New York Pass: notice, rate, duration & activities included

Are you visiting New York in 2019? To visit fully the _« Big Apple »_Discover our mini-guide of the New York Pass!

The most densely populated city of the United States with 8.62 million inhabitants and more than 20 million inhabitants throughout the agglomeration, often nicknamed the “world capital”, New York is a major attractiveness centre and the country’s economic capital. The "city that never sleeps" is the first global financial place, and is a major hub, both commercial, economic, media, artistic, cultural, technological, and tourist.

The city of New York, a tentacular city, which today stretches over 1,214.4 km2, was founded in 1624 by the Dutch crown after being discovered by a missionary of the king of France François I, a hundred years earlier. The cultural and architectural heritage of New York is so vast that there is always something to see and do: cosmopolitan city with multiple symbols, this land of immigration of all continents has a unique identity that fascinates or revulses around the world.

You come to visit New York City and want to discover its cultural monuments, museums and historical sites of the city? Discover the New York Pass! If you don't know him yet, this is our mini-guide on the question!

What is the New York Pass?

Generally, when visiting a city, one restricts his marathon of cultural visits according to his budget, because paying an entrance to each museum ends inevitably by ruining his holiday budget. To facilitate the access of tourists, several steps have been created to visit New York with discounts and line-cutting entry fees: the SightSeeing Pass , New York CityPass , New York City Explorer Pass and New York Pass .

If you are visiting New York for one or two weeks, and you would like to visit a maximum of sights, the New York Pass is the most suitable map. It provides access to 100 museums, monuments and sights in the American city, and provides unlimited access to the hop-on hop-off bus. Valid for a day, 2, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days, it offers a very complete tour pass that allows its holder to make a marathon of visits without costing him a dollar more than the price of the New York Pass itself.

As a result, it makes it possible to make significant savings because it is easy to understand that taking the tourist bus, visiting the Empire State Building, the Top of The Rocks, the Tower of Brooklyn, the Tower of Little Italy, the Tower of Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty, dozens of museums on the history of New York and the United States, etc., this represents a colossal surcharge. As you have the New York Pass, you will be able to leave on the assault of New York cultural monuments from dawn to finish in the evening, without paying the tickets! Not bad, right?

It is distinguished from the other three steps by the number of sites to which it gives access: the New York CityPass gives right to 6 sites, the SightSeeing offers 90, and the New York City Explorer Pass allows to make up to 11 tourist attractions. Of all, it is the most complete pass, but it is intended for tourists to stay for several days — 3, 4 days or a week — in New York and want to see a maximum.

Activities included in the New York Pass

As mentioned above, this pass allows to visit New York through 100 tourist sites and various activities. Not only do you pay no ticket to enter the iconic sites of the city of New York, but in addition, it is over time losses in the queues.

Big Bus tourist bus tour

This is how to explore the city in a different way: taking pictures from a bus seat! The bus circuit will lead you to the heart of Manhattan , by making you discover the emblematic monuments from below: the Empire State Building, Times Square , Central Park or the Statue of Liberty.

Comments are broadcast live during the circuit and 25 stops allow you to climb and descend whenever you want. Four circuits are possible: Uptown loop, Downtown loop, Brooklyn and Harlem.

The price saved $75.

Walking tour of Brooklyn Bridge

You will discover the history of the neighbourhood Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge with a tourist guide, by a two-hour walk visit, to explore the past of the city under a different look. With a bonus, a unique view of the Statue of Liberty, the Sphere and the New York Stock Exchange.

The price saved $40.

L’observatoire de l’observatoireEmpire State Building

It is one of the most emblematic and visited monuments in the city: Empire State Building , inaugurated in 1931, stood at a height of 381 metres and 443 metres, counting its antenna. Up to 86th and 102nd floors, you will have a breathtaking view of the city (up to 130 kilometers in good weather): Central Park, Manhattan, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachussets and even Pennsylvania. Visit in the morning to avoid weakening: the monument is visited by 4 million people each year.

Initial $39.

The Rockefeller Center

Symbol of the Great Depression, the Rockefeller Center embodies the American Art Deco style. Located in the Midtown of Manhattan, it extends over 89,000 m2 and is lined with mythical Top of the Rocks . It houses a collection of more than 100 frescoes, sculptures and mosaics.

The pass gives access to a guided tour between 10am and 7pm.

Price without pass $27.

The Memorial and Museum of September 11

In the World Trade Center, destroyed by the attacks of September 11, 2001, which moved America and the world, it is a museum in tribute to 2,983 victims of the 2001 and 1993 attacks (less known). We discover stories and stories from survivors to tragedy. A permanent collection, the Foundation Hall (largest part of the museum) and the Pavilion will take the tour.

Price without steps $26.

The Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island Museum

Incontournable for anyone who comes to visit New York, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island commemorate the history of the city, when 12 million European immigrants (mainly Italian, Irish, Scots, English) arrived to hope to find a better life. The two sites embody the history of New York and American culture. This is the reason why we must devote a whole day to reread the pages of a flourishing and dying past at its dark hours.

Price without steps $19.

The Metropolitan Museum or Art

Do you like museums? Here you'll be counted! The MET is more than 2 million works of art, an exhibition showing 5,000 years of art through more than 30 exhibitions. It is one of the city’s cultural lungs and one of the most famous museums in the world: the works of L. de Vinci, P. Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet are exhibited there.

Price without steps $25.

The Museum Madame Tussauds

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum representing more than 200 iconic characters from cinema, television, music, sport, fashion or history, from which one can take a pose (Angelina Jolie, Marilyn Monroe, Einstein or George Washington).

Price without steps $37

The American Museum of Natural History

Want to see the blue whale (large 27 meters!), the Tyrannosaure Rex, fossils and anthropology objects? Through four floors dedicated to science, nature and history, the visitor wanders through 28 interconnected buildings, welcoming 45 permanent exhibition halls, a planetarium and a library.

Economy : $23.

New York City Museum

The museum of the city allows to visit New York through its past, present and future (estimated), through temporary exhibitions. The museum is located at the top of the Mile Museum, between 5th Avenue and 103rd Avenue.

Initial price : $18

New York Pass rates

We read according to our sources that the New York Pass allows to make a lot of savings. But what are the real prices?

New York Pass rates

• 1 day: $134 (adults) and $94 (children)
• 2 days: $199 (adults) and $159 (children)
• 3 days: $274 (adults) and $199 (children)
• 4 days: $299 (adults) and $224 (children)
• 5 days: $339 (adults) and $244 (children)
• 7 days: $379 (adults) and $259 (children)
• 10 days: $469 (adults) and $299 (children)

The longer the validity period is chosen, the more the rates, reduced to the day, are degressive.

Consult the New York Pass official website : promotions are regularly posted. So be aware of the best offers!

Duration

The New York Pass is a maximum of 10 days. As a result, it is recommended that you properly identify your stay dates to visit New York because it would be a shame to pay a 10-day pass for the end, just stay 7 days.

You stay in New York for 8 days? Take advantage of the 7-day pass, and perhaps spend the last day with less cultural outings (bars, restaurants, urban hikes). Conversely, it is better to avoid choosing a 3-day pass and finally decide to extend the stay to one week: you would lose money.

New York Pass withdrawal points

By removing the Pass from New York, the card will be issued free of charge. Online withdrawal is also free.

If, on the other hand, you want to get it by post, know that the shipment is billed $15 for France (5-7 days) and $30 for the United States (1 to 3 days delay). After the purchase, you will receive a confirmation email, to use to recover it.

Two withdrawal points in New York are available:

• Point Big Bus in the museum Madame Tussauds:234 West 42nd Street, from 8am to 5pm
• Point Big Bus in NY NOUS AIME:38, Park Rowfrom 10:00 to 16:00

Our opinion on the New York Pass

If you are planning to do a real marathon of sightseeing and tourist activities, and you stay more than two days, then this New York Pass is recommended: it is very complete, and allows you to overcome the simple furtive glimpse of the city, while exploring it from its backstage (history and culture).

If you set course elsewhere after the first or second day, it will not be advantageous. Instead, prefer the New York City Pass or the New York Explorer Pass. In all cases, at Wanderlix, the queues and the time constraints give us particular attention. The “Big Apple” is a busy city all year round, and it’s best to recommend that you opt for the New York Pass by visiting New York!