NYE in Times Square NY (questions for anyone that has ever been)

[cornflake]

There are seriously no bathrooms to use? no port-a -potties or McDonalds or Starbucks available? I would never survive or I would be squatting behind a car into a cup because my bladder lasts about 1.5 hours unless I'm cold then it is less.

I always wanted to go there but I don't think I would make it/

Good luck if you go. Seems like a once in a lifetime thing.

There's a McDonald's and another fast food thing in Times Square, though I think they close early on New Year's Eve (and don't have the capacity for that kind of crowd to use their bathroom, heh), but regardless the issue is that if you leave your pen, you're not allowed back in once the pens are full.

So if you want to go to the bathroom, or go search for food, you can't get back to your spot, and as people show up hours early to claim the spots.... you see the deal. You couldn't go behind a car either, because you'd have left the pen. Once the pens get filled, they only allow people out of them, not in and out.

 

[mjkacmom]

im in jersey 10 min from times square and you wont catch me there either..i have done it once or twice so i guess for a newbie it seems exciting.. if u feel this is something you must do please do not take a child with you..you do have to be there very early..you will be standing for about 6 hrs with no where to sit or go to the bathroom..cuz you cant move you will be very cold..your 11 year old will not appreciate this until they are teenagers..take her to the marriot marquis instead, its a revolving restaurant that she would prob love..it has great views of the city..then get out before 10pm. good luck

I'm 10 minutes out, too, and just don't have a bladder of steel, which is definitely needed. Plus, I'm clautrophobic - I'd be in panic mode. Wonder how many folks there are wearing depends...