| Our tour guide, Steve, (who happened to be the owner of Marvelous Manhattan Tours), was a lot of fun! He made extra stops upon request and took our pictures for us. Our tour ran an hour over, we did not even realize it, as we were having such a blast! There were only 4 of us in a regular size van, along with the tour guide, which made it wonderful for driving to places that we probably could not have gone in a large bus and Steve was able to pull over to the side of the road so we could hop out and take pictures. There is no way a big bus could have done this nor would a big, impersonable tour line had done all of these things. Matter of fact, we stopped in Little Italy to get a treat at a bakery and Steve actually waited for us for about 30 minutes! He also stopped in the middle of the road, let us hop out to get our picture taken with the famous bull near Wall Street--this was not a scheduled stop, either. We did neat things such as view the tree at South Street Seaport, we went inside of the World Financial Center to see the Winter Garden, we saw the Christmas show at Grand Central Terminal, also went to Rockefeller to see the tree, we viewed the lights in the shopping district as well as the giant snowflake at 57th and 5th. We did a ton of things. This man knows a lot about New York, and I have been to the city 16 times now and I still heard and saw some neat and new things. And there is nothing like New York City at Christmas time and nothing will get you in the mood more than a great Christmas lights tour!! We had FUN!!!! |
