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Yeah, Britfag here too. I've got family elsewhere in the state who I visit, but they're only out there working for a few years. To make the most of it, I've been timing my visits so I hit NYCC at the end of them.
Flights were booked with Delta Airlines, but the actual flight is whored out to Air France. I flew with them last time and it was surprisingly good. We're actually going to be staying in New Jersey, again same as last time. It's way cheaper than staying in NYC, and it's only a 10-20 minutes bus ride into the centre of Manhattan. Shop around some, we've got a room with two double-beds for four nights, breakfast included, for about £75 each. It's a really nice hotel, got a pool and a gym and all that, not that we'll be using it for anything other than crashing at the end of the day. My family has used this particular hotel a couple of times in the past, so we got a discount through some repeat customer scheme or something. Time of year heavily affects prices too. Not a lot of people holiday at the end of January/start of Febuary, so I think that helped prices too.
If you're gonna do the New York Comic Con, the whole three days is pretty good. I used Friday afternoon to see/do everything I *really* wanted to before it got busy on the Saturday (autographs and such), just did whatever on the Saturday (there's shit-tons to see and do, I got to speak on a panel last time), and returned Sunday morning to pick up last minute bargains and check out video game stands that were too busy on previous days. That was pretty good. It was dead on the Sunday so the guys working the stands were a lot more chilled out, and it was so quiet that they could really show you stuff in depth and hold a real conversation with you.
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