Buffalo. One of the top places in the world to visit, according to The Points Guy

[Draconator]

The Points Guy is the best travel E-Magazine out there. They are a wealth of travel info. 

 

They came out today with their list of the top 29 places to visit in the world, and Buffalo was near the top. 

 

https://thepointsguy.com/travel/best-places-to-travel-2025/?utm_section=intro&utm_source=TPG+Daily+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11677413&utm_usr=e17047875eb710af05087cb417df0d514cb360218f6808a14a930366cad4e1bd&utm_template=15348683

 

Best for celebrating the diversity of American history and culture

 

New York's so-called "City of Good Neighbors" (dubbed thus because it welcomed — and still does — immigrants with open arms) is better than ever as it enters 2025 with many compelling celebrations.

 

In January, the legendary Historic Colored Musicians Club & Jazz Museum — the oldest continuously operating, Black-owned music venue in the U.S., where the likes of Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis performed — reopens with a fresh renovation, an expansion and a new ground-floor museum with interactive exhibits in time to mark 90 years.

 

During Buffalo's 50th Juneteenth festival, one of the country's oldest and largest, the rich diversity baked into Buffalo's history will be felt — and tasted — across the city at landmarks that include the West Side Bazaar, a small restaurant incubator and food court featuring Egyptian and Jamaican cuisine.

 

On Sept. 24, a full-size replica of the Seneca Chief, the inaugural boat to open the Erie Canal when it was completed in 1825, will mark the bicentennial by reenacting its first voyage from Buffalo to New York City.

 

The recently completed $200 million reimagining of the Albright Art Gallery, which opened in 1905 and is now called the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, includes a striking glass-roofed, 30,000-square-foot gallery designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu. The 100-plus-acre Lake Erie waterfront Ralph Wilson Park, first established circa 1932 as LaSalle Park, is also undergoing a major $110 million improvement project to be completed in 2026. It will include a forthcoming great lawn, a sledding hill, a lagoon habitat and a pedestrian-, cyclist- and wheelchair-accessible bridge.

 

The hotel scene ties into local history, too, with Buffalo's latest property, The Richardson Hotel, occupying the 1880 Romanesque, castlelike former New York State Asylum. The Statler Buffalo, in the decadent downtown 1920s hotel where Elvis Presley once performed, is also reopening its lobby bar, Milton's, and kicking off the renovation of its 200 closed-for-decades guest rooms.

 

TPG tip: Buffalo will be easier to navigate via the light-rail station coming to the waterfront DL&W terminal (last active in the '60s) near the lively Cobblestone District as part of a $57 million project that may eventually include a public market with food, art and live music.

 

— Kathryn Romeyn

[Augie]

I’m not arguing, but I have to say that Buffalo looks kinda funny on that list. 

[US Egg]

Did the Chamber of Commerce make the check out to cash?

[teef]

this is beyond cash...this is sexual favors territory.  

[Jauronimo]

Buffalo is one of the best places in the world to get drunk and ***** your pants.

[Sweats]

I've said it before and i'll say it again........Teef tells me that Rochester is THE place to visit.

[US Egg]

No mention of the Cheerios smell, maybe if it were Honey Nut.... 

[teef]

1 hour ago, Sweats said:

I've said it before and i'll say it again........Teef tells me that Rochester is THE place to visit.

i felt bad that my college roommates had to come here for my wedding.

[Saxum]

I served Dizzy Gillespie at a club once when he came in town when he did a show.  I know he was at the Museum/Club before show.

[WotAGuy]

3 hours ago, US Egg said:

No mention of the Cheerios smell, maybe if it were Honey Nut.... 

 

It’s the Milk Bone plant that stinks up the joint. 

[Buffalo716]

13 hours ago, Jauronimo said:

Buffalo is one of the best places in the world to get drunk and ***** your pants.

I've only done that twice and I've been here my entire life

[Doc Brown]

You could pry make a better case for the Gaza Strip but we do have good wings.

[Buffalo716]

7 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

You could pry make a better case for the Gaza Strip but we do have good wings.

Yeah that's a low blow bro 

 

Nobody would rather be in the Gaza strip than Buffalo... Even the east side isn't that bad if you don't cause problems

[Sweats]

17 hours ago, teef said:

i felt bad that my college roommates had to come here for my wedding.

 

 

 

I did a "laugh" emoji, but now i'm reconsidering it to a "sad" emoji cause i can see that this really wasn't a joke.

 

You built the place up to me and now i just feel a little let down and now maybe i won't even consider Rochester as my retirement destination.......i'll take my pissy mattress elsewhere, sir.

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Funny tidbit on the statler. 
 

While closed for renovation, a friend of mine had access to the main lobby. Last year, August 2023, my main fantasy league and closest friends held our annual draft in the abandoned bar off of the main lobby. 
 

It was pretty spooky and a fun memory/experience. 

[GoBillsForeverAndAlways]

Buffalo is an amazing city and I love the vibes there so much. Truly a great place to visit with so much culture to offer

[Pete]

On 11/12/2024 at 1:53 PM, teef said:

i felt bad that my college roommates had to come here for my wedding.

I went to college in New Hampshire.  In late 90s, my friend from college married a Buffalo lady, and me and a couple dozen friends made trip 4th of July week, for the wedding.  Almost everyone of them was a Pats fan from New England.

 

We flew in, and took a shuttle to the hotel.  The expressway we took, most every house had GO BILLS!  sign which we could view on both sides of bus, the whole way.  The Pats fans were stunned to see that passion.  WTF?  They said.  “It’s not even football season yet!” .  We get downtown- skyscrapers have lights saying GO BILLS!

 

My friends were blown away by Bills fandom.  The bus ride in, and their reaction to Mafia passion I will never forget.

One other memory I won’t forget- their hatred of Mike Foligno lmao

[Sweats]

Years ago, me and my wife were driving around downtown Buffalo and i took a wrong turn and ended up getting lost........we saw the seedy underbelly of Buffalo that day, i can tell you.

 

We saw some shady and greasy stuff going on.

I told my wife to just look straight ahead, roll up the windows, lock the doors and get the hell outta there and except for that unexpected wrong turn, i love Buffalo's downtown.

The atmosphere is great, the people are friendly and it's just an overall welcoming experience.

[Augie]

On 11/13/2024 at 7:37 AM, Sweats said:

 

 

 

I did a "laugh" emoji, but now i'm reconsidering it to a "sad" emoji cause i can see that this really wasn't a joke.

 

You built the place up to me and now i just feel a little let down and now maybe i won't even consider Rochester as my retirement destination.......i'll take my pissy mattress elsewhere, sir.

 

Hey @teef! It looks like it worked! Well played, sir! 

[teef]

5 hours ago, Pete said:

I went to college in New Hampshire.  In late 90s, my friend from college married a Buffalo lady, and me and a couple dozen friends made trip 4th of July week, for the wedding.  Almost everyone of them was a Pats fan from New England.

 

We flew in, and took a shuttle to the hotel.  The expressway we took, most every house had GO BILLS!  sign which we could view on both sides of bus, the whole way.  The Pats fans were stunned to see that passion.  WTF?  They said.  “It’s not even football season yet!” .  We get downtown- skyscrapers have lights saying GO BILLS!

 

My friends were blown away by Bills fandom.  The bus ride in, and their reaction to Mafia passion I will never forget.

One other memory I won’t forget- their hatred of Mike Foligno lmao

i also went to college in the last 90s in boston.  my friends were from that generic new england area, mostly mass and rhode island.  i was in school in buffalo in the early 2000s, and they always came up for the bills/pats game.  there would be about a dozen guys, and i'll always meet up with them on chippewa and party.  they enjoyed the weekends in buffalo partying, eating and going to the game.

 

when they decided to stay in downtown rochester, that was a different story.  when people come to visit, i divert them to more of the finger lakes than downtown.