Any tips for a 6 day trip to New York for newbies to States??

I have priced it up a fair few times and at the end of the day it just seems like a dreadfully overpriced adventure all together?

Stay in the Waldorf Astoria, or something similar, go for it. BTW you are going to Manhattan , not New York.

Time Square is what it is, do that.

Empire state Building alludes to your sense of unlived nostalgia via a TV screen, as opposed to you having a clue why you are going in the first place.

If you see a man flying through the sky in a Red Cape Blue Lycra Suit and red boots it is more than likely SUPERMAN, he saves the world when he is not disguising himself as a timid, taciturn journalist with the Daily Planet, who is trolling his female colleague Lois Lane. Their nemesis Miss Tessmarker is a cultural icon for BDSM enthusiasts globally.

I would try and take in a gig or event at Madison Square Garden.

I would jog around Central Park with a Sony Cassette Walkman, pretending to be Billy Crystal or maybe Tom Selleck.

I can't really imagine doing much else, it is just a big huge metropolis full of people, which seen from a distance of 48 floors of an elevated skyscaper actually appear to look like thousands of ants.... traipsing chaotically all over the gaff. It is pointless trying to rationalise it much more.

Give me Istanbul, Barcelona, Rome or London any day of the week. Actually Miami is a zillion times better, trust me. All train compartments smell vaguely of ****, that is what I have learnt.

The Ghostbusters walking tour is an absolute hoot. That cowboy guy is an anti climax, there are hundreds of them. Burgers in time square are 20 bucks, be careful out there.

You will be knackered after 5 days walking around, doing what exactly? Staten island is crap, don't go near it. Try to avoid the trap that is Times Square, get out of there. I think it is an overrated toilet inhabited by rude unappreciated sceptics who live in kennels hardly big enough to swing a cat in. Go to a Jazz club in Haarlem and score some banger off the small guy on 110th street, selling jokes for a dollar. That dude can fix you up bigtime.

If you play piano and are a 5 an a half foot tall male in his mid 40's you could do worse than dress up in a penguin tuxedo and play the grand piano in some overpriced hotel foyer, scuttered drunk on Johnnie Walker and ginger ale , leering ridiculously at everyone.

Have a nice Day !!!