We want to help you have a great time when you visit the city, but you are not paying us and we are not going to do all the work. If you want help planning your trip, you need to provide us specific information about you. We all love to have fun, see cool things and eat food. That is not specific detail. You will get more help and better help if you can be specific.

Great posts that have gotten lots of good information include specific details about what people are fans of and the kinds of things they like to do. If you’re looking for meals or experiences, please provide a budget in actual numerical dollars. “Cheap” or “$$” is subjective. Tell us the dollar amount you want to spend per person.

By way of example: saying you like a good bar is not helpful, but saying you're a huge fan of negronis and would love to try New York City's best is. But you could also say that your idea of a great bar is an old wooden place with gruff bartenders and its own local beers, and you're really looking to stay in Manhattan - that's also specific enough that we can help.

If you have an itinerary or rough sketch of one already and need help finding a few last pieces - we are great at that! If you have no idea where to start, Google "NYC itinerary for X days", try ChatGPT, or search this subreddit - but don't just come and post your ChatGPT spit out here. You need to do your own work a bit and then come ask for advice.

We really do want to assist you, but it's pretty rude to just post "we are coming next week and we are [ages], we like food and fun, plan our trip for us!"