other is City Sights NY. Both pretty much do the same thing and charge the same price - $49 for two days of unlimited hop-ons and hop-offs on four different loops around the city. We went with Gray Line mainly because we received a $5 discount on each ticket with our New York Pass.
There are ticket sellers on every corner, they are very polite and if you shake your head or say no they don’t hassle you to purchase a ticket on whichever bus company they represent. Many tourists purchase tickets through the street sellers and it is handy for those who haven’t purchased the New York card as they can board a bus almost immediately, whereas we had to pick our tickets up in 8th Ave, which was relatively close to the hotel.
We got on the first bus we could see which was on the Uptown Loop and set out on the open top double decker bus towards Central Park.The tour guide was kind of annoying and talked non-stop about nothing really relevant and tried to be funny all the time, however, we did manage to pick up a couple of bits of interesting information here and there.
The bus took us past Central Park and the tour guide proceeded to tell us about the famous people who live in the apartments that overlook the park including Yoko Ono, Lauren Bacall, Michael J Fox and Jerry Seinfield.
We then drove through some of the streets of Harlem and then back up along the other side of Central Park.
We decided to get off the bus outside of the Central Park Zoo as apart from the annoying tour guide, the bus was quite cold with the air conditioning turned up and Wanda wasn’t feeling very well as her cold was getting worse.
We walked back to the hotel and on the way picked up some soup from The Original Soupman to eat back at the hotel. Anyone who has seen the ’soup nazi’ episode of Seinfeld will know the story behind this soup. I had the seafood chowder and Wanda had the mushroom & barley. Both soups turned out to be delicious although the seafood chowder was a little more salty than I would have liked.
The meal comes complete with bread rolls, bananas and chocolates:
At the moment Wanda is all doped up on cold tablets and having a sleep. We will be heading out to see Mama Mia tonight at the Wintergarden theatre on Broadway so hopefully she will be feeling better by then.
1 Comment(s)
By Nia on Jul 7, 2007 | Reply
co’mon it is saturday and still no news of Mama mia hope wanda is better.
have a nice time , rainiag herre too lots of rain and snow above 1000 feet, can see it from work high on the hills.= cold
take care.
nia