As talked about beforehand, my Christmas reward to the youngsters was a visit to New York Metropolis! And we’ve simply returned, it was a lot enjoyable! And I’m fairly pleased with how we spent 4 nights and 5 days there comparatively inexpensively. (I imply, it was downtown Manhattan over New Years Eve.)
Price of the journey
Let’s break down the prices of the journey:
- Lodge – Hyatt downtown Manhattan simply two blocks from Instances Sq., two rooms – $3,998
- Prepare – Amtrak roundtrip from our tiny city to Penn Station (bought 7 tickets however solely used 6) – $1,876
- Transportation – 2 Uber rides, one to the resort from Penn Station and one again to Amtrak on the day of departure – $57
- Meals – budgeted $200 per day, however was capable of maintain it a bit decrease – $679
- Leisure – Large Bus metropolis tour, 1 day go – $270
- Refund utilizing journey insurance coverage – capable of get a portion of the prices of the journey again since my ex didn’t go – ($400)
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Complete price: $6,480
How we stored prices down
I understand that is nonetheless some huge cash. We’re extraordinarily blessed to have been in a position to do that and money stream it. (That is particularly point out in a position since my ex had dedicated to serving to financially with the journey and ended up not doing that so it fell to me.)
However we did maintain it below management with a few issues (and granted this works as a result of my children are older and all work:)
- I let children learn about this current virtually a yr in the past. This gave them time to verify they might get the break day work, most of them paid, and to save lots of spending cash.
- Expectations have been set early on that I might solely be overlaying one meal a day. Breakfast was included with the room after which we deliberate a “linner” collectively as household relying on the times itinerary.
- Leisure was chosen to present us probably the most bang for our buck. The on and off possibility of the Metropolis Bus tour allowed us to see all the foremost highlights with out the transportation prices.
- Googling “free issues to do in NYC” and “low cost locations to eat in NYC” rather a lot over the yr proved to be invaluable.
- Good tennis footwear have been a should have for all as a result of we walked and walked and walked. That is my favourite strategy to see any metropolis and the youngsters are used to it. We see extra, get extra picture ops (social media children, you already know?), and save a ton on transportation prices with 6 of us.
Do it once more?
I requested the youngsters the primary evening at dinner about their opinion of the practice journey. We have been on there for 17 hours straight with a 1 hour break in DC. It was unanimous that practice journey is nice. Yeah!
Everybody had a good time in NYC. We spent about 1/2 of every day collectively touring and consuming after which everybody had ample free time to do their very own factor. Win-win! I’m already engaged on a plan for a Christmas reward journey for subsequent yr. And I feel the youngsters are excited in regards to the chance.
Are you able to see the Statue of Liberty within the background?
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