I travelled during the Easter holidays to New York with my 2 children aged 11/15 years, we stayed overnight in New York before and after the cruise. When we arrived, we headed straight to our hotel and dropped off our bags. We then headed straight to Times Square where we enjoyed the Rise NY experience – this is an indoor ride attraction – like Disney’s soaring ride! It was ideal as the weather was terrible on arrival. The next day we got up early for sunrise – I knew with jetlag we would be up so decided to make the most! We took the Roosevelt tram way across the river to watch the sunrise over Manhattan, after this we headed to the Home Alone’s Park Plaza hotel near central park! We then called for breakfast at the famous Ellen Stardust diner. Next stop was Top of the Rocks – Rockefeller centre for the most amazing views of the city, it was a beautiful day, we could see for miles. We called at St Pats Cathedral and Radio city before heading to the cruise ship. We sailed on MSC Meraviglia from Brooklyn cruise port, calling at Cape Canaveral, Oceans Cay and Nassau in the Bahamas it was a fabulous 7-night cruise. The ship is a large ship of 5.6k passengers so not for everyone, it has so much to offer everyone with great entertainments programme, kids club, waterpark and high ropes course to name a few. The ship has 22 bars and 12 different dining venues. My cabin was a balcony aft cabin overlooking the wake of the ship which is our favourite location, it consisted of a double and full-size bunk beds. It is our 4 MSC cruise and we love them. Back in New York we had a full on 2 days visiting The Edge, One World Observatory, The Oculus, Madison Square Garden’s private tour, The Ride bus tour, Central Park, Empire state building, we walked the high line, visited little island, Macys and much more! I pre booked everything before I went using the go city app. The whole trip was amazing from start to finish with memories to last a lifetime.