I have devised a strong list of helpful Kennedy Space Center tips that will hopefully allow you to fully optimise your time during your visit to NASA’s Floridian base.
8 Kennedy Space Center Tips for First Timers
A day trip to Coney Island & Luna Park
As I mentioned in my post about DUMBO, I was determined to travel outside of Manhattan on this second trip to The City. Naturally after hitting the main sites, we decided to dedicate a day to Coney Island and Luna Park.
Brooklyn Flea Market – Sunday in DUMBO
Having visited New York back in 2010, the Brooklyn Flea Market was first on my bucket list. I had covered a lot of Manhattan during my first visit so it was time to explore the other boroughs.
When I was 18, I had just gotten my first proper job in my local supermarket and decided to spend my first pay packet on a deposit for New York City. I was young, naive and was focused solely on ticking the big sites off my bucket list: Central Park, Rockefeller Centre, NBC Studios, The Natural History Museum, a Mets game. We done it all.
This time around, I was determined to explore a little further. This included getting to know Brooklyn a little better – even if it was just dipping my toes into one area: Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO.
Finding The Real New York & The True Kindness of Locals
I travelled to New York with one of my best friends in 2010, we were only 17 and 18 years old, so nowhere near the US legal drinking age; but that wasn’t what our trip was about. In the lead up to the trip, so many people asked me what I was most excited about – Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central Park, Shopping? But it wasn’t any of those. I simply said I would be happy to stand in Manhattan and people watch, just take in the culture and customs, observe the everyday New Yorker going to work, buy a bagel and ride the subway to Brooklyn.
I wanted to find out what it was really like to be in New York.
Natural History Museum, New York
I am a MASSIVE geek, so a trip to the Natural History Museum seemed like an obvious choice when I visited New York; if I didn’t work in Marketing, I think I would be a paleontologist.