| Drinking in New York is like drinking | | | | great bar with a view; sadly only hotel |
| anywhere else. But Americans will expect | | | | guests can drink here. |
| a 15% tip according to most guides and | | | | Alcohol may be served on cheap flights |
| this means, in practice, forking out a | | | | to New York but it is, surely, nicer to |
| one dollar note extra every time you go | | | | wait until you're there. Snowy Manhattan |
| to the bar. Bearing this in mind the | | | | can be a stunning sight and the Pen Top |
| canny drinker will go somewhere with a | | | | Bar (700 Fifth Avenue) is open all year. |
| pleasant view, at least then he might | | | | Perhaps an ideal stopping-off point |
| feel he's getting his money's worth. | | | | during a Christmas shopping trip? Not |
| The A60 (60 Thompson Street) is a hotel | | | | only views, but hamburgers await the |
| bar located on the thirteenth floor. The | | | | visitor to Rare View (303 Lexington |
| view over the midtown and Manhattan | | | | Avenue). They are available from a Grill |
| skyline is memorable. Another good hotel | | | | on the floor below. Culture and drinking |
| bar is the appropriately named High Bar | | | | combine at the renowned Iris and B. |
| (2 Lexington Avenue). This one's up on | | | | Gerald Cantor Roof Garden (1000th Fifth |
| the eighteenth floor so definitely best | | | | Avenue). This place is on the roof of |
| to avoid stairs. The iconic Chrysler | | | | the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The view |
| Building is prominent from here. The | | | | here stretches across Central Park to |
| building is located in an agreeably | | | | the spread of the Manhattan skyline. |
| gentrified portion of the town. | | | | Hotels in New York are often the main |
| More bohemian and therefore a more | | | | expense of a trip here set against the |
| typical destination for those visitors | | | | cost of relatively cheap flights. |
| who have taken cheap flights to New | | | | However most of the bars mentioned here |
| York, is the Hotel Metro Rooftop Bar (45 | | | | are in high rise hotels and many say The |
| West 35th Street). The bar has good | | | | View Lounge (1535 Broadway) offers some |
| value beer on tap. It is right next to | | | | of the best views of Downtown. Entrance |
| the Empire State Building that King Kong | | | | fee for non-guests is $7. The gimmick is |
| climbed for his last stand. Hudson Sky | | | | that the bar slowly revolves revealing |
| Terrace (700 Fifth Avenue) is another | | | | the full New York panorama. |