Travel for Pennies

We arrived to JFK with stinging eyes due to watching a handful of films during the flight from Australia, and also due to several glasses of red wine. We hit the subway to make our way to our hostel located in the Soho area of New York City. The subway ride seemed forever, but we finally arrived at our destination. There was this big man in a black leather coat standing in front of the hostel telling anyone arriving that the hostel was closed down because the NYPD found it to be a fire trap.

So, here we are, after a 25 hour flight, with no accommodations and on a Saturday night! Yes, we were frustrated. Luckily, though, there was an Internet terminal that wasn’t disconnected at the hostel, which the man let us use. I managed to find a hotel on this USA hotel site: http://www.newyorkusahotel.com that had rooms available and it was only a block away! We really didn’t have the money in our budget for the room, but we figured why not splurge for one night, then find another hostel. This allowed us to have the experience of a great private room with great amenities that we fully took advantage of before we moved on to a hostel. We figured it was meant to be, so we relaxed and had a great time.

The next day was a bright sun shiny day, so we headed up to Times Square, which wasn’t far away and decided to get in the queue and try our luck at getting tickets for the musical ‘Hair’. We managed to get discount tickets and the musical was still very relevant even in today’s world. Well, after all it was written for the Aquarius age, which is now. We really liked how the cast wasn’t only performing on stage, but through out the audience too; actually, the closing song, there were more audience members on the stage then there were cast members! We were so uplifted after the show, that the thought of staying in a hostel didn’t seem to appeal to us right at the moment, so we managed to book our room for one more night of comfort and luxury.

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