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Boston to New York travelling tips

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If you're ever in Boston and want to travel down to New York City at bargain prices, then a very well kept secret is the Fung Wah Bus (also known as the SARS bus), for $10 each way it will take you from Chinatown in Boston to Chinatown in New York City. Which is great value.

If you're a business traveller and you want a more comfortable seat with high speed internet connection for your entire journey, then check out the
LimoLiner which runs at about $69 each way.

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Gravatar Image1 - That limoliner thing seems like an incredible deal.

Gravatar Image2 - It's actually not incredible at all, because
a) Amtrak/Train is exactly the same price (69$)
b) it doesn't run as often as AMTRAK does (hourly)
c) Train has still more legspace, bigger restrooms, cafe-car and power for your laptop is available, too.

I tried em all. The Bus is cool during off-hours and workdays (on the weekends and in the evening it's PACKED, and you don't really want to travel 4.5 hours on a bus packed with people, if you don't have to). Otherwise Amtrak still rules. And for 99$ you can go businessclass in 3.5 hours with the Acela.

Gravatar Image3 - Actually, the Acela is cheaper now too - may be due to travel on holidays and/or weekend, but I have gotten a round trip ticket from Boston to NYC on the Acela for as little as $150 with a AAA discount. The train (Acela express) is definitely the way to go - the bus is still sibject to the same traffic that cars are.

Liz

Gravatar Image4 - So Thomas, what's with the NYC travel pattern, did you leave IRIS to join the IBM Sales team focusing on the Financial industry in Lower Manhattan ? Or what ?
Back to the limoliner, having highSpeed Internet for the duration of the trip seems like a killer feature. High Speed trains in Europe are supposed to get that over WIFI starting in 04.

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