Walk through Times Square in New York

First thing in the morning, and after having breakfast at the motel where we stayed during our Boston visit, we leave towards New York, where we arrived around noon on this new day of our Coast to coast trip through the United States.

The first thing was to do the check-in in the hotel, very central, on 7th Avenue, in front of the Madison Square Garden.

The head porter (super boss, I would say) of the hotel, Jesús, who speaks Spanish, makes it easy for us to park the car, has them help us with our luggage, as well as keeping an eye on it while we check in.

Finally, with the room already allocated, after giving the pertinent tip to Jesús, we headed to return the car to the place previously selected for the drop-off.

Once we delivered it without any problem, we walked around the area and had lunch at a Ads Irish, where the food turned out to be average and expensive. From there we returned to the hotel.

Upon returning, we note that, compared to the fabulous motel rooms We had been enjoying it for almost a couple of months, the hotel room was very disappointing.

Apart from that in New York The accommodations are very expensive, our room was small, with two single beds and without any table to put the computer on. or where you can leave things.

The television cabinet was tall, but the worst of all was that there was no Wireless in the rooms, so our daily routines of connecting with the world, uploading photos, etc. They left in a breath.

It is true that in the selection process and New York hotel reservation We found really very high prices, and in our desire to select a central and cheap hotel, I imagine that I ended up selecting the simplest room possible.

And the price per night was 175 dollars!!

Also, as a reference, this hotel is a 3/4 star hotel that is used by a large number of Spanish travel agencies to accommodate their clients.

We asked again if that Wireless It was really like that, despite it being a New York hotel in the 21st century, and yes, it was.

The only place where there was Wireless It was in the reception hall, so to connect, we had to do it sitting on a sofa, without even a table, and also paying!! a fairly slow connection.

It was a big shock!!

But we are not demoralized, far from it; For more than 50 years we had traveled without internet, and we had to be able to continue that way. We will get it!!

Little by little we came to terms with the harsh reality, and we decided to alternate paying the Wireless in the hotel and the connection in the hall, with free internet access in a McDonald very closely.

Already in relation to our New York visit, surely you know that it is the most populated city in the United States of America.

Spread across five major areas (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island), our intention was to focus on Manhattan, with a brief visit to Brooklyn.

In the "city ​​that never sleeps“, more than 8,4 million New Yorkers live together and almost 170 languages ​​are spoken, with more than a third of its population born outside the United States.

After resting at the hotel, we decided to walk to Times Square.

It is a very important intersection in Manhattan, located on the corner of the Broadway Avenue and Seventh Avenue.

Like Red Square in Moscow, Trafalgar Square in London or the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square It has become a global icon and symbol of New York City. with its characteristic animation and illuminated advertising.

It is, together with the New York Central Park, the metropolitan area in the United States that has appeared the most in movies and television shows.

And broadway theaters and the enormous amount of neon signs, have turned Time Square in a emblematic point of New York, and a symbol of Manhattan urbanism.

Today Times Square It has been transformed into a pedestrian plaza, where pedestrians can sit on chairs located on the road.

This is an experiment by the city council to decongest the area and give a more human touch to the square.

The measure was in a testing period coinciding with our visit, and depending on experience, it was planned that the pedestrianization would be permanent.

We walked around the area for a long time, finally ending up sitting on a red staircase.

From there we could appreciate the great mess that is New York in general, and this square in particular.

A large number of people, of very different ethnicities, a lot of animation, a lot of neon, a lot of theaters, a lot of police, whether on foot, by car or on horseback.

You have the feeling of finding yourself in the middle of a very urban world, in the middle of human life.

From there we went to the hotel, where we had dinner in the room and went to sleep, as a long day of sightseeing awaited us.