Getting to New York from Baltimore
Sometimes we like to spend a couple of days in New York, but when the whole family (four of us) goes, it can be expensive. We have tried various ways of containing the cost, including staying in hotels in New Jersey, but it is so nice to have a night or two in Manhattan.
In 2004, we went to New York on the day after Thanksgiving. This time we took a bus from a company called Dragon. Everything worked out really well. The cost was only $35.00 per person. We decided to repeat this and spend two nights during the holidays this year. We had a lot of fun, but the bus experience was a disaster!
We found that the Dragon bus was full, but there were seats on a bus run by a company called Eastern. I bought the tickets on line, and I printed them out. We arrived in good time, and the bus was there, but it was absolutely full. After a lot of arguing, the driver gave me $80 back. Then we went and bought tickets from Greyhound. The bus showed up about half an hour late, and it was also full.
At this stage we gave up, and went to New York in the car. I am not going going to use this service again!
3 comments
wow…that’s so funny that you went through the same experience (dragon/eastern/greyhound)as me.
i wish the chinatown buses were more reliable. From now on I’m going to stick to taking the expensive amtrak or just the regular greyhound bus.
The regular Greyhound gave us the same grief as the Chinatown bus!
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