(TGA) - I would appreciate some advice on how best to combine a trip to visit friends in the Worcester, MA area, with a week in the Manhattan Club in downtown Manhattan (late next summer). Fly into Boston and out of NYC, or RT Boston or NYC? I might want to use a points system for airfare, which requires a round trip. Airfares into Boston's Logan are actually a bit cheaper from my home airport. What transportation would be available from downtown Manhattan to Boston's airport? I know Boston and NYC are about 4 hours apart by car, but I have no intention of driving in Manhattan!
Thanks for any recommendations.
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First, in NYC "downtown" means just that, the southern end and the Manhattan Club is in midtown. Sounds pedantic but if you continue to say downtown Manhattan to NYers, they'll take you at your word.
To get between NYC and Boston there's cheap bus service
megabus.com
boltbus.com
train
amtrak.com
or flying. (check airline options and prices on kayak.com) However you go, it's about 4 hrs. city center to city center. I think there's train service from Boston center to the airport but not sure. Depending on how many you are, it is possible to rent a car just for the drive and not keep it in either city.
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Should you decided to do New York round trip flights, there are several bus lines that make only one stop between New York and Boston which is in Framingham, MA. This stop is much closer to Worcester than Boston. Check peterpanbus.com, greyhound.com and limoliner.com. The limoliner bus is considered a luxury carrier and obviously more expensive, but much more comfortable with wide leather seats, food and beverage service and other amenities not nomally found on bus lines.
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Should you decide to purchase the cheaper, round-trip Boston fare, be assured that Logan Airport is just a 15-20 minute bus ride (no transfer required) from Boston's South Station, a transportation hub for Amtrak and the bus carriers such as Bolt, Grayhound.
Am I correctly assuming that your friends have offered to pick you up at Logan Airport? (there is train service -- offered by both Amtrak and the MBTA's commuter rail system -- between Boston and Worcester).
Were you to then travel by train from MA to NYC, your friends would likely find it easier to drop you off at the Rte. 128 station in Westwood.
In recent months, Amtrak's basic fare (purchased 14 days or more in advance) has been $20 cheaper than LimoLiner ($49 vs. $69). My hunch is that LimoLiner is struggling because its business traveler customer base has shrunk in the past year and due to the increased competition from Amtrak's reduced pricing, Megabus & Bolt. I've seen more complaints about Limoliner's service and the condition of its vehicles than used to be the case. So unless matters are drastically different next summer, I'd give LimoLiner a pass.
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