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For many Americans, the start of the holiday is associated with the lighting of the enormous Xmas tree in Rockefeller Center Plaza, new york City's veritable holiday hq. Locals and tourists head to the plaza in flocks, where they are able to ice skate on the rink built under the plaza's Prometheus statue, or just simply stare in wonder at the huge Christmas tree, hung with around 30,000 LED lights.

Grab the children and hightail it to every child's dreamland, FAO Schwarz, the monumental toy store where it genuinely is entirely possible to play the piano with your footsies on the giant flooring keyboard, a la the Tom Hanks' movie, Big. Next, you'll want to roam to Macy's Santaland, a genuine winter wonderland loaded with toy trains, pixies, Christmas trees and many other vacation scenarios sure to call forth wonder in the entire family group. If you have not maxed out on the holiday crowds, make sure to order tickets to the Radio City Music Hall's Xmas Spectacular, where you'll not only see lots of dancing Father Christmas's but the high-kicking legs of the famous Rockettes.