Find Information About Vacations In New York

If you are fortunate enough to have a short vacation in New York City, you will find this just enough time to see the most popular visitor attractions. One of the most important places to see is the Empire State Building, it has a facade that is famous around the world. Of course, many people prefer the view form the Rockefeller Center which is a little higher, but it can be difficult to see anything when there is bad weather. Huge numbers of visitors have meant it can often be difficult landing at the Statue of Liberty and getting off the tour boat at Ellis Island is often the easier option.

Fortunately, the Staten Island ferry is still free and can provide great views of the Statue of Liberty, this is also a great place to spend some time enjoying the talents of local (almost professional) street entertainers. However, no a short vacation trip to New York would be complete now without a visit to where the World Trade Center Towers once stood not that long ago. While there is a strange eeriness about the place that is larger than you expect at the same time it does not feel as if it needs to be photographed. World famous stores are plentiful in New York with names like Tiffany’s to the many discount stores along Broadway.

Bloomingdales is another famous store (for the wealthy) to look around but it is Maceys, who will give 11 percent discount on production of a tourist card where most people will head for. An excellent tourist location is the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum which is likely to be closed until the end of 2008, although often underestimated, once it opens its doors again, it will be well worth a visit. The highlight of this museum is the USS Intrepid, a World War Two aircraft carrier which houses the likes of the supersonic plane - Concorde not to mention a number of submarines. If you have the time the New York City Police Museum is also worth a look and although it’s free to enter, a five dollar donation per visitor is advised, many TV viewers have grown up with the cop shows set in New York and a large amount of memorabilia is housed here.

Another museum is the Lower East Side Tenement Museum which focuses on the appalling conditions experienced by the immigrants back in 1864. On Central Park is the fascinating Museum of the City of New York with millions of objects for researchers but for tourists, an ever-changing program of exhibitions showing the past, present and future of the Big Apple. More can be learned about the city’s past in this grand building and although once again admission is free, a donation of 9 dollars is advised. Most visitors seem to be on a flying visit so end up missing some of the most beautiful areas and that’s why a short vacation in New York should really be the minimum stay.