For your exciting New York Gossip Girl Sites there is no hotel pick-up, so you should make your way to the meeting point at 51st Street & Madison Avenue (in front of The Palace Hotel). Look for the blue umbrellas with the activity operator’s logo. Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes before departure time.
Based on the hit young-adult book series by Cecily von Ziegesar, the popular show Gossip Girl focuses on the lives of privileged, attractive, Upper East Side private-school kids.
The show’s producer Amy Kaufman explains how important the City is to the series. “New York City is a character in the story, it’s not just a setting,” she says. “It figures into the energy of the show and the way the story unfolds.”
You will set off with your local actress guide in an air-conditioned vehicle to visit more than 40 Gossip Girl locations. On the way you will find out behind the scenes information and little known facts about the cast and crew of the show.
During the tour you will:
• Visit the hotel that is home to the Bass and Van der Woodsen families, where so many of the scenes from Gossip Girl take place
• Be "spotted" by that most ubiquitous blogger at the Constance Billard School for Girls/St. Jude School for Boys
• See the Upper East Side mansion that was the site of the Bass/Van der Woodsen wedding
• Pass the lavish Fifth Avenue building that Blair Waldorf calls home
• Shop at Henri Bendel where Blair and Serena shop
• Go on location to the NYU campus, where Dan and Vanessa go to school
At the end of your fantastic tour you will be dropped at Union Square. You will then need to make arrangements to return to your accommodation.