Mistakes are for the Best while in New York
After a relatively comfortable flight, we arrived in New York City. Our plane had left on time, which was an added pleasure for our trip. We hailed a taxi and wanted to take in the sights while heading to our hotel. We only travelled for about 10-minutes when we hit New York’s infamous gridlock, it was really a gridlock. What should’ve taken us only 25 minutes from La Guardia airport, took us a nightmarish hour of horns, fumes and heat. We finally arrive to our hotel and our spirits lifted as we could tell we were in an excellent location. After we paid off our taxi driver, we entered the lobby and proceeded to check-in, we were all ready anticipating a nice hot shower and room service. But, we were informed that we had no reservations and that the hotel was booked full! I even showed them the print out of my confirmation number from the Internet. This didn’t help a bit. The staff was attentive though and after about a half-an-hour wait as they searched on-line , found us a room on this site: http://www.nyhotels.net at the Plaza hotel, which was right by Central Park!
After another 45 minutes in heavy traffic, which later we found out was due to the UN has something going on and all the roads around it were closed and traffic was diverted, we arrived at our even better hotel, for the same price we were quoted at the other hotel. We had to admit that by them losing our reservation was a great benefit to us, because the hotel was gorgeous, comfortable and even more centrally located that the one we booked.
It was now time to explore New York! Of course we started with Times Square, Central Park, The Statue of Liberty (only from the Staten Island Ferry), a Broadway show, and we ate our way to everywhere we went. New York City was everything we imagined, but so much more. The noise, smells and all the people here seem so much more alive, so much more exciting. No wonder this town never sleeps, there’s to much to do.