🗽🍎Big Apple, Small Budget: How We Did NYC Without Breaking the Bank 

In this episode, we’re breaking down our New York City trip and exactly how we travel hacked it—from affordable flights to where we stayed, ate, and explored in the Big Apple 🗽✈️

If NYC feels overwhelming or expensive, this episode proves it doesn’t have to be.

✈️ Flights

• Flew Southwest Airlines
• Paid cash (sometimes cheap cash beats points!)
• ~$100 per person round trip
• Route: Denver (DEN) → LaGuardia (LGA)

🏨 Where We Stayed

• La Quinta – Times Square
• Central location, walkable, and budget-friendly for NYC
• Booked using Wyndham points

🌮 Food We Ate (No Skipping This Part)

• Los Tacos No. 1 – lived up to the hype
• Kings of Kobe – quick bites done right
• Carmine’s – family-style Italian

🎭 Things We Did

• 9/11 Memorial & Museum – powerful and moving
• Statue of Liberty Ferry – classic NYC experience
• Broadway: SIX – SO good (and surprisingly fun even if you’re not a theater person)
• Bert Kreischer Comedy Show – laughed the entire night
• Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour – perfect for first-timers and getting the lay of the land

Whether you’re planning your first NYC trip or looking to do it smarter, this episode is packed with real-life travel tips and honest reviews.

🎧 Listen now and start planning your own NYC adventure—without the NYC price tag.

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