Break to the Big Apple ideal for St Patrick's Day celebration

St Patrick's Day is one of the most celebrated saint's days around the globe, and it is not just the Irish who use the day as an excuse to get merry and have a good time with friends and family.

The city of New York is home to a large number of Irish inhabitants and in the past, as the Big Apple was one of the main entry points for Irish immigrants coming to the States.

Therefore, one of the biggest and best St Patrick's Day's parades can be found in the US city and what better way to head to the event and explore the city than by getting a room in a New York hostel and saving plenty of cash to sample the sights and sounds of the area.

This year's parade will be hitting the city at 11:00 am local time on Wednesday March 17th and visitors to the Big Apple will be able to enjoy the Irish festivities right up until the afternoon.

Each year, the St Patrick's Day parade takes revellers down the famous Fifth Avenue in the middle of Manhattan, a well known shopping street which is home to luxury boutique shops and department stores including Macy's, Saks, Tiffanys, Armani, Gucci and Prada.

The street is also popular with history and culture buffs, with museums including the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum of Art all along the famous stretch.

Make sure you have enough cash to splash in New York's amazing shops by cutting back on accommodation money and checking into one of the city's low cost youth hostels.

St Patrick's Day revellers in New York City traditionally dress in as much green as possible, the colour of the clover and a hue very much associated with the Emerald Isle of Ireland.

World famous landmark the Empire State Building also enjoys a change of shade on St Patrick's Day, with the structure illuminated in hundreds of bright green lights to mark the event.

To get a true feel for the Irish influence in this great city, New York hostel residents could head down Fifth Avenue and check out St Patrick's Cathedral, which is between 50th and 51st street on the east side of the avenue.