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Named for being the home of the New York Times (at the time), Times Square actually became one of the seedier neighbourhoods through the years due to the number of sex shops, adult theatres and peep shows. Watch the suits walk brusquely from meeting to meeting, get a photo of the bull for, presumably, good luck in the markets, and do your best to get a photo of the awkwardly placed New York Stock Exchange. but I did make my way to Monk’s Restaurant and the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, the pub (McGee’s) that McLaren’s in How I Met Your Mother was based on, Magnolia Bakery from something I’ll probably never watch, and of course NBC Studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza from 30 Rock. How to see the best of Hollywood without feeling like a massive tourist What to do in Las Vegas when you’ve been 4 times before How to see the best of Hollywood without feeling like a massive tourist What to do in Las Vegas when you’ve been 4 times before

It’s a great place for a picnic, but there’s also a lot more to explore if you have time. Don’t get this confused with the Los Angeles Zoo though, because the Old Los Angeles Zoo doesn’t have any animals, it’s abandoned. I loved wandering some of Springfield’s best sites such as Moe’s Tavern really felt like I had been turned yellow. It’s such a fun day out at Universal Studios that it simply shouldn’t be ignored just because, for the most part, LA is a craphole.

Bryce National Park, not unlike many other Utah national parks like Zion, Arches or Canyonlands Island in the Sky, is an in and out situation where you don’t drive through the park to get anywhere; at a certain point, the road just stops. Like I mentioned, the shuttles run between the lookouts at the amphitheatre and this is very convenient if you plan to walk around the canyon rim because you can start at one end (either Bryce Point or the Visitor Centre), walk the rim, and catch the shuttle back without having to hike the same piece of land twice. From here, you have the option of walking the entire rim trail but we decided to shorten it a little and get back on the shuttle for Inspiration Point, the next point and shuttle stop around the amphitheatre. Inspiration Point is obviously just a slightly different view of the same hoodoos, but this time we took the Rim trail from Inspiration Point around to Sunrise Point.

Another couple my time in Vegas was too short to spend a full day drinking cocktails in the sun (a phrase that probably shouldn’t exist). Depending on the day of the week, the time of the season, and any events going on, the price for entry and a deck chair starts at $20 and you get this as food and beverage credit. So if it’s just one or two of you, a deck chair, pod, or day bed would be great, but if there’s a group, a cabana can be a lot of fun for not much more per person. Previously I’ve seen a couple of Cirque du Soleil shows and David Copperfield and honestly, with any of these it’s hard to go wrong.