Tours & Experiences · New York
A considered collection spanning the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the city’s skyline decks by day or by night, a Broadway evening, Central Park and Brooklyn on foot, and a day trip up the Hudson beyond the city — each with a clear, direct booking route.
Planning the wider stay
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A grid built in three dimensions
New York’s character is set by a harbor and a grid that keep asking to be seen from somewhere else: the Statue of Liberty from the water, Manhattan from 86 or 93 floors up, Central Park from a pedicab rather than the pavement beside it. The city rewards visitors who actually change vantage point — a ferry crossing, an observation deck, a helicopter, a sailboat — rather than only looking up from the sidewalk.
It also holds an older, closer-grained city inside the skyline. Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO keep their own pace and their own food scene a single subway ride from Midtown, and the Hudson Valley — Sleepy Hollow, the Walkway Over the Hudson, the village of Cold Spring — offers a genuinely different rhythm within a single day trip. These selected experiences are ways into that range, chosen so a stay can hold New York’s scale, its history and its neighbourhoods in the same trip.
Direct partner options for a New York stay: the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the city’s skyline decks, a Broadway evening, Central Park and Brooklyn on foot, and a considered day trip up the Hudson.
12 of 12 activities shown. To find something outside this short selection, use a partner catalogue where available or tell us what you have in mind.
Viator
Reserved ferry access to both harbor islands with a guide, avoiding the queue for tickets and the wait for a crossing — Liberty Island’s statue and museum, then Ellis Island’s immigration story.
From €52
Price varies by date and the 2-hour or 4-hour option selected. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
Contactless timed entry to the Museum’s Historical and Memorial exhibitions and Foundation Hall, plus free access to the Memorial’s twin reflecting pools and Survivor Tree.
From €22
Price is for standard adult entry. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
Twelve galleries on the building’s Art Deco history and pop-culture legacy, then 360-degree views from the open-air 86th Floor — New York’s original skyline landmark.
From €44
Price is for standard 86th Floor entry; the 102nd Floor upgrade costs more. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
A multi-sensory art installation high above Madison Avenue — mirrored floors, glass ledges and an open-air terrace, designed by Kenzo Digital as one continuous artwork.
From €42
Price is for general admission; Ascent and Signature drink upgrades cost more. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
A 15-minute flight over the whole of Manhattan — Central Park, the Hudson, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty — in a small group of up to six, with live pilot narration.
From €237
Price varies by departure time and day. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
Julie Taymor’s six-time Tony-winning staging of the 1994 Disney classic at the Minskoff Theatre, with Elton John and Tim Rice’s Oscar-winning score.
From €126
Price varies substantially by date and seat location. Non-refundable once booked.
GetYourGuide
Over fifty of Central Park’s film locations, landmarks and hidden corners in one guided hour, by private pedicab — Bethesda Fountain, Strawberry Fields and Belvedere Castle among them.
From €35
Price is per person for a shared private pedicab within your own party. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
GetYourGuide
A small-group walk through Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO with tastings that add up to a full meal, Brooklyn Bridge skyline views, and a stop at Time Out Market.
From €51
Price is per person for the small-group tour. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Viator
A traditional two-masted schooner under sail as the sun sets over the Manhattan skyline, with close views of the Statue of Liberty and one drink included on deck.
From €80
Price includes one drink; gratuities are not included. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Tiqets
Over 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art, including Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, plus a sculpture garden and access to MoMA PS1 within 14 days.
From €26
Price is for standard entry; live availability and the current price are shown on Tiqets. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Tiqets
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiralling rotunda and a modern art collection running from Manet to Kandinsky, on Fifth Avenue.
From €26
Price is for standard entry; live availability and the current price are shown on Tiqets.
GetYourGuide
A small-group day by train up the Hudson — Sleepy Hollow’s historic graveyard, the Walkway Over the Hudson, and the Hudson Highlands village of Cold Spring.
From €118
Price includes all train tickets for the day. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
A few more New-york essentials
A few further direct entry tickets — kept separate from, and non-overlapping with, the reviewed experiences above — that you can walk straight into on your own schedule. Updated automatically.
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