Things to Do
Things to Do — City Guides Built to Be Booked From
Each city guide opens with what to do first, what is free and what to skip, then works through the districts and day trips, and ends with the airport and the hotels — with live booking links for the city.
Things to Do in Chicago
Chicago rewards people who look up and people who walk. The skyline is the country's best architecture lesson, and the neighbourhoods beyond the Loop are where the city actually lives.
Things to Do in Miami
Miami is three cities: the beach with its Art Deco hotels, the mainland with its murals and Cuban cafés, and the wet green world an hour west. Give each a day.
Things to Do in Orlando
Orlando is the theme-park capital of the world and knows it; the trick is choosing which parks, in which order, and leaving a day for the springs and the old neighbourhoods most visitors never see.
Things to Do in Las Vegas
Vegas is a four-mile stage set with a desert around it that most visitors never touch. Do the Strip properly, then get out to Red Rock before dawn and you'll understand why locals stay.
Things to Do in New York
New York's checklist is long and mostly worth it. The difference between a good trip and a great one is doing the icons early and leaving whole afternoons for a single neighbourhood.
Things to Do in Toronto
Toronto is a city of neighbourhoods strung along a lake, with one very tall tower to orient by. The islands ferry, the two markets and a Niagara day are the spine of any first visit.
Things to Do in Paris
Paris is best done as a series of neighbourhood days with one landmark each, not as a checklist. The museums are the world's; the streets between them are the reason you came.
Things to Do in Tokyo
Tokyo is a dozen cities pretending to be one. Do it by district — one or two a day, connected by the JR Yamanote loop — and leave one day for the mountains or the sea.
Things to Do in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a region, not a city, and the freeway is part of the itinerary. Group the day by geography — Westside, Hollywood, Downtown — and you'll spend it seeing things instead of crossing them.
Things to Do in Vancouver
Vancouver has mountains at the end of the street and the sea at the other end. Ride the seawall, eat at Granville Island, cross a suspension bridge and you have the city; the Sea-to-Sky Highway and Vancouver Island are the extensions.
Things to Do in London
London's museums are free, its parks are royal, and its neighbourhoods are former villages with their own high streets. Do one landmark and one village a day and the city opens up.
Things to Do in Honolulu
Honolulu is the city; Oahu is the island. Give Waikiki its due, then rent a car or a driver for Pearl Harbor, the windward beaches and the North Shore — they are the reason to come.
Things to Do in Rome
Rome stacks 2,700 years on top of itself. The way through is to take one layer a day — ancient, papal, baroque, everyday — and to book the two big tickets before you leave home.
Things to Do in Barcelona
Barcelona is Gaudí's city, a medieval city, a beach city and a food city, all within a bike ride. Book the Sagrada Família first, then let the Gothic Quarter and the sea fill the rest.
Things to Do in Cancun
Cancun's beach is the reason people come and the least of what's here. The cenotes, the Maya ruins, the reef and the islands are all within two hours — book a driver and go.
Things to Do in Amsterdam
Amsterdam is small, flat and made for a bicycle. Book the three museums before you fly, rent a bike on arrival, and let the canal ring and the neighbourhoods behind it do the rest.
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