The FIFA World Cup™ comes to America this summer, with all eyes ultimately landing on New York for the final game, aka soccer’s biggest event. If you wish to experience it for yourself, it’s time to finalize your plans. Roadtrips custom travel packages promise a seamless, elevated experience that, when paired with a travel agent’s deft touch, means you can enjoy your trip with essentially no friction or legwork. What is there left for you to do? Start daydreaming about your visit to the Big Apple. Here’s a collection of highlights to get excited about.
Soccer fans
The Main Event: MetLife Stadium
While we don’t know yet who will play in the finals, we do know where it will be. MetLife Stadium sits right across the river from Manhattan and has a well-established resume as a marquee-event venue — what with the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift and Beyonce packing the 87,000-strong stands in years past. For securing the best seats possible, you should work with a travel agent. Chances are you’ve undergone the stress of trying to buy concert tickets or game-day seats at some point in years past: It’s infuriating. It’s a chore you wish you didn’t have to deal with — so let your travel agent deal with it for you.
Midtown Manhattan
Around the Big Apple the Rest of the Time
Ultimately, the FIFA Final is just one evening of entertainment. For the rest of your trip, New York City has it all: World-class entertainment, Michelin-starred dining, endless shopping and some of the most can’t-miss, globally renowned attractions in the world. You’d be crazy to not take a few extra days to enjoy some of the following:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Relaxing outdoors
Times Square
- Memorable Museums – As a global hub for culture, few cities can match New York’s cache of priceless artifacts and works of art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art are perhaps the gold standard for where to while away an afternoon observing creative masterpieces and scientific memorabilia respectively, but The Guggenheim and The Whitney boast collections of modern art that make them well worth a mention.
- Broadway Shows – Broadway is synonymous with the apex of live performance; thespians and theater kids the world over daydream about making it here. What that translates to as an audience member is an evening’s entertainment (or, an afternoon matinee) that you’ll be raving about for years to come. Early reports suggest the hottest shows this summer will be the Nathan Lane-led Death of a Salesman, The Lost Boys, the Adrein Brody-led The Fear of 13 and the Daniel Radcliffe-led Every Brilliant Thing, but yesteryear’s hottest shows have staying power too. Hamilton, The Lion King, Wicked and The Book of Mormon are all still stunning performances to seek out.
- Delicious Dining Galore – One of the major draws of a global city is the melting pot of global cuisines — a hearty helping of tantalizingly tasty dishes to eat your way through. A consolidated best-of-the-city for your consideration is:
- Best New York slice of pizza – Scarr’s Pizza consistently puts out what is considered the standard bearer for a perfect slice, day in and day out. The attention to detail is unparalleled — they grind their own flour onsite.
- Best Bagels – Utopia Bagels more than lives up to its name, hand-rolling and kettle boiling each and every round morsel; customers swear there’s a distinctive taste that puts them a head above the competition. A Queens staple since 1981, today there are also branches in Manhattan and Long Island City.
- Best Chinese – Those in the know know that Flushing, Queens, has better Chinese food than Chinatown in Manhattan. And those who frequent Flushing are sure to notice the line forming outside Chongqing Lao Zao. Designed to evoke an old Chinese village, this eatery serves decadent hot pot in addition to authentic vibes.
- Best Fine Dining – Of all the Michelin-starred joints, Le Bernardin holds a certain undeniable pastiche. The triple-starred temple to French seafood has always been a tough reservation to snag, because you will be hard-pressed to find flavors as revelatory as the chef’s tasting menu.
Enjoying breakfast with a view of the New York City skyline
For Everything Else …
… trust a travel agent. In addition to handling your tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, our travel agents can secure all your bookings — flights, hotels, private cars and dinner reservations — promising a truly stress-free trip. Not only that, but our close working relationship with Roadtrips ensures a veritable treasure trove of exclusive perks and amenities. Finally, our travel agents have stockpiled scores more insider tips and recommendations for New York, promising a side of the Big Apple you never knew you were missing.
