16hr layover in New York.
Our trip from Hamburg to Mexico was going to be around 30 hours, it is usually around 16 hours, but ours was double because we opted for having a 16 hour layover in a city we had never visited before. I had created a list of things I wanted to do during our layover in NYC and was very excited. We arrived around 1 pm, it was surreal being in the airport. We were ecstatic, finally New York City ! But when we saw our checked in luggage waiting for us at baggage claim, we were a little let down. We were definitely not going to be walking around the city dragging our suitcases. I don't know what we were expecting, it's not like they would keep our bags overnight in an airplane that was probably not even there yet, haha. We walked around the airport trying to figure out what to do. Our best option was to leave the suitcases in a sort of baggage hold in the airport at $5.00 per bag. But since they closed from 10 pm - 7 am we would have to cut our time in the city short, ...