Setting your sights on city lights this summer? You can hit the ground running with CityPass booklets, which now feature insider tips from Traveler. For about half the regular price of admission, you can see must-see attractions in Seattle, Toronto, Southern California, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and starting this year, Houston. Here's a sample Traveler tip for the Big Apple:
Grand Central Terminal is a cathedral not just for its hundred shops and dining [spots] but for oddities like the Whispering Gallery, opposite the Oyster Bar, where you can talk into a column and be heard from 20 feet away. Look up at the massive domed ceiling on which the zodiac was mistakenly painted backwards. Unwilling to have it redone, William K. Vanderbuilt, who built the terminal in 1913, claimed it was from "God's vantage point."
The New York pass gets you in the door to many of the city's finest museums (MOMA, The Met, The Guggenheim, and the Museum of Natural History), up to the top of the Empire State Building Observatory, and on board a Circle Line Sightseeing Cruise on the Hudson, so you can get a glimpse of Lady Liberty. And as of this year, it now includes admission to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and a double-decker bus tour. Even better, the CityPass lets you cut the line at many attractions, allowing you to get the most of your trip.
Check out the entire list of cities and more exclusive Traveler tips at their website, and place your CityPass order online.
I love CityPass! I've used them in several cities for discounts and to organize my travel (which is always done around free/discounted things). Thanks for the shout out to them.
Posted by: Suz | April 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM