Harry's Seafood Grill

About three weeks ago, I went to Harry's Seafood Grill in Wilmington.
It's located just behind the Wilmington amtrak station.

One of our lunch group member, arranged to have a lunch there.
She often come this beautiful restaurant with her husband, because the seafood and scenery here is very nice.

I got a Harry's 2 course lunch for $15. It's prefix and you can choose an antipasti and a main dish from each two selections.

my antipasti "sashimi"

omlets with sausage

the other  main dish 

Other than 2 course lunch, they have many menus. I saw many people had a sandwich or burger.
One of my friend ordered lobster sand. It looked nice.

Of course, we had desserts as well !! They have paticie and make desserts in the restaurant.

fondant chocolate

key lime mooth

???　I forgot　the name.

To our surprise, the second lady of the united states was there too!
She went through our table with some security guards.
I didn't notice, but one of our friend told us.

That means this restaurant is good enough to come American second lady.
Since the river view was very beautiful and the restaurant has a good atmosphere, I would like to come again when it's good weather.

The next door is food court. There are many small deli there, such as Sushi, Pizza, Thai food, and so on.
There is Harry's seafood grill's sister shop in the food court too.

The parking space become busy especially after 12 o'clock.
You had better go earlier to park your car smoothly.

Harry's Seafood Grill
Address: 101 S Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone:   (302) 777-1500

Metro Apartment Suite

As you know, the Hotels in NY are very expensive.
My parents came to see me last month, and we stayed in NY for 3 night 4 days.

To Look for 3 person's cheap hotel rooms in the NY is very difficult.
You might find cheap double bed rooms or single rooms, but rooms for three people are difficult.
Of course you can book 4 people's room, but I didn't want to pay so much for hotels, so I chose Apartment this time.
I found the apartment at Booking.com.
There were no reviews on the site when I booked.
Since the pictures on the web site and the location were good, I decided to book there.

Metro Apartment Suite　   38 West 31st street, New York City, NY 10001

I found many reviews one week before I stay there. Many bad and good reviews were on the site.
I was worried about my stay in there. After stayed the apartment, I understand both reviews.
I think I was lucky, because I booked small studio which was $647.37 includes tax for three night.
It supposed to have one queen size bed and one sofa bed, but my room had two queen size bed.
The room was enough big and clean. Also, having a kitchen in the room was great. I liked the room.

Bath room was simple

water pressure was fine

enough hangers

However, the service was bad.
Since it's just an apartment, you need to call the office an hour advance to check in.
I called 3 hours in advance, and I was late, but no one was there.  I called again and the parson was on the subway.

Fortunately, my room was ready, so I could enter the room before he arrive. But he kept us waiting for 30 minutes.
There was another couple who were same situation in front of the apartment. They told me they were waiting about an hour.

I didn't see anyone when we check in and out. Just took and left the room key on the table in my room. That's it.
I thought they don't prepare any towels, but there were four big bath towels in the room.
There were shampoo and conditioner and soap as well.
They sent me a mail,  they have rental towel 3 for $10. Now I think it's for replacement.

I asked to refill toilet rolls but they forgot it.
I think the apartments are maintained by young Korean guys, they are innocent, but careless.

Anyway, I don't know if I will be back to this apartment.  It was cheap and good location though.
I can't recommend this apartment hotel everyone but if you can speak English well, and have cellphone, and be patient, you can stay here.

I was satisfied with this stay,  maybe it's because I was lucky.

They can keep your luggage for $6-10 each at their office near Port authority.
It was very convenient to take Greyhound bus.
We went to the office by taxi in the morning and picked up our luggage before we took bus.

At previous stays in NY, I used Pod 51 and Hotel Azul, I will write about it some day.

Megabus will come back!!

Only after one month since I wrote the article, "Megabus abolished Megabus Abolished Newark, DE - New York Line",
it will come back from September 10th !!

I'm so glad that they restart the bus line again.
However, the schedule and price are not as good as before.
It seems Megabus fix the tickets price which leave 8:00AM  Newark, DE as $23.
The tickets return to Delaware is much cheaper than that though.

◆Departs Newark,DE

Monday-Thursday 12:30 PM,

Friday 8:00 AM, 6:10 PM, 

Saturday 8:00 AM, 

Sunday 1:00 PM,6:10 PM

◆Departs New York, NY

Monday-Thursday 5:30 PM, 

Friday- Saturday 12:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 

Sunday 4:30 PM, 5:30 PM

The parking in UD of lot #7 is $4 per day.  (visitor area)
You need buy permission online and print it out and put behind your car window.

I used to use Megabus for one day trip to NY all the time.
However,  now since the Megabus schedule and price have changed, I  prefer to use Grayhound Bus.
Grayhound have more selections of departure time and not so expensive, compare to new Megabus price.

Recently I realized, if you buy Round ticket, Grayhound will provide  some discount.
Also, if you buy more than one person's ticket together, you can also get some discount.

The parking right behind Amtrak station is $8 per 24 hours.
Sometimes it's occupied on weekdays, buy if you arrive earlier, you should find many space.
There are also another a little bit more expensive parking garages around the station.
About parking, refer my previous article "Wilmington Amtrak Station"

Anyway, I recommend to check both Megabus and Grayhound's HP, before you buy tickets.

Outlet Malls around Deraware

There are 4 outlet malls around Delaware. You can check exact place and address in "Delaware and its suburb useful map".

1.  Tanger Pennsylvinia Lancaster
　　Rockvale Outlets Lancaster

2.  Tanger delaware Rehobath beach

3.  Philadelphia Premium Outlets

As I wrote before, I like Philadelphia Premium Outlets the best.
It has the best selection of shops for women age above 25.

However, for young people, Tanger Outlet in Rehoboth beach seems  good.
Because there is Abercrombie & Fitch. They also have many small kids clothing shops.

The two outlet malls in Lancaster are good for family.
Since Lancaster is famous for Amish, you can enjoy both sightseeing and shopping.

Most products in outlet malls are cheaper than normal price. But sometimes, there are no difference as shops in normal malls.
You need to be careful and to compare prices well.

Philadelphia Premium Outlets

I wanted to go to Philadelphia Premium Outlets for a long time, and finally went there last Monday.

"Premium Outlets" group are all over the world, and I have been to one of them in Japan.

The structure and layout are almost same as Japanese premium outlets which I went.

There are three more outlet malls around Delaware. One is Tanger outlet in Rehoboth beach, and others are Tanger outlet and Rockvale outlet in Lancaster. 

In my opinion, Philadelphia premium outlet has the best selection of shops for women age above 25.

I didn't plan to buy anything, but I found  some nice bargain and bought them.
I will introduce what I bought and my observation.

1. UGG Sheepskin boots  $39.98 !!!!

This was at the final sale corner.
I thought pink is difficult to much clothes, but this pink is not so blight and I knew this is very warm and comfortable, since I  have different colour of this pair of boots.

Actually, I bought chocolate brown of this boots about $115 last winter, $40 is a huge bargain for sure.
Even though my real shoe size is 7,  I took them. There were only large sizes, such as 8, 9, 10.

SAGE sangria color

Half price from $79.97

Not only at UGG shop,  but also at another shoe shops has UGG products sale.

Only vivid color boots were on sale among annual basic products.  

Other unique designed products were almost half price if they still remain. 

2. Nike　Running T shurts $19.99, Short pants （Kids） $14.99

This is not super cheap but same as Marshalls and T.J.Maxx prices.
If you often buy XS size, you may consider to buy kids size.
Kids size products are always cheaper than adults.


3. Chocolate Shop

I didn't buy anything, but I recommend to buy this chocolate for gifts when you go back your country.　
Especially the left big packaged chocolate is easy to give away for your friends and colleague.

Buy3 get 2 free.  $25 each.

Good looking packages!

4. Le Creuset shop

Le creuset shop had a big summer sale. Everything in the store was 25%off.
There were also special sale products such as 40%, 30% off.
I was really wondering whether to buy, but I didn't buy this time.
Because I already have another type of useful pots, such as pressure maker pot, and Thermos pot.
Le creuset's pots are very popular and expensive in Japan. I will get it before I go back to Japan for sure.



In my opinion 3 hours or 4 hours are enough for look around this outlet mall.
It's not so big, but there are great shops.
I've never been to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in NY, but so far, this is the best outlet mall for me.



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Philadelphia Premium Outlets
18 Lightcap Rd,　Pottstown, PA 19464
(610) 495-9000
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