New York

[MsSquiz]

DH and I are thinking about a trip to New York at some point this year. Originally it was going to be September in honour my DM's 60th (she died last year after a short terminal illness and we always said we would go together)

But the more I thought about it, the more I thought going in December would be better (everything Christmassy and festive), but would it be too busy and full on?

Would November be better? Less full on?

Also looking for tips, places to visit, eat, hidden gems and the obvious places?

I've never been DH went about 10 years ago with an ex.
Into shopping, usual tourist stuff, movies, food, maybe some kind of sporting thing for DH

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I'd love to go to New York at Christmas (been in the summer) but I think it's very expensive. November might be better. They'll have Thanksgiving and things will probably be gearing up for Christmas anyway. Think the weather can be unpredictable though so September might be better if you want to do all the tourist things that weather might impact on.

We went in may and loved the stardust diner so much. Top of the Rockefeller tower was brill at night

I travel to New York a lot and it is very busy at Christmas. I love wandering around Soho and NoHo in the less busy months... very cool and chilled vibe. I think November would be better- check when the Christmas lights go up then visit as soon as you can after that. But if you aren’t that into Christmas lights then any other time of year is fabulous.

It will be xmassy (and busy!) in both Nov and Dec, but it's a nice time of year to see it. Then again, September is lovely too, still lovely and warm, but not blistering heat like in summer and the parks are beautiful colours..

We went early January this year and it was incredibly cold! Our visit coincided with the 'snow bomb' which caused a state of emergency to be declared in NYC. It was -17-20 and too cold to do any of the outdoors activities like skating or anything which queues outside.

I bought a good pair of snow boots but my husband didn't until our second last day and that was quite limiting as we couldn't spend that long outside.

I think we are seeing more extreme weather each year.

It was however lovely to walk through Central Park in the snow!!