Let’s say you are in New York on a family vacation and plan to visit all the famous tourist attractions of the city including the Empire State Building, American Museum of Natural History, Statue of Liberty and the Central Zoo.
In order to plan your visit better, you need to know the exact operating hours and the days of the week when those buildings and parks are open (and/or closed) for public.
Find the Operating Hours with Google
You can do this in two ways – you can either visit the official website of that place and search for “Opening Times” inside that site or you can save yourself a click and use Google directly.
The trick is simple. Type the name of the place that you are planning to visit and add the word “hours” to your search query. When you do this, Google will automatically show you the visiting hours of that place in the search results itself.
For instance, the search query – american museum of natural history hours – will instantly give you the operating hours of the place that houses the world’s largest natural history collections.
You may use this query for monuments, museums, animal zoos, public libraries and other places of tourist interest though it doesn’t work with theatres. And it’s not just limited to building in US – for instance, the query - louvre museum Hours – did return the visitor timings of the world’s largest museum though its located in Paris, France.
The credit for finding this cool Google trick goes to Tom Merritt who recently shared it in one of his CNET shows that I am long subscribed to. Thanks Tom!
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