Hi there.
Going to New York in February and want to get a birds eye city view.
Heard Empire States Building has a queue of about 3hrs for the 102 Floor Tickets or you can purchase the 88th Floor Tickets online. Is it worth queing for the 102th floor tickets or getting the 88th floor tickets before we go?
ALSO. The Rockefella Centre View (Top Of The Rock). Whats the queues like? Is it worth getting tickets in advance. Should we do both Empire States and Rockefella or just one? If so whats the best view/least queue and best times to go?
Was thinking if doing both of them 1 evening 1 day. Which way round do people suggest?
Many thanks....
Rockefella (Top of Rock) or Empire States Building or Both?';Queue%26#39;s';
I did the two last March and walked straight in although the ESB was in the evening.
Did the Rockfella in the afternoon so this time around i may swop them around
Rockefella (Top of Rock) or Empire States Building or Both?ESB is the classic skyscraper most of my out-of-town friends wouldn%26#39;t want to miss and usually go during the day....TOTR is a good one for the evening especially since the area has better options and more to do/see afterwards:) Have a great time..Enjoy!
Cheers for that.
What time can you walk straight in then? Sounds good to me...
Think I%26#39;ll do both. Rockefellar in evening.
So you wouldn%26#39;t get tickets in advance?
The only reason why I ask is everyone we know have said what happens if you get the tickets and the weathers rubbish! Good Point....
Is it worth going up if the weathers not great? Obvioulsy you won%26#39;t be able to see far, but would the views nearby still be worthwhile?
So many questions eh!!!!
It%26#39;s just coz I%26#39;m soooooooooo excited!!!
I have just returned from new york.
We did both, TOTR at about 10 o clock in the morning and there was no que and only about 3 other people up there. We did not buy tickets in advance which was good because as we went to buy them there was people giving out money off vouchers so we saved 10 dollars.
We visited ESB at about 4 o clock so we were there when it was just getting dark for daylight and night views. We had to que for about 20 minutes for the lift but not for tickets. We paid the extra to go to the 102 floor but this wasn%26#39;t really worth it you cant see a great deal more, the only avdantage we had was that it was pretty empty up there.
I would say definately do both, you get excellent views of Central Park at TOTR.
Hope this helps
Rockefeller Center, Empire State building - estimating (guessing) when there will be no queues is akin to forecasting the weather.
Sometimes you get it right, sometimes (many times) you get it wrong.
Any given hour of any given day you can either have a large line or no line at all and for someone to predict when there will be no line is not fair to those who would tend to believe this opinion.
So, if someone tells you, for example, that on Wednesday at 4:30 PM there will be no line/queue, believe what you encounter when you actually arrive at the location.
Poppa
It%26#39;s ';Rockefeller';, as in John D. Rockefeller.
Just because we drop our ';r%26#39;s';, doesn%26#39;t mean they aren%26#39;t there!
From the Rockefeller Archives:
http://archive.rockefeller.edu/bio/jdrjr.php
';Next to Colonial Williamsburg, JDR Jr. probably gave more attention to the development of Rockefeller Center than to any other project. The story of how it came to be built is well known. In 1928, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. joined with others in a plan to acquire a site on which a new Metropolitan Opera House was to be built. He leased the major part of the land now occupied by Rockefeller Center from Columbia University and purchased the remainder of the land from other owners. The Depression came before building could start, however, and the plans for the new Opera House faded away. JDR Jr., committed to a long lease of the Columbia property, decided to create an international business and entertainment center. ';
';The land was cleared of more than 200 brownstone houses and other antiquated buildings, and the first fourteen buildings of Rockefeller Center were erected between 1931 and 1940. On November 1, 1939, JDR Jr. drove the last rivet in the steel work of the United States Rubber Company Building, the final structure completed before the war. More than 75,000 people worked on the construction of the Center during those Depression years. ';
I was in new york for Christmas and we did both. its worth buyinh the ESB tickets online, its more informative than TOTR if you chosse the tape guide. we didnt have tickets and the queue was approx 30 mins, the TOTr is good as you can book timed tickets, we booked ours on the day, dusk is best. i have a tremendous fear of heights I felt safer in the ESB than TOTR. Both good value for money with the exchange rate as it is, not much point going to the 102 floor on the ESB the view will not be any better as you are already high. enjoy
I would do both but I love views of cities from above and both are spectacular.
I would do ToTR in the daytime and ESB at dusk or nighttime. There was no queue for ToTR. We bought our ESB tickets online and so we missed part of the wait. However, it was probably still about a 40 minute wait to get to the top (at dusk).
Personally I wouldn%26#39;t bother going to the 102nd floor deck as well but some people take the view that it may be worth it so that they can say they%26#39;ve been up there.
As mentioned if you have never been to NYC - do both. Bear in mind that ESB gets busier than Rockefeller so perhaps go there at dusk? Rockefeller in my opinion is far better, far more space on 3 levels and glass partitions between u and the big wide world rather than mesh wire onESB. Sounds picky but it does make a difference to your holiday photos!!!!
Thanx everyone. Apologies for the Rockefeller spelling!!! That%26#39;s my fault...... That%26#39;s how I%26#39;d say it not how I expected everyone else to say it.... Cheers for the advice..
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