UdoR wrote:
Watch out for the thugs, the brawlers, pickpockets, terrorists, DEA Enforcements, cabdrivers, gypsy cabs, drugdealers and gangmembers and you'll be fine!

When you booked the flight, didn't you have to do the study the floor plan and answer the 250 questions for the LaGuardia arrivals and behaviour exam?

I am stunned!!!

Udo , as a native NY'er it annoys me when people talk badly about my city -So good they named it Twice!

safiraangel wrote:
Lol Udo you're making me feel so much more confident about this trip

You are welcome!

As Duncan said, it's really not that bad.

Cab to the city has a standard rate, from JFK it's I think $35, but LaGuardia is much closer to Manhattan and maybe less.

Don't know about the public bus situation and there is no subway to LGA and I think that the M60 may go to Manhattan, that would be $2, but one of the private Busservices may charge you like 10 bucks.

LGA is quite easy to navigate, cute little airport...

Duncan wrote:

Udo , as a native NY'er it annoys me when people talk badly about my city -So good they named it Twice!

Hey, hey, hey... I didn't talk badly about our city... but with love in my voice... didn't 'ya hear it?

Oh, I live in the city since 1992, lived in Kew Gardens Hills, Rego Park and Astoria in Queens (all close to both airports), and lived in every boro, except the Bronx and Staten Island.

safiraangel wrote:
I'm just curious since there are alot of New Yorkers on here. How hard is it to find your way around in LaGuardia? I'm flying in tomorrow afternoon and I'll admit that I don't fly much so i'm already half-terrified. How bad is the airport? Thanks for any help.

Well, put it this way, it's a whole lot better than JFK in terms of feel.

00siris wrote:

Well, put it this way, it's a whole lot better than JFK in terms of feel.

And allow more time than you might expect to actually get into the city.

00siris wrote:
Well, put it this way, it's a whole lot better than JFK in terms of feel.

Yeah but it's a lot easier to get to the City from JFK than it is from La Guardia (and cheaper too).

Howard Garcia wrote:
Just be carefull when you go to pick up your bags, you may be approached by some guys offering you a limo ride, don't do it.
They may over charge you or worse. Those guys are not licensed to operate out of the airports.

Correct... and then there are the cabbies who will drive you for sex... by offering you TFP's... you know... Taxi For P#$$y...

UdoR wrote:
[Correct... and then there are the cabbies who will drive you for sex... by offering you TFP's... you know... Taxi For P#$$y...

LOL!!!

safiraangel wrote:
Wow thank you for all the responses. Luckily the hotel i'll be staying at has a shuttle service from the airport so i don"t have to worry about that part. Lol i feel like such a country bumpkin as i'm finishing everything up to go.

i just looked @ your port.
no worries, you'll fit right in around here ;-)

UnoMundo Photography wrote:
You will be mugged robbed and taken to the subway in chains.

You know when I left NY to live in Oklahoma I did not believe the crap  that I would hear about NY. . The fear that is taught in the OK/TX region about LA and NY are mind boggling.


You think I want to go to Vidor Texas?

The funny thing is I'm not actually scared of being mugged or anything like that. I'm more scared of of getting lost and not getting where i need to be on time than anything else. I'm not used to traveling by myself so it's a little weird.

Brian Diaz wrote:
Don't worry; it's easy.

That's awesome thank you for the link. i feel like an idiot because i didn't think to look it up.....

safiraangel wrote:

The funny thing is I'm not actually scared of being mugged or anything like that. I'm more scared of of getting lost and not getting where i need to be on time than anything else. I'm not used to traveling by myself so it's a little weird.

Just remember, that you will be paying four times as much for everything in NY.

And stop saying excuse me a like a good Texan, get the elbows up amd move folks out the way!

UnoMundo Photography wrote:
You know when I left NY to live in Oklahoma I did not believe the crap  that I would hear about NY. . The fear that is taught in the OK/TX region about LA and NY are mind boggling.

You mean how like at LAX (and yes I mean Los Angeles International... not a typo) we have guys with Uzis (error?) and big gang members with low riders and celebrities all over the place?  HAHAH!

I didn't get to experience LAG myself but did do JFK and found it no different than any of the other 20 airports I've flown into.  Personally I liked ATL just because of the sweet ladies with the Georgian accents :-)  My favorite?  The commuter terminal out of Carlsbad, California... why?  Because they still use those big sets of stairs to get on the planes... I feel so vintage getting on a prop plane to Phoenix from there!

Good luck!