new york city some people love it others wouldn't visit even if you paid them i don't want to go to
new york city why not new york is a hell hole yeah there are few places more polarizing to tourists
today we'll be sharing 12 reasons why people hate visiting new york city you don't want to
miss it it's expensive this is actually one of the reasons on the list that i most understand
from the tourist perspective we said this in a previous video about increasing hotel prices
i put times square into booking.com first week of august cheapest hotel 140 a night we haven't
added the 14 tax per night as well as a 35 a night resort fee so you're paying almost 200 a night to
stay in one of the most congested areas in the united states and while you could survive on
cheap eats alone and we have made tons of videos on the topic your average tourist they're going
to a mid-range restaurant three courses for two is gonna run you about 100 there is an insane sticker
shock in new york city and unlike in some other destinations you can't just run away from midtown
it's all over the city attractions add up to the cheapest observation deck in new york city 34
to go to summit ov and that doesn't count taking the elevator to the top and if you think you're
saving big getting one of those sightseeing passes the lowest price one is 139 dollars for one day
now let's pretend you brought along two or three kids but i understand the complaint about new york
city being expensive because it's true crime this is a big reason that some people are not
visiting new york city right now and even though it's nowhere near the insane levels it was in
the 1970s and 1980s the crime stats are moving up there's a certain amount of situational awareness
that you need as a tourist or a local here on a day-to-day basis and for many the idea of a
vacation doesn't involve looking around to make sure a mentally unstable person doesn't harass you
i think that increased crimes on the subway as well as all the media attention around that
is one of the big reasons that ridership isn't even back to 60 percent of the pre-pandemic levels
the weather it's may 7th right now 47 degrees with a real feel of 40 due to 23 mile an hour winds
there's a lot of tourists who stay away from new york especially in the winter because it's too
cold or they just don't like the unpredictability of visiting a place that could be super hot and
humid in the summer cold and rainy almost any time of year you know people that say they had
a bad trip due to inclement weather a lot of that is just not planning enough not understanding how
windy it can get here if you're coming from a warmer climate not having winter boots ready and
stepping into one of the beautiful slushy puddles of manhattan after a winter storm even days after
a winter storm these are the kinds of things i hear from tourists where they say yeah it was it
was too cold never again it's dirty we mentioned the subway and we even dedicated an entire video
on the channel to visiting new york's worst subway stations and we saw things things that we can
never unsee i don't think it gets much grosser than rioting a new york city subway on a daily
basis i'll never rig up the time i saw a tourist scream when a rat was walking along the platform
like it belonged there but an equally big eyesore in the city are overflowing garbages or better yet
seeing tons of garbage bags on the sidewalk i've got good news for you mayor adams has just piloted
a program using revolutionary technology from the far east it's called having extra dumpsters on the
streets hopefully that helps new york's image a little bit because it's gonna need a lot more
than that to clean up the dirty image that many tourists have of new york the crowds now i don't
know when new york is going to return to those pre-pandemic days when midtown was an absolute zoo
hard to walk it may never return to exactly how it was because if you're not going to complain about
crowds on the streets what you will complain about are the long lines and the crowds at the
attractions which are picking up right now i'm curious how busy new york city is going to be
for tourism this summer i predict quite busy and spending hours and hours waiting in lines is going
to give you the impression that new york is just too crowded and too congested if your itinerary
is just full of tourist stuff then you also wouldn't like las vegas or disney world either
it's smelly well that kind of goes hand in hand with the dirty part but we're not talking about
the pleasant smells of the only old factory art gallery in the world located in chinatown which
we just showed on our last hidden gems video no no no talking about some of those lovely summer
smells on the streets or better yet walking onto an empty subway car and discovering why nobody
else is on it those kinds of smells yes new york is a smelly place and i don't know if that's ever
going to change noise pollution forget traffic and taxis honking that's nothing these days
we've got the kids riding around the city on the atvs and the dirt bikes and if that's not enough
i've read some hilarious reviews on tripadvisor about people picking the wrong side of a hotel
facing a busy street some of the issues that they ran into we got room 202 located on the second
floor facing a street which means we're unable to sleep both days we stayed there noise cars horning
all night people passing by talking screaming and a whole more a truly nightmare this is actually
something that native new yorkers and long time residents take for granted their immunity to
almost all types of noise when you're coming from small town america or small town europe
noise is naturally gonna be one of your complaints and i'm not surprised to hear about this so often
i understand why tourists like to throw shade at the new york city area airports because it's
pretty tough to get to midtown manhattan in under an hour from any of them i remember
traveling to amsterdam and the train station was nicely connected to the airport we got to
central amsterdam in like 20 minutes from the new york city area airports much tougher we'll start
with jfk where you've got to take an air train and depending on what terminal you arrive at
that's going to add a lot of extra time knowing to take the lirr from jfk airport if you're staying
in midtown absolutely one of the best cheap methods of getting there without much delay
and then ubers and taxis i mean the prices are surging like crazy right now for ubers
i'm hearing this time and time again from locals as well how expensive it is to use a ride-sharing
app or taxis are actually cheaper a lot of times and then laguardia airport i just arrived on a
busy holiday weekend it was impossible to get a lift and all the ubers were over 100
to go even 20 minutes to brooklyn we had to wait in line 30 minutes just to get a taxi and even in
newark you still have to take an air train to get to new jersey transit and that train could
be packed to the brim where you don't even get a seat and of course you might accidentally step out
into newark penn station instead of new york penn station all these potential travel headaches from
the area airports can leave a sour taste in some tourist mouth i completely understand this while
new york is not on la's level if you want to use ride shares or taxis your entire trip to avoid
taking the subway you could run into some fun experiences a lot of times it's faster to take
an express train than it would be to take an uber or a lyft anywhere in manhattan i've heard from
tourists how much time they've had to spend in traffic ubering from one spot to another my best
advice for you is if you come from somewhere where you almost never walk and you drive everywhere
practice your walking before you come it could save you a lot of aggravation if your next stop
is just a mile away rude locals i can't tell you how many times i've actually heard compliments
from travelers about how nice new yorkers are but there's still this pervasive image about the rude
gruff local who doesn't want to help you out the reality is that getting from point a to point b
in new york is such an important day-to-day task that most new yorkers tend to zone out the rest
of the world so if you're trying to stop somebody to give you directions it might not be that they
ignored you it might just be they didn't hear you they have their headphones on they're not
paying attention where i've seen rude behavior from new yorkers that i can actually remember
is at certain tourist destinations where you have locals who are working there as staff or security
and they get asked the same dumb questions over and over again but i've actually witnessed more
rude behavior from tourists than new yorkers in my many years here it's a shame that i've had to make
three separate videos about scams and rip-offs to avoid in new york city but guess what that's
just the reality getting pressured to pay 20 for a cd when you don't even own a cd player anymore
or having a fake monk slap a bracelet on you and paying a ransom for that yeah sure it can put
a damper on your trip the good news is the majority of these scams and tourist traps
and rip-offs are in a small little area in times square and staying on your toes is part of the fun
of visiting new york city lack of bathrooms this has become particularly bad during covet 19 as i
have still visited spots that say their bathroom is out of order and not open to the public due to
the pandemic but pretty much any public place or restaurant or bar or tourist attraction is gonna
have a bathroom it can take a little work and i understand the complaint about this but this is
a big city issue anywhere in the world but it's just one of the many complaints that i've heard
about visiting new york city i get it if you've never visited new york before
one of our most viewed videos ever on the channel was about 12 things
every first timer needs to do when they visit the big apple i still stand by all of these things
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