New York CityPass adds Met Museum

NEW YORK CITY (AP) -- CityPass is celebrating its 10th anniversary with the addition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to attractions included on the New York pass, and the Hockey Hall of Fame to attractions covered by the Toronto CityPass.

Other attractions covered by New York CityPass are the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the American Museum of Natural History, the Empire State Building and the Circle Line harbor cruise. The booklet, good for nine days from first use, is $65 ($49 for ages 12-17). It can be purchased online, at citypass.com, or at any of the attractions.

CityPass covers admission to the Met as of June 1st. The museum just re-opened its Greek and Roman galleries. CityPass ticket holders also get admission to The Cloisters, the Met's outpost for medieval art and architecture in Upper Manhattan. The Cloisters house the world-famous Unicorn Tapestries, seven woven wall hangings from the 15th century depicting a hunt for a unicorn.

Cheap New York

New York CityPass adds The Metropolitan Museum of Art considering the sixth blockbuster ticket influence its leaflet of charge - distinguish attractions credit Contemporary York Place. CityPass, recognized for bundling ample - place destinations ' most popular museum and attractions tickets into one bout - and almighty dollar - saving leaflet, announces a advanced time of its New York CityPass. Available June 1, 2007, New York CityPass bag the iconic Empire State Box Observatory, a Circle Line Travel journey, and four of the cosmos ' s most big-league museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ), Guggenheim Museum, and the American Museum of Characteristic History and Brick Bull's eye. Priced at $65 for adults - a $130 assessment - Au courant York CityPass represents a commutation capital of 50 % kill individually purchased attraction tickets, character line - jump privileges. Visitors own nine days to appliance the six tickets.

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Is CityPass a Deal

we are considering a trip to Disneyland next summer. My DH would like to go to Universal also... I just went to the Universal Website and saw the City Pass Deal. We are planning on going for a week and wanted to do Disneyland, CA, Universal, and maybe the zoo. Seaworld would be a bonus but it just sounds like so much "touring" for a week. Anyway, I was interested to get other people's opinions on the "deal". I cut and pasted but the pictures didn't come over. Basically it is 3 day parkhopper for Disney, 1 Day at Universal (and another day free), One day at Seaworld and one day at either the San Diego Zoo or Wild Animal park...

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Avoid lines with CityPass

ATLANTAboys don't like to wait -- and now you don't have to with an Atlanta CityPass...

With the new World of Coke opening on May 24th, this is the perfect time to get one. You'll get access to all six of the following top Atlanta attractions for about $10 each, plus you get to skip the lines:

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Wonderful Chicago

During one of those longer nights recently, my friend and I stumbled upon something we had never heard of. Chicago, as well as a few other major cities, offers a little thing called Chicago CityPass, which is a $50 ticket that gets you into five major attractions around the city. Needless to say, we were a bit geeked out by the idea of going to the Field Museum for the cool new dinosaur exhibit or seeing Chicago at night from the Hancock Observatory.

A problem, of course, was to convince a few other people to come with us. You may not have noticed it, but there are a few people at Northwestern who might have a small superiority complex? Now you can be too good to go to the football games, or too good to go to a frat party or too good to go to discussion section, but a lot of people have never really experienced some of the greatest parts of Chicago - and no one's too good for that.

So we compiled a list of seven things you have to do in Chicago before you graduate (or hey, get ambitious and do them before the end of the quarter), and trust us, even if they might seem a bit tourist-y, you should be ashamed if you went four years and never did any of these.

1. Ride the Ferris Wheel at Navy Pier

Do anything at Navy Pier and we'll be happy. We just took a cruise over there (Odyssey cruises, check into it because it's worth doing). But the Ferris Wheel has a special little place in our hearts. You see it every time you drive down Lake Shore, but how many of us have actually taken a ride on it? And if you are here over the summer, make sure to catch the fireworks show at Navy Pier (it happens every week). If you're not here, then hurry up and get down now. You can always find something to do.

2. Go to a Cubs (or Sox) game

I'm going to let my North Side bias show a little bit and suggest the Cubs over the Sox, but even South Siders have to admit that Wrigley Field is an institution in Chicago, and something worth seeing. That said, you can root for either team, but both are good to see (I guess the Sox have won a little more recently, if you care about things like that).

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Saving Money on Travel

A few dollars here and there all add up. And, it means we’ll have money to splurge in a few other areas.

• While I wish that all airports offered free wi-fi, that just isn’t the case. If you need access, but object to the daily fee, you can try sitting outside one of the airline club lounges to see if you can pick up the free connection that they offer guests.
  
• Consider upgrading to the American Express Platinum card. This tip falls under the category of spending money to save money, and is NOT for everyone.
  
• Buy “day of” tickets for the theater, at greatly reduced prices. New York and London have TKTS, but most cities have something comparable.
• If you’re going to be visiting attractions that have admission fees, consider a CityPass. Many cities have them (Boston, NYC, Seattle, etc.), and for the price of a pass, you receive admission to a list of attractions.
  
• Research housing alternatives other than a hotel. If you’re going to be in one spot for a week or longer, a condo or extended-stay facility may be a good value.
  
• If you’re renting a car, consider how many miles you’ll be driving and compare that to the rental agency’s mileage policy.
  
• Double check to make sure that your “convention” or “conference” room rate is really the best rate available. Most of the time it is, because the meeting planners have negotiated room rates based on a large number of people securing rooms.
  

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Canada Trip

Today was a long day, or at least it certainly felt like that. Neither Brian nor I slept well last night, likely as a result, at least on my part, of pre-travel anxiety/excitement. Our train left Ottawa at 8:35am and arrived in Toronto just before 1:00. We deposited our bags with the Via Rail luggage people for $3 per bag for the rest of the afternoon. We promptly purchased weekly passes for the subway system, and a Toronto CityPass, which gets us in to 6 attractions for $60. We took advantage of these newly purchased passes to go up the CN Tower. The view was nothing spectacular, though neither of us had seen it before. I suppose smog is a great part of the cause of that. You really couldn’t see a very long distance in any direction; the only clear view was down.

First impression of Toronto: it is crowded, remarkably ethnically diverse, dirty, hot, humid, and muggy. Also, my arms are itchy because I got sunburned. That’s my own fault, though, not the city’s.

A Kiwi Visits Chicago

We headed up Magnificent Mile (or Michigan Ave, so named for the shopping) to the Hop On Hop Off bus tours and bought an all day pass for US$25. With this we got a full tour of the city on an open top bus and can (you got it) hop on and off wherever we choose. But first, armed with Chicago City Pass booklets which gave us discounted admission at a bunch of places, we popped up to the 95th floor of the John Hancock centre for a view of the world.

But a view is a view, so we boarded the bus on this gorgeously sunny morn and hopped off at the Field Museum where the largest Tyranasaurus Rex named Sue (after the woman who discovered it) is standing in the atrium. Her head is in a glass case on the 2nd floor however as it’s too heavy to be displayed with the skeleton. (more)

Yelp Review of the New York CItyPass

In my quest to figure out why people stop in the middle of the sidewalk without thinking of the people who are rushing directly behind them, I purchased the New York CityPass, the ticket to NYC. For extremely discounted prices, I was able to see the highlights of our grand city. I found myself on the top of the Intrepid on the hottest day of the summer because why not be closer to the sun when it's over 100 degrees. The Intrepid has since left town for a few years, but it was interesting and should be back eventually. Then I went on a Circle Line Tour--the three hour version is enough to learn all about history and take some great pictures of The Statue Of Liberty. I went to the MoMA which had a very hip dada exhibit. The next museum was The Museum of Natural History's Rose Center where I saw their very cool planetarium show. Sit through it and you think you're in space. The final museum was the Guggenheim more