How to live a few days in New York as a true film prota

What have I ever fantasized about the idea of belonging to Manhattan's elite and being a friend of Serena van der Woodsen?You are right.What would I like to eat some ‘cupcakes’ with Carrie Bradshaw in Magnolia Bakery?Also.What would be one more from the gang of Rachel, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey and be able to share apartment with them in New York?Evidently.This is what the magic of cinema and television has: it is enough for us just to tighten the 'play' button to forget the routine for a couple of hours, get into the skin of our favorite characters and travel from its central hand Park, Fifth Avenue, the Upper East Side, its favorite restaurants ... and of course, after having seen the New York streets converted into the scenario of innumerable series and movies on so many occasions, it is inevitable to dream of the day you are you who walkedby them.

Paraphrasing our beloved neighbor blonde, I will say that sometimes, when I see Netflix, I put some head movies worthy of Oscar and the truth is that I have beautiful ... And thanks to Hellotickets I have been able to turn them into reality for a few daysThe platform puts tickets at our disposal for a lot of events and experiences (and without complications of making endless queues or waiting) so that we can enjoy the city of skyscrapers as a true star, of course!And more now that the United States has reopened the doors to European tourism and we have so much accumulated desire to travel again ...

Musical on Broadway?CheckTour ‘film’ for the city?CheckGospel Mass?CheckCruise for Hudson at dusk?CheckPut the mask and open your belt, take off!

Tour of 'Gossip Girl'

The appointment began at the gates of the Palace Hotel - yes, the same in which Serena Van Der Woodsen and Chuck Bass are staying during the first season of the series.And despite the fact that there were guests entering and leaving and a lot of curious tourists who came to take pictures, there was no doubt: the tour group must be one in which a couple of girls who would camouflage themselves toThe perfection between the henchmen of Blair Waldorf, proudly wearing his 'blazers' of paintings and headbands as a crown.

From there we left with a guide that could well be the very Queen Cotilla, because it told us absolutely all the secrets, curiosities and anecdotes of fiction while we toured by bus the different scenarios of 'Gossip Girl'.Although most interior scenes were shot in recording studios located in the Queens neighborhood, there are a lot of corners, hotels, restaurants and clothing stores of the Big Apple (largely distributed along the fifth Avenue and theUpper East Side) that served as a filming set for our favorite piles.The already mythical stairs of the MET;The Empire Hotel;The Church of St. James in which Blair marries Prince Louis;The jewelry where Chuck buys the engagement ring for B ... and we even went shopping at the candy store to which Vanessa and give in search of a gift for Nate!

Of course, there are several locations that in real life have nothing to do with what they showed us in fiction.Without going any further, the scenes of the University of Yale rolled in Columbia and the exteriors of Constance Billard, the school where the protagonists studied, were actually recorded in the Museum of the City of New York and in theRussian orthodox church back (which curiously also appears in 'The Undoing').

Instead, Nate Archibald's house was not part of any decoration: the 'Gossip Girl' team rented it to the owners for filming and they liked the decoration so much that they decided to leave it as it was.In fact, if you pass in front of the window and are the lights on, you can appreciate the candlestick lamp that appears in the series.

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Bonus: And what about the option of making the same route in Limuse, with a stop to eat in one of the restaurants in which the series was recorded and a shopping day with ‘Personal Shopper’?A real luxury for any New York pijería fan.

Musical in Broadway

For an inveterate fanatic of musicals there is no place in the world that can be equated to this street in Manhattan.Of course, taking into account the amount of ‘shows’ that are carried out in the 40 theaters that are part of the Broadway circuit, it will not be an easy task to opt for a title.The already classic ‘King León’, ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Frozen’, ‘Moulin Rouge’ ... My chosen?‘Aladdin’.

The New Amsterdam Theater, which has been the house of this musical since 2014, has been in the heart of Times Square.There are light posters everywhere, a traffic of crazy and hundreds of tourists who pile up willing to get a 'instagrameable' photo, but once you enter the auditorium and open the curtain, it is a matter of seconds that you forget the chaos ofoutside and you transport yourself from your armchair to a better place.Or to an ideal world, which Aladdín and Princess Jasmine would say ...

The mixture of the soundtrack with the decorations, the special effects and the musical numbers marked by the cast makes you have before your eyes a show of pure magic for just over two hours (yes, even the magic carpet really flies).

Special mention to the genius of the lamp, which manages to have the public in the palm of his hand throughout the work.Watch this video of your makeup and transformation and flip!

Cruise for the Hudson River at dusk

If you ever have the opportunity to make a cruise on the Hudson River and you can choose between doing it in the morning or at night, accept my friend's counseling: choose the second option.Pass under the Brooklyn bridge with its garlands of light lights and see the ‘skyline’ of the illuminated city while you get away from Manhattan are moments that are priceless.And suddenly, Bam!There we were, in front of the statue of freedom that seemed to shine just for us ... I promise that I had to pinch several times to make sure I was seeing was real and not a product of my imagination.

In addition to the movie views, my heart was also paralyzed when I passed through the 54 pier, the exact point in which the Titanic should have docked if I could have reached the port.And yes, I must recognize that there was a couple of moments when I disconnected from the guide's explanations, because in my head I could not sound anything other than the song 'New York', by Alicia Keys, which we have so many times inseries like 'Sex in New York' or 'Gossip Girl'.

A gospel mass

If before making this trip someone would have told me that I would get up at a Sunday to go to a church, I would have thrown me good laughs (without the intention of offending anyone, of course).But there was me, on a Saturday night in the city that never sleeps programming an alarm that woke me up at 8 in the morning to go to any mass, but one of Gospel.

Although it did not start until 12, the complete experience included a tour of some of Harlem's most emblematic corners such as the Apollo Theater (which ironically, despite being located in a neighborhood in which the majority of the population was African -American, inits beginnings only allowed the entry to white people).And while we discovered urban art between its streets and knew more about its roots, Mass time came.

Attendees seemed to have reserved their best models for that day, they gave palms and swing without stopping to the rhythm of the music.Come on, everything happened exactly the same as in the movies ... but with the plus of having the hairs of end and to be able to feel closely the energy and good work that was breathed in the environment.

I don't know you, but I have entered some crazy desire to return ... Alexa, put 'Welcomo to New York' by Taylor Swift.