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​​Just doing the activities that we did we saved at least US$383 PER PERSON !!!!!!! ​​We purchased ours passes in the 2019 Black Friday sale. then Covid hit and we were unable to use our pass til 2023 . The wonderful staff still honoured our pass . How amazing is that !!!!

​​alot of the tours do NOT let you book online so you chance getting in when you turn up at the ticket counters. For example city cruises, unlimited bike tour in Central Park , 9/11 memorial. So If you have planned an itinerary you chance missing out on this particular tours / activitiy altogether. Hopefully NYPass work with their providers to stop this happening in the future

​​Check opening and closing days and times on individual tourist website . There were a couple of errors regarding opening hours on the NY pass site ​​ you do Need to pre book a lot of tours following direct links to websites. Some require you to leave credit card details just to confirm and will only charge you if you do not turn up . If you need to cancel you must give 24 hours notice

​​Empire state - gets you to 80th and 86th floor. CAN pre book using a link and code with your NY pass ​🙂​ no express lift pass or 102nd floor included in pass. Can upgrade these at try ticket office on site

​​Top of the rock - NY pass gets you access to all 3 observation levels BUT you CANNOT pre book using a code. (Doesn’t include fast entry or lift). You have to line up the day before or the morning of to get your allocated time slot . Ridiculous!

​​Hop on hop off bus - You need to show your NY pass to colleague on the street who then provides you with a ticket. Only at located stops 1,2,3 and 9 ​​ Broadway and Times Square - pre book on their website

​​St Pat’s cathedral - download the tour / audio app to your phone. Dont forget your earplugs / headphones. Present your pass at the gift shop

​​Intrepid sea, air and space museum - You are unable to make a reservation but you will not have any issue entering. ​​ Harlem gospel tour - pre book on their website

​​yankee stadium - New York Passes are redeemed on a first come first served basis onsite only and subject to availability for Classic Tours.

​​high line chelsea meatpacking tour - pre book on tour website

​​Landmark cruise - The NY Pass must be redeemed in person at the Pier 83 Ticket Office located on West 42nd Street & 12th Avenue. The pass can be redeemed 1 hour prior to the chosen departure or 24 hours in advance. You will have standard seats and you are unable to upgrade your tickets to Premier with the NY Pass

​​Statue of liberty - pre book on website. NY Pass doesnt include pedestal OR Crown. You will need to book separately if you want access to the pedestal or crown

​​one world observatory - stop by the Box Office located at the street level entry of the Observatory the day you are interested in visiting us. The New York Pass must be redeemed in person, unfortunately it cannot be redeemed ahead of time or online. you may upgrade your passes to priority tickets upon arrival you can pay the price difference

​​9/11 memorial and museum - no tour of the museum included. You cannot pre book museum tour. You need to line up the day of and present your pass

​​Hamilton tour - NY pass actually gives you the code on the website

​​Catacombs - pre book on tour website

​​Little Italy tour - pre book on tour website ​​ Brooklyn bridge & dumbo tour - pre book on tour website

​​NYC slavery & underground railway tour - pre book on tour website

​​Bus tour of bronx, brooklyn and queens - pre book on tour website

​​Harbour lights tour - same as Landmark cruise

​​unlimited biking tour central park - you cannot make reservations with the New York Pass. It is first come first serve. suggest arriving as early as possible to get an on the spot reservation for any tour on that day. Bring a valid ID and credit card with your passes

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Bought the 3 Day Pass with the City Sights Hop on Hop Off package and then realized I made a mistake. You can never do all the attractions in 3 days in the bus. The hours of operation are not even mentioned for the different attractions. Also, several attractions give you tickets when you show the new york pass and on the tickets (e.g. Statue of Liberty Cruise), it may say that you need to use the tickets within 3 days of issuance of the tickets. So, if you knew the validity period for the tickets, maybe you could plan accordingly. Some attractions would want to charge for a child 3 yrs and older whereas New York Pass applies to children 4 years and older. This is a discrepancy. The City Sights bus does take time because of the traffic. At the attractions stop, when we waited for the next bus, would not always be easy because the later buses maybe full to the brim. I ended up trying the subway train and immediately liked its efficacy and seat availability even at peak hours. Plus the train sometimes takes you direct to the attraction e.g. at the NY Museum for Natural History - train C has a stop in the basement of this building. Do not just focus only on the downtown loop which essentially is a concrete jungle. Try the uptown loop which has got some amazing museums and the Central Park. The NY Museum for Natural History would itself need at least a full day to go through thoroughly. The NY Pass does not cover the 4D show at Mme Tussauds nor does it cover the IMAX shows at the NY Museum for Natural History. If you take the Circle Line Cruise that takes you also near the Liberty Island, there is no need to actually take a separate ferry to the Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty unless you have a separate monument or crown access ticket. The City Sights bus guides are a great bunch - entertaining as well as informative. I stayed at the Times Square at BW plus President Hotel - a mistake, although the location was excellent. I should have rather stayed in uptown hotel close to a subway and then lay out a plan. Seeing NYC on foot is a great idea if you have the time. Food in NYC hotels is not cheap, hence either do research on restaurants or pack yourself a robust food package in a cooler to sustain you for food at least once in a day. Or the cheapest option would be fast food. But do not try those stalls on the street corners that sell you plates for $6 a piece. We tried one and swore we will never have it again after dumping half the plate away. At 777 8th Avenue is where I got the NY Pass activated by a person who seemed to be not knowing what he was doing. I had to go back in twice - once to get the City Sights map and then to get the NY Pass GuideBook. My advice would be buy the new york city pass and take the subway to visit these on a...

Interested in spending more than $200 for 5 days of sightseeing in New York? Think twice! I think it's not for everyone. You should ask yourself if you really want to see 9 different art museums in the few days although it is definately a great list to get inspired by. But then you might learn that instead of paying 30 or 40 dollars (i cant remember) for the MoMA, the Met only gives you a suggestion of what to pay (of course you can pay less). And if it's not for the MoMa you came to NYC for then there's an alternative. With the MoMA PS1 we discovered that it's not always accessible to normal visitors. Besides being closed on tuesdays and wednesdays, it's likely to have special venues that cost extra money. Which brings me to the wide range of tours you can take. A few times we discovered a little too late that this particular tour only takes place on a friday morning, 11 am or so. Pretty much all of them need extra reservation and even that approch could still leave us without an answer.

Meaning: If you are interested in taking these theme tours, plan them in advance and plan them well. If you are, like my friend an i were, happy to be spontaneous in this vibrating city, then half of what the New ork pass offers is not for you. We had maybe 6 tours we wanted to go on, in the end we managed to take one, the rockefeller tour (which is a good one btw!). It is great to have the choice between different bike rentals and city cruises but in the end - do you want to take 6 different cruises in a week? Of course this is not intended but imagine yourself going on a cruise one evening, doing two or three museums, a bike rental for half a day and the empire state building observatory you shouldn't reach the price of the New York Pass and you'll find enough other things to do that aren't that expensive. Btw, to get to the top of the Empire State building you have to stand in like 10 different lines and your Pass is not helping you at all to be faster than the rest.

The hop-on hop-off bus collaboration is a nice thing. Although we figured paying $30 dollars for 7 days unlimited subway, train and bus transportation and the buses in Manhattan going slow enough for you to do a little sight-seeing that wasn't a big plus. At one time we even had to hop off the bus because the guide spoke so incomprehensibly and still too loud to ignore him.

I bet if money isn't a problem the New York Pass gives you a lot options, still drawing your attention to all 10 % discounts whether it's on shopping, eating, seeing.. I personally wouldnt get one again, although i had a wonderful in New York where time is just running through...