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33 Seaport Hotel New York

Le 33 Seaport Hotel New York est situé à Manhattan, à côté du quartier financier de Wall Street et à 13 minutes à pied de Ground Zero.

citizenM New York Times Square

L’hôtel citizenM New York Times Square vous accueille en plein cœur de Manhattan, à seulement 1 minute à pied de Times Square et à moins de 5 minutes de marche de Central Park et de Columbus Circle.

Hampton Inn Manhattan/Downtown- Financial District

Proposant un petit-déjeuner chaud gratuit et une salle de sport, l'établissement Hampton Inn Manhattan/Downtown- Financial District est situé dans la partie sud de Manhattan.

The Prince Kitano New York

L’hôtel de style japonais The Kitano Hotel New York est situé à 500 mètres de la gare de Grand Central Terminal. Il dispose d’un juke-box dans le hall.

Hilton Garden Inn New York Manhattan Midtown East

Installé à seulement 2 km de Times Square, le Hilton Garden Inn New York Manhattan Midtown East comprend une salle de sport et un centre d'affaires accessibles 24h/24 ainsi qu’une connexion Wi-Fi...

The Gardens Sonesta ES Suites New York

L’hôtel design The Gardens Sonesta ES Suites New York vous accueille dans le quartier de l’Upper East Side de Manhattan, à 1 km de Central Park.

Hyatt Centric Times Square New York

L’établissement Hyatt Centric Times Square New York propose un salon sur le toit-terrasse, servant des cocktails et offrant une vue dégagée sur la ville.

Hotel Beacon

L'Hotel Beacon propose des chambres et des suites avec kitchenette et coin salon. Il est installé dans le quartier Upper West Side de Manhattan, à 805 mètres de Central Park.

Aloft Harlem

Situé à Harlem, l'Aloft Harlem est un élégant hôtel de New York doté d'un bar et d'une salle de sport, à seulement 3 minutes à pied de l'Apollo Theatre. La connexion Wi-Fi est gratuite.

Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton

Arborant une décoration de style Renaissance française, le Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton est un établissement de style Beaux-Arts bénéficiant d’un emplacement central à...

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Hyatt Place New York City/Times Square

Populaire auprès des clients qui réservent des hôtels à New York

Pod Times Square

Millennium Downtown New York

The Manhattan at Times Square

Hyatt Place NYC Chelsea

The New Yorker, A Wyndham Hotel

Hotel Edison Times Square

Doubletree By Hilton New York Times Square West

Les meilleurs hôtels avec petit-déjeuner à new york.

Hotel Barrière Fouquet's New York

Situé à Tribeca, l'Hotel Barriere Fouquet's New York propose des chambres d'inspiration Art déco et une salle de cinéma privée.

Amazing rooms and spa and gym. Lovely staff. Good location

Nine Orchard

Situé à l'angle d'Orchard et de Canal Street, le Nine Orchard est entouré d'institutions culturelles et de quelques-uns des commerces et restaurants de la ville.

Arredamento Vista eccezionale dal 12esimo piano Posizione

The Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad

Situé à New York, à 600 mètres du Flatiron Building, l'établissement The Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad propose une salle de sport, un parking privé, un jardin et un bar.

Helpful and kind staff, excellent location, good view

The Greenwich Hotel

L'établissement The Greenwich Hotel est situé à New York, dans le quartier de Tribeca. Il dispose d'une piscine et d'une salle de sport souterraines, d'un restaurant et d'un spa sur place.

bra läge, god service, trevlig ambiance, underbar frukost

Hard Rock Hotel New York

Idéalement situé dans le centre de New York, le Hard Rock Hotel New York propose des chambres climatisées, une salle de sport, une connexion Wi-Fi gratuite et un restaurant.

It was spotless and stylishly furnished. Loved it.

Graduate New York

Situé à New York, le Graduate New York possède une salle de sport, un jardin, un restaurant et un bar.

All staff were welcoming and engaging. Restaurant was brilliant

TownePlace Suites by Marriott New York Manhattan/Chelsea

Le TownePlace Suites by Marriott New York Manhattan/Chelsea propose un hébergement 4 étoiles à New York, à 600 mètres du Madison Square Garden et à moins de 1 km du Flatiron Building.

Very nice size rooms, clean, welcoming staff very helpful

SpringHill Suites by Marriott New York Manhattan Chelsea

Idéalement situé dans le quartier de Chelsea à New York, le SpringHill Suites by Marriott New York Manhattan Chelsea se trouve à 600 mètres du Madison Square Garden, à moins de 1 km du Flatiron...

Very nice room with an amazing city view. Great location

Hôtels à bas prix à New York

Artezen Hotel

Situé à New York, à 1,2 km du Mémorial et Musée national du 11 septembre, l'Artezen Hotel propose une salle de sport et des hébergements avec une connexion Wi-Fi gratuite.

Perfect location. Very friendly and helpfull Staff.

LUMA Hotel - Times Square

Installé à New York, à 300 mètres de Times Square, le LUMA Hotel - Times Square dispose d’un restaurant et d’une connexion Wi-Fi gratuite dans l’ensemble de ses locaux.

Location was excellent Room was perfect for my stay.

Hilton Club The Central at 5th New York

Idéalement situé dans le quartier Midtown East de New York, le Hilton Club The Central at 5th New York se trouve à 300 mètres de la cathédrale Saint-Patrick, à 200 mètres du Rockefeller Center et à...

Location was excellent, staff lovely friendly and helpful

The Gallery House

Offrant une vue sur la ville de New York, l'établissement The Gallery House propose une connexion Wi-Fi gratuite dans l'ensemble de ses locaux.

Spacious apartment, friendly and informative hosts.

Casablanca Hotel by Library Hotel Collection

L’hôtel de caractère Casablanca Hotel by Library Hotel Collection est situé dans le quartier des théâtres de Manhattan, à quelques pas de Times Square.

Location location location best service from staff

Casa Cipriani New York

Situé à New York, le Casa Cipriani New York possède une salle de sport, un salon commun, une terrasse et un bar.

Excellent food, service and a beautiful atmosphere.

Lowell Hotel

Ouvert en 1927, le Lowell Hotel occupe un immeuble de 17 étages, à 322 mètres de Central Park. Madison Avenue se trouve à 50 mètres, et, la 5ème avenue, à 161 mètres.

Breakfast was 5star organic food with impeccable service

The Flat NYC

Bénéficiant d'un emplacement privilégié dans le quartier Flatiron de New York, l'établissement The Flat NYC est situé à 300 mètres du Flatiron Building, à 1,3 km de la gare Penn Station et à moins de...

the location, free coffee/tea and bottle of water

Hôtels à New York situés dans le centre

5th & 55th Residence Club

Well located in the centre of New York, 5th & 55th Residence Club provides air-conditioned rooms, a fitness centre, free WiFi and a restaurant.

Trump International New York

Situé à l'intersection de Columbus Circle et Broadway, cet hôtel 5 étoiles se trouve à quelques minutes de Central Park. Il dispose de deux restaurants : le Jean Georges et le Nougatine.

Best place and Perfect Location, Services, and Rooms

Baccarat Hotel and Residences New York

Doté de cristaux de Baccarat dans chaque chambre, l'établissement Baccarat Hotel and Residences New York se trouve à New York.

everything location, staff and rooms it was amazing

The Peninsula New York

Installé à quelques pas de la 5ème Avenue, dans le quartier de Midtown de Manhattan, le Peninsula New York propose un toit-terrasse et un spa avec une piscine intérieure.

Room is very clean,very friendly staff,area is excellent

The St. Regis New York

L'établissement The St. Regis New York propose deux restaurants exclusifs sur place ainsi que des chambres avec un service de majordome 24h/24, à 483 mètres du musée d'art moderne.

excellent service attention to details perfect location

Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection

Situé à moins de 2 minutes à pied de Bryant Park et de la gare Grand Central Terminal, le Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection est un hôtel de caractère de Midtown proposant une connexion Wi-Fi...

Great room, amazing staff, great location. Vey clean!

Romer Hell's Kitchen

Situé à New York, à 300 mètres du Broadway Theatre, le Romer Hell's Kitchen propose une salle de sport, un parking privé, un restaurant et un bar.

It was clean, great location, staff were friendly.

Omni Berkshire Place

Situé à Manhattan, l’Omni Berkshire Place vous accueille à 650 mètres du Rockefeller Center et de la salle de spectacle Radio City Music Hall, ainsi qu’à 800 mètres de Central Park.

Large rooms, quiet, clean, amazing staff, great food…….

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L’incroyable ville de New York regorge de sites d’intérêt architecturaux emblématiques, de lieux culturels et bénéficie de vues époustouflantes. Alors pourquoi ne pas explorer la Grosse Pomme en allant à un spectacle de Broadway, en assistant à un match au Yankee Stadium ou bien en faisant une traversée en ferry pour admirer la statue de la Liberté ?

Que vous souhaitiez voir le quartier chic de Manhattan, le quartier de Brooklyn accueillant diverses cultures, ou bien le lieu de naissance du rap et du hip-hop dans le Bronx, vous pouvez compter sur le système de métro fiable de la ville ou sur ses taxis jaunes emblématiques qui vous y conduiront en un rien de temps. N’oubliez pas non plus de monter au sommet de l’Empire State Building pour admirer le magnifique panorama et les toits de la ville.

Times Square, quartier animé de New York, est l’attraction touristique la plus visitée au monde et ne cesse jamais de fasciner avec ses néons impressionnants. Central Park se trouve à proximité et attire les joggeurs, les marcheurs et les pique-niqueurs du monde entier cherchant à faire une petite pause du rythme frénétique de New York City.

Vous y trouverez les meilleurs restaurants du monde, mais n’oubliez pas de manger aussi les incontournables hot-dogs de la ville. La Cinquième avenue et ses boutiques de luxe raviront toutes les Carrie Bradshaws ainsi que toutes les autres fashionistas du monde.

Les aéroports John F. Kennedy et LaGuardia bénéficient d’un emplacement idéal pour vous rendre dans le centre-ville ; prendre un train à la gare Grand Central est également quelque chose à ne pas manquer ! Des auberges de jeunesses économiques aux appartements branchés et aux hôtels de luxe de premier ordre, Booking.com vous propose une variété d’hébergements afin que vous puissiez toujours trouver la meilleure solution pour votre séjour new-yorkais.

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Voyage Hotel

About Voyage Hotel

• Hotel Room You’ll have a private room with all the hotel’s amenities
• Freebies This stay includes Wi-Fi for free

The Voyage Hotel offers guests 24-hour front desk staffing to attend to any needs. The WiFi is accessible in all areas of the property, and it is complimentary. All of the rooms are non-smoking, and free coffee is provided all day long.

All of the rooms offer one queen-sized bed, a handy work desk, plus a private bathroom. The rooms have elegant modern decor and complimentary toiletries. Rooms contain flat-screen televisions with plenty of channels, and there is a mini-fridge in each room as well. Irons and ironing boards are also provided. Breakfast is included with the room rate.

Near the hotel, guests will find plenty of attractions. There are three airports less than 20 miles from the hotel: Laguardia Airport, JFK Airport, and Newark International Airport. Nearby attractions include Times Square, which is accessible by a 20-minute train ride. Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Buiding can also be reached by a roughly 20-minute train ride. The Brooklyn Bridge is about eight miles away from the hotel, and the 9/11 memorial is also accessible via a 35-minute train ride.

There are plenty of shopping options within ten miles from the hotel. Shopping at Columbus Circle, Manhattan Mall, Queens Center Mall, Rego Center, and Soho Mall can all be reached by train. Those that are willing to ride the train for nearly an hour can head to Jersey Gardens Outlet Mall. Within walking distance lies the Queensbridge Park. Also nearby is the Gantry Plaza State Park.

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Amenities at Voyage Hotel

• ATM on-site
• 24hr front desk
• Increased accessibility
• Refrigerator

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• The staff are great. (in 75 reviews)
• Clean and a great value (in 13 reviews)
• Big comfortable bed and nice working wi-fi. (in 47 reviews)
• It was the worst experience. (in 7 reviews)
• "Rude staff, dirty room" (in 65 reviews)
• "Bad cleaning, stained sheets horrible mattress" (in 44 reviews)

What's nearby

• Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Museum 0.5 mi
• Silvercup Studios 0.6 mi
• Socrates Sculpture Park 0.6 mi
• Museum of the Moving Image 0.9 mi
• MoMA PS1 1 mi
• Pepsi Cola Sign 1.2 mi
• Gantry Plaza State Park 1.4 mi
• Astoria Park 1.5 mi
• Queens Center Mall 4.1 mi
• New York Hall of Science 4.7 mi
• Queens Zoo 4.8 mi
• Citi Field 5 mi

Essential information about Voyage Hotel

When to book a room at voyage hotel, top tips for your stay at voyage hotel.

• If you’re after a cheap room at Voyage Hotel, then you should consider staying during the low season. The cheapest deals can generally be found in March and April.
• Prices can also vary depending on which day of the week you stay. For the best room deals at Voyage Hotel, plan to stay on a Saturday or Friday. The most expensive day is usually Wednesday.
• The cheapest price a room at Voyage Hotel was booked for on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks was $120, while the most expensive was $274.
• How long should you stay at Voyage Hotel? KAYAK users usually book their rooms here for 2 days.

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Where is voyage hotel located.

Voyage Hotel is located at 37-10 11th Street, 6.2 miles from the center of Queens. Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Museum is the closest landmark to Voyage Hotel.

When is check-in time and check-out time at Voyage Hotel?

Check-in time is 3:00 PM and check-out time is 11:00 AM at Voyage Hotel.

Does Voyage Hotel offer free Wi-Fi?

Yes, Voyage Hotel offers free Wi-Fi.

How far is Voyage Hotel from the airport?

Voyage Hotel is 2.4 miles from New York Skyports SPB.

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KAYAK scours the web for all room deals available at Voyage Hotel in Queens and lets you compare them to find the best rate for your stay. Many different travel sites will offer discounts or deals at different times for rooms at Voyage Hotel and KAYAK will provide you with prices from a huge range of travel sites. That means that you can always find a great deal for Voyage Hotel.

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3 days in New York: the perfect Itinerary + tips

How to spend 3 days in new york: the best itinerary + where to stay.

You’re planning to spend 3 days in New York and you’re looking for the best itinerary?

You’re at the right place!

In order to help you plan your stay , I have prepared for you the perfect itinerary to visit New York in 3 days.

I will start this guide with my best tips to avoid the long waiting lines (often more than 2 hours!) in front of the Empire State Building, or other must-see attractions.

Then, I will give you my optimized and detailed 3-day itinerary to make the most of your stay in the NYC.

In addition to the best places to visit and activities for each stage of your itinerary, I will also give you all my best tips and accommodation suggestions depending on your budget.

So, what are the best things to do in New York in 3 days? Where to stay?

Let’s find out!

1. The New York City Pass

2. the new york go city explorer pass, 3 days in new york: must-see attractions:, one last tip for a perfect 3-day stay in new york, new york in 3 days: the best itinerary, a. central park, b. visit 1 or 2 must-see museums, c. fifth avenue, d. st patrick’s cathedral, e. top of the rock, f. times square, a. brooklyn district and dumbo, b. brooklyn bridge (and helicopter tour – optional), c. statue of liberty and ellis island, d. financial district/wall street/new york stock exchange/charging bull, e. 9/11 memorial and museum, f. one world observatory, g. little italy and chinatown, a. intrepid sea, air and space museum, b. circle line sightseeing cruise, c. madame tussauds new york, d. new york public library / grand central terminal / chrysler building / united nation headquarters, h. empire state building, f. see a musical on broadway, where to stay in new york, new york in 3 days with your family, more places to visit during your 3-day stay in new york, map of your 3-day itinerary in new york, flight prices to new york, you’re traveling in the us these articles will help you, how to avoid waiting in line (and save a lot of time) at new york’s tourist attractions.

As you surely know, New York is one of the most touristic cities in the world.

Tens of thousands of visitors every day are flocking to visit its emblematic attractions such as the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty!

You imagine that you sometime need to queue for hours before entering this city’s top tourist attractions.

I am going to teach you  3 different options to beat the queue and save a ton of time (and money!) during your three days in New York.

The  first solution  to save time during your 3-day trip to New York, is to buy the New York City Pass. 

Most big cities offer  City Passes these days. It’s really  super convenient: you’ll bypass the  queues  and have priority entrances to the  most famous tourist attractions of the city .

Another advantage: as the New York City Pass is 100% digital . You will just need to present your mobile ticket at the entrance of each included sites. No need for any paper ticket!

Just remember to check beforehand on the application if you need to reserve a date and time slot.

With the New York City pass, you will get skip the line tickets for 5 attractions:

• 2 “mandatory visits” – The Empire State Building (3rd day of your itinerary) and the American Museum of Natural History (1st day)
• Top of the Rock Observation Deck (1st day)
• Ferry Access to Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island  (2nd day)
• 9/11 Memorial and Museum (2nd day)
• Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises  (3rd day)
• Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum  (3rd day)
• Guggenheim Museum (1st day)

To purchase your New York City Pass , it’s very simple – you just have to  click on the green button below:

Another way to get priority access to the monuments you will visit during your 3-day itinerary in New York  is to buy the New York Go City Explorer Pass.

When you book this city pass, you will need to choose the number of tourist attractions you would like to visit:   2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 10 attractions. 

The pass allows you to  choose between 90 attractions and activities. All the best things to do in New York during your 3-day visit are of course included!

After purchasing the New York Go City Explorer Pass, you will also be given a digital guide with attraction information including reservation instructions  and opening hours, directions…

Here is a brief summary of the most popular attractions included  in the New York Go City Explorer Pass:

• The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Ferry
• 9/11 Museum and Memorial
• Empire State Building
• American Museum of Natural History
• Top of the Rock
• One World Observatory
• Madame Tussauds
• Circle Line Sightseeing
• St Patrick’s Cathedral Tour.

You can find the full list of activities and book your New York Explorer Pass by clicking on the green button:

3. Fast track tickets for New York’s best tourist attractions

The last solution to save time is to buy skip-the-line tickets online for each attraction,  depending on what you will want to visit during your 3-day itinerary in New York. 

I will now give you  a list of all skip-the-line tickets and excursions that I will mention in this 3-day itinerary.  For your convenience, you will also find these links throughout the article.

By purchasing them using these links,  you are 100% sure to get the official tickets.

To see the prices and to book, just click   on the links below :

•   Central Park Zoo
• A private tour in Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage
• A pedicab tour in Central Park – choose between the 1 or 2 hours tour version
• Guggenheim Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• St. Patrick’s Cathedral
• National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
• Wall street guided tour
• Helicopter tour over New York
• Statue of Liberty
• Cruise around the Statue of Liberty
• Walking guided tour in Brooklyn
• Broadway show
• Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
• Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
• Madame Tussauds New York

If you want to book other activities in New York, you should always use these 2 reliable and safe websites:

• GetYourGuide: Official entrance tickets and activities in New York .
• Tiqets: Skip the line tickets in New York

If you already know your travel dates (or as soon as you will have them!) , you should really book your accommodation.

As New York is one of the most touristic cities in the world , the hotels offering the best value for money are often fully booked months in advance.

As a seasoned traveler, I can assure you that it’s always by planning as far in advance as possible that I’ve found the best hotels or apartments deals.

You agree that it would be a shame to somewhat ruin your stay in New York by ending up in a not-so-great hotel that costed you a fortune, right? 😅

So your best bet is to take 5 minutes now to have a look at  traveler’s favorite hotels in New York.

And if you like one of the hotels you find, book it!

It’s fast, it’s easy and most accommodation offer free cancellation. That’s the best way to protect yourself from the inconvenience of finding nothing but mediocre rooms at exorbitant prices.

To check the best hotels deals in New York, simply click on the green button below:

After securing your dream stay, it’s time to continue reading this guide!

Let’s now see how to visit New York  in 3 days.

For each day , I will give you  a detailed itinerary with all the details you need for your visits, along with a map  of New York. This will help you optimize your trip  and enjoy a stress-free stay in New York!

I assume that you  will be staying in New York for 3 full days and that you have purchased the New York City Pass, the New York Go City Explorer Pass  or  Skip-the-Line tickets .  This way you will be able to see as many places as possible during your 3 day stay!

If, after reading this article, you still have questions (or need help organizing your trip), you can ask me in the comments section  at the very end of this article.

So,  what are the best places to visit in New York in 3 days?

Day 1: Central Park, Museums, and the New York’s Most Iconic Landmarks

Day 1 tourist attractions:

A. Central Park B. Museums C. Fifth Avenue D. St Patrick’s Cathedral E. Top of the Rock F. Times Square

Let’s start your 3-day New York trip by going to Central Park , an oasis amid the city’s concrete jungle.

Covering a vast area of 843 acres (3.1 km²), this park is the city’s green heart and an iconic location you simply can’t miss.

From the tranquil boat rides on the lake , to the Belvedere Castle , and the Strawberry Fields John Lennon memorial, there are plenty of attractions to explore within the park itself .

Make also sure to check out my favorite spot, the Bethesda Terrace , known for its intricate stonework and picturesque views.

If you are v isiting New York in 3 days with kids , don’t forget to visit Central Park Zoo (buy your fast track ticket here!) or see Alice in Wonderland Statue.

If you’re an early bird, you might even spot some of the park’s local fauna, such as raccoons and various bird species.

You have different ways to explore Central Park: on foot or by renting a bike (click here for more information) .

For a more romantic moment you can also take a horse-drawn carriage ride   or a pedicab tour.

Next, choose between 1 or 2 of the city’s most acclaimed museums:

• The American Museum of Natural History
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Guggenheim Museum .

If you’re a fan of ‘Night at the Museum’, the American Museum of Natural History is a must-visit!

Here, you can learn about the mysteries of the universe and the evolution of life on Earth.

You can visit the American Museum of Natural history for free with the New York City Pass and the New York Explorer Pass.

If you don’t have a city pass, you need to book your tickets here:

On the other hand, if you’re an art aficionado, your best bet is The Metropolitan Museum of Art , boasting an impressive collection spanning 5,000 years of art history.

You need to book your tickets on the official website.

And if you prefer a guided visit , you need to book it by clicking here.

For modern and contemporary art lovers , the spiral-shaped Guggenheim Museum is a must-see.

Access to Guggenheim museum is included with the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass.

Otherwise, you have to buy your tickets for the Guggenheim museum here:

After your museum visit, it’s time to head over to Fifth Avenue , one of the world’s most famous shopping streets.

Even if you’re not into shopping, a walk along this prestigious avenue is a classic New York experience.

With luxury boutiques , top fashion brands, and the iconic Apple Store , Fifth Avenue is a shopper’s paradise.

Don’t forget to check out the historic Tiffany & Co , which has been a part of Fifth Avenue since 1940.

A stone’s throw away from Fifth Avenue, you will find the stunning St. Patrick’s Cathedral , a must-see historical landmark in New York City.

This Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral is a peaceful retreat from the city’s hustle and bustle.

I recommend spending a few moments here to admire the beautiful stained-glass windows and the impressive architecture.

Entry to St. Patrick’s Cathedral is included in the New York Explorer Pass.

If you don’t have this city pass, you need to book your tickets here to be able to go inside:

Next up, it’s time for a major New York highlight .

Head over to the Rockefeller Center and make your way to the Top of the Rock .

Once you’re there, you’ll get a breathtaking 360-degree view of the city.

I mean, who doesn’t want to see Central Park, the Empire State Building, and the One World Trade Center all at once?

It’s a truly unforgettable experience that’ll make you go ‘Wow’!

Access to Top of the Rock is included in the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass.

Without the pass, you need to book your ticket to Top of the Rock by clicking on the button below:

Try to time your visit for sunset .

Seeing the city bathed in warm hues and then gradually lighting up as night falls is a sight for sore eyes. No wonder it’s my favorite time to be at the Top of the Rock!

After enjoying all those amazing views, it’s time to head on over to Times Square .

You’re not truly in New York until you’ve been dazzled by the bright lights of this iconic spot.

Yes, it’s busy. Yes, it’s noisy. But hey, it’s Times Square – the heartbeat of the city that never sleeps.

From massive billboards to street performers and a whole lot more, there’s always something happening here.

You should also visit the iconic stores , like the Disney Store and M&M’s World.

And that’s a wrap on Day 1!

You’ve made it through a busy day of sightseeing in the Big Apple , and hopefully, you’ve fallen in love with the city just as much as I have.

But don’t worry, we’re just getting started. Get ready for Day 2 of your amazing 3-day itinerary in New York.

Day 2: Sightseeing and activities in New York

Day 2 visits:

A. Brooklyn District and DUMBO B. Brooklyn Bridge C. Statue of Liberty D. Financial District E. 9/11 Memorial and Museum F. One World Observatory G. Little Italy / Chinatown

Let’s kick off Day 2 with a visit to the Brooklyn District .

Known for its unique vibe and cool eateries, Brooklyn is a place you’d surely enjoy exploring.

Take a stroll through its streets, soak in the local atmosphere , and maybe grab a coffee at one of the many hip cafes.

But don’t spend all your time here because your next stop, DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass , a specific part of Brooklyn), is waiting for you.

This neighborhood offers an unbeatable view of the Manhattan Skyline from its waterfront park. Plus, it’s got some fantastic places for food and shopping.

If you want to learn more about Brooklyn , its famous bridge and DUMBO, you should book this walking tour (click here) with Sean.

He knows everything about the district and will make sure you have a great time!

Once you’ve had your fill of DUMBO, it’s time to walk the iconic Brooklyn Bridge .

The Bridge is not just a landmark but also a superb vantage point offering panoramic views of the city.

Plan some time for photos, as you will for sure take a lot!

If you want to have an exceptional experience during your 3 days-trip in New York , I strongly recommend you to book an helicopter tour.

Departure is near Battery Park so it’s convenient to do it after Brooklyn Bridge or after the Statue of Liberty.

You need to book your helicopter tour here:

And if you have the guts, you can opt for a “door off” helicopter . This is just epic!

That’s what we did and it was simply the best moment of our trip!

After experiencing the charm of Brooklyn, it’s time to catch a ferry at Battery Park . It will take you to the iconic Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island .

You will enjoy a 15 minutes boat ride, after which you can choose to disembark on Ellis island and view the Statue of Liberty up close, or if you’re pressed for time, just enjoy the view from the water and go back to Manhattan.

If you ask me, I think you should definitely step foot on Ellis Island, which once served as the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. The museum there is pretty interesting.

The New York City Pass and the New York Explorer Pass both includes round trip ferry ticket for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

If you don’t have the pass, you need to purchase your ferry tickets online by clicking here (audio guide included):

If you only prefer to do  the cruise around the island, tickets are available here:

From there, we’re heading to the Financial District of New York, where fortunes are made (and sometimes lost) at the New York Stock Exchange .

Feel the buzz of Wall Street and don’t forget to pose with the famous Charging Bull. Fun fact: Did you know the bull symbolizes the optimism and prosperity of Wall Street?

And to learn more about the finance’s world, you should definitely book this guided tour during your 3-day stay in New York:

Just a short walk from the hustle of Wall Street, you’ll find the 9/11 Memorial and Museum .

This moving tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is an essential stop during your visit to New York.

The two large reflecting pools in the footprints of the Twin Towers are a powerful sight, and you should absolutely visit the museum to understand more about that tragic day.

The visit of the National 9/11 memorial and museum is free with the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass.

Without the pass, you need to book your tickets for the museum here:

If you prefer, you can also take a 90-minute guided walk around Ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial. Book it here!

Next on your 3-day New York itinerary , it’s time to head up to the One World Observatory .

The elevator ride alone is an experience as you can see a short movie projected on the walls . You can observe New York’s transition from a land where there was nothing to the impressive buildings of today.

Once you’re at the top of One World Trade Center, the view is simply stunning!

I loved how you can literally see the entirety of Manhattan from this vantage point.

And don’t miss to stand over the Sky Portal, an impressive glass showing real-time street scenes 100 stories below.

Entrance to One World Observatory is free with the New York Go City Explorer Pass .

If you don’t have the city pass, simply click on the green button below for more info and to book your tickets:

Wrap up your day with a journey to other continents without leaving the city.

First, stroll through Little Italy , which, as the name suggests, is filled with Italian shops and restaurants.

Then, just a stone’s throw away, you’ll find yourself in Chinatown with its hustle, bustle, and myriad of authentic eateries. Trust me, if you’re a foodie, these are must-visit areas.

Day 3 in New York: The best places to visit

Day 3 visits:

A. Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum B. Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise C. Madame Tussauds New York D. New York Public Library / Grand Central Terminal / Chrysler Building / United Nation Headquarters E. Empire State Building F. See a musical on Broadway

Your final day in the city that never sleeps should begin with a visit to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum .

Here’s where you get to geek out over a range of cool military and space hardware.

Imagine strutting around on an actual aircraft carrier , or eyeballing a genuine British Airways Concorde , and even touching a piece of the moon.

You don’t need to be a hardcore aviation or maritime fan to enjoy this. It’s just fun to explore the insides of these gigantic machines, imagining what life would have been like aboard them.

Access to Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is included with the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass.

Without it, you need to book your ticket in advance by clicking here:

Next, it’s time to hit the water and see New York from a different perspective.

A Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise offers a unique view of the city’s skyline, including the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.

And you know what? The Circle Line cruise is included with the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass. It would be a shame not to make the most of it!

Good news for those who haven’t bought a city pass for these 3 days in New York, you can buy your tickets for the cruises by clicking on the button below (and then choose from various options):

I know, I know… why should you visit a wax museum during your 72 hours in New York?

But wait! Don’t be so quick to judge. Madame Tussauds is not a typical wax museum, it’s one of the best museums of its kind in the world  (with the one in London ).

This place is a full-on experience with its interactive exhibits and uncannily lifelike figures.

And let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want a selfie with Rihanna, Leonardo di Caprio or the Avengers?

You need to buy your tickets for Madame Tussauds here:

Free entrance to Madame Tussauds is included with the New York Go City Explorer Pass.

It’s now time to visit the heart of New York.

The New York Public Library is more than just books. Its magnificent architecture alone is worth the visit. But do take a peek inside. You might just get tempted to sit down and lose yourself in a good book!

Not far from the library is the Grand Central Terminal .

Even if you’re not catching a train, it’s still worth a visit. The architecture is, quite frankly, breathtaking.

Make sure to look up at the celestial ceiling and whisper in the Whispering Gallery . Yes, you heard it right – a corner where whispers from one corner can be heard clearly from the other. Cool, huh?

A stone’s throw away is the art-deco masterpiece, the Chrysler Building . While you can’t go inside, the view from the outside is more than enough to wow you.

Last but not least, don’t forget to drop by the United Nation Headquarters . If you’re interested in world affairs, this is the place for you. There are guided tours that give you insights into how the UN operates.

Fun fact – Did you know that the stars on the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal are backward? Don’t worry, it’s not a mistake.

It’s a depiction of the medieval perspective of the sky! Now, you can drop this trivia to your friends when they share their New York pictures!

Let’s move on to something tall, shall we? And by tall, I mean the iconic Empire State Building.

I bet you’ve seen it in countless movies, but trust me, seeing it in person is a whole other experience! It’s definitely one of the best places to visit in 3 days in New York.

You can visit during the day for great visibility, or in the evening to see the city’s lights. There’s something magical about standing at the top, wind in your hair, as you gaze down at the bustling city below. I loved it!

My advice? Try to be there at sunset. The transition from day to night is simply breathtaking from the Empire State Building.

The Empire State Building isn’t just a must-see for its views.

The building itself has a rich history. Did you know it was built in just over a year? Yep, the ’30s sure knew how to get things done. And if you’re into photography, the Art Deco style of the building is a joy to capture.

 To visit the Empire State Building, you need to book your tickets in advance here:

Access to the Empire State Building is included with the New York City Pass and the New York Explorer Pass.

Now, what would a trip to New York be without a visit to Broadway? Even if you’re not a theatre buff, a Broadway show is a must-see. It’s an experience you won’t get anywhere else!

Seeing a Broadway show isn’t just about the performance; it’s about the atmosphere, the history, and the buzz of excitement that fills the air.

You can choose from long-running classics, like “Phantom of the Opera” or “Lion King,” or try a new, off-beat show. There’s something for everyone.

You can see all Broadway shows tickets and book them by clicking here!

You now know all the best places to visit during your 3-day trip to New York!

However, you still need to do 1 important thing before leaving:  booking your hotel.

In order to help you out, I have prepared  a list of the best hotels in New York depending on your budget.

To be honest, it’s really not easy to find budget accommodation in New York. As you’d expect in a city that attracts so many tourists, the hotels have no hesitation in charging high prices.

In any case, you should book your accommodation in New York as early as possible to get the best prices.

Here is my selection of the best hotels to stay for your 3 days in New York (around Times Square / Empire State Building / Central Park).

• HI New York City Hostel : Youth hostel located right next to Central Park. Dormitory beds from €50 per night. An excellent choice for cheap accommodation in New York City Center!
• Club Wyndham Midtown 45: Located next to Grand Central Station. Bright and spacious double room from €200 per night. Strong Points: the rooftop and the location.
• Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott New York Manhattan/Times Square South: Located 1 km from Times Square. Cosy, comfortable double rooms from €330 per night, including breakfast. Strong points: friendly staff, view, peace and quiet.
• Hyatt Place New York City/Times Square: Located next to Madame Tussauds. Double room with impeccable cleanliness and comfortable bedding from €350, breakfast included. Strong points: central location for visiting New York on foot, very generous breakfast, very friendly staff.
• The Iroquois New York: Located less than 500 metres from Times Square, this 5-star hotel offers superb rooms with very chic decor, from €410 including breakfast. Strong points: ideal, quiet location, attentive staff.
• Riu Plaza Manhattan Times Square: Located next to the Rockfeller Center. Very comfortable, noise-isolated room from €450, breakfast €23. Strong points: very professional staff, varied breakfast, very easy to visit the centre of New York on foot.
• Hard Rock Hotel New York: Located next to the Rockfeller Center, this luxury hotel offers elegant, contemporary rooms from €500, breakfast €47. Strong points: the rooftop, the comfort, the classy design. This is my recommendation for a luxury stay in New York!

If you don’t mind being a bit further from the centre (don’t worry, it’s still very easily accessible by public transport), here is my list of the best hotels in Wall Street.

It’s a bit quieter than the hotels in Times Square and also slightly less expensive for equivalent quality.

• Hilton Garden Inn NYC Financial Center/Manhattan Downtown: Located 160 metres from Battery Park. Comfortable, modern rooms from €225, breakfast €23. Strong points: the location close to the metro, very comfortable, practical for going to the Statue of Liberty and Staten Island.
• The Washington by LuxUrban: Located 200 metres from the 9/11 Memorial and museum. Stylish rooms from €240, breakfast included. Strong points: metro stations right next to the hotel – perfect for sightseeing, view of the One World Trade Center, quality of bedding, peace and quiet.
• Club Quarters Hotel World Trade Center: Located next to Ground Zero. Spacious and cosy double room from €330. Strong points: location next to several metro stations, views from the rooftop and some rooms, free unlimited water and coffee/tea, in-room fridge.

To help you find the perfect accommodation, I have also written a guide of the best areas and places to stay in New York depending on your budget.

You can find it here: Where to stay in New York?

This 3-day itinerary is also  ideal if you plan to discover New York with your kids.

Even if New York is quite big,  the public transport network is really good , making it super convenient for families to move around the city. You can  reach most destinations very easily by metro.

Here is the list of the best things to do in 3 days in New York with your family:

• Go to the Central Park Zoo
• Visit The American Museum of Natural History  instead of the Met or the Guggenheim. They’re more likely to be interested in dinosaur fossils than paintings.  😅
• Going to the top of The Rock, the One World Observatory and the Empire State Building. 
• Pass by the M&M and Disney’s stores in Times Square and the Lego’s store on Fifth Avenue
• Take the boat to the Statue of Liberty
• Visit the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
• Broadway Show

As you can see, most tourist attractions in New York are perfect for a family trip!

Both the New York City Pass and the New York Explorer Pass are available for children (prices depends on their age).

The itinerary you’ve just read really allows to  see  as many   must-see attractions as possible in 3 days.

However, don’t hesitate to personalize it by modifying or adding activities!

For that, you should read  my guide of New York. It’s packed with many more ideas for an amazing 72 hours trip to New York!

You can read it here: The 57 best things to do in New York. 

To help you visualize your  daily itineraries during your 3 days in New York,  I have created this map with  all the places to visit day by day . You can view the map’s legend by clicking on the top left button, the one with a little arrow.

You can thus see the suggested itineraries for each day.

As always, you should book your plane tickets as early as possible to get the best prices.

To check the rates and schedules for flights to New York, you can use our flight comparator, in partnership with Skyscanner:

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The 3-star Voyage Hotel is situated in the centre of New York within 3.1 km of such shopping venues as Fifth Avenue. The smoke-free hotel offers Wi-Fi in public areas and has a business centre for those staying on business.

This New York property is located in Queens with the new Resorts World Casino and races at Belmont Park, within 3.3 km of Central Park and within 3.2 km of The Museum of Modern Art. Times Square is within 3.9 km of the Voyage New York, and LaGuardia airport is 10 km away. Feel in total harmony with nature by visiting the outdoor museum "Socrates Sculpture Park", a walk from the accommodation. Voyage Hotel is near a tube station and Vernon Boulevard & 37th Avenue bus stop is merely 300 metres away.

The rooms have private bathrooms with a bathtub, a separate toilet, and a shower. They are also decorated with an elegant furniture.

While staying at this New York hotel, guests can choose from dining options nearby, such as Niforos Corner, set a mere 250 metres away, or Melting Pot Cuisine at a 5-minute walking distance.

Voyage Hotel offers complimentary wireless internet access and tour/ticket assistance to ensure guests' comfort. In addition, featured amenities include a business center, a 24-hour front desk, and an elevator.

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Reasonably priced and nicely furnished rooms, peaceful hotel.

My 3 nights in New York City were such great👍😃

Came in New York City to relax and have fun, this great budget hotel was excellent home base for doing it. I've booked a double room on the 1 floor and everything was great.

We were there for 2 nights, overall had a good stay. The room was nicely furnished and brand-new, loved big bed...

It was an unforgettable experience. Unforgettable and big hotel. An amazing beach, spectacular view. Outstanding service and a lovely pool onsite.

The hotel of choice in New York City.

I appreciated my stay, had a nice experience. I would pointed out staff and cleanliness, that were excellent and the hotel was brand-new.

Great stay, warm room, affable staff. All facilities were new too.

The room was well heated and the service was DECENT. Incredible view, a beautiful balcony, great bed, too. Positioned in the pretty area. I liked the lunch in the nearby Beija Flor. Had complimentary drinks in the pool bar in the evening.

Tbh, Wi-Fi was very poor and the bathroom was very small.

I liked how the hotel looked, nice place. Lots of food for the continental breakfast.

Neat space and awesome breakfast. There was a lovely bar with perfect service. Its location was top near to the school that's in front of the hotel. We had an incredible experience.

Staff were kind, so we loved our being there.

Satisfactory breakfast with lots of options, lovely and tidy place. Super beds and very good staff. Friendly check-in and attentive service.

Functional and fairly clean hotel, particularly good location. I loved the Chinese cuisine served here. Really great stay, as always.

Well, no breakfast.

The hotel was reasonable value. Good choice of extra supplies: a flat-screen TV, a writing table and an electronic key card. We greatly enjoyed to chill in the nearby Dutch Kills Centraal. In addition, free Wi Fi was available there.

a train station was nearby. the location was next to everything we wanted to do.

Nothing bad to say.

Location was CONVENIENT with a metro station short way from the accommodation. Here we stayed not far from Sculpturecenter. Honestly no complains at all. Room met requirements.

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Envolez-vous pour un voyage tout compris à New York et prenez vos marques dans la plus grande ville des États-Unis. Située à l'embouchure du fleuve Hudson sur la façade atlantique, la ville, son Bronx et sa presqu'île de Manhattan, est un terrain de jeu inépuisable pour les amateurs d'art, de shopping et de spectacles musicaux extravagants. En famille ou entre amis, cette cité où les lumières ne s'éteignent jamais fourmille d'attractions et d'activités pour tous.

Visiter New York permet de s'imprégner d'un autre mode de vie et de s'immerger dans la vie trépidante et démesurée de la métropole.

La force de New York, c'est cet esprit d'aventure que lui ont insufflé les pionniers. Toujours à la pointe de l'innovation, la ville a su capter les regards de sorte qu'elle semble aujourd'hui donner le ton au monde. Ses galeries d'art impulsent les nouvelles tendances, ses musées conservent cerrtains des plus grand génies et ses clubs de jazz et de hip hop révolutionnent la sphère musicale. Avec un vol et un hôtel pour New York , vous mettrez un pied dans l'un des univers les plus fascinants de la planète et accéderez à une vie nocturne explosive.

Bon à savoir pour visiter New York

Après un vol Paris-New York d'une durée moyenne de 8h, il faudra tenir compte du décalage de 6 h à l'arrivée ! L'été, le soleil brille, les températures grimpent, tandis que l'hiver, la neige tombe parfois abondamment sur la Grosse Pomme. Pourquoi ne pas planifier un séjour à New York au printemps quand fleurit Central Park ? On trouve en cette saison de nombreux vols pas chers pour New York !

À l'aéroport, optimisez votre organisation. Pensez à changer vos euros contre des dollars et renseignez-vous auprès des agences de location de voiture pour un séjour à New York en toute liberté. En taxi, il vous faudra 20 minutes pour rejoindre le cœur de la ville après votre vol pour New York , et 1h en bus. Si vous souhaitez profiter d'un transfert privé, pensez aux formules vol + hôtel en direction de New York.

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Visiter New York vous conduira sur les pas des hommes qui ont bâti une ville à leur image et de l'histoire mouvementée du siècle dernier. Quelques symboles jalonnent cette destination, ainsi que de nombreux lieux de détente. Pensez par exemple à :

• La Statue de la Liberté : Erigée à l'entrée du port de New York, la Statue de la Liberté s'impose comme une des attractions majeures de la ville. Avant de partir visiter le centre en profondeur, prenez le temps d'embarquer sur l'Hudson en direction du site.
• Central Park : Le poumon vert de New York est un lieu où se ressourcer, pique-niquer et se promener en barque sur le plan d'eau. Loin du tumulte de la ville, les New-Yorkais viennent y courir ou faire quelques passes de basket-ball.
• L'Empire State Building : Ce gratte-ciel Art céco offre l'un des meilleurs panoramas sur la ville et la 5ème avenue depuis son 102ème étage.
• Manhattan : La presqu'île de Manhattan est le cœur vibrant de New York. La 5ème avenue et Broadway font tourner les têtes. Les plus grandes comédies musicales s'y jouent à guichets fermés et les buildings les plus mythiques s'y trouvent.

Que faire à New York ?

Votre billet d'avion pour New York réservé, planifiez quelques activités à faire le temps d'un week-end ou d'un séjour plus long.

Vous voyagez avec vos enfants et vous demandez que faire à New York en famille ? La ville regorge d'activités à entreprendre avec les plus jeunes ! Une comédie musicale sur Broadway, un tour au zoo de Brooklyn ou encore une pause sur l'aire de jeux de Madison Square : vous trouverez toujours des idées pour divertir vos chérubins.

Et pourquoi ne pas leur faire vivre la magie d'un Noël à New York ? Les habitants sont connus pour leur sens de la démesure qui s'exprime particulièrement lors des fêtes de fin d'année. Les 30 000 illuminations qui font briller l'immense sapin de Noël du Rockfeller Center Plaza en sont la preuve ! Quant à la patinoire en plein air logée dans Central Park, elle fait partie des activités hivernales incontournable à New York.

Une cuisine cosmopolite

Héritage de l'émigration italienne, la pizza est omniprésente dans la ville ! Hot-dogs, bagels et donuts risquent de faire partie votre régime tout au long de votre voyage à New York.

Au pays des hamburgers et de la restauration rapide, les séjours à New York peuvent réserver quelques surprises agréables aux gourmets. Si vous êtes amateur de cuisine élaborée et de produits fins, la célèbre chocolaterie Mast Brothers à Brooklyn vaut le détour ! Sous des emballages chics, leurs chocolats affichent des centaines de saveurs comme le poivre, la menthe ou encore la cannelle.

Que ramener de New York?

À côté des traditionnelles miniatures de la Statue de la Liberté, il y a une foule de choses à mettre dans votre valise pour conserver un souvenir de votre voyage à New York.

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Are you traveling to New York for the first time and want to get an overview of what you should pay attention to? Here, I show you step by step the most important information you need to know for your New York trip. There’s a lot to see and do in New York, from world-famous landmarks like the Empire State Building to a wide selection of unique museums and New York-style foods that you should definitely try.

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Best time to travel to new york.

Visiting New York is worthwhile at any time of year, but I personally like the warm months best. Summer in New York can be very hot and humid. So, for many, the best times to visit New York is April and June, and September and October.

Spending Christmas in New York or enjoying the pre-Christmas season in New York City is also a wonderful experience.  The ice rinks are open, the city is beautifully decorated, and, if it snows, the dream vacation at wintertime is perfect!

Paying in New York

You can pay for almost everything with your credit card, even the smallest amounts. Credit cards are accepted in hotels, stores, restaurants, and bars. Don’t have one yet? Then, check out the best credit card to have in the USA here.

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Best Way to Travel in New York

Finding your way around New York is quite easy, even if it doesn’t look like it at first. The streets’ checkerboard pattern makes finding your way around easy. These are the best ways to get around New York:

Metro / Subway: If you have longer distances ahead of you, then the Subway is your friend, because here you can travel really cheap. It’s easy to use! The MetroCard is available at every Subway station. You can buy single rides or the popular MetroCard for 7 days; that way you can travel for a week in New York at a fixed price. You can learn more about using the  Metrocard in New York here.

Taxi:  In New York, you can choose between the Yellow Cab and Uber. You can check out our tips and all the information you need to know in our following blog:  Taxi in New York City .

By bike: With many of the New York sightseeing passes (you can find out more about this budget tip in my New York Pass comparison ), the bike rental is included. We ourselves really love using New York’s Citi Bikes. This city bike program has over 1,000 stations throughout New York City, and it’s super-cheap. We’ll show you how it works in the Citi Bike New York article.

On Foot: You’ll be surprised how much walking you’ll do in New York. After all, there’s something to see on every corner. So be sure to bring comfortable shoes!

Where to Stay in New York?

Which neighborhood is best for you depends on several things: your interests, how close you want to be to the attractions and what your travel budget is. In the image below, I’ve drawn you my favorite neighborhoods of New York including the main attractions nearby.

And, on the subject of safety: In all of Manhattan, the Bronx , Brooklyn, and large parts of Queens, you don’t have to worry about being out and about in the evening. New York City is one of the safest cities in the world!

More than 100 hotels and over 70 neighborhoods to choose from –and after just 4 quick questions, I’ll show you which hotels in New York are best suited for you!

Where Should you Stay in New York?

Manhattan – it doesn’t get more central than this: Manhattan is the most famous borough of them all. Plus, it contains 95% of all the attractions New York is known for. Everything is within easy reach, and you are right in the middle of it all. On the other hand, the hotels are a bit more expensive than in Brooklyn or Queens .

Here, you can find my 33 hotel tips for Manhattan .

Brooklyn – urban and relaxed: For a long time, Brooklyn was the insider’s tip: now it’s “completely” normal neighborhoods. However, you’ll quickly notice one thing: life is much more normal, because it’s more of a residential area. It’s super relaxed, pleasant, and just as diverse as Manhattan. Above all, you can enjoy the Manhattan skyline from here!

Here, you can find my 20 hotel tips for Brooklyn .

Queens – the new trendy neighborhood: Queens is a bit more “normal” than Brooklyn is, but, lately, we’ve noticed that it is getting more and more gentrified. The hotels in Long Island City (not to be confused with Long Island!) are especially popular because they are cheaper compared to Manhattan—and they have a perfect connection to the Subway, which makes Queens a great alternative to Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Here, you can find my 20 hotel tips for Queens .

What to See in New York?

One thing to know in advance: just because there is so much to see in New York, a little planning makes absolute sense. For highlights like the Empire State Building ( here ), the Edge Hudson Yards observation deck ( here ) or the One World Observatory ( here ), I recommend buying the tickets online in advance. This will not only save you waiting time on site, but you can also be sure that you will actually be able to visit your desired sights.

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• Observation decks:  New York City has no less than five (!) major observation decks to offer, and each one is a dream in itself. My two favorites are The Edge Hudson Yards and the One World Observatory , because from here you have a sensational view of New York from above and you can see the Empire State Building . From the end of 2021, another cool option will be added with the glass One Vanderbilt . One more thing about the Empire State Building: It’s the most visited observation deck in New York, so it’s always busy. Avoid the crowds in the morning – and if you really want to go to the Empire State Building in the evening, choose Thursday, Friday or Saturday. During those times, a saxophonist plays on the observation deck. Important: book the Skip-the-Line-Tickets (you can do that here). Then, you can easily save 1-2 hours of waiting time!
• Visit the Statue of Liberty : The trip from Battery Park to the Statue of Liberty is super-popular. To save yourself long waiting times, make sure you take the first ferry of the day. Here, you can find the best Statue of Liberty Cruises right now.
• Definitely take a boat tour , because seeing New York from the water is like being on vacation. Choices range from the free Staten Island Ferry or the NYC Ferry ($2.90 each way) to sailing tours (gorgeous) and the classic sightseeing tours that are included with all major New York passes.
• Walk along the High Line from the Meatpacking District to Hudson Yards .
• Visit Times Square in the evening – that’s when it’s at its most impressive.
• Relax in Central Park or Bryant Park .
• Plan a maximum of three attractions per day . After all, you don’t want any sightseeing stress.

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Itineraries in New York

You don’t know where to start? Then let us inspire you! We have some suggestions for you. By the way, the most popular is the 1 week New York itinerary .

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This itinerary contains over 50 spots and highlights of the city, including a map that shows you the best way to travel each day, taking you to or past the many big attractions. In addition, we‘ve added our favorite places, from great breakfast spots to start your day right to small bars and restaurants and hidden insider spots.

What awaits you here now is the perfect New York week, because this is what my itinerary would look like if I were visiting the Big Apple for the first or second time right now!

What to Do in New York?

For me, an unforgettable New York trip includes the following things in addition to visiting the main sights:

Go Shopping

New York is also really good for shopping. There are many small shopping spots and addresses, but also the big brands can often be found with flagship stores. If that’s not enough, you can go shopping in one of the outlets and flea markets of New York.

The best shopping areas in New York are Broadway, SoHo , Chelsea, the Meatpacking District, and Williamsburg in Brooklyn. And, of course, 5th Avenue!

Avoid Times Square for shopping!

A real tourist trap are the stores around Times Square – they are not only overpriced, but also the quality is not right in most cases!

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Visit a rooftop bar.

I love the rooftop bars of New York . You can sit and relax, enjoy a sensational view of the city and listen to relaxing music. All this mixes with the so-typical sounds of the city in the background, and if you have something delicious to drink or eat on top of that, it can’t get any better! You can see where we like to go in our article on the 43 best rooftop bars in New York .

By the way, if you want to experience the view of New York when you get up early in the morning, check out my list of the 26 best New York hotels with a view !

Visit a Broadway Show

New York is known for its many musicals and Broadway shows – most of which are performed in the Theatre District around Times Square. Here are our tips on the  best Broadway Shows in New York . If you already know which Broadway show you want to see, I recommend ordering the tickets in advance ( here ). If you’re still flexible, you can buy leftover tickets at TKTS in Times Square, for example.

Attend a Parade or Special Event

OK, hotel is booked, attractions are on the list, the myNY itinerary is ready, shopping spots are sighted and the first restaurants and bars are also noted. Now comes the last step on the list to the perfect travel planning for New York: the events, parades, and holidays.

They are the icing on the cake of every New York vacation and, therefore, could not be missed in our New York Travel Guide! Just check out our monthly specials that are relevant to you:  January , February , March , April , May , June , July , August , September , October , November and December .

Enjoying the Gastro Scene (in the Evening)

Now comes one of my favorite parts of planning our New York trips: the city’s many bars, restaurants, rooftop bars, and food markets. In our travel guide and insider guides on the website, we put a lot of emphasis on finding the best gastro spots and rooftop bars. So, feel free to browse through them, and if you like something, just add it to your myNY itinerary. Just click on the heart symbol, and you’re done!

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Marvel at grand central station.

Be sure to take the time to see Grand Central Station . Not only is it the setting for many series and movies set in New York, it’s also very impressive and has a fantastic ceiling!

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What to eat in new york.

What should I start with first? With the New York pizza slice, the New York cheesecake, the wonderful pastrami sandwiches at Katz’ Delicatessen, or at the Pastrami Queen? In addition, Wolfgang’s Steakhouse and Luger are two really good steak restaurants waiting for you and if you want to eat really good burgers: go to J.G. Melon, the hidden Burger Joint or Shake Shack!

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One of the top 25 hotels in New York, this contemporary yet warm and welcoming hotel lies within an easy walking distance of the exciting boutiques and galleries of SoHo.

A modern boutique hotel surrounded by quirky 1920s architecture, the Iberostar boasts luxurious guestrooms and prides itself on customer care.

Cosmopolitan and cool, The Freehand is built in the old George Washington hotel and retains much of the personality of the musicians and artists that graced its rooms. Works of art adorn the walls in this comfortable and relaxing hotel.

A historic art deco hotel built at the height of the Jazz Era, the New Yorker lies in a prime location just minutes from Times Square and Central Park.

This elegant hotel lies in the heart of Manhattan making it the perfect base to explore the local landmarks. This hotel prides itself on being a “love letter to New York” and carries touches of glamour throughout.

Inspired by NY history with unsurpassed views of the city, the Andaz is a dazzling hotel with a fun atmosphere. Standing in the heart of the financial district, the Andaz is ideal for both business and leisure.

With its own New York Steakhouse, this is the largest Hilton Garden Inn in the USA. With a beautiful seasonal rooftop terrace as well as a well-stocked bar, there’s plenty to enjoy in this primely placed hotel.

Stay at the beating heart of New York with this modern hotel in Times Square. Soak up the vibrant city life then relax in style in a luxurious guest room.

New York is one of the most iconic cities in the world. From world-renowned sights such as the Statue of Liberty to tiny boutiques you will swear you were the first to find, New York has surprises around every corner.

Couples can enjoy the most fairy-tale Christmas ever as New York transforms into a winter wonderland during December. Families will enjoy The High Line, an elevated park with regular events including stargazing. For nightlife lovers, New York has some of the best bars and of course, you can take one of many hundreds of shows on Broadway.

Hotels in New York pride themselves on looking after their guests so expect those little extra touches that make all the difference.

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1. SoHo Meaning “South of Houston”, SoHo is one of the trendiest locations in Manhattan. Moments away from Chinatown and Little Italy, SoHo is the perfect place to book a hotel from which to enjoy the true diversity of New York life.

2. Park Avenue This broad avenue is home to some of the most stylish and unusual boutique hotels in New York. Look out for charming touches of 1920s jazz culture.

3. Wall Street The financial heart of New York, Wall Street is also where you can find contemporary and sleek hotels with the splash of extravagance you’d expect from such a wealthy section of the city.

4. Central Park 843 acres of parkland, gardens, and lakes open up the city and let it breathe. Hotels near Central Park allow you to stay in a prime spot close to both bustling city life and this relaxing green oasis.

5. Times Square Flashing neon and giant billboards draw over 50 million visitors a year to this legendary intersection of Seventh Avenue and Broadway. This is the New York of movies and TV and has to be seen to be appreciated.

New York is a city which is constantly evolving, yet has so many timeless landmarks. From Liberty Island to the Empire State Building, the hardest thing about travelling to New York is wondering how you’ll fit in everything you want to see and do.

Take a culinary tour of the city, enjoying treats from a classic New York bagel to green baked eggs. The diverse communities of the city mean you can get authentic food from just about every nation in the world, so New York is a food lover’s paradise.

From ice skating at the Rockefeller Centre in Winter to free shows in Central Park in summer, this is a year-round city with something to offer everyone.

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If you travel to New York in February, wear some red for good luck and enjoy the firecrackers, drums and dragon dancers of this traditional and exciting parade.

Located near the famous Oyster Bar, the unparalleled acoustics of the whispering gallery allow you to whisper secrets to your friend in the opposite corner. A top spot for marriage proposals.

Tourists and locals sing side by side at beloved karaoke bars in Chinatown. A fun and uplifting experience for the budding singers in your party.

A luxury experience in an opulent setting. The legendary Palm Court with its stunning glass ceiling is the prime spot to relax in elegance and enjoy some delightful pastries.

This 4-acre spot in Central Park is an ode to the English countryside. Filled with quince, cowslips and other native British plants, this glorious garden is the perfect spot to escape city life for a moment.

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This is a guide to travel between Europe & the United States using Cunard's Queen Mary 2. 

Cunard maintain a scheduled transatlantic passenger service between Europe and the United States, usually one sailing a month in each direction between Southampton & New York from April to December taking 7 nights.

You travel aboard the greatest ocean liner in the world, Cunard's Queen Mary 2 (QM2).  It's a crossing , not a cruise , and many people use the QM2 as their preferred mode of transport between Europe & the United States.  The Queen Mary 2 is a proper ocean liner, built with the extra structural strength & power to withstand the rigours of the North Atlantic in all weathers.  The QM2 took over the transatlantic service from Cunard's 1967-built QE2 in 2004.

You can forget being bored, it's a week of relaxation, with cinema, theatre, interesting lectures, spa treatments, swimming pools, cocktail bars, restaurants, an excellent library, shops and even the world's only sea-going planetarium.  Plus the cold grey Atlantic which I never tire of watching.  You can also forget seasickness, the 150,000 ton QM2 is rock-steady in most weather amidships, you'll need to walk forward towards the bows to feel any up and down movement.  Westbound, the crossing is rounded off by an awe-inspiring early-morning arrival into New York City, in my opinion the best way to arrive in the Big Apple. 

Crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner needn't cost much more than a business-class flight, fares for two people sharing the cheapest Britannia stateroom start from £1,099 per person each way, for 7 nights accommodation, all meals & entertainment.

The Man in Seat Sixty-One says:   "From personal experience, staggering round a transatlantic liner in a dinner jacket with a martini is the normal, rational, reasonable way to cross the Atlantic.  Heading for an airport and strapping yourself to a flimsy aluminium tube is an unfortunate and eccentric aberration."

Transatlantic sailing dates

Southampton ► new york.

2024 transatlantic sailings:   28 April, 16 May, 9 June (6 night), 23 June (6 night), 21 July (6 night), 16 August, 15 September, 17 October (8 night), 13 November, 14 December.

2025 transatlantic sailings:   9 January (9 nights, Queen Anne), 8 March, 27 April (8 nights), 16 May, 6 June, 24 June, 27 August, 26 September, 24 October, 19 November, 15 December.

All crossings are now 7 nights except where shown.  The Queen Mary 2 usually sails from Southampton at 17:00, arriving in New York 7 nights later at 06:30-07:00.  The terminal she uses in Southampton varies.  In New York she arrives at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

New York ► Southampton

2024 transatlantic sailings:   3 January (8 nights), 5 May, 23 May, 15 June (8 nights), 6 July (8 nights), 27 July (8 nights), 23 August, 4 October (9 nights), 25 October, 3 December.

2025 transatlantic sailings:   3 January (8 nights), 6 April (8 nights), 5 may, 23 may, 13 June, 8 July, 8 august, 3 September, 17 October, 31 October, 8 December then 3 January 2026 (8 nights).

The QM2 usually sails from New York Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at 17:00, with check-in opening at 13:00 and closing at 15:45.  She arrives in Southampton at 06:30 seven nights later.

How to check sailing dates, times, prices & availability

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How much does it cost?

Typical Cunard one-way fares for transatlantic crossings.  Late bookings in late season can often be cheaper than this!

Inside = without window, oceanview = with porthole, see the cabin accommodation guide .  All other staterooms & suites have a balcony, except the two Q3 Royal Suites.

Britannia = allocated to the Britannia restaurant for meals.  Princess or Queen's Grill = allocated to the superior Princess or Queen's Grill restaurants for meals.

How to find cheaper tickets:   You'll often find cheaper fares if you buy your tickets from a cruise specialist such as www.cruisenation.com (UK-based) or www.cruisedirect.com (in the USA or Canada), both of which have online booking for transatlantic crossings and cruises.  Agencies like these can save perhaps £100 per person or more off the official Cunard price, and you'll also find cheaper fares if you shop for last minute deals and late-season crossings, as low as £799 or better, for example.  However, be aware that in high summer transatlantic sailings can get full many months in advance.

Round trip fares:   There are special round trip fares covering two back-to-back crossings with just 1 day in New York, but if you plan to spend more than a day at your destination you'll need to pay one-way fares each way.  In other words, for all practical purposes a round trip on the QM2 means buying two one-way tickets.

Cunard Fare & Saver fare:   The Cunard fare lets you choose a specific cabin & dinner sitting up front.  The Saver fares are several hundred pounds or dollars cheaper and guarantee a cabin in the booked grade or higher, but the cabin and dinner sitting time are allocated for you.  You can log in to Cunard's voyage personaliser at my.cunard.com/en-gb/mycruise/login a couple of weeks before departure to see what cabin & sitting you have been allocated.

Child fares:   See here .

What does the fare include?   All Queen Mary 2 transatlantic fares include your cabin accommodation, all meals & afternoon tea, on-board entertainment such as shows, lectures, films, access to the swimming pools & library, plus the tea, coffee & juices available in the Kings Court self-service.  The fare does not include alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks served in bars or at meals, Canyon Ranch Spa access & treatments, or internet access .  Also, a 'discretionary' fee of around $11-$14 per person per day will be added to your on board account each day as a gratuity for staff.

How to buy tickets

  if you live in uk & europe,   if you live in the usa or canada, how does the ticketing work , westbound transatlantic guide.

Here is a typical transatlantic timetable, port transfer, embarkation arrangements & journey information for a typical westbound transatlantic sailing on the QM2.  Although they normally follow this same pattern, always check the sailing time & check-in times for your specific date.  If you find that something has changed, please let me know .  If you're sailing eastbound, see the eastbound information .  Are  westbound or eastbound crossings better?

Take the train from London Waterloo

Fast air-conditioned trains run from London Waterloo to Southampton Central every 30 minutes taking around 1h17.  No reservation is necessary, just turn up, buy a ticket and hop on the next train.

London to Southampton costs £43.10 adult one-way Super Off-Peak in standard class or £86.80 one-way Off-Peak in 1st class.

These tickets have unlimited availability, you can buy them on the day, the price doesn't change.  Children under 16 half price, children under 5 free.

If you book in advance and commit to a specific train, cheaper Advance fares are available from around £10 in standard class or £16 in 1st class.  These tickets have limited availability at each price level.

Check train times & fares from London Waterloo or anywhere in Britain to Southampton at www.thetrainline.com .  Direct trains run from Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, Bristol & Cardiff to Southampton, so you won't have to cross London.  See a beginner's guide to UK train travel .

For train connections from Paris or any other European city to London, see here .  I'd recommend a night in London before taking the train to Southampton on sailing day.

Transfer by taxi in Southampton

Make sure you know which of the four possible terminals the QM2 is sailing from, the QEII terminal (dock gate 4), City Cruise Terminal (dock gate 10), Mayflower Cruise Terminal (dock gate 10), or the new Ocean Terminal (dock gate 4).  Map of Southampton, showing all cruise terminals, Southampton Central Station & the historic Ocean Terminal .

A taxi from Southampton Central station takes 10 minutes and costs around £10 to the Mayflower or City cruise terminals, around £13 to the QEII terminal or Ocean Terminal.  You'll find plenty of taxis waiting at the station, the taxi rank is on the same side of the station where most trains from London arrive, so no bridges or subways to negotiate., level access from platform to booking hall to forecourt.

QM2 check-in procedures

Check-in typically opens at 13:00 and closes around 15:45.  Cunard will give you a specific check-in time on your e-ticket to stagger people arriving, but you can arrive earlier if you like, it's not a problem.

Visitors are not allowed on board, so anyone seeing you off will have to leave you at the terminal.   Cunard either send you or allow you to download labels showing your departure date & cabin number, remember to put one on each bag before arriving at the terminal.

When you get out of the taxi at the terminal drop-off point your large bags are immediately taken from you and whisked away, they will magically reappear later in your stateroom.  No bag should exceed 23Kg (50lb) but you can take as many bags as you like as long as they will all fit into your stateroom.

You then walk into the check-in hall and go to the first available check-in desk, this usually doesn't take long.  At the check-in desk, you show your e-ticket, your passport & your credit card for on-board purchases, and a webcam photo is taken of each passenger for security purposes.  You may be asked to fill out a brief health form to notify the ship of any fever you have or any diarrhoea you've had in the last 48 hours.  Each passenger is given a credit-card sized plastic card which is your embarkation card, your cabin key and your charge card for buying drinks & souvenirs on board. 

After check-in there's an airline-style X-ray & metal detector security check, then straight onto the gangway onto the QM2, entering the Grand Lobby on deck 3.  It's a painless process compared to airports.  If you feel like a late lunch, or just a tea, coffee or juice when you board, you'll find the King's Court self-service restaurant on deck 7 open for business and offering all of these.

What's an Atlantic crossing like?

The Queen Mary 2 is usually due to sail from Southampton at 17:00.  This is the most usual time, but please check for your sailing date.  Once on board and settled into your stateroom, listen for announcements about emergency drill.  This is held at 16:00 and takes about 20 minutes.  You listen for the alarm bells, fetch your lifejackets from your stateroom and go to your allocated muster station where staff will brief you on emergency procedures and you'll listen to an announcement by the captain.  When it's over, return your lifejackets to your stateroom and head up on deck for departure...

Soon after 17:00 the QM2 sails, with a band playing on her aft decks and glasses of champagne available (around $17).  She is sometimes moored facing upstream, sometimes downstream, and if she's moored facing upstream at the City or Mayflower terminals, she'll first head further upstream before turning around, somehow managing to turn her 1,130 foot length without hitting the far bank of the river or the small boats moored there.

Southampton's historic Ocean Terminal:  Cunard no longer use the traditional and historic Ocean Terminal dock, from which the original Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and even Titanic would have sailed.  Indeed, the old 1950 terminal building was demolished in 1983 and this hugely historic location now looks totally unremarkable, a freight dock with a couple of multi-storey car parks next to it for vehicle exports.  You won't know that you're looking at it unless you know where it is, so see this map .  It's just north of the QEII terminal, just south of the City & Mayflower terminals.  About the old Ocean Terminal .

The Queen Mary 2 heads downstream into the Solent, heading directly towards Cowes on the Isle of Wight before making a tight turn to port (left) in the deep water channel, passing Ryde to starboard (right) and Portsmouth to port.  The QM2 rounds the Isle of Wight using the deep water route to the east (although this looks like the long way round on a map) and heads out into the English Channel.  By breakfast next morning, you're well past Bishop Rock lighthouse and out in the Atlantic...

Seven nights at sea on the Atlantic.  Cunard slowed down their crossings from 6 nights to 7 nights from 2011 onwards, although an occasional crossing may take 6 or 8 nights.  This is two days slower than it used to be, as the weekly service operated from 1946 to 1967 by the original Queen Mary and her consort Queen Elizabeth took just 5 nights for the 3,150 nautical miles (3,625 miles). 

There may be no coastline or islands to see in mid-Atlantic (or even other ships, usually), but I never tire of gazing at the brooding waters of the North Atlantic.  It changes from day to day, sometimes smooth and glassy, sometimes choppy and sombre, sometimes sunny, sometimes foggy with the Queen Mary 2's fog horn blaring at regular intervals.

You may get rough crossings especially in October, November or December, but my summer crossings on the 150,000 ton Queen Mary 2 or 70,000 ton QE2 have been rock steady all the way.  You could be in a 5 star hotel rather than on board a ship!

The QM2's clocks are put back an hour at 2am on 5 of the 7 nights because of the time difference, giving you a welcome extra hour's sleep in this direction.  You will pass within a few miles of the resting place of the Titanic (within 38 nautical miles on one of my westbound crossings) and an announcement may well be made on board.  Naturally, you'll find a whole programme of entertainment & activities on board every day, and if you really want to be bored you'll have to work hard at it.

The QM2 arrives in New York at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal at 06:30.  This is the highlight!  Whether you're a natural early riser or not, make sure you're up and on deck by 04:45 on the morning of arrival in New York, as the arrival into New York by ocean liner is something you will remember all you life.  There's a forward-facing observation deck on deck 11,  immediately below the bridge, accessed from 'A' stairway.  You'll see the lights of Long Island to starboard (the right-hand side), Staten Island to port, and the Verrazano suspension bridge dead ahead at the entrance to New York harbour.  The Queen Mary 2 passes under the bridge with just a few precious feet of clearance above her funnel, and as she does so the fabulous Manhattan skyline comes into view.  The QM2 no longer uses Cunard's traditional terminal at Pier 90 on Manhattan itself, so she no longer steams right past the Statue of Liberty, but instead she turns to starboard (to the right) opposite the statue and heads into the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, berthing within sight of the famous Statue and Manhattan skyline.

QM2 disembarkation in New York

A note explaining QM2 disembarkation procedures appears outside your stateroom a day or two before arrival, and each deck is allocated a disembarkation time.  Disembarkation takes place between 08:00 & 11:00.  The upper decks with the more expensive cabins disembark first (e.g. decks 9, 10, 11, 12), other decks such as 4, 5 or 6 later.

Labels for your bags appear outside your stateroom the day before arrival.  You put a label on each of your bags and place them in the corridor outside your stateroom between 20:00 & midnight before arrival.  Your bags will disappear and will be waiting for you in the terminal hall next morning, in an area marked with the same colour as your labels.

It's then just a matter of going through the U.S. immigration check, a slowish process but no worse than any airport.  They you walk out of the terminal.

Express disembarkation:   If you want to get off sooner and are happy managing all your own bags, you can register for Express disembarkation at the purser's desk on deck 2 the day before arrival.  You are given an express disembarkation card.  Express disembarkation passengers gather in the Queens Room from 06:45 onwards with all their luggage, and at around 07:00 when the gangway opens you simply walk off the ship with your bags, straight into the terminal.  With a Deck 4 cabin we were allocated an 11:00 disembarkation time, which would have meant half a day in New York wasted, so I'd go for express disembarkation every time!

Transfer by taxi to Manhattan

The Tour Office on deck 2 offers private transfers by minivan from Brooklyn Cruise Terminal to any Manhattan hotel for a ridiculous $429, or they can sell you tickets for a transfer bus for $59 per person. 

However, both options are crazy, because a normal yellow cab from the terminal taxi rank to anywhere in Manhattan costs only $40 for up to 4 people and all your bags, and you'll find plenty of taxis waiting right outside the terminal building.  Enjoy the drive across the famous Brooklyn Bridge in a New York Yellow Cab!

You'll also find plenty of black private hire vehicles outside the terminal with a fixed price of around $55 to a Manhattan hotel, also a good relaxed option.  The ride takes 20 minutes.

Alternatively, the cheapest option (just $4) is to take the frequent ferry from Brooklyn's Red Hook ferry terminal to Pier 11 on Wall Street at the southern end of Manhattan.  Red Hook ferry quay is only 100m from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, and it'll take you to Manhattan in a matter of minutes, see www.ferry.nyc .  It's aimed at locals, but taking a suitcase isn't usually a problem.  See walking map cruise terminal to Red Hook ferry .

By train from New York to other U.S. cities

You can be at Penn Station by 11:30 or earlier, for onward train connections.  Washington DC is only 3 hours away by train, Boston 4 hours or less.  The Lake Shore Limited train to Chicago leaves Penn Station around 15:45 arriving in Chicago next morning, with connections for all points west including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Seattle.  You'll also make the afternoon Crescent overnight train to Atlanta & New Orleans, or the afternoon Silver Meteor overnight to Florida.

You can book any of these trains online in advance at www.amtrak.com , collecting your ticket from the self-service machines at Penn Station.  Note that between New York & Washington or New York & Boston you'll be offered two different types of train:  The premium-fare Acela Express 150mph high-speed train with business class and first class, but no coach class, and the slower but cheaper Northeast Regional trains with coach class and business class. 

You can book Amtrak trains yourself, but if you want an agency to sort a package of train connections and hotels from New York to other US cities, call Railbookers on 0207 864 4600 (UK office) or 1-888-829-4775 (US office).  Beginner's guide to train travel in the USA .

By train from New York to Toronto, Montreal & Canada

Two daily trains link New York with Canada, the Maple Leaf to Toronto and the Adirondack to Montreal.  Both trains leave New York in the morning, so you'll need to spend the night in New York.  It's a very scenic run along the Hudson River valley, past West Point Military Academy, Storm King Mountain and Bannerman's Island.  As it's name suggests, the train to Montreal also passes through the scenic Adirondack Mountains and past Lake Champlain.  Information on trains from New York to Canada .  Change in Toronto for the famous Canadian trans-continental train 2-3 times a week to Winnipeg, Edmonton, Jasper & Vancouver. 

You can book Amtrak & VIA Rail trains yourself, but if you want an agency to sort a package of train connections and hotels from New York to major Canadian cities, call Railbookers on 0207 864 4600 (UK office), 1-888-829-4775 (US office, toll-free) or 1-855-882-2910 (Canada, toll-free).  Beginner's guide to train travel in Canada .

Eastbound transatlantic guide

Here is a typical timetable, transfer & journey information for most eastbound trans-Atlantic crossings.  Although they usually follow this pattern, please check sailing & check-in times for your specific date when you book in case they are different.  If you find that anything has changed, do let me know .  If you plan to travel westbound, click here .  Are  westbound or eastbound crossings better?

By train from Washington DC & other US cities to New York

Amtrak trains link Washington DC & New York in less than 3 hours, Boston to New York in under 4 hours.  The daily Lake Shore Limited links Chicago & New York overnight, with connections in Chicago from LA, San Francisco, Seattle, etc.  However, the Lake Shore arrives at New York's Penn station in the early evening, too late for same-day connections with the 'Mary, so you'll need to leave Chicago two nights before the 'Mary sails and spend a night in New York before sailing day.  You can check schedules and fares and buy tickets for any of these trains online at www.amtrak.com .  Note that between New York & Washington or New York & Boston you'll be offered two different types of train:  The premium-fare Acela Express 150mph high-speed train with business class and first class, but no coach class, and the slower but cheaper Northeast Regional trains with coach class and business class.  You can book Amtrak trains yourself, but if you want an agency to sort a package of train connections and hotels from other US cities to New York for you, call Railbookers on 0207 864 4600 (UK office) or 1-888-829-4775 (US office.  Beginner's guide to train travel in the USA .

By train from Toronto, Montreal & Canada to New York

Two daily trains link Canada with New York, the Maple Leaf from Toronto and Adirondack from Montreal.  Both trains arrive in New York in the evening, so you'll need to spend a night in New York before sailing day - Check hotels in New York .  It's a very scenic run down the Hudson River valley, past West Point Military Academy, Storm King Mountain and Bannerman's Island.  As it's name suggests, the train from Montreal also passes through the scenic Adirondack Mountains and past Lake Champlain.  Information on trains between Canada & New York .  The famous Canadian trans-continental train links Vancouver & Toronto three times a week, via Jasper, Edmonton & Winnipeg.  You can book Amtrak & VIA Rail trains yourself, but if you want an agency to sort a package of train connections and hotels from a Canadian city to New York for you, call Railbookers on 0207 864 4600 (UK office) or 1-888-829-4775 (US office, toll-free) or 1-855-882-2910 (Canada, toll-free). Beginner's guide to train travel in Canada .

By taxi from Manhattan to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal

A normal yellow cab from New York Penn Station or any hotel in Manhattan to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal costs around $40 for up to 4 people and all your bags.  Enjoy the drive across the famous Brooklyn Bridge in a traditional New York Yellow Cab!  The taxi ride takes 20 minutes.

Alternatively, a frequent ferry operates from Pier 11 at the end of Wall Street in Manhattan to Red Hook ferry terminal in Brooklyn, this is just 100m from the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, fare $4, see www.ferry.nyc .  See walking map from Red Hook ferry terminal to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal .

QM2 check-in procedures in New York

Check-in usually opens around 13:00 and closes around 15:45.  Cunard will give you a specific check-in time on your e-ticket to try and stagger people arriving, but you can arrive earlier if you like.  Visitors are not allowed on board, so anyone seeing you off will have to leave you at the terminal then wave from the shore.

Cunard will have sent you adhesive labels showing your departure date & cabin number, remember to put one on each bag before arriving at the terminal, as when you get there your larger bags are immediately taken from you.  They will magically reappear later in your stateroom.  No one bag should exceed 23Kg (50lb) but you can take as many bags as you like as long as they will all fit into your stateroom.

You then walk into the terminal and join the short queue for a ticket check, then another short queue for the X-ray and metal detector security check, then you join a long zig-zag queue for check-in proper.

At the check-in desk, you show your e-ticket, your passport & your credit card for on-board purchases, and a webcam photo is taken of each passenger for security purposes.  You also hand in a brief health form notifying the ship of any fever you have or any diarrhoea you've had in the last 48 hours. Each passenger is given a credit-card sized plastic card which acts as your embarkation card, cabin key and charge card for buying drinks & souvenirs on board.  You then go up the gangway onto the QM2, entering the Grand Lobby on deck 3.

Apart from the time spent in the main queue (have a reading book and some refreshments to hand), it's a painless process compared to airports.  If you feel like a late lunch, or just a tea, coffee or juice when you board, you'll find the King's Court self-service restaurant on deck 7 open for business and offering all of these.

What's an eastbound Atlantic crossing like?

The ship normally sails from New York at 17:00.  This is the usual time, but please check for your specific departure date.  Once on board and settled into your stateroom, listen for announcements about emergency drill.  This is held at 16:00 and takes about 20 minutes.  You listen for the alarm bells, fetch your lifejackets from your stateroom and go to your allocated muster station where staff will brief you on emergency procedures and you'll listen to an announcement by the captain.  After this you're free to go up on deck and admire the Manhattan skyline astern and the Statue of Liberty to starboard (right-hand side).  At 17:00 she casts off, and with a band playing on her aft decks and glasses of champagne available (around $17) she heads out to sea.  Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty slowly disappear astern, and the QM2 heads toward and then underneath the huge Verrazano suspension bridge out into the Atlantic.  There is just a few precious feet of clearance above her red funnel!  An NYPD police boat follows behind (seeing you off the premises?), and a police helicopter buzzes overhead.

Seven nights at sea on the Atlantic.  Cunard slowed down their crossings to from 6 to 7 nights from 2011 onwards, although an occasional crossing still takes 6 nights.  Naturally, you'll find a whole programme of entertainment & activities on board every day, and if you really want to be bored you'll have to work hard at it!  There are no islands or coastline to see in mid-Atlantic (or even other ships, usually), but personally I never tire of gazing at the brooding waters of the North Atlantic.  It changes from day to day, sometimes smooth and glassy, sometimes choppy and sombre, sometimes foggy, sometimes sunny.  You may get rough crossings especially in October, November or December, but my own transatlantic crossings on the 150,000 ton Queen Mary 2 or 70,000 ton QE2 have been rock steady all the way.  You could be in a 5 star hotel rather than on board a ship!  The QM2's clocks are put forward an hour at 2am on five of the seven eastbound nights because of the time difference, giving you an hour's less sleep in this direction - if there's one reason why a westbound crossing can be nicer than an eastbound one, this is it!  (update 2013:  Cunard has tried the crazy idea of putting the clocks forward at midday on recent crossings, much to passengers dismay, as it can be confusing and means dinner is too soon after lunch!)  You will pass within a few miles of the resting place of the Titanic and an announcement may well be made on board.  On the last evening at dinner you may catch site of the Isles of Scilly in the distance (about 35 miles west of Land's End), and later the lights of Cornwall twinkling to port.  A first view of Great Britain!  You're now past the Bishop Rock lighthouse an in the English Channel.  Incidentally, a modern transatlantic crossing is now two days slower than it used to be, as the weekly service operated by the first Queen Mary and her consort Queen Elizabeth from 1946 to 1967 took just 5 nights.

The ship arrives in Southampton at 06:30.  You'll need to be up early, at around 04:30, if you want to see the ship round the Isle of Wight and head past Portsmouth & Ryde and into Southampton Water, although this hardly lives up to the spectacular arrival in New York on a westbound transatlantic.  There's a forward-facing observation deck on deck 10, immediately below the bridge, accessed from 'A' stairway.  Otherwise, you'll find the ship docked at the Southampton Terminal when you awake, and the Kings Court & Britannia restaurants serving a welcome cooked breakfast to send you on your way.

QM2 disembarkation in Southampton

It's then just a matter of going through the UK immigration check.  They you walk out of the terminal.

Express disembarkation:   If you want to get off sooner and are happy managing all your own bags, you can register for Express disembarkation at the purser's desk on deck 2 the day before arrival.  You are given an express disembarkation card.  Express disembarkation passengers gather in the Queens Room from 06:45 onwards with all their luggage, and at around 07:00 when the gangway opens you simply walk off the ship with your bags, straight into the terminal.

Transfer by taxi to Southampton Central station

The Queen Mary 2 can use any one of four different terminals in Southampton, either the QEII terminal (dock gate 4), City Cruise Terminal (dock gate 10), Mayflower Cruise Terminal (dock gate 10), or the new Ocean Terminal (dock gate 4).  Map of Southampton, showing all cruise terminals, Southampton Central Station & the original historic Ocean Terminal .  A taxi to Southampton Central station costs around £10 from the Mayflower or City cruise terminals, or around £13 from the QEII terminal or Ocean Terminal.  You'll find plenty of taxis waiting at the terminal, although there can be a long wait as there are so many other passengers.  The taxi ride takes just 10 minutes.

Take the train to London Waterloo

Cunard no longer organise a special 'boat train' in connection with QM2 sailings.  However, fast air-conditioned trains link Southampton Central with London Waterloo every 30 minutes taking around 1h17.  No reservation is necessary or even possible for Southampton-London trains, you just turn up, buy a ticket and hop on the next train.

Southampton to London costs £43.10 adult one-way Super Off-Peak in standard class or £86.80 one-way Off-Peak in 1st class.

I would not buy a cheaper advance-purchase Advance fare because this commits you to a specific train and you are not in control of exactly when you arrive and disembark.  Super Off-Peak, Off-Peak and Anytime fares can be bought on the day and used flexibly, so you can catch the next train.

You can check train times & fares from Southampton to London Waterloo or anywhere in Britain using www.thetrainline.com .  Direct trains run from Southampton to Reading, Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol & Cardiff, so you won't have to cross London.  Beginner's guide to UK train travel .  Find a hotel in London .

Onward trains from London to Paris & beyond

Onwards to Paris:   Allow plenty of time for onward connections, certainly several hours, and maybe stay in London overnight.  For Paris, take a UK domestic train from Southampton central to London Waterloo (no reservation necessary, see the section above), then take a taxi or Underground across London to St Pancras Station.  Eurostar runs every hour or so from London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord in central Paris, journey time 2 hours 20 minutes.   For a beginner's guide to Eurostar travel, see the London to Paris by Eurostar page .  You can book tickets online in advance at www.eurostar.com , and you should indeed pre-book, as London-Paris prices start from £52 in advance but up to £200+ if you wait and buy on the day of travel.

Onwards to other countries:   See this page for information on getting from London to any country in Europe .  Having crossed the Atlantic on the luxurious Queen Mary 2, how about taking the Venice Simplon Orient Express vintage luxury train to Italy ?  This runs on most Thursdays from April to October, and takes 24 hours from London to Venice, a real treat.  You can book European trains yourself, but if you want an agency to put together a package of train connections and hotels from anywhere in Europe to Southampton for you, call Railbookers on 0207 864 4600 (UK) or 1-888-829-4775 (US office).

Which cabin to choose?

There are a bewildering range of staterooms on the Queen Mary 2 at varying prices, but they basically fall into these categories, in ascending order of cost:

Britannia Inside:   An Inside cabin means it has no window, but even though this is the cheapest option, these staterooms are spacious, beautifully designed and have all the facilities mentioned above.  They have double or twin beds for 2 people, although some rooms are fitted with an additional two drop-down upper berths making a 3 or 4-berth room.  Some cabins are wheelchair-accessible.  Allocated to the Britannia restaurant.  Typically 155 sq ft.

Britannia Atrium View:   There are a handful of standard inside cabins on decks 4, 5 & 6 which have a small window opening onto the atrium above the Grand Lobby.  They have double or twin beds for 2 people, but none of these rooms are fitted with additional berths.  Also allocated to the Britannia restaurant.  Typically 161 sq ft.

Britannia Oceanview:   These are outside cabins meaning they have a small non-opening porthole for sea views.  Some seasoned travellers will tell you that with no coastline or islands to see on a 6 day transatlantic crossing, a window is unnecessary.  However, I enjoy seeing where I am and love gazing at the vast and always-changing waters of the North Atlantic.  Paying the extra for a Standard Oceanview is well worth it, both for the views and the natural light.  These staterooms have double or twin beds for two people, but some rooms are fitted with an additional two drop-down upper berths making a 3- or 4-berth room.  Some are wheelchair-accessible.  Also allocated to the Britannia restaurant.  Typically 194 sq ft.

I've crossed with an inside cabin and with an outside cabin, and I think it's well worth the extra for a porthole.  It lets natural light into the cabin and it gives you a much greater sense of place - not to mention sunsets over the Isle of Wight and views of the Statue of Liberty as you pack up on arrival!

Britannia Balcony (Obstructed View) :  The cheapest cabin type to have its own balcony, allocated to the Britannia restaurant.  These are all on Deck 8 above the promenade deck, but with their view heavily obstructed by the ship's lifeboats.  They have a double or twin beds for 2 people, and a few cabins have a 3rd berth in the form of a pull-out sofa bed.

I'd definitely pay a little more for an sheltered balcony, without any obstruction.

Britannia Sheltered Balcony:   The next cheapest cabin type to have its own balcony, allocated to the Britannia restaurant, also with a double or twin beds for 2 people, a few cabins have a pull-out sofa bed as well.  Sheltered balcony cabins are on decks 4, 5 & 6 below the promenade deck with a small balcony cut into the hull.  Typically 269 sq ft, including balcony.

This is my own first choice (unless you can afford a megabucks suite, of course), arguably a better choice for a transatlantic crossing than a more expensive cabin with a more windswept balcony in the ship's superstructure.  See the photos below.

Britannia Balcony:   Also allocated to the Britannia restaurant, these are slightly smaller than the Sheltered Balcony rooms, but have a glass-fronted balcony higher up in the ship's superstructure, on deck 8 and above.

The open glass-fronted balcony lets even more natural light into the cabin than a sheltered balcony, but it'll be more windswept than a sheltered balcony on a transatlantic crossing!   Typically 248 sq ft, including balcony.

Britannia Club Balcony:   Similar to a Britannia Balcony, but allocated to the single-sitting 'Britannia Club' restaurant, a separate off-shoot of the main Britannia restaurant.  Typically 248 sq ft, including balcony.

Princess Balcony Suites:   Suites with balcony, all allocated to the Princess Grill restaurant.  Typically 381 sq ft, including balcony.

Queens Balcony Suites:   Various types of suite, up to and including the extravagant Grand Duplex suites, all allocated to the Queen's Grill restaurant.  All have balconies, except the two Q3 grade Royal Suites.  Size varies from 506 sq ft to 2,249 sq ft.

QM2 deck plans in PDF format

If you pay the more expensive Cunard fare so you can choose a specific cabin, here are some things to consider.

You can feel a slight up & down movement of the ship towards at the bows, but will feel hardly any movement at all amidships.  For this reason mid-ships cabins are higher-graded and cost more (Even if you pay the cheaper Saver fare, you can select a higher grade to ensure a mid-ships cabin).

Some people have reported noise from below when occupying sheltered balcony cabins on 4 deck directly above the Illuminations or Royal Court Theatre, so 5 or 6 Deck may be preferable.  However, we had 4101 & 4105 over the Chart Room bar and these were perfect.

Adjacent cabins with connecting doors are marked on the QM2 deck plan .  Choose these if four of you are going to book two cabins.  But don't choose these if you're only booking one cabin, as a wall with connecting door is never as totally soundproofed as a wall without.

Facilities in all cabins

Even the cheapest QM2 cabin (or stateroom as Cunard calls them) features comfortable beds, a private bathroom with shower, sink & toilet, a dressing table, flatscreen TV, a small coffee table & chair, 240v UK & 110v US style power sockets, pay-per-minute internet access , soap, shower gel, shampoo & conditioner, bathrobes, hairdryer, plenty of wardrobe space, room service menu and a solid electronic safe for your valuables that's large enough for a 14" laptop.  A bedtime chocolate is delivered to your stateroom when the steward turns down your bed.

Where cabins can be configured with either twin beds or a double, you can select your preference in advance using the online voyage personaliser at my.cunard.com/en-gb/mycruise/login the same online system where you download and print your luggage labels and e-ticket.  You log on with your Cunard booking reference and personal details.

Britannia sheltered balcony  See 360º image

This is cabin 4101 on 4 Deck.   The Man in Seat 61 says , "This is my own preferred cabin for a transatlantic crossing.  Even at 20 knots in mid-Atlantic the balcony remains wind-free just as the word sheltered suggests.  Some people say you won't get much use out of a balcony on the Atlantic, but I loved being able to stroll outside at any time and stand at the rail watching the Atlantic drift past.  On a sunny summer crossing off Newfoundland we did indeed sit outside, and even when inside, the French windows let in lots of natural light, making it a far nicer room than an inside or outside cabin, so upgrade if you can.  I have yet to travel with a more expensive full-balcony cabin, but I expect those are a lot more windswept!".  Click the photos for larger images.

Britannia inside & oceanview

Qm2 restaurants, which restaurant.

The fare includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as afternoon tea in the Queen's Room or King's Court.  It does not include drinks, other than the basic water, tea, coffee & juice available at the drink stations in the Kings Court buffet restaurant.  Bottles of wine start at around $30 and real ale lovers can choose Old Speckled Hen or Spitfire for around $6 a bottle.

Your allocated restaurant:   Each stateroom is allocated a restaurant.  Most cabins, including the Inside, Oceanview & Sheltered Balcony, are allocated to the Britannia restaurant on decks 2 & 3. The more expensive staterooms are allocated to the more intimate Princess Grill on deck 7, and the very best staterooms to the Queen's Grill , also on deck 7.  The food is excellent, and you choose from a menu of half a dozen different starters, main courses and desserts, which changes every day.

Optional dining venues:   You can also choose to eat any given meal in the informal King's Court buffet on deck 7, or pub grub in the Golden Lion pub on deck 2, instead of your allocated restaurant.  It's entirely up to you, you can decide on a day by day basis.

There is also the Veranda Restaurant aft on deck 8.  This does seafood and steaks, and is an extra-cost option - you reserve a table and pay extra to dine there instead of your allocated restaurant.

Room service:   If you'd rather eat in your cabin, every cabin has free room service from a simple menu including burgers, pasta, cheese & crackers.  You can order by phone at any time, it's all included in your fare.  However, if you order any drinks from room service, including soft drinks, these are charged at bar prices.  You can also choose to have breakfast delivered to your stateroom, except on the morning of arrival.  Just hang the breakfast order form on your cabin door before retiring.

Britannia restaurant

Most staterooms are allocated to the Britannia restaurant , a magnificent two-storey 1,300 seat restaurant spanning decks 2 & 3 and reminiscent of the grand dining saloons of the great ocean liners of the past.  There are two sittings for dinner, 6pm & 8.30pm.  If you pay the Cunard fare you can choose a sitting when you book, if you pay the cheaper Saver fare you will be allocated a sitting, perhaps the less popular 8.30pm one.  If you log onto your online voyage personaliser at my.cunard.com/en-gb/mycruise/login with your booking reference and personal details it will confirm your sitting before you travel.  Evening entertainment is arranged so that both sittings can enjoy it, although the 6pm sitting gives you the rest of the evening free, and is arguably more relaxed than the later one.  If you've young children, see the section below .  There are no specific sittings or allocated tables for lunch or breakfast, you are allocated a table when you walk in, choosing your own table for 2, table for 4 or if you prefer, seats at a shared table so you get to meet other passengers.

Princess Grill & Queen's Grill

More expensive staterooms are allocated to the Princess Grill , the most expensive suites to the Queens Grill .  Both are aft on deck 7, served by the same galley.  There are no sittings, you can dine any time you choose when the restaurant is open.  If you want a drink before dinner, the Grill Lounge is a lounge and bar exclusively for Princess & Queens Grill passengers, on 7 deck aft, directly opposite the entrance to the Queens Grill.

Kings Court

The Kings Court buffet restaurant takes up most of the centre section of deck 7, and it's open almost continuously from early until late, with only half an hour here and there were breakfast dishes are swapped for lunch or lunch for dinner.  There's a wide variety of food, all good quality, including a carvery.  The window tables with sea views cross the promenade deck are the nicest.  Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, water & juices can be had for free from the drinks stations in several locations around the Kings Court area.  Stewards will take your order for wine, beer, cocktails, mocktails or fizzy soft drinks and deliver them to your table, these drinks must be paid for, added to your on board account.

The Man in Seat 61 says , "If you fancy a first breakfast in the Britannia restaurant then a second breakfast in the Kings Court, why not?  After all, Second Breakfast is the most important meal of the day..."

The Verandah restaurant

The Verandah restaurant aft on deck 8 is an extra-cost option, specialising in steaks and seafood.  You can make a reservation at the Verandah restaurant whilst you are on board, or you can book a table for one or more nights at your desired time before you travel, by logging into your voyage personaliser at my.cunard.com/en-gb/mycruise/login booking the table and paying the extra.

The Man in Seat 61 says , "With our normal Britannia sitting not until 8.30pm, we booked a table at the Verandah for 6pm on our last evening before getting up early to see the arrival into New York.  I wished we'd dined there on more than just one occasion, the steaks were top class."

QM2 bars & lounges

There is no shortage of watering holes on the Queen Mary 2.  Personally, the Chart Room works for cocktails before or after dinner as it's near the social centre of the ship on deck 3, but for quiet reading, working on a laptop and generally getting away from it all, the Commodore Club with its forward view over the bows is my top choice.  Drinks are not too expensive:  A tea is $2, a glass of wine perhaps $6, a cocktail $10.  Although I'm a non-smoker 99.9% of the time, one of Havana's Montecristo number 2 cigars and a 1979 Armagnac were sound recommendations from the barman on the last night of a return crossing from New York.

Champagne bar

Sponsored by Veuve Cliquot, the Champagne Bar is on 3 Deck, on the upper level of the Grand Lobby in the centre of the ship.

Commodore Club

Located on deck 9 on 'A' stairway at the forward end of the superstructure.  It's away from the hustle and bustle, a quiet and relaxing place for a cocktail and a read or chat.  You get a great forward view over the bows, although blinds are drawn at dusk so the light does not interfere with the view from the bridge above.  This is my favourite place on QM2 - it does a great range of cocktails and other drinks, the Churchill Cigar Lounge opens off the Commodore Club, the library is one deck down also on 'A' stairway, and the open-air observation deck below the bridge is two decks up on 'A' stairway.  There's a huge illuminated model of the QM2 behind the bar.

Chart room bar

Located on deck 3 near the Britannia restaurant, this is the largest and busiest of the QM2's bars.  Click the photo for larger image.

Golden Lion Pub

Located on deck 2 near the Britannia restaurant, this is not only a good place for a pint of London Pride, you can take meals here too, with pub-style food such as fish and chips or sausages and mash.  Click the photo for larger image.

Carinthia Lounge

Located on deck 7 next to the Kings Court buffet with doors opening onto the promenade deck.  This is a good place to sit, read, and have a tea or coffee.  You may also find some complimentary snacks or soup here too, at the kitchen counter.  Click the photo for larger image.

Afternoon tea in the Queen's Room

Every day at around 3.30pm, afternoon tea is served in the Queen's Room, on 2 Deck aft.  A choice of teas comes with daintily-cut sandwiches, scones and cakes, served by stewards in white gloves.  Afternoon tea is included in the fare, but a glass of champagne is extra.

Grill Lounge

The Grill Lounge is a lounge and bar exclusively for passengers travelling in the upmarket staterooms and suites allocated to the Princess and Queen's Grill restaurants.  It's located on 7 Deck aft, directly opposite the entrance to the Queen's Grill and the ship's width away from the entrance to the Princess Grill.  It seemed to be empty most of the time even with the ship sailing full, it's main purpose seems to be drinks before dinner.

Churchill's Cigar Lounge

This is a sealed and specially-ventilated room opening off the starboard side of the Commodore Club.  Here you can order a whisky or cognac and choose from a cigar menu.  The rest of the ship's accommodation is of course non-smoking!

QM2 activities & entertainment

A daily programme for the following day is delivered to your stateroom each evening.  It shows details of the entertainment and activities on board, along with navigational & itinerary information and the opening and closing times of all restaurants, bars and other facilities.  There's an ongoing programme of shows, plays & lectures.  For example, recent crossings featured talks by John Cleese about his work on Monty Python & Fawlty Towers, excellent lectures by an expert on New York skyscrapers, an edited version of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew' and Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of being Earnest'.  The QM2 also features the world's only sea-going planetarium, called the 'Illuminations'.  And of course there are several live bands on board, with dancing every evening, sometimes themed such as the 'Black & White Ball' and 'Ascot Ball'.  If it's disco you prefer, you'll find that in the G32 nightclub.  You'll also find the Canyon Ranch spa on deck 7, offering a wide range of treatments from manicures to massages, Jacuzzis to saunas.  If you want to be bored, you'll have to really work at it.

Library & bookshop

The QM2 has an excellent library - for me, one of its best features - located on 8 deck forward on 'A' stairway directly below the Commodore Club.  You can take out books using your cabin key, or read them in the library, with comfy seats, some with a forward-facing view over the QM2's bows.  The library is open during office hours every day, outside these times the bookshelves are locked but the library itself remains accessible.  As you'd expect, the QM2's library has a particularly good section of books about ocean liners.  Next to the library is a bookshop selling travel guides, QM2 souvenirs & ocean liner/QM2 books.  Click the left-hand photo for larger image .

Swimming pools

The QM2 has several swimming pools.  The most popular (certainly on a transatlantic crossing) is the Pavilion Pool on 12 deck, with sun loungers, two hot tubs, see the photo below.  The roof can slide away when the QM2 visits warmer climates, but it remains closed on the Atlantic.  Towels are provided, there are toilets (visible below behind the two hot tubs) which you can use as changing rooms, or you can change in your cabin and use your bathrobe.  You can see the funnel from the pool through the glass roof, towering above you.  Don't jump when the ship's horns are tested at midday!  There's also a bar here, open at certain times of day.  In addition to this indoor pool there are two outdoor pools on the open decks aft (7 & 8 Deck), one of which is only shallow for kids, the other designated as adults-only.  Click the photo for larger image .

Illuminations

The QM2's Illuminations towards the forward end of Deck 2 can be used as a lecture theatre, cinema or (with an ingenious dome lowered from the ceiling) the world's only ocean-going planetarium.  You'll usually find varying recently-released films shown most evenings, and planetarium sessions at various times on most days.  There's also usually a lecture series or two during each crossing with subjects varying from New York Skyscrapers to pirates on the high seas to the design and build of the QM2.  Click the photo for larger image .

Royal Court Theatre

The QM2's Royal Court Theatre is used for various shows and performances, for example I have seen an interview with John Cleese here, and some stand-up comedy.  Click the photo for larger image .

Spa & gymnasium

The QM2's Canyon Ranch Spa is at the forward end of Deck 7, with with treatment rooms and pool, plus a small beauty salon above on Deck 8.  You can make appointments at the reception desk, treatments & massages are billed to your on-board account.  There's a free-to-use gymnasium at the forward end of Deck 7, pictured below right.

The Cunard heritage trail

The Queen Mary 2 is filled with paintings, information panels and even interactive screens telling the history of Cunard Line, its ships, and the famous people who crossed the Atlantic aboard them.

Travelling with children

You won't be the only family on the QM2, especially on a transatlantic run!  You'll find plenty of entertainment for children in the Play Zone at the aft end of 6 deck.

Arrangements for children & pregnant women on the Queen Mary 2

The play zone & child care.

The Zone is aft on deck 6, staffed by a team of friendly young British-trained nannies.  It has a toddler zone for ages 1-3, a Play Zone for ages 4-6 and The Zone with various computer games and other activities for older kids up to 17.  There's plenty to do, and activities such as treasure hunts or ship tours are organised by the Play Zone team.

Children from 2 to 7 inclusive can be left free of charge with the nannies in the Play Zone during its opening hours, 09:00-12:00, 14:00-17:00, 18:00-24:00 (shorter hours apply on the first and last nights).  In other words, you can sign them into the Play Zone at 9am, pick them up at noon and take them to lunch, sign them back in at 2pm and enjoy an afternoon show, pick them up at 5pm and take them to the children's tea provided in the King's Court 'Chef's Galley' area between 16:30 & 17:30.  Then you can check them back into the Zone at 6pm until midnight, leaving you free to enjoy a formal dinner and evening entertainment while the kids play happily in the Zone and later settle down and fall asleep in front of some cartoons.  Outside the Play Zone, children 1 to 7 must always be accompanied by an adult around the ship.

Children 8 and up to 17 can also use the Zone, signing themselves in and out.  They are free to wander the ship solo.

I suggest calling Cunard to check current childcare arrangements as they tweak them from time to time, but they don't properly explain them on their website - indeed, we didn't know how extensive their childcare facilities were until we we actually on board!

Cabins & dinner sittings

If you have young children, it's worth asking for a cabin towards the stern of the ship.  We were given a stateroom at the extreme forward end of deck 6, whereas the Play Zone is at the extreme aft end of deck 6.  That meant we had to walk a sixth of a mile from cabin to Play Zone to sign the kids in, then a sixth of a mile back again to get changed.  It proved impossible sign the kids in at 6pm when the Zone opens, walk all the way back to the cabin, get changed into formal dress, then walk forward again to the Britannia restaurant for a 6pm sitting. 

From this experience on our outward crossing, we changed our sitting for the return crossing to 8.30pm.  The evening then worked better, although some after-dinner films or shows finished after midnight so could not be attended without leaving early to collect the kids.  The dinner tended to take up much of the evening.  A stateroom near the Zone, and dressing for the 6pm dinner sitting before taking the kids to the Zone, might be the ideal solution, but my wife's and my opinion is divided!

If you've small children, remember to take your folding buggy (stroller).  It's a big ship!

Other useful information

There is no baggage limit on the Queen Mary 2, either in terms of total weight or the number of bags.  You can bring what you like, as long as it all fits in your stateroom.  However, for safe lifting by staff, no one item may exceed 23Kg (50lb).  Bags are taken from you on arrival at the terminal and they reappear in your stateroom on board.  At the end of the crossing, they are transported ashore for you.  See the embarkation & disembarkation arrangements above.  If you plan to go one way by ship, the other by air, one advantage of taking the ship on the return leg is that you can take as much shopping as you like!

Cunard sometimes have to fight off a stuffy image, and it didn't help that until 2013 they had a three-tier dress code as complicated as a Virgin Trains Saver Ticket restriction.  However, they now have just two codes, formal and informal.  One of two dress codes will apply each evening after 6pm in all the main restaurants and bars, although not in the Kings Court buffet restaurant.  You'll be told which dress code applies on which night in if you log on to your voyage personaliser and it's also stated in the daily programme delivered to your stateroom.

Payment on board

Everything on board, including drinks in the bar, books from the bookshop, massages in the spa, purchases in the shops or internet access, is billed to your on board account.  You simply show your cabin card and sign for the payment.  At the end of the crossing, the total is automatically deducted from the credit card you gave them at check-in and you'll get a summary of your account delivered to your stateroom half-way across and at the end of the voyage.  Just be aware that Cunard follow the American practice of quoting you one price but charging you a slightly higher price, as all bar prices shown on the drinks menu have 15% service fee added to them automatically.  As service is then included, there is no need to add a gratuity unless the service has been particularly special. 

Internet & mobile phone access

Internet access is available for a fee throughout the QM2, both in your cabin and in all the public areas including bars but excluding the theatres & restaurants.  It generally works well with good download speeds.  You pre-pay for a bundle of minutes and this is added to your normal on-board account.

2019 prices:  $15 for 30 minutes (= $0.50 per minute), $45 for 120 minutes (= $0.38 per minute) or $80 for 240 minutes (= $0.33 per minute).

You can spend these minutes individually, so for example you can buy 120 minutes and spend them over the course of the whole voyage, logging on to download emails, logging off again to compose replies offline, then logging on again to send, and so only using a few minutes at a time.

To use your own laptop, simply click on the 'Qm2_Guest_internet' internet connection and open a web browser to see the log-in screen.  Register with your name & cabin number on this log-in page and the cost will be billed to your QM2 stateroom account.  If you don't have your own laptop, the Cunard Connexions rooms on deck 2 or the library on deck 8 have self-service internet PCs which you can use for the same rates.  You'll find power sockets for laptops (both British 3-pin and US 110v) in your cabin, and (if you hunt for them) British 3-pin sockets in certain areas of most bars including the Commodore Club on deck 9 forward and the Chart Room on deck 3.  Tip:  I found that the Commodore Lounge on 9 deck was the quietest and nicest place to work, there's a 3-pin power socket near the skirting in the 'bridge wing' far side of the lounge.  Mobile phone access is available on board throughout the crossing, although it isn't cheap, you'll need to ask your phone network for their rates.

The QM2 is entirely non-smoking apart from the open decks and the Churchill Cigar Lounge forward on deck 9 next to the Commodore Club.

As well as a hotel-style pay-per-item laundry service for laundry collected from your stateroom, you'll find a small free-of-charge self-service laundrette on cabin decks 4, 5, 6 & 8, see the photo below.  These have washers, driers, free detergent sachets, iron & ironing board.  This came in very handy on both our outward and return crossings on a 7-week trip to the States, as we arrived in the US with bags full of clean clothes and arrived back in Blighty without a huge laundry backlog.  Also useful for ironing dress shirts that have become creased in the baggage.

Taking your dog

Yes, you can take your dog across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2, but they will be kept in the ship's kennels on 12 Deck during the crossing and (except for guide dogs) are not allowed in the public areas.  Contact Cunard for details.  There's an exercise area next to the kennels.

Visiting the QM2's bridge

There are no official bridge visits, but there is a viewing room behind the bridge with two large soundproofed windows so you can see what's going on.  It's normally open 09:00-16:00 on sea days, although it's closed in bad weather.  The entrance is on the port (left-hand) side of the ship on deck 12, accessed via 'A' stairway.  No photography is allowed now - the photos below were taken in 2010 although little has changed here.

Which is better, a westbound or an eastbound transatlantic crossing ?

If you really haven't got the time or money to go both ways by sea, you might want to go one-way by sea and the other by air.  You can often find one-way QM2 fares with a 'free' air fare in the other direction.  If you're British and a shopaholic, the obvious advantage of going out westbound by air and back eastbound by sea is that you can shop in New York and bring back as much as you like, as there are no baggage limits on the Queen Mary 2.  And you'll have the leisurely voyage back home to look forward to at the end of your trip.  However, for my money (not being a great shopper), westbound is much better.  There's the growing anticipation as you near America at the end of an outward westbound crossing, there's the significant advantage of 25-hour days as the clocks are put back on 5 of the 7 nights due to the time difference, and best of all the spectacular arrival into New York harbour in the early morning, with that Manhattan skyline lit by the rising sun.  When you're enjoying your evenings on the town (or rather, the ship) until late at night, the 23-hour days on an eastbound crossing as the clocks are put forward can be a killer!  On the other hand, if I were an American heading for Europe, I might well be tempted to head out by sea eastbound, returning west by air.

Forum for cruise reviews, questions & the latest advice

A good place to find advice & reviews about the Queen Mary 2 and other ships, and to post your own questions and reviews of your trip, is the online cruise forum at www.cruise.co.uk .

About Queen Mary 2

The QM2 was built in 2003 at St Nazaire in France, by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, the same shipyard that built the famous French Line ships Ile de France , Normandie and France .  The Queen Mary 2 is no longer the biggest passenger ship in the world in terms of Gross Tonnage, as the Queen Mary 2's 148,528 tons have now been exceeded, first by Royal Caribbean's 154,000-ton Freedom of the Seas in 2006, and then by the 225,000-ton Oasis of the Seas in 2009.  However, the QM2 remains the tallest, longest and widest ship ever built, at 1,132 feet long and 148 feet wide.  For comparison, the original Queen Mary is just 81,237 tons, 1019 feet long, 118 feet wide, and the Titanic was only 46,000 tons, 883 feet long, 93 feet wide.  Queen Mary 2 uses an unconventional propulsion system:  Four large diesel engines and two gas turbines generate electricity, and this powers four electrically-powered propellers each housed in a 'pod' attached under her stern.  The rear two pods swivel to steer the ship, so the QM2 does not have a conventional rudder.  The propellers face forwards rather than backwards, and give her a top speed of around 30 knots (1 knot = 1.1 mph), although she normally crosses the Atlantic at 20 to 25 knots.  See Queen Mary 2 Wikipedia entry .

Souvenirs & books about the QM2

Buy a superb model of the Queen Mary 2:   The souvenir shop on board QM2 on deck 3 has a couple of models of the Queen Mary 2, but neither (in my opinion) are particularly well detailed, and yet they aren't cheap, either.  If you become a QM2 aficionado during your crossing (highly likely!) and want a top-quality model of the QM2 to sit on your shelves or desk, I highly recommend the 1:1250 Queen Mary 2 model at www.galerie-maritim.de .  It is hand painted in die-cast metal.  You can buy either a full hull version in a glass case, or a waterline model without a case.  The models are small enough not to take up too much room, yet are superbly detailed.  They are very expensive, but you won't be disappointed!

Books about the Queen Mary 2:

The book by John Maxtone-Graham is beautifully written and illustrated, a great souvenir, search for it at Amazon.com (USA) or Amazon.co.uk (UK).  It's also available in the bookshop on board the QM2.

But by far the best book about the design, construction and operation of the QM2 is written by its designer, Stephen Payne, "RMS Queen Mary 2 Manual: An Insight into the Design, Construction and Operation of the World's Largest Ocean Liner", buy it at www.amazon.co.uk (UK) or www.amazon.com (USA).  Highly recommended!

QM2 video guide

Alternatives to the queen mary 2, passenger-carrying freighters, hotels & accommodation, hotels in new york.

New York has hundreds of hotels, the two most famous being the New York Plaza Hotel opposite Central Park and the Waldorf-Astoria on 4th Avenue.  I've never stayed at the Plaza, but have to say I was not impressed by the rooms at the Waldorf, on either occasion I stayed there.  Here's my top tip for New York:

The Algonquin Hotel

The Algonquin is New York's oldest operating hotel, opened in 1902, and a designated New York City Historic Landmark.  Perfectly located in mid-town Manhattan, a block or two from Times Square one way and Grand Central the other, with a lovely wood-panelled lobby and even its own hotel cat, which you may find wandering the corridors or sitting on the reception desk.  To check prices & book, click here .  For the Algonquin's history see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Hotel .

In Los Angeles:  Hotel Queen Mary, Long Beach

If you get as far as Los Angeles after your transatlantic crossing, it has to be the Hotel Queen Mary , doesn't it?  She makes a good base to explore the Los Angeles - Hollywood - Disneyland area.  The original Queen Mary of 1936 has been permanently moored at Long Beach in California since the late 1960s, some 25 miles from Los Angeles Union Station (about a $90 taxi ride), and it's undoubtedly the most fascinating place to stay in LA.  The hotel consists of most of the Queen Mary's original first class cabins, and there are plenty of restaurants and bars available on board, too.  Hotel guests can more or less wander the ship at will, and even sign up for ghost hunts at night on board (and yes, from my own experience there is definitely something going on aboard that beautiful but ageing ship!).  Wood panelled art deco interiors have been preserved, although a few modern items have been installed such as televisions, and (as we worked out from a historic deck plan) in some cases two of the Queen Mary's original cabins have been knocked into one hotel suite by turning one of the en suite bathrooms into a connecting corridor.  She is one of the most atmospheric places I have ever stayed.

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