New York City with children: M & Ms World New York

by KFFVMom
(kid-friendly-family-vacations.com)

M & M World

If there is a tourist attraction in New York City that’s ample in fun, utter excitement and sensory overload, then visitors to The Big Apple need not drift far from the heart of Manhattan. Situated at the vibrant and neon-lit crossroads of Times Square is the M & M’s World New York, one of four global commercial and entertainment tourist destinations from the makers of the world’s most famous chocolate candy franchise.

Brimming with one-of-a-kind signature, M & M’s merchandise and M & M’s candy of every imaginable size, shape, flavor and color, this massive three-story glass cube is a 25,000 square-foot sweet tooth haven. It even houses the world’s biggest ‘wall of chocolate’—a gigantic 50-foot wide and 2-story upright structure made of 72 contiguous tubes filled with yummy M & M’s treats. There is definitely more than meets the eye from the view outside, for it’s inside where the yummy goodies await every kind of visitor.

Kids from around the world and candy fanatics of all ages flock towards this unique retail concept store to admire at and purchase signature novelty items and customizable delicious M&M’s chocolate candies that are not sold on shelves or available at regular stores. Quirky M & M’s-monogrammed apparel such as funky clothes and shoes, kooky dining and kitchenware, fun accessories like watches, bags and necklaces, and kitschy knickknacks like coin banks, alarm clocks and candy dispensers simply make any visitor’s eyes pop.

With a vast and eclectic array of themed thingamajigs and a wide concoction of M & M’s candies, adults can feel like children again or frolic along with their own kids around this irresistible fantasyland. Whether exploring the interactive children’s area or gawking at the breathtaking full-size NASCAR Ford Fusion racecar, visitors of the M & M’s World New York go home with an unforgettable and unusual New York City tourist experience.

M & M’s World New York is located at 48th and Broadway at the borough of Manhattan. The iconic urban canyon Times Square—replete with the world’s major commercial buildings and teeming with advertisement and news and stock exchange zipper ‘crawls’—will not be complete without this well-loved tourist stomping ground.

Over 100 friendly and spirited employees staff the retail and entertainment-themed store and patrons of M & M’s are blown away by the many possibilities their favorite chocolate candy can be personalized—in fact, kids go crazy at the M & M’s bar that allows them to pour M & M’s candy in their own little bags to their heart’s content.

Adults and parents, for their part, tend to find themselves dumbfounded and mesmerized by the many colors M & M’s candies come in. For this reason, many of the store’s patrons step out of the establishment with bags of souvenir items and delicious candies by the pound to feed their sugar craving and indulge in sheer sugar rush. They say M & M’s candies melt in the mouth and not in the hand, but with much fondness the M & M’s store in New York can certainly melt anyone’s heart.