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Barclays Center - Atlantic or Lafayette - 6 years ago
Hello. I used this forum with a few enquiries when I last organised a school trip to New York in 2015 from here in the UK so I am hoping for help again as it was so useful. This time, we have tickets for a Brooklyn Nets game in the evening. For ease of returning to the hostel, it would be best for us to get the C train from Lafayette it is seems to be straightforward enough a walk. So myby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: School Trip - February 2013 - 11 years ago
Thanks for those two replies. We're visiting Feb 19-23. Same week as last year. Kennedy, thanks for the phototrek tip. This year I'm afraid it would be beyond our budget. The excursions / visits we are paying is nudging the overall cost price perilously close to the £1000 barrier mark that I simply cannot break...so your website prices are well beyond us this time. Nevertheless,by DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
School Trip - February 2013 - 11 years ago
I joined this forum last year and was chuffed to bits with the repies I got to a few queries...not least getting my head around the subway lines map. (I'll be needing some revision no doubt). Anyway, after a successful trip with 24 students age 15-18 last February, we're booked again for days in February 2013. I've got a fair idea of the schedule so I am not really looking fby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: 7.30am - Taxi or Subway - 12 years ago
Another query then, based on the subway advice previously I've realised that not all 'colour' routes stop at all stations. After the 911 memorial, I thought I'd be getting the A or C blue line from Fulton Street to either to 14th or 23rd - basically to drop down The High Line on foot and then get back on the red line at Christopher Street to head back to the Times Sqaure aby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: 7.30am - Taxi or Subway - 12 years ago
Thanks Oracle - I hadn't quite picked that the E51st station wasn't on the 4,5 routes at that time - although I did know the routes were different to the colours. That is very useful - chees. Great tip on The Staten Island Memorial too.by DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
7.30am - Taxi or Subway - 12 years ago
I posted a few questions previously on this forum so here's hoping again. I'm in New York next week with 22 students aged 16-18. On one particularly packed day we need to get the Staten Island Ferry around 8.00am - 8.30am and return in time for a slot at the 911 Memorial around 10.30am. Should be possible and I note that outbound from Manhattan isn't even considered rush hourby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Breakfast Buffet and evening attractions - Feb - 12 years ago
Thanks Coz and the previous posters. By hotel - I meant it has a bar / social area so we could be ok just to hang out, but I take your point. Thanks for the other stuff - and I am hammering the "it'll be FREEZING cold" message with the students...whether or not they pay full heed or not, we'll see! Subway is the only way, ; - ) I knew of Century 21, but I might pby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Breakfast Buffet and evening attractions - Feb - 12 years ago
Cheers Coz. A very useful reply. The trip is more of an general enrichment trip than specifically curriculum based - although if there was a slant it is media and photography. MoMA is on there by consensus with the students - as are most of things we're doing. We're on the Staten Islans Ferry and off to Century 21. Thanks for the shout on weather - I knew it would be well belowby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Breakfast Buffet and evening attractions - Feb - 12 years ago
Oracle - it's Feb 14th for three nights and the students are 16-18. Three adults with the group. The daily schedule is sorted - I've been to NY before so we've got a range of paid excursions (NBS Tour, Top of the Rock, MoMA) and then loads of walks / tours e.g. Greenwich, High Line, WTC site. We are booked in for evening meals already at around 7pm so that should see us to 8.3by DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Re: Breakfast Buffet and evening attractions - Feb - 12 years ago
Thanks Oracle. I think we might end up using Cafe Europas or similar - based on what you have said. The problem for me now is that I quoted the breakfast included in the trip price to parents. It will probably mean handing ut $20 bills each morning and sending them off to get food - British parents are always keen that their litte 'uns are eating welL! The students are 16-19 - as I sayby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
Breakfast Buffet and evening attractions - Feb - 12 years ago
New to this forum so thanks in advance for any advice. I am leading a tour party of 25 to New York during Feb 2012 - we are from the UK. I have visited the city twice before so I know most of the schedule. However, I am strugging with breaksfast. I need somewhere in upper midtown (we are staying between 2nd and 3rd around 49th Street) that will serve us a breakfast buffet. Sbarro chainsby DeaksSpeaks - Ask a New Yorker :
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