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Billy Hunt
30-08-2005, 16:02
Going to New York for the first time in October and want to do a cheesy helicopter ride around ESB, Liberty etc.

Has anyone done this before?

Recommendations - things to avoid etc.

(Please be nice it's my first thread)
editor
30-08-2005, 16:10
It's pretty expensive - you may want to try the boat trip round Manhattan instead (from east mid town) - it's fantastic!
t0bytoo
30-08-2005, 16:45
About the helicopter crashes - not intended to be scaremongering.

I mentioned it cause I was very surprised that there were two incidents in a week.
editor
30-08-2005, 16:54
Two helicopters crashed recently.

Here's a link to one of them:

Err, only one of them was a tourist helicopter and such crashes are very, very rare.

I can't see what useful point you're trying to make here past needless scaremongering.
Billy Hunt
31-08-2005, 07:19
I would have thought that given the dozens of helicopter trips that take place every day, 2 crashes over a period of x years is actually pretty good.

I would not, for example, not travel on the M25 (if I wanted to) just because there are crashes on it on a daily basis.
pk
31-08-2005, 11:33
Going to New York for the first time in October and want to do a cheesy helicopter ride around ESB, Liberty etc.

Has anyone done this before?

Recommendations - things to avoid etc.

(Please be nice it's my first thread)

Yeah, I did this with the missus back in 2000, it was unforgettable.

Expect to pay around £70 - I forget what that was in dollars, and the best place to go is one of the piers near Battery Park, they have a six seater and it goes up as far as Central Park, then loops round back to the Statue of Liberty... oh you'll love it... sure it's expensive, but so's a gram of charlie, and you'll have far better memories of the helicopter experience than of hoovering up a load of gak crystals that men, women and children probably died for during the export/import process...
Billy Hunt
31-08-2005, 12:11
Yeah, I did this with the missus back in 2000, it was unforgettable.

Expect to pay around £70 - I forget what that was in dollars, and the best place to go is one of the piers near Battery Park, they have a six seater and it goes up as far as Central Park, then loops round back to the Statue of Liberty... oh you'll love it... sure it's expensive, but so's a gram of charlie, and you'll have far better memories of the helicopter experience than of hoovering up a load of gak crystals that men, women and children probably died for during the export/import process...

Thanks. I'm going with my wife and children so it will be £70 x 4. £280 for what - 10 or 12 minutes :eek:

Expensive but the experience of a lifetime!

{insert clever and witty comment about drugs}
pk
31-08-2005, 12:57
Naaa, I'm sure if you chat to the helicopter chaps you can get a family discount.
Jessiedog
31-08-2005, 15:01
Naaa, I'm sure if you chat to the "helicopter chaps" you can get a family discount.

Wot?

A good deal on a quarter ounce or summat?

;)

Woof
pseudonarcissus
31-08-2005, 15:10
hmmm.....not quite eco-tourism
t0bytoo
31-08-2005, 23:56
I would have thought that given the dozens of helicopter trips that take place every day, 2 crashes over a period of x years is actually pretty good.

I would not, for example, not travel on the M25 (if I wanted to) just because there are crashes on it on a daily basis.


Agreed. My comment was pointless.

While you're in the market for views... I recommend the roof of the Met. It's open most of the summer, I think. There's a bar and a great view of Central Park. You're literally at the same height of the tops of the trees.