Okay so you are an intrepid traveler, you've decided to commit time to Naples and you want to find out about how the city works.
You’ve scoured the internet for information and bought Lonely Planet but you really want local knowledge. How do you get it?
New York might just have part of the answer. Just like Naples, New York City suffered from an image problem with potential visitors thinking the city was too dangerous, too expensive and too overwhelming.
In 1992 the Big Apple Greeter was born. The Big Apple Greeter is a free service run by the City of New York whereby visitors can meet a real New Yorker and find out how the city ticks. My family and I used the service a few years ago and it was fantastic.
Residents who are volunteer guides spend half a day with you at the start of your trip. You book online and they meet you at your accommodation. They give you free subway tickets and show you how to use the public transport. They answer all your questions, make suggestions about the things you can see or do, take you to parts of the city you might not think of visiting and generally show you how the system works.
Local knowledge from a local. It’s personalised and friendly and in half a day most of your anxieties about being in a place like New York are gone.
If New York can do it why not Naples.
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