$1 bus fare NYC to Boston

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Bus Line To Offer $1 Fare From New York To Boston - News Story - WNBC | New York


The site is low cost inter city travel and it's very busy right now.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Then all you Yankees' fans can come up and I can take to you to Fenway to see the Sox win !

OMG, this isn't the "Fung Wah" bus, is it ?

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

What's with all the $1 bus fares?

Now I want to go to Boston, too.

I have to keep my eyes open for Custom House.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Buses are generally quite inexpensive anyway...DH and DD went up to Boston (from NYC) last year to look at a college, and they took the train one way and a bus the other. The train for the two of them, with discounts, was about $150, and the bus was about $30.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Buses are generally quite inexpensive anyway...DH and DD went up to Boston (from NYC) last year to look at a college, and they took the train one way and a bus the other. The train for the two of them, with discounts, was about $150, and the bus was about $30.

Really? shows you how much I know. I haven't taken a bus anywhere in over 20 years, may be more.

OK, now I have to ask why buses are so inexpensive? Do I not really want to take the bus to Boston, or Washington, for some reason? I figure that they take longer to get anywhere, but it is much, much, longer? Just curious.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

The bus did take longer, because it hit a ton of traffic when it was approaching Manhattan from the north--DH said it had looked like it would do really well on time, and then it hit Yonkers or somewhere up north like that.

But it was a comfortable, clean, modern Peter Pan bus with TV screens showing movies. And sometimes the bus goes closer to where you really want to end up, or sometimes it's easier to get to the bus station than the train station.

The train is faster and there's more room and you can walk around...but it's expensive and there are very few usable specials. (DH and DD used a special for high-school students doing college visits, and it was fine for getting TO Boston, but coming home the special wouldn't work on any trains before seven in the evening, so they would have gotten home about midnight. That's why they took the bus coming home.)

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I just went to the Greyhound site and looked. You could go round-trip to Boston from NYC on Greyhound/Peter Pan this weekend or most any time for $38 total. It's not $1, but it's not bad!

That's why it never seemed worthwhile to me to go down to Chinatown for those buses...just taking the subway both ways would be $4, plus the $12 for the fare to Boston (is it $12? or $8?) makes it $16, but it's only $19 on regular Greyhound from the regular Port Authority.

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I just went to the Greyhound site and looked. You could go round-trip to Boston from NYC on Greyhound/Peter Pan this weekend or most any time for $38 total. It's not $1, but it's not bad!

That's why it never seemed worthwhile to me to go down to Chinatown for those buses...just taking the subway both ways would be $4, plus the $12 for the fare to Boston (is it $12? or $8?) makes it $16, but it's only $19 on regular Greyhound from the regular Port Authority.

Sheesh, I never realized that the bus was so affordable. I've been sending the kids everywhere on Amtrak the past 5 years. Can't tell you how many times my son took Amtrak from Washington/Baltimore.

I'll keep this in mind the next time my DD wants to go visit a friend in one of the Boston colleges.

BTW, I agree, doesn't pay to go to Chinatown, why bother.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

That Limoliner thing I mentioned in the other thread is totally up my alley. I would be willing to pay the extra money to have a more comfortable bus ride like that. Now if they just had a luxury bus to Albany....

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I just went to the Greyhound site and looked. You could go round-trip to Boston from NYC on Greyhound/Peter Pan this weekend or most any time for $38 total. It's not $1, but it's not bad!

That's why it never seemed worthwhile to me to go down to Chinatown for those buses...just taking the subway both ways would be $4, plus the $12 for the fare to Boston (is it $12? or $8?) makes it $16, but it's only $19 on regular Greyhound from the regular Port Authority.

My kids have switched from the chinatown bus to Greyhound because for a few dollars more it is SOOOOOOO much better .....

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

I ended up coming here (Baltimore) on the train from Boston on Sunday for $103 (with my AAA discount) as I thought my company's travel dept. had me booked on an airline, but didn't. It would've been something like $417 one way to get me down here or ~$697 R/T. I'm returning via AirTran on for $89.
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[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I needed to get from NYC to Baltimore once upon a time, and I was all set to take the train--and the train was about $150, and flying down turned out to be about $79.

I wrote a letter to Amtrak saying that I would have much preferred to take the train, but that I would be flying. I got back an obviously personalized two-page letter from a VP at Amtrak which was very nice and all, explaining the benefits of taking the train and how in some ways they cannot compete with airlines but they offer an option for non-flyers and business travelers...and I was impressed, but I still ended up taking the plane.