(Day 5: Empire State Building, Departure from New York)
DAY 1. MONDAY:
ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK
DAY 2. TUESDAY:
MIDTOWN MANHATTAN TOUR by FREE TOURS BY FOOT
TIFFANY'S STORE FEATURED IN "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S"
FIFTH AVENUE
UNITED NATIONS TOUR
UNITED NATIONS TOUR
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DAY 3. WEDNESDAY:
STATUE OF LIBERTY, LIBERTY ISLAND, ELLIS ISLAND
911 MEMORIAL
BROADWAY SHOW: LION KING
TIMES SQUARE
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DAY 4. THURSDAY:
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA)
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
PLAZA HOTEL
CENTRAL PARK
Read more of Day 4 of My New York Itinerary with Kids
DAY 5. FRIDAY:
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK
View New York City in a larger map
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Late breakfast at the Hotel
Packing for today's departure from New York
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Check out of the New Yorker hotel and leave your luggage at reception
Walk from the New Yorker hotel to the Empire State building.
Check out of the New Yorker hotel and leave your luggage at reception
At the lobby of the New Yorker after checking out of the hotel. |
At the front entrance of the New Yorker |
Walk from the New Yorker hotel to the Empire State building.
Across the New Yorker hotel entrance Just a short walk to the Empire State Building |
1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Empire State building
Why go up the Empire State Building on the LAST DAY of the trip:
1. In our case, it's only walking distance from our hotel, the New Yorker, so we save more time by doing it on the day we check out of our hotel. Since checkout time at our hotel is 12 noon, we can still use the whole afternoon to visit the Empire State Building. With the little time that we have in the afternoon, the tourist site nearest to our place, in our case, the Empire State building, is the most feasible place to visit.
2. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, after extensively touring New York City the past few days, viewing how New York City is laid out from the top of the Empire State building, puts into perspective all the tourist sites you've seen. You remember where the tourist sites were, whether on Midtown Manhattan, Upper East side, Downtown, etc. You have an aerial view of how far you actually walked to explore the place and where those places are located.
Midtown Manhattan, where we went on Day 2 |
Downtown, Liberty Island and Ellis Island, where we went on Day 3 |
You can see the Statue of Liberty at a distance |
MOMA, the MET and Central Park, where we went on Day 4 |
Going up the Empire State Building on the LAST DAY of your trip
is the BEST WAY to end your visit to New York City!!!
3:00 PM-4:00 PM
Walk back to hotel
4:00 PM-4:30 PM
Late lunch at Famous Famiglia Pizzeria across the hotel.
4:30 PM
Left Manhattan to go to Yonkers to visit relatives