Looking to blow $500 doing something awesome in NYC

January 4, 2009 1:09 PM

I am looking for something completely awesome to do in NYC on January 17 or 18 for <$500. Anything goes!
posted by HotToddy to travel & transportation (16 comments total)

Box seats at Orfeo ed Euridice after dinner somewhere fancy.
posted by zoomorphic at 1:16 PM on January 4 [1 favorite has favorites]

eat the prix-fixe menu at jean-georges - www.jean-georges.com for details ... it definitely qualifies as fancy
posted by you're only jung once at 1:55 PM on January 4

jean georges - after a genuinely too long amount of time I have worked out how to link - oh the humanity
posted by you're only jung once at 2:09 PM on January 4

Take me to Per Se. That would be awesome.
posted by allkindsoftime at 2:19 PM on January 4

*Per Se
posted by allkindsoftime at 2:20 PM on January 4

I third Per Se - though you might spend more than $500 depending on your wine taste!
posted by JpMaxMan at 3:16 PM on January 4

Helicopter ride over Manhattan?

$275? For one dinner? For that, I could have ten awesome meals in NYC.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 3:19 PM on January 4

Sadly, Per Se books their reservations 2 months in advance. :(
posted by cazoo at 4:30 PM on January 4

I do already have our meals planned (including Jean-Georges!) but am looking for other, non-food activities.
posted by HotToddy at 4:34 PM on January 4

Famous Fat Dave's Five Borough Eating Tour On The Wheels of Steel. It ain't Per Se, but it is hardcore NYC. $450 for 4.5 hours.
posted by micawber at 7:23 PM on January 4

oops. on preview, you said other non-food activities. you could do the all-dessert tour, however.
posted by micawber at 7:24 PM on January 4

Not exactly NY, but go to the Nightmare of You show in Hoboken on the 17th, and the view of NY from Hoboken is breathtaking at night. And then you still have ~$470 to spend on any of the other suggestions here.
posted by KateHasQuestions at 7:28 PM on January 4

here's the link for the Nightmare of You show venue.
posted by KateHasQuestions at 7:29 PM on January 4

Go to a spa, I'm sure there is some funky Japanese ritual spa somewhere, this account of the Cornelia Day Spa sounds interesting. Looks like you could blow big money there easily . . .
posted by jeremias at 7:45 PM on January 4

try looking at the nonsense nyc board - it's low rent stuff but they've usually got something for everyone
posted by you're only jung once at 7:00 AM on January 5

Thanks! We did Famous Fat Dave's tour and it was great. Highly recommended!
posted by HotToddy at 8:25 PM on January 28