re: Honeymoon question, 1 night in NYC before Bermuda

We loved doing the double decker red bus thing that drives around NYC constantly and will drop you off at everything touristy. You can get off and get on at your leisure. Not sure if their operaring hours will work with your timeline but is recommend it if they do. Would be much cheaper than a car service.

I recommend The Lotte Palace. Right across the street from St Patrick Cathedral. Gossip Girl was filmed there as well.

The Lotte

Spend plenty of time giving her a little of the old in-out. Try to further impress her by winning some three card monte. Use any left over money to buy her a fake Rolex from a guy on the street.

I would not over-engineer the one day, You have less than 24 hours and have to plan on delays here and there.

I would have your driver take you to
9/11 memorial
Times Square for a picture
Maybe Rockefeller Center
Then go walk around Central Park some

After all that you are going to be around dinner time. There will be somewhere decent to eat at or near your hotel, do not be insist on going to some place miles away.

Relax and take it easy, marriage and life gets harder after the honeymoon.

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9/11 memorial

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What better way to celebrate being newly married than to visit the site where thousands died in a terrorist attack 24 years ago.

Go eat at John's Pizzeria on Bleecker St in the village. Excellent pizza and a nostalgic old joint, lots of celeb pics on wall etc.

Don’t try running all over the city. Walk through Central Park, sip drinks at the boat house, maybe add something cultural near by (Guggenheim, MET, or Museum of Natural History) if you like those things, cocktails at a nice bar or roof in the park area and a nice dinner. Relax, take it easy and enjoy the time together.

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Any advice or should I go with

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We're limited on options of what we can do in NYC based on the timeline, the best suggestion I've considered is to hire a driver be contracted for 9 hours to take us around, see the sights we can, or drop us off and pick us up if we want to walk around anywhere, like in Times Square. I want to plan something cool for my future wife, she loves Broadway but we can't make the showtimes we looked into.

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There are multiple double-decker bus services which do hop-on/hop-off service to multiple spots around the city and you can get a 24-hour pass for them. The tour guides on the busses are usually paid via tips so they are either really good or they don't last long (also, they will offer some el-cheapo earbuds but you can always use your own).

These bus services are probably the absolute best way to see as much of the city in the shortest amount of time possible.

Here's a few iconic things you might be able to squeeze into a single day using a double-decker bus line (the wife and I have ridden all of the Gray Line busses in NYC, highly recommend but I can't find their double-decker tours on their site any longer):

-Central Park
----It's pretty big so it can be an all-day visit if you lose time just walking around. The Lake (yes, that's the name) is probably the most iconic of the water features of the park. You're staying nearby so you can do this one sans bus.

-Statue of Liberty
----You can see it from a bus, but for the best angle you should take the Staten Island Ferry (it's free) to Staten Island and back. This is such a popular thing that all you really need to do to make this trek is just follow the crowd as it boards one ferry, then leaves at Staten Island to get on the return ferry.

-Empire State Building
----You can take the tour to go up to the top, but that can take a while depending on crowds. If you're an LSU fan, the NYC LSU pub/bar (Legends) is right across the street behind the ESB.

-Times Square
----It's one of the most iconic places. If you get hungry, I recommend the iconic eatery of Junior's. There is a location right off Broadway (West 45th) and the cheesecake is stupidly good. It's a mass-dining kind of place, so if you want something a little fancier, Carmine's is just a block over.

This is a fairly common route for all the double-decker busses. If you do one of these and don't really have any specific sites you want to get off the bus at, I would recommend riding the full route first to get an idea of what places you want to get off on for the next go-round (full route is about 90 minutes).

Dude you need to calm down. Just hang out with her, get a nice meal, and have sex.