I was sailing with my husband for our anniversary. We have been on several cruises, but this was our first time on HAL, first time to Bermuda and first time to NYC. So, I sure felt like a newbie!

New York City: We spend 2 nights pre-cruise in NYC. Our hotel was the Comfort Inn, Times Square on 47th Street. Nothing fancy but met our needs and we found the location to be superb for sight-seeing and getting to the ship on Sunday. They offer free continental breakfast which we enjoyed each morning before we hit the ground running.

We were able to see and do everything on our list in our quick 48 hours in New York! On Friday we visited downtown, the WTC memorial, a stroll through Chinatown & Little Italy, dinner in SoHo and the Empire State Building at night. Read more