times square has more tourist traps than any other spot in new york city you know
the kinds of places where locals only go if they've got friends or family visiting
today i'm going to be checking out as many of these places as possible to see
what the hype's about madame tussauds the world's most famous wax museum 26 different
locations an admission charge of 47 every time i've ever walked by here it's jam-packed
never thought it'd actually go in but today we're gonna make it happen this is pretty much the most
touristy thing you could possibly do in new york city i mean i'll put this as number one after i've
seen the movie house of wax i could never look at one of these again and not think that he's real
i'm tired of seeing all these mainstream celebrities here where are the youtubers wait
that looks just like action feed another new york city live streamer but i thought
he moved to miami how did he get a wax dummy here he's so lifelike
oh he has a microphone is it on he's alive how did you get here man just so has hired me
this reminds me of like the emojis from iphone
you know jimmy funny story i actually wasn't planning on being a youtuber
this stuff happened by accident you know wendy i moved to miami and it was a big mistake
it's boring there it's all everything but the beach
so this is the closest you'll probably ever see obama and trump again
this is cool man i mean you got the actual new york city subway staircase the tiling
the lettering for the subway can't get any better than this hi this is just like a completely
manicured world of new york like you could actually just go out and experience
it yourself too if you want this is this guy's hiding oh my gosh evil subway worker
why is he over there in the corner like that
it's raining here
he's so tall
so my issue with this spot is that it's just a lot of tourists who buy those attraction
passes and they just check off all the lists of places they have to go it was interesting but
for new york city i think there's so many more authentic places you could go to for two hours
every single new york city tourist trap in one block
bubba gump shrimp i never in a million years thought i'd actually be eating here based off
one of my favorite movies ever forest gump their fictional company became a national restaurant
chain and that happy hour is calling my name let's see if we can turn a tourist trap into a little
hidden gem all right feels like i'm entering applebee's
i'll do a margarita you want a margarita oh one garlic bread one popcorn shrimp
one bubba's dipped yeah i'll get those started let's do it i don't know how
much alcohol is in here but for five bucks i was expecting a half cup size here cheers
that's not bad actually i do think it's a little bit maybe diluted but
right here
how about the uh dip oh my god i'm so sorry i got it action can
you ready let's try this yeah let's try here comes shrimp and namesake
we gotta try some popcorn shrimp popcorn six bucks happy hour ready
that's not bad oh it's not that long
it's actually pretty good i'm surprised good amount of shrimp in there
you know if you're stuck in times square for whatever reason
between 3 and 6 pm during the weekdays it's a pretty interesting deal
oh fish fresh full of spinach and tomatoes not bad for the price six bucks if i was in times
square for a long period of time and didn't know where else to eat this is a decent place to come
so if you're watching this and you're planning a trip to new york you're wondering what's not
a tourist trap in times square we actually just released new guides to new york city
we've got a dedicated times square midtown guide a mix of attractions and places where
you may be the only tourist they've got maps audio guides written blurbs i curated all of it
50 off limited time only see the link down below in the description it's like having me
in your back pocket i think the butt of every time square joke is saying eat at the olive garden well
that's exactly what we're about to do there's over 900 of these in the united states this is the only
location in manhattan it's kind of iconic that it happens to be right in times square we got a
15 minute wait for the olive garden at six o'clock on a tuesday this is exciting i've never taken an
escalator to go into an olive garden before i used to dine at the olive garden when i lived in new
jersey little known fact before i was adventurous with life by sheer luck we have gotten the corner
table where i can see times square and if this was new year's eve i could even see the ball drop from
here people would pay probably a thousand dollars for this table on december 31st this is amazing
probably the best view of times square right here so we were just completely unoriginal we
literally ordered off the front pictures tour of italy chicken alfredo chicken and shrimp carbonara
yeah real original but let's see how they taste
that's good thank you kay i haven't had an olive garden breadstick since obama was present
exactly the same exactly the same i think it's pretty good it's got butter on it crunchy i read
a cool fact about the olive garden they give you one more breadstick that amount of people
in your table so we got four because they had a problem with too many people wasting breadsticks
tastes like airplane food first class or coach airplane food there's a distinction there
business class airplane food okay that's what it tastes like
we got my chicken alfredo uh i don't know if it's really promising just looking at this
kind of questioning what life decisions led me to this moment but here we are at the
olive garden times square let me try a little chicken a little alfredo sauce a lot of pasta
you know what chicken's actually not as dry as i thought it was going to be from the looks of it
at least the view is nice soon it's the olive garden
there's a chicken and shrimp carbonara i gotta mix everything in here
shrimp wasn't as good as bubblegums it was a little bit more mushy chicken the same
but at least it's not dry compared to what john's i'd rather have my dish than john's
i think my issue with this is it just it has like no personality it just just tastes like a chain
restaurants pasta i'm not trying to bash olive gardens nationwide because i know there are many
fans of the olive garden i just think that the new york culinary scene is so deep and diverse
that even in midtown you can find a lot of interesting restaurants and this is the tourist
equivalent of seeing the golden arches for fast food like olive garden we have that back home
i know what that is yeah i mean i kind of agree with you john there's a lot better options here
than olive garden and times square for sure trying to think if i've had a worse italian
male in new york i said i didn't before now i'm starting to reconsider that statement
i can't i can't think of what was worth oh i'm sorry i will give them a big compliment
they had super fast and efficient service so the waiters and the staff were fantastic
here the food at the olive garden is the way the food the olive garden always is
there is something special about times square when the sun sets really
anybody in the mood for halloween early
oh i smell candy all over the place right now it smells like candy it's not like sugar in
here i've been in the m m store a few times with adriana this is a tourist trap that's
actually kind of cool this isn't something you can find every day and i think they have
cool souvenirs a year plus look at all these flavors i don't think you're going to find this
in your random street corner in pennsylvania i know even from a chain store like cvs those m m
packets how many flavors are going to have honestly oh look at the statue of liberty
1995. cool souvenir
oh boy well every time i actually gets in my video he drops something
is that the first time i actually could have dropped something on my video oh shoot folks
we really cannot take this guy anywhere it's the microphone cable
you're looking to drive him off someone's backpack really useful tip on the third floor one of the
rare public bathrooms in all of times square if you're going to be staying in midtown manhattan or
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