Everyone loves the Winter Village! First of all there is a free ice skating rink! Well, it's not exactly free. If you have you own ice skates and don't want to put anything in a locker, it's free. They have lockers but you must provide your own lock or rent a "bag" to put your belonging in. You also have to pay for ice skate rental. Other than that it's FREE! More importantly, it is super fun. You can skate outdoors while viewing the Empire State Building, Bank of America Building, Bryant Park Library, and the Winter Village Shops that have been set up around the rink.
If you prefer watching the ice skating, you can visit Celius, a two-story lounge that is set up overlooking the rink. You can enjoy fancy cocktails and hip music while watching couples simultaneously try to romance each other while clinging on to an ice skating rink wall for dear life on the skating rink below. The one time I went to Celius the drinks were delicious.
The holiday shops are usually the main draw. There are over 125 boutique-style holiday shops set up around Bryant Park. You can buy locally handmade jewelry, Christmas scented candles, giant oversized Jacques Torres cookies and hot chocolates, mittens that look like alligators, Albert Einstein finger puppets, scented salts from the dead-sea to help make your bath time more exotic, etc… Basically if you're looking for fun quirky gifts, get thee to the Winter Village Holiday Shops.
Here is what the rink and the shops look like at the moment as they set up in Bryant Park!
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