My NYC trip ... Thanks Travel Board

Y'all want reviews in return for Travel Board help ... here is mine although it was only a trip to NYC and nothing really fancy or exotic or adventurous to some but to us it was awesome. No pics as my dtr is in most of them and well, you can google what you want to see in NYC.

My daughter and I took a girls vacation to NYC 7/13-7/18. Travel board was helpful in many ways.

Flew Delta from Lafayette to NYC without a hitch .. worth the extra money to stay close to home rather than MSY to get the dates and times I wanted although CuseTiger was awesome in helping me look for the best deal. Stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on 8th Avenue -- was nice and clean and I had a great rate with AAA but via Hilton.com. Was a fantastic location for what we needed although some did recommend we not stay in TS.

*Day 1 Went to the Rockettes performance and Radio City Music Hall were great -- bought tickets from the Rockettes site and were in Mezz 6 -- dtr who is a dancer LOVED the seats; got a discounted tour ticket with purchase. Tour was pretty neat.

*Day 2 Went to Live with Kelly .. for anyone wanting to do this (my dtr's request) keep checking to see when the ticket request opens for your desired date. For us it was a month before -- we got waitlisted but keep checking and you may end up with a PRIORITY ticket (150 of these are given is what we were told) or GENERAL (120 of these are give). All of priority will get in ... all of general may or may not. Our day, people with NO tickets showed up, got a number and were admitted after everyone else with tickets ... studio wasn't full. We got there at 6:15 or so and oh that was too early. But it worked out -- there's a food truck that is complimentary except for water and juice I believe.

Went to see Something Rotten Thursday -- got orchestra tickets from TKTS booth at about 545 and were in the theater at 645 (had to eat in between). Tickets were half price and the performance was GREAT. (We actually know and are really good friends with the guys who wrote its Uncle)

*Day 3 we went to Carlos Bakery -- thanks a TON to Quail Man who got us there .. SUPER easy to navigate the system. No line at the original one in Hoboken -- they said there are no more lines as there are more stores but we wanted the original. Oh and GET THE BISCOTTI!!!

Walked up Brooklyn Bridge (turned around halfway) but not all the way across and dear Lord watch out for the bikes! Little Italy, Chinatown, Soho ... that was a lot of walking.

That night went to concert at Madison Square Garden .. tickets through Ticketmaster. Lower level, row 9 section 108 maybe?? Kept checking closer to the event and TM kept releasing even tickets so we didn't have to pay resale prices.

*Day 4 -- Slept in a bit and then rented bikes from Blazing Saddles on the Hudson River -- this was SO fun until we got lost when the bike path wasn't as clearly marked in Battery Park. Nice people helped us out and we made it -- paid $5 to have the bike returned to the starting point by them. It was about 5 miles but we wanted to visit where we ended up (near Brooklyn Bridge).

Yankees game that afternoon -- the subway is full on the way to/from but it wasn't awful. Stadium is awesome -- sat in 419 and it was great especially when it started raining.

*Day 5 .. Catholic mass at St. Malachy's near our hotel. It was my birthday so we went to Central Park -- rented bikes again and oh my the people attacking you and telling you you're getting screwed price wise by the others. Had a good time but I'm here to tell you CP is NOT FLAT!! The north end for this Louisiana girl was not easy but I was shot from walking idk how many miles and the bike was sort of crap. Carousel, zoo -- small but nice enough.

*Final day spent all of about 30 minutes at the Met .. just didn't have time but what we did see was amazing. Suggested donation is $25 and they take what you give them with no comments whatsoever.

We used Uber, taxi, metro, pedi cab and my 2 sore legs lol. Had a great time -- spent most money on entertainment as we did some pretty "big things". We did split almost all of our meals as we like to eat but can't always eat a ton and we always had PLENTY. Several times local people saw us trying to figure things out and were very helpful -- guess we were obviously tourists.

We had already been on a previous trip with a school trip to 9/11 museum and memorial (although we did visit the memorial again briefly this time), Top of the Rock, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island so we didn't do those things again. The next time I'd love to go through Queens, Brooklyn and maybe do one of the double decker tours. I was ready/not ready to come home as reality bites.

Thanks to everyone on the here that answered my 50 million questions!