Empire State Building

Any suggestions on best time to beat the lines at the Empire State Building, day of the week or time? With your ticket can you go back up late at night(a second time? Any tips will help as we are going in Oct. with 81 yr.old mom and hope not to stand inline too long!!!

Empire State Building

About 3-4 in the afternoon.

Empire State Building

Are you only allowed on the Observation deck for an allocated amount of time??

Diva..you can stay up there till they close if you wish.

Hi Kerry,

Think you can stay up there as long as you want.

Hope you are OK

Cathy

Thanks Daisiegee, Cathy. We were looking to go up about 7 which I guess would be one of the busiest times! Be nice to see sundown and the city changing from day-light to dark.

I%26#39;m well thx Cathy how%26#39;s you? Only 10 days to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Kerry, (Sorry Trudy to hijack your post) ;o)

I%26#39;m fine thanks, i have been sorting a few things for hols today - and looking at itinery. I am so excited - I keep counting the days - only got 8 more days to work now - got the Friday off - having my hair done! At least it will start the holiday straight

Didn%26#39;t know when you were planning on going up the ESB but thought this website might help you - it%26#39;s one of Daisygees http://www.sunrisesunset.com/ it was on this forum a little while back - it tells you when the sunrises and sets (it sets 6.39pm on 1/10, 6.32pm on the Big Day)

We can%26#39;t decide when to go up - were planning on going up on first night but not sure now as think I might of found out there is a night loop bus tour that we can do. Graham has now decided he would like to go up morning and night. Definately going to book tickets on line before we go - that will save one lot of queues.

How%26#39;s the dress?

Take Care

Cathy

Kerry, Be careful about your timing on ESB. When you will be here the sun will be setting at about 6:30 PM and you want to be at the top a bit before then. Ken

Our wait was about 1 1/2hours...the hallway was very HOT... (in March) NO chairs, then one elevator wasn%26#39;t working for the top floors so the wait was even longer unless you wanted to walk 4or 5 flights. We had hoped to see sunset, was was dark by the time we finally got up. Just my experience.

it opens at 8am now - we went in June at approx 830am and were straight to the top with no Q%26#39;s at all. After around an hour up top in was getting kinda busy and hard to move around so we left.(we had our 2 yr old in a stroller) Purchase your tickets on line as well and you won%26#39;t have to Q to buy them on the day.

www.esbny.com

enjoy!

You can shorten your waiting time if you%26#39;re willing to pay $30. When we went, there were young people wearing yellow T-shirts that were offering a skyride/observatory package for $30. If you decide to do this, they take you to a door on 33rd St. where you buy the tickets. We skipped the skyride, and it only took 25-30 minutes to get to the top (the wait outside was posted at 1.5 hrs.) I didn%26#39;t buy tickets online in advance because I wasn%26#39;t sure we would have time to go, so we didn%26#39;t mind paying the extra money to save time.