New York City is a fascinating city to travel. So I'm going to share travel tips for new york city. New York City revolves around three things: time, speed and efficiency. In fact a lot of Manhattanites live by daily mental check lists and feel like they never have enough time to everything they want and need to do.
Today I'm going to share with you my New York City
Travel Guide of Tips.
1. Bring comfortable and practical shoes. Now I know a lot of you have probably watched
Sex & the City and the women in that
TV show always wear high heels. That's because they were taking taxi cabs everywhere.
Unless you're taking taxi cabs everywhere , be prepared to walk. A lot. you'll be walking up and down stairs, you'll be taking the metro and the bus all around and you'll be walking blocks and blocks and BLOCKS! Being from
Hawaii I was practically born in flip-flops and when I moved to
New York, I realized they just didn't work there.
2.
Don't stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk or at the entry of a subway station. I like to think of busy New York sidewalks as kind of like the pedestrian version of the
German Autobahne. If you're going to stop on the sidewalk or when you emerge from the subway station pull off to the side so other people can pass you by.
Simple as that.
3. It is a well-known belief that
New Yorkers happen to be very impatient, therefore, next tip is if you're waiting in a checkout line, have your wallet ready when you get to the cash register. The last thing you want to do is wait until you get to the very front, have the cash register ring you up your purchase, tell you what it is and then you
... open your bag to look for your wallet. You might not make the cashier or the people behind you very happy.
Remember, good customer is not a requirement in
New York city.
It's an option.
4. Now a lot of people think that New York City is an expensive place to live as well as to visit. That can't be furthest from the truth. The two things that tend to be expensive in New York City are rent and a hotel room.
Outside of that you'll find that
Manhattan actually has a lot of free activities, like concerts in
Central Park, or
Shakespeare in the park. You have street markets and street vendors who sell things at a very discounted rate. You don't need to rent a car, you can always take public transportation. In fact, you can buy daily, weekly and monthly unlmited metro passes. If you love to eat, there's always hole-in-the-wall restaurants with good food, for cheap! Also if you love shopping, New York doesn't have sale tax on clothes.
Now last, where to find toilets. New York isn't really known for having a whole lot of public toilets and if it did, I don't know if you'd actually really want to use them.
People can be dirty. But if you really had to go and were looking for a spot to go in, then my best suggestion is: Mc
Donald,
Starbucks, public museums as well as the New York public libraries. some parks migh have them but I wouldn't count on them. One handy app I have is Sit n
Squat. It's downloadable for free by Charmin and it will help you locate the nearest toilet whether paid or free on your phone.
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- published: 09 Jan 2015
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