New York City!!! Well here it is. An amazing trip for an amazing group! Please note that all times listed are a best case scenario. By this we mean we plan our times and events carefully, but we re always at the mercy of things we can t control; things such as traffic and weather. KEEP THIS ITINERARY WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES. It is your guide. Enjoy! BRING A SMALL UMBRELLA! Of course we hope for good weather, but we have to plan for rain too. There ARE times/places that you will be walking, REGARDLESS of the weather. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU needs an umbrella, small enough to pack in your suitcase. Please do not be the one who Mother Nature teaches the full lesson to! STREETS IN NYC: THE EASIEST SYSTEM EVER! It s easy to find your way in New York, as the city is on a grid system. AVENUES run north and south. STREETS run east and west. All locations/intersections are noted as in the following example: 5 Ave and 42 St. that s the intersection! If you need to find that intersection and you were on 4th Ave, then you need to go over one avenue to 5th. Once on 5th Ave, (let s say you were at 5th Ave and 30th St), start walking. If the next street is 31, then 32 you re walking the right direction to get to 42 St. If however, the numbers are decreasing (30, 29, 28 ) you re walking the wrong direction!) -TABLE OF CONTENTS- PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 9 Introduction DAY 1 - Wednesday DAY 2 - Thursday DAY 3 - Friday DAY 4 - Saturday DAY 5 - Sunday 9/11 Information Strawberry Fields Information The RULES Some things to think about! Packing list Emergency contact information PAGE 1
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 TH 6:15am Loading crews arrive. There has to be some perks to arriving earlier. You get to choose your seats first! Loading Crews: Bus A: Senior Band Clarinet Section Bus B: Intermediate Band Trumpet Section Bus C: Junior Band Clarinet Section NOTE TO ALL STUDENTS: You MUST travel on the bus that you have been assigned to AT ALL TIMES. Under no circumstances are any students to transfer to a different bus at any time, as this will cause all kinds of problems with our head count. 6:30am 7:00am All students to arrive at CCI with luggage. Note: One suitcase only. You can also bring munchies with you for the hotel room. (It s cheaper to bring them with you!) You can also bring a backpack on the bus. MAKE SURE YOUR PASSPORT IS IN YOUR BACKPACK. Buses leave for New York City. Note: We will be changing drivers somewhere near Niagara. These new drivers will be with us for the duration of the trip. We will be watching some movies on route. If you have a movie that you would like to bring/show (DVD only), please bring it along. DO NOT bring a movie that is inappropriate in any manner. 12:00pm 7:00pm Lunch on route. Approx. Arrive Hotel. The Hotel is called The Paul, HOTEL ADDRESS: 32 WEST 29th St. (Near the intersection of 6th Ave and 29th St.) and is only minutes away from Times Square! Note: Upon arriving at hotel, all luggage crews to take luggage and place on curb. All other students please stay on buses. We will then check in to the Hotel. Ideally (depending on timing/traffic etc.) we will have dinner after checking in to the Hotel. There are all kinds of local restaurants to choose from. NOTE: Students MUST have a buddy at all times. If you do not have a buddy, you re OUR buddy! Under no circumstances are students to be on their own at any time. NOTE: At all times in the hotel, be polite and respectful of others who are also staying at the hotel. 9:00pm 10:00pm 10:30pm Everyone back to the Hotel. Everyone back in their own rooms. Lights out. PAGE 2
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 TH 8:00am 9:00am 9:45am 10:00am 12:00pm 1:15pm 1:30pm 2:00pm Rise and Shine! Breakfast Board Buses at Hotel. New York Bus Tour! Learn about the city you re in with the help of a professional New York Tour Guide! Tour Ends at the Theatre for Phantom of the Opera. Address is 244 West 44th St. LUNCH. Times Square is only 2 blocks away! Arrive at Theatre and get tickets. EVERYONE in the theatre. We will be outside the main entrance to the theatre. You will get your ticket from us there. DO NOT BE LATE. Phantom begins! 4:30pm 5:15pm 5:30pm 7:00pm Phantom Ends. LEAVE IMMEDIATELY for 9/11 Monument and Museum. Flip to the back of this Itinerary and read the intro to 9/11 on the way. It s important to do this. Arrive 9/11 site. Tour Begins. Tour Ends. Return to Hotel. 7:45pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 10:30pm Fashionably late dinner within one block of the hotel. Everyone back in Hotel. Everyone in their own rooms. Lights out. PAGE 3
FRIDAY, MAY 1 ST 6:30am 7:00am 8:00am 9:00am 10:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 7:00pm Rise and Shine! Breakfast. Board buses for Radio City Music Hall Tour. Address is 1260 Avenue of the Americas. Tour begins. Note: We will be stagger-started for the tour (15 minutes difference), and sort this out once we are there. Walk to Central Park to Strawberry Fields, the dedication Park for John Lennon of the Beatles. John Lennon s apartment, where he was shot, is right across the street from the Park. Flip to the back of this Itinerary and read more on Strawberry Fields. Lunch at Times Square. Meet at Time s Square, walk to Madame Tussaud s. Address is 234 West 42nd St. Enter Tussaud s. Be sure to have your camera ready! There are many musical celebrities celebrated there. Leave Tussaud s and walk back as a group to Hotel. (Bus if Raining) Dinner within 1 block of Hotel. Board Bus in front of Hotel to go to the Broadway Show Jersey Boys. This is an AWESOME show! Address is 245 West 52nd St. They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard and the radio just couldn t get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story -- a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award -winning true-life musical phenomenon, JERSEY BOYS. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that s just too good to be true!! 8:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm Show begins. Show Ends. Board Bus, and straight back to Hotel. Everyone straight to their own rooms please. Lights out. PAGE 4
SATURDAY, MAY 2 ND 7:30am 9:00am Rise and shine. (Woohoo! Sleeping in!) Walking tour of one of the most famous shopping districts in the world. 5th Ave in NYC! A X Armani Exchange 645 Fifth Ave., Abercrombie & Fitch 720 Fifth Ave., American Girl Place 609 Fifth Ave., The Apple Store 767 Fifth Ave., Baby Gap 680 Fifth Ave., Bergdorf Goodman 754 Fifth Ave., Bergdorf Men's 745 Fifth Ave., Best Buy Midtown 529 5th Ave,. Blanc De Chine 673 5th Ave., Bottega Veneta 699 Fifth Ave., Brooks Brothers 666 Fifth Ave., Bulgari 730 Fifth Ave., Cartier 653 Fifth Ave., Cole Hann 141 Fifth Ave., De Beers 703 Fifth Ave., Emilio Pucci 701 Fifth Ave., Ermenegildo Zegna 730 Fifth Ave., Escada 715 Fifth Ave., Faconnable 636 Fifth Ave., FAO Schwarz 767 Fifth Ave., Fendi 677 Fifth Ave, Fortunoff 681 Fifth Ave., Gant 645 Fifth Ave., Gap 122 Fifth Ave., Gianni Versace 647 Fifth Ave., Gucci 725 Fifth Ave., H. Stern 645 Fifth Ave., H & M 640 Fifth Ave., Harry Winston 718 Fifth Ave., Henri Bendel 712 Fifth Ave., Hugo Boss 717 Fifth Ave., Kenneth Cole 95 Fifth Ave., Louis Vuitton 611 57th St., Mexx 650 Fifth Ave., Mikimoto & Piaget 730 Fifth Ave., NBA Store 666 Fifth Ave., Nine West 675 Fifth Ave., Prada 724 Fifth Ave., Saks Fifth Avenue 611 Fifth Ave., Salvatore Ferragamo 655 Fifth Ave., Sephora 597 Fifth Ave., Sergio Rossi 685 Fifth Ave., Takashimaya 693 Fifth Ave., Tiffany & Co. 727 Fifth Ave., Trump Tower 725 Fifth Ave., Van Cleef & Arpels 744 Fifth Ave., World of Disney Store 711 Fifth Ave., Zara 101, 500 & 689 Fifth Ave. 11:30am 1:15pm 2:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 6:30pm 7:15pm 8:00pm 9:30pm 10:15pm 11:00pm 11:30pm Meet as a group IN FRONT of the Disney Store: Address is 711 5th Ave. Lunch down in Times Square Area. We will walk to the Mamma Mia Theatre first so that you can get your bearings. MEET IN FRONT OF THEATRE FOR MAMMA MIA. Address is: 233 West 44th St. Show begins. Show Ends. We will be taking the bus back to the hotel, NOT walking. FAST Dinner back at the hotel within a 1 block radius. Leave via bus for STOMP 126 2nd Ave Arrive Stomp Stomp begins. Stomp Ends. Board Bus. Back to Hotel. Arrive Hotel. Everyone in their own rooms. Lights out. PAGE 5
SUNDAY, MAY 3 RD 7:00am 8:00am 8:30am 9:00am Rise and Shine! Pack. Quick Breakfast All luggage to buses and load. Leave NYC. NOTE: We will have lunch and dinner on route back home. 9:00pm Approx. time back in Collingwood! 9/11 INFORMATION WHAT IS 9/11? 9/11 is shorthand for a date, September 11, 2001. That day, 19 men hijacked four commercial airplanes. They intentionally flew three of the planes into buildings: the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, the headquarters for the armed forces of the United States, located just outside Washington, D.C. The Twin Towers ultimately collapsed because of damage from the impact of the hijacked planes. Hijackers turned the fourth plane off course and headed to Washington, D.C., likely to be crashed into the U.S. Capitol building. The passengers and crew aboard that plane fought back, and the plane instead crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed as a result of the 9/11 attacks, including people from more than 90 nations. WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL WORLD TRADE CENTER? The original World Trade Center was a 16-acre complex in lower Manhattan, a busy part of New York City. The World Trade Center included seven buildings, a large plaza, and an underground shopping mall. Thousands of people worked and visited there every day. The centerpieces of the complex were the Twin Towers. On September 11, 2001, the entire World Trade Center was destroyed. What were the Twin Towers? The 110-story Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in New York City. For a brief period, they were the tallest buildings in the world. They were called the Twin Towers because they were nearly identical. You could tell them apart, though, because the North Tower had an antenna on its roof. The towers were well known throughout the world and famous for their size. The North Tower, 1 WTC, stood 1,368 feet tall, and the South Tower, 2 WTC, stood 1,362 feet tall. On clear days, views could extend 45 miles from the top of 4 the towers in every direction far enough to see all five New York City boroughs, New Jersey, and Connecticut. WHY DID THE TERRORISTS DO THIS? The hijackers were terrorists, meaning that they used violence to try to frighten other people and impose a particular point of view. They belonged to a terrorist group called al-qaeda. The terrorists hoped that by attacking important buildings in the United States and hurting many people, they would force the United States into changing its foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Why is the Museum located below ground? The Museum is located belowground because remnants of the original World Trade Center buildings are still visible below ground, and it is the Museum s job to preserve them so they can be seen by visitors like you. In addition to these building remnants, the Museum is filled with artifacts that help tell the story of 9/11. PAGE 6
STRAWBERRY FIELDS INFORMATION Strawberry Fields Located near Central Park West between 71st and 74th Streets, Strawberry Fields is a 2.5 acre area of Central Park that pays tribute to the late Beatle, John Lennon, singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist. John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono lived in the Dakota Apartments adjacently located to this area of the park. It was here, walking into his home, on December 8, 1980, that John Lennon was murdered and shot dead. To commemorate his life, talents and memory, on March 26, 1981, City Council Member Henry J. Stern designated this area, the couple's favorite in Central Park, as Strawberry Fields. Named after the title of the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever," the teardrop shaped region was re-landscaped by the Central Park Conservancy with the help of landscape architect Bruce Kelley and a generous $1 million donation from Yoko Ono. The iconic black and white Imagine mosaic, designed by a team of artists from the Italian city of Naples, lies in the center of Strawberry Fields. Named after another famous song by John Lennon, "Imagine" evokes a vision and hope for a world without strife, war and conflict. Additionally, there is a bronze plaque that lists the more than 120 countries that planted flowers and donated money for the maintenance of the area; they have also endorsed Strawberry Fields as a Garden of Peace. PAGE 7
THE RULES The following rules are mostly issues of common sense and basic respect for each other. By following these simple guidelines, the whole trip runs MUCH more smoothly! Thank you for adhering to these flawlessly. 1) When we are travelling to and from New York, we will have the opportunity to watch movies on the coach. You may bring a movie (DVD) if you wish, but DO NOT bring a movie that has inappropriate content or language. 2) Always be polite and respectful to our drivers, and make sure all garbage on the bus gets up to the front of the bus and into the garbage container. 3) Our chaperones have kindly volunteered their time to be with you. At all times, be polite and respectful to these people! 4) Staying in a hotel with your friends is a lot of fun. Having said that, you need to follow all basic rules of the Hotel, and absolutely respect that there are other guests there as well. We operate on the principle that you and your room-mates are fully responsible for each other. If there is a problem with one person in your room, we fully expect that the others in the room will immediately address the given issue before it needs the attention or intervention of a teacher or chaperone. Rooms that do not follow basic guidelines of respect in any manner will be subject to a loss of privilege of further sharing this room. 5) We are running some very long days with a VERY large group. It is absolutely imperative that everyone follow the times in the itinerary EXACTLY. DO NOT be late for anything. In fact, be 5 minutes early for everything! 6) In the evening, you will see two times listed. One is to be back in your own room. The second is for lights out. Please make no mistake as to what each of these sentences mean! 7) Make sure you have set a time/method to phone your parents during the trip. Phone calls cannot be made from your hotel room. 8) Be careful with cell phones in the States. DO NOT run data unless you have a plan. Airplane mode is your friend unless you want a monstrous bill. And finally, ALWAYS keep a positive spirit about you. It s contagious! PAGE 8
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT MONEY The cost of your trip includes the following: 1) All transportation by motor coach. 2) 4 Nights Accommodations at The Paul Hotel. 3) Broadway shows: Stomp, Mama Mia, Jersey Boys, and Phantom of the Opera 4) Guided Bus Tour 5) Madam Tussaud s Wax Museum. 6) Radio City Music Hall Backstage Tour. MEALS Meals are not included in the cost of the trip, as there are vastly different eating habits between all of you. Some of you eat very lightly while others of you are non-stop eating machines. With this in mind, we don t include the meal costs in the costs of our trip so that one person doesn t end up paying for another. This is the fairest approach to everyone on the trip. What you eat, you eat. What it costs, it costs. Here is a breakdown of the meals you will need to cover. THE FOLLOWING IS A GUIDE FOR A MEDIUM EATER. Please adjust as you see fit. NOTE: Please do any currency exchanging BEFORE you leave for this trip. All figures below are in U.S. dollars -6 Breakfasts @ $8.00 each -5 Lunches @ $10.00 each -5 Dinners @ $20.00 each MUNCHIES If possible, it's good to plan for $5.00-10.00 each day for munchies/drinks etc. Again, remember to think in terms of U.S. dollars. You may also pack munchies in your suitcase to bring with you. SPENDING MONEY This amount is totally up to each individual. Again, please think in terms of your needs in U.S. currency. PACKING LIST: CHECK THIS CAREFULLY!! 1) PASSPORT: DO NOT PACK IN YOUR SUITCASE. YOU NEED THIS ON THE BUS!!! 2) THIS ITINERARY! 3) Everything in ONE suitcase. (You can bring a small carry-on knapsack if you want.) 4) Canadian and U.S. $$'s 5) Raincoat/umbrella 6) Enough clothing to get you through the trip. 7) DVDs for viewing on the bus. NOTE: The weather in New York at this time of year is hard to predict. The temperature can typically range from 10-20 Celsius! Their spring temps are a lot like ours. The following numbers are to be used in an emergency only! Mr. Hamlin Cell: 705-444-9664 Mr. Bell Cell: 705-309-5057 PAGE 9