Context: I (19F) and my family are planning to spend a week in New York from June 20 - June 27, and I was tasked with creating the itinerary. For context, we're five in total, and we decided to stay in an Airbnb in Newark, NJ, just because hotel prices in NYC were an arm and a leg. I ran the itinerary through ChatGPT, and it said I had too much on it. So I want to ask y'all, is this too ambitious, okay, or is there room for more?
EDIT: I used GoCity to help plan, and we decided to use the 6-item explorer pass
EDIT2: Ended up booking a hotel in queens (Jamaica) and theres five of us on this trip
OFFICIAL ITINERARY FOR NYC TRIP (JUNE 20 - JUNE 27)
NOTES
- Airbnb to Park Avenue Station (leads to Penn Station): 6 min walk
- Highlighted places for BigBus tours are the only places from the tour we’re disembarking to see
Saturday, June 20th (Departure)
- Train departs @ 10:13 am
- Arrival at NYC train hall @ 8:35 pm
- Airbnb check-in time: anytime after 3 pm
- Take subway to Airbnb
- Penn Station to Park Avenue Station
- Head to grocery stores to fill Airbnb
Sunday, June 21st
- Church service @ 9:15 am
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) @ 1 pm (Commute from Airbnb: ~ 1 hr, 20 min)
- Rockefeller Center @ 5 pm
- Top of the Rock
- See Empire State Building
- Top of the Rock
- Time Square at night
Monday, June 22nd
- Embassy (to get international passport; usually takes till 3 pm) @ 9:30 am (Commute from Airbnb: ~ 1 hr, 20 min)
- Madame Tussauds New York @ 3 pm
- Broadway @ 7 pm
ALT Monday, June 22nd (For Brother and Dad)
- TBD
- Chim Chim Bakery
- Madame Tussauds New York @ 3 pm
- Anything after up to y’all
Tuesday, June 23rd
- Aquarium @ 10 am (Commute from Airbnb: 1 hr)
- American Dream Mall (remainder of day)
- Nickelodeon Dream World
Wednesday, June 24th
- RiseNY @ 10 am (Commute from Airbnb: ~ 1 hr, 10 min)
- RiseNY to M&M World (5 min walk)
- BigBus (RedRoute) Duration: 1hr 30 min; Frequency: every 30 mins (@ 12 pm)
- M&M's World
- One Times Square
- Empire State Building / KoreaTown
- Flatiron District
- SoHo
- Chinatown / Little Italy
- Brooklyn Bridge
- Wall Street / Statue of Liberty
- Trinity Church
- World Trade Center
- Chelsea / Pier 57
- Hudson Yards
- Circle Line Sightseeing
- Brooklyn Bridge (both ways combined: 2 hrs)
- DUMBO
- Staten Island Ferry
- Statue of Liberty
Thursday, June 25th
- Begin BigBus @ 10 am (Commute from Airbnb to HopeSculpture[stop]: ~ 1 hr, 10 min)
- BigBus (BlueRoute) Duration: 1hr 15 min; Frequency: every 60 mins
- Hope Sculpture
- One Times Square
- Rockefeller Center
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (@ 1 pm)
- Central Park Zoo (for 1.5 hrs) (@ 11 am)
- Columbus Circle
- Carnegie Hall
- Central Park while at zoo
Friday, June 26th
- American Museum of Natural History @ 10 am (leave around 12/1230)
- Luna Park (Coney Islands) @ 2 pm
Saturday, June 27th
- Airbnb check-out time: 10 am prompt or prior
- Train departs @ 7:04 am
- Arrive home @ 5:22 pm