Who's been to America?

Absolutely adore the country. Its so large that its got damn near every kind of terrain imaginable.

My tip is to forget the better known places and go for the lesser talked about states. States like Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Utah, Nebraska. Those states are truly awesome imo. (Particularly Colorado).

We generally spend each christmas in Colorado, around the Aspen, Keystone, Breckenridge areas. Utterly stunning at christmas.

Just dont be surprised if you have to take your shoes off in the airport :)
 
Darkness said:
I applied to this online visa and it said approved, so i'm glad to get this out the way.

Can't really be messing with Premium Economy, i'll get on with it... :)

Also has anyone been to see any baseball?
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I went and saw the Tampa Bay Devil Rays playing the Atlanta Braves when i was in Florida around 5 years ago. I quite like baseball but holy hell was that a boring game! The score was 2-1 and we were there for 4 hours. Try and get yourself to a FOOTBAWW game instead, much better and you can laugh at all the die hard fans.
 
mcast123 said:
I've travelled round the world a fair amount and the US has the worst immigration officials anywhere, NYC is even worse. It was like this even before 9/11.

"wow it's so cool to be in America!"
"shut up, give me your passport and don't breath the wrong way or you're getting shot"
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I've only been to America the once so I may just have been lucky but it was the fastest most pleasent customs experience I have ever had and that was in New york less than 24hrs after the poo hit the fan with liquids on flights. The imigration official was polite and friendly and got us speedily on our way much more pleasent than arriving home in Blighty to que up with the EU masses to be frowned at by the most miserable people in the world, they should put a banner up saying Welcome to the UK home of depression.
 
Speaking as someone who has never been on a plane before now, I just got back from holiday on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Orlando and I was pretty impressed. Food was nice, always snacks and drinks getting shoved in your face. Legroom is abit of a buggar and can get uncomfortable after a while but theres a good choice in film and tv to keep you entertained (although it does change).

Also had an incredible air hostess on our flight serving us :D

Besides the turbulance in a crazy thunderstorm I felt very safe in their hands.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
Usually on flights I wait for most other people to scramble to the exit before leaving, avoiding the rush. DO NOT do this when coming into NY, customs/immigration/whatever it is called takes forever.
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This is solved for booking seats as far foward as possible.
 
Rotty said:
VA don't release seats near front for pre booking though
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Plus whats the point, first off the plane is just slightly further up a massive queue of first to wait for the baggage to finally arrive, why rush to wait it makes no sense to me!
 
a1ex2001 said:
Plus whats the point, first off the plane is just slightly further up a massive queue of first to wait for the baggage to finally arrive, why rush to wait it makes no sense to me!
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immigration is before baggage, your bags will be there by the time youi have cleared immigration, folks are right in saying you need to be off the plane sharpish
 
a1ex2001 said:
I've only been to America the once so I may just have been lucky but it was the fastest most pleasent customs experience I have ever had and that was in New york less than 24hrs after the poo hit the fan with liquids on flights. The imigration official was polite and friendly and got us speedily on our way much more pleasent than arriving home in Blighty to que up with the EU masses to be frowned at by the most miserable people in the world, they should put a banner up saying Welcome to the UK home of depression.
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Pot luck I guess, I had the opposite. US immigration were a miserable bunch (understandably) but the UK guys were super polite. As much as I loved my time in the States it was great to be greated with a 'good day sir, how are you' in a posh English accent at Heathrow.
 
I have seen a few sports games in the US now, and prefer ice hockey to anything else :) But September is too early for that :(

Although i don't understand American football (and i've been to 2 games now), it is quite a thing to see! So why not try and see the Giants?

Basketball is fun at MSG too! Though they do have a bit of a fixation of showing off all the 'famous' people who are watching!
 
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New York's an amazing city... can't wait to go back.

When we flew into JFK, the queue for a cab took longer than it did to get through immigration.
 
Checking in, etc. was pretty uneventful...

The slightly more interesting part was landing at Detroit International - I had flown Bristol -> Amsterdam, stop over then Amsterdam -> Detroit - had been awake about 40 hours, blood shot eyes (don't ask) got off the plane and they made a fuss coz the visa waiver was done in the "wrong color ink" or something (apparently my blue pen had a slightly red tinge to it) and I had to do it all over again before they let me through - then I came to... 4x 100meter long queues for customs or whatever can't remember which it was, as I was completely knackered by this point - hadn't slept at all during the flight or for about 2 days before - it was the last thing I needed but some security guy came over and waved me on down the line... as I walked along I realised that 90% of the people were asians - they had so many asians to deal with they undid a barrier and let me straight through... then found my friend who was picking me up was delayed first by family problems, then car troubles and then major roadworks... and didn't get to pick me up until almost 7 hours after I landed...

Jet lag didn't kick in until much later when I was back in the UK - at which point I slept 19 hours straight up.
 
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