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Page 1 of 4 We took a weekend break to new york, neither of us had ever been so how was it ?I went with Brent a relatively new kiwi friend that I have worked with and knew him enough to feel that it would work out especially seeing as it was short enough that how bad could it be if it did get bad. Yes it was just a few days and via Chicago with American Airlines. We met up at London heathrow and got off to Chicago. We had our own t.v.'s in the seat backs and reasonable entertainment on them. The food was not the worst I have had but paying also a premium for wine rubbed salt into the wound that was our cancelled flight from Chicago to Newark, New York.  2 pics :: author and broadway  You see for me a bottle of red and I can sleep on a plane and that's got to be good. Well travelling at this time of year means that the flights get oversold and we were in a race to get in line quick and get down for standby. Not a great situation and certainly not the way I like to conduct myself. Its one thing to have to get a hotel and get away the following morning but another to have to wait nail bitingly through each flight for the rest of the night to find out. Its time for the regulators to step in here far too many of us suffer this on a daily basis. Still this is about New York and so I move swiftly along. We were a couple of the luckier (fitter in this case being swift to get to the right desk and indeed more clued up employee) ones and we got a ride to La Guardia being 7th and 8th on the standby list. It was easier to get to the central mass surrounded by water called Manhattan from la Guardia and bear that in mind if you come. A cab can run you as little as 25 dollars from here. We stayed down town Manhattan, on 14th street in jazz on the town for about $25 dollars per person per night. We did this as we were arriving late in the day and we thought all we would be doing was sleeping. Hostelling can be a great way of meeting people but I have heard that the lack of good hostels in New York didnt make me want to stay there longer. I usually travel alone and this makes using hostels essential in my experience. I love that I meet like minded international individuals so easily and I get invaluable information. This time we were 2 and a hotel would make things a little easier in a few ways. Though we planned to not take a room for the big new years night and get away at 4am straight to the airport and on our way back to Chicago. This would prove in hindsight not to be the best idea. It can be very tough to find a room this night and the prospect of not using the room went against our grains.Our first night there we were surprised that our dorm was full of sleeping travellers but we wanted to get out and maximise our limited time , American Airlines had taken enough already. So we headed out to a joint called The blind pig on 14th street. It was great a good bar and we stayed a while but not long enough to compromise the following day.
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