U.S. Rent A Car's Car Hire USA Blog

Name: Jane Hockey

Position: Support Agent

Years Served: 1 Year

Biog (what do you do here): I answer emails from customers, as well as phone calls. I also send on all of our customer’s bookings to our suppliers.

Area of Expertise: General Queries

Favourite USA Location: New York

Ideal Road Trip Companion (not your partner): Lewis Hamilton, not only is he good looking but he could do all the driving!

Favourite Car: Aston Martin DB9…. but I guess Peggie the Peugeot will have to do for now!!

If you were a Disney Character or Character that appears at Universal who would you be?: Ummm Snow White I guess, I don’t really know.

Below is U.S. Rent A Car’s top 7 Restaurants in New York. Please feel free to comment on them or add suggestions.

1. Per Se, one of the best restaurants in the world operated by renowned chef Thomas Keller, (Per Se ranked #6 in the world by The S. Pellegrino Restaurants Guide in 2009) offers two prix fixe tasting menus for $275; a 9 course tasting of seasonal vegetables or the 9 course chef’s tasting menu, which changes daily. To dine in Per Se is a gastronomical & emotional experience.

2. The Red Cat – This Old Chelsea food hall is a New York original. The Red Cat’s combination of come-as-you-are sensibilities and straightforward, satisfying, and occasionally irreverent cuisine instantly establish the restaurant as a favorite with New York diners.

3. Zorzi,  located in New York City’s Midtown East. It is a chic & popular restaurant that serves excellent Northern Italian cuisine. Every day Zorzi serves delectable finger food to delight your palate paired with cool drinks, great wines and paramount hospitality. Great decor and relax, lively atmosphere.

4. Bella Blu is the Upper East sided most popular restaurant. A masterpiece of art, designed by Antonio Romano. The architecture and food are in a class of their own. Bella Blu is known for its mosaic brick oven pizza. An attractive restaurant filled with vivid Mediterranean decor, abstract paintings. which all add to a wonderful dining experience at surprisingly affordable prices

5. Lattanzi, serving exceptional, authentic, and high-quality Italian cuisine. It always attracts an impressive number of celebrities and draws loyal clientele from destinations all over the city and the world. Despite this, it remains a hidden jewel: one of the city’s best kept culinary secrets.

6. One if by Land, Two if by Sea, outstanding American cuisine and one of the most romantic restaurants in the city. Fine dining in a landmark Greenwich Village carriage house. Dinner 7 nights a weeks, $20 Sunday brunch from 11:30 am-2:00 pm, Casual dining at the bar.

7. Natsumi Restaurant specializing in Japanese-Italian fusion cuisine; the innovative menu relies on simple preparations with dynamic flavors. Two separate experiences in two adjacent sites, a restaurant and bar/lounge are now open in the theatre district. One of the most interesting dining destinations in New York.

Below is U.S. Rent A Car’s top 7 things to do in New York. Please feel free to comment on them or add suggestions.

1. Central Park  is an urban park that occupies about 1.2 square miles (341 hectares, or 843 acres) in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. It is host to approximately twenty-five million visitors each year. Central Park was opened in 1859, completed in 1873 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.  Activites include Horse drawn carriages, pedicabs, Climbing, public theaters, Opera and concerts.

2. Metropolitan Museum of Art known colloquially as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, United States, North America. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departments.^[5] The main building, often referred to simply as “the Met”, is one of the world’s largest art galleries; there is also a much smaller second location in Upper Manhattan, at “The Cloisters”, which features medieval art

3. Staten Island Ferry  is a passenger ferry service operated by the New York City Department of Transportation that runs between Manhattan Island and Staten Island. The ferry departs Manhattan from South Ferry, near Whitehall Circle, at the southernmost tip of Manhattan near Battery Park. On Staten Island, the ferry arrives and departs from St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace, near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court.

4. Trinity Church at 79 Broadway, New York City, is an historic, full-service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan.

5. Statue of Liberty officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World (French: la Liberté éclairant le monde), dedicated on October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, given to the United States by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution. ^{It attracted 3.2 million visitors in 2007.}

6. Empire State Building is a 102-story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York, The Empire State.

7. The Frick Collection is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master paintings and fine furniture housed in 16 galleries within the formerly occupied residential mansion. The paintings in many galleries are still arranged according to Frick’s design, although additional works have been bought by the Frick Collection over the years in a manner deemed to correspond with the aesthetic of the collection.

With valentines day rapidly approaching you may be thinking that it was time you finally pulled your finger out and proposed to your partner. If you’re struggling for ideas on the best place to pop the question then take a look at our pick of the top USA destinations for romance;

Rockefeller Ice Rink, New York, USA

For romance with built-in glide, propose at the Rockefeller Ice Rink. If you buy the Engagement on Ice package the staff will clear the ice of everyone but yourself and your partner, play your song over the tannoy and supply champagne. Get down on one knee to cheers from the crowd. Then you can skate around for your victory lap. It’s best to go for this one if you’re really sure it’s going to be a yes.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

The beauty of proposing in Las Vegas is that you won’t have to wait out a long engagement. Just grab yourself a cheap Las Vegas car hire and zip along the strip and find yourself down to a quick-fix chapel and you can get hitched there and then, following in star-studded footsteps – from Elvis and Priscilla Presley to Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. And fingers crossed, marriage will last longer than other Vegas lovebirds Pamela Anderson and Rick Soloman (six months) or Britney Spears and Jason Allen Alexander (55 hours).

Empire State Building, New York, USA

Where could be finer to propose than 320 metres above the rush and hustle of NYC? Follow in the footsteps of Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant, who met here annually in An Affair to Remember and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle. It’s open until 2am, but unless you need a night out on the tiles to build up courage first, the best time to aim for is sunset, ideally on Valentine’s Day when the tower is lit up in red. Cheap New York Car Hire

For all departures from 12^th Jan 2009 onwards, passport holders from the United Kingdom, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland will be required to have an ESTA – electronic system for travel authorisations – issued for their trip into the US.

ESTA will replace the paper visa forms currently issued whilst in-flight. To apply for the ESTA please visit to https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov at least 72 hours prior to your trip.