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Activities

Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
Broadway shows
Shopping
World Class Restaurants
Circle Line Cruises / 2-Hour Harbour Tour
The Bronx Zoo

Points of Interest

Battery Park
Central Park & Strawberry Fields
Times Square
Fifth Avenue – Museum Mile
South Street Seaport

Districts

Greenwich Village
Soho
Chinatown
Consult our section “Manhattan Neighborhood at a Glance”

Monuments & Architecture

Brooklyn Bridge
Chrysler Building
Empire State Building
Observatory and SkyRide
Flatiron Building
Grand Central Terminal
Lincoln Centre
Rockefeller Centre
St-Patrick’s Cathedral
St-John de Divine Church
Statue of Liberty
United Nations

Museums

American Museum of Natural History
Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art

Off the beaten track

Take a day tour to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Both offer exciting options for day excursions from Manhattan.

With a city this size and 5 burroughs, each with a distinct feel and energy, there is a treasure behind every corner. Go out exploring and you'll surely discover new ones on you own. See Alio's tips for some of our favourite spots.

Want to try something a little different, try an off-Broadway production. These hits of tomorrow cost but a fraction of their Broadway counter parts.

One island, a true melting pot of people, cultures, art, history and so much more.

Midtown

Midtown is the center of many visitors' trips to New York City. Wander the streets and discover the beautifully restored Grand Central Terminal, the Chrysler Building, the United Nations complex, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Trump Tower. And what says New York better than Fifth Avenue stores? Midtown also includes the revitalized Times Square and the Theater District, where world-famous Broadway productions wow audiences nightly.

Upper East Side

From the world famous Plaza Hotel at the edge of Central Park to the top of Museum Mile at El Museo del Barrio, this is the city's Gold Coast. The neighborhood air is perfumed with the scent of old money, conservative values, and glamorous sophistication, with Champagne corks popping and high society puttin' on the Ritz. Shop the afternoon away at Bloomingdale's and the elegant shops of Madison Avenue, then make your way up 5th avenue to discover some of the best museums in the world including: the Frick, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, Guggenheim and many more.

Union Square, Flatiron District and Chelsea

As Broadway marches north and west across Manhattan it forms a series of squares beginning with Union Square at 14th Street. The Union Square neighborhood is a thriving cultural, business, educational and health care hub. Throughout Manhattan and beyond, the vibrant community is known as the Heart of Off-Broadway and is celebrated for its top-notch restaurants, diverse retailers, excellent universities and hospitals, and one of the city's most popular parks.

Chelsea, once a neighborhood past it's prime, is now Manhattan's hotspot for late hour clubbing. New upscale lofts and trendy eateries are springing up everywhere.

At the very end of the neighborhood on 34th street, why not take the time to take the elevator up to the Empire State Building or take in a New York Knocks basketball game at Madison Square Gardens?

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village - also known as the West Village - is more upscale than the East Village and is the original corner of cool. This part of town has been home to artists and writers, nonconformists, entertainers, intellectuals, and bohemians since the turn of the 20th century. Downtown charm is personified in lots of low-rise townhouses, thumbnail size gardens, secret courtyards, and a wacky serpentine layout of streets. At night, Greenwich Village comes alive with sounds from late-night coffeehouses, cafés, experimental theaters, and music clubs. The Village is home to a large community of gays and lesbians. Across 7th Avenue is Christopher Street, site of a historic clash (in front of the Stonewall bar) in 1969 between city police and gay men, marking the beginning of the gay rights movement.

SoHo

Within only a quarter of a square mile, SoHo has an estimated 250 art galleries, four museums, nearly 200 restaurants, and 100 stores. The blocks south of Houston (pronounced HOW-ston) and north of Canal streets are home to the city's largest concentration of the cast-iron fronted buildings, built as warehouses and manufacturing spaces, but converted to living spaces, called "lofts," for artists and sculptors who appreciated the larger spaces. These huge, 19th-century architectural gems (Victorian Gothic, Italianiate, and neo-Grecian among them) are prized by preservationists and the well-heeled bohemians of SoHo who call the neighborhood home.

Chinatown and Little Italy

South of Canal Street lies bustling Chinatown, which has over the years expanded into the Lower East Side and Little Italy. The largest Asian community in North America can be found among the narrow streets between Worth and Hester and East Broadway and West Broadway; its main street is Canal Street. Canal Street is a bargain hunters delight. Make your way through the Saturday afternoon crowds and haggle for everything and anything.

The heart of Little Italy is Mulberry Street. The street is only open to pedestrian traffic and classic italian trattorias abound.

Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan (or Downtown), where the East and Hudson rivers meet, is where New York City began; it was also the nation's first capital. The heart of it all is the area clustered around Wall Street - originally a walled fortress. Titanic edifices such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank buildings line the streets here. Another famous landmark is the Trinity Church/St-Paul's Chapel, a national landmark built in 1766, featuring one of the oldest and most beautiful cemetaries in the US. At the bottom end, you will find Battery Park. Tourists find their way down here as it marks the departure point for the Statue of Liberty Ferry and the Staten Island Ferry.

Finally, the most visited site in this neighborhood is the site of the World Trade Center Memorial. Located on the shores of the Hudson River, a brand new development is slowly taking shape. A memorial to mark the 9/11 tragedy, accompanied by the construction of the tallest Skyscraper in the world. Construction will begin soon.

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Supersaver Package includes:

• round trip transportation by motor coach from Montréal
• hotel accomodation for 2 or 3 nights at the hotel of your choice
• transfer to your hotel upon arrival
• services of a bilingual professional guide
• A metrocard Funpass providing one day unlimited travel on the NYC subway and buses.
• walking tour of Times Square and the Theatre District
• discount coupons for Broadway shows, Macy's department store
• and an official Map of New York City
• optional activities payable on site (City tour, Empire State Building);
• all taxes.
  Tips are not included in the price of the package.

Upcoming departures

Friday (New York)

• Arrive in New York between 07:00 and 08:00.
• Transfer to your hotel.
• Hotel rooms are not guaranteed before 16:00 except for the Edison Hotel where check in is 15:00.
  The Bellman will store your luggage in the meantime. There is a fee for this service.
• Walking tour of the Theatre District and Times Square. Depart at 09:00 from the Edison Hotel.
• Available locally: Entrance ticket for the Empire State Building Observatory at a special rate. Only $15 USD per ticket.

Saturday (New York)

• 4 hour city tour with a bilingual local guide.
  Departure at 09:00 from Edison Hotel.
  Price : US $20 per person, payable on site.

Sunday (New York / Longueuil / Montréal)

• Departure at 13:30 from Edison Hotel.
• Stop en route at a restaurant.
• Arrive in Longueuil between 23:00 and midnight at the Longueuil Metro.
• Arrive in Montréal between 23:30 and 00:30 at Complexe Desjardins.

This package includes:

• Round trip transportation from Montréal or Toronto with Greyhound.
• 2 nights in one of Alio's selected hotels (see price grid below).
• All taxes.

Additional nights available. Minimum stay is one night.

Please contact your travel agency.

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