🗽✨ NYC DAY TRIP – Saturday, June 20, 2026 ✨🚌
Pricing: Early Bird Sale: Save $10 per ticket!
2 ticket types to select from:
–> $133 “Ticket Only” includes round trip Motorcoach Transportation, tour guidance by your host (Beth), water & snack on the bus, and assistance with your itinerary. All gratuities (driver & tour guide), taxes, and fees are also included.
–> $185 “Ticket With Ellen’s Stardust Diner Lunch Included” includes round trip Motorcoach Transportation, tour guidance by your host (Beth), water & snack on the bus, assistance with your itinerary, and a super-fun LUNCH at Ellen’s (and a “show” by the Broadway hopeful waitstaff!). All gratuities (driver, tour guide and Ellen’s lunch), taxes, and fees are also included.
Who’s ready for a FUN day in New York City?! 🙌
This is one of my favorite types of trips, because it’s easy, exciting, and totally customizable. Whether you want Broadway, shopping, sightseeing, or just a great day with friends… you can make this day exactly what you want it to be!! 💛
🚌 Trip Details
Departure:
- Plymouth Park & Ride (Exit 13 off Route 3): 6:00 AM
- Rockland Commuter Lot (Exit 35 off Route 3): 6:25 AM
Arrival in NYC: ~11:00 AM
Departure from NYC: 7:00 PM
📍 Pick-up location: Lotte New York Palace Hotel
Return Home:
- Rockland: ~11:30 PM
- Plymouth: ~11:55 PM
🌟 Itinerary:
🎤 11:15 AM – Kick Off the Day at Ellen’s Stardust Diner (included if you choose “Ticket with Ellen’s included”!)
We have a group reservation to start the day off with something really fun! (If you choose to join us!)
- Singing servers 🎶
- Classic diner food
- Great energy to start your NYC day – sooooo fun!
- Cost for all food, gratuities are included in your ticket cost!
👉 This is such a fun experience if you’ve never been!
From this point, you can keep following me, or do your own thing!!
Here’s what I’ll be doing –
🎭 12:30 PM – Head to TKTS (Red Stairs!)
📍 TKTS Times Square
After lunch, we’ll walk over together to the iconic red steps in Times Square where you can grab same-day discounted Broadway tickets 🎟️
- Choose your own show
- Big savings on matinee performances
- Totally optional—but highly recommended! (I once got a WICKED ticket for $55!)
🎭 Afternoon – Broadway Show OR Explore NYC
If you purchase a Broadway show at the TKTS booth, you’ll head to your show (most matinees start around 2:00 PM)
If not, here are some great ideas:
- 🛍️ 5th Ave shopping (Tiffany & Co., Prada, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks 5th Avenue, Louis Vuitton, Nike and more!)
- Rockefeller Square shopping – LEGO, Nintendo, FAO Shwartz and more!
- 🌆 Times Square exploring and people watching (See if you can spot the NAKED COWBOY)
- 🍫 M&M Store / Hershey’s Store
- The Friends Experience!
- 🌿 Bryant Park or Central Park (perfect to relax!)
- 🏙️ Top of the Rock or Summit One Vanderbilt
- Museum of Ice Cream!
- Visit the MET!
🍴 Late Afternoon / Early Evening
After your show or exploring:
- Grab a NYC slice at Joe’s Pizza
- Walk the city
- Don’t forget to scope out the sidewalk blanket sales! Great copycat handbags!
- Explore Central Park (I have a specific walk that will bring us past the Plaza Hotel, Central Park Zoo – seals!- , Gapstow Bridge, Bethesda Terrace, The Lake, Bow Bridge, and Strawberry Fields! – after our show I can take us for a relaxing walk 🙂
👉 This is your time to enjoy NYC your way!
🚌 7:00 PM – Depart NYC
We’ll meet back at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel for a smooth and easy ride home 💤
💛 Why This Trip is So Popular
✔ No driving, no stress
✔ You get a full day in NYC
✔ Totally flexible—do as much or as little as you want
✔ Perfect for friends, moms/daughters, couples, families, or just a fun day out
💵 What’s Included
- Round-trip motorcoach transportation
- Lunch (and a show!) at Ellen’s Stardust Diner
- Assistance in planning your day from your tour guide, Beth
- Access to Beth the entire time you are in the city – for any reason!
- All gratuities
- An organized, stress-free day
- Optional group guidance for Broadway tickets and a walk through Central Park
👉 Lunch at Ellen’s is the only planned activity included in your ticket (if you decide to purchase the “included” ticket option) so you can customize your day however you’d like after that!
🎟️ Seats Will Go Fast…
These NYC day trips are always a hit—and June is the perfect time to go ☀️
If you’re thinking about it… grab your seat early!
We expect our 2026 NEW YORK CITY SUMMER OFFERINGS to be just as popular as our CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY offerings, so if you are reading this, it is time to make your reservation before we fill this trip to capacity!