At the start of your delightful Private Celebrity Sightseeing Tour of New York, you will be picked up in a chauffeur-driven car from your hotel. Alternatively you can meet the vehicle and driver at the Pulitzer Fountain by the Plaza Hotel – 5th Avenue, between 58th and 59th Streets. A choice of start times is available for this 3-hour tour.
They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, which is why New York lies at the heart of the celebrity and pop culture universe. This incredible city has featured in countless films, been serenaded by some of the biggest artists of all time, and is home to some of the most famous and recognisable people on the planet. They don’t call it the Big Apple for nothing!
This fun-packed tour takes you to see past or present New York homes of some of the world’s most celebrated people, including Sting, Denzel Washington, Madonna, Bob Costas, Babe Ruth, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Portman, Tiger Woods, Steven Spielberg, Donna Karan, Steve Jobs, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Bono, Steve Martin, Bruce Willis, Dodi Al Fayed, Aaron Spelling, Rita Hayworth, Ashton Kutcher, Jerry Seinfeld, Diana Ross, John McEnroe and Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
You will also visit locations featured in famous films such as Taxi Driver, Cloverfield, Edward Scissorhands, Ghostbusters, Single White Female, You’ve Got Mail, Night At The Museum, Spider-Man, The International, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, The Godfather, North By Northwest, Armageddon, Carlito’s Way, I Am Legend, Men In Black, Revolutionary Road, The Fisher King, The Taking of Pelham 123, Superman: The Movie, King Kong and Wall Street.
Plus, your chauffeur will take you lots of other fascinating venues such as:
• The theatre that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Jackson 5, Patti LaBelle, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill.
• The Harlem hotel frequented by Louis Armstrong, Sugar Ray Robinson, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Jimi Hendrix.
• The highest-priced apartment building in the history of New York.
• The private girls’ school attended by Paris Hilton, Lady GaGa, several of the Kennedy clan and Chicago’s Roxie Hart.
• The luxury apartment building where John Lennon lived before his murder.
• The café from Seinfeld.
• And much, much more…
This is a drive-past tour. You will not enter any of the places of interest but there will be plenty of photo-stops so you can record your memorable day.
At the end of your tour you will be dropped back at the place where you were picked up.