We're leaving very early Thursday morning for our trip to New York. Having never been, it's a bit stressful. We are flying to Newark because that's about the only way we could get there directly from San Antonio without having a layover or switching planes. When you travel with a 2 year old, that's important.
My sister, of course, chastised me because it's difficult, at best, to get from Newark to Brooklyn. "If you had flown into JFK or LaGuardia" she says, "it would be much easier." Yes, except then we would have had to deal with our very energetic child for entirely too long in airports and on an airplane. No thanks.
So here I am trying to find the least expensive way to get from Newark (is it any coincidence that the airport code is EWr?) to Brooklyn. I thought I'd hit paydirt when I saw that PATH goes from Newark Penn Station to the World Trade Center. How easy is that? Then it's just a quickie cab ride across the Brooklyn Bridge, right? Yeah, not so much.
By the way, those of you from New York or who have been there before, stop laughing. Just shut up, already.
Here's the thing. Getting to Newark Penn Station (and by the way, whose brilliant idea was it to have TWO Penn Stations in the New York area?) from the airport is no easy task. You have to take an air train, then switch to NJ Transit, then finally to the PATH trains, and the fares for the two steps before PATH are significantly larger than the PATH fare.
If it were just Juice and I, it would be a no brainer because we could handle that. But trying to drag a toddler, dealing with said toddler, the stress of being in a new place, and dragging all of our luggage with us through three trains and a cab ride? No thanks.
So I just ponied up $150 (plus tolls and tip) for a car service to get us to and from the airport.
Part of me thinks they make it difficult and confusing on purpose so that the cabs and car services can bank in on tourist dollars.
Did I mention I hate New York already?
Monday, June 16, 2008
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$150... dude you got ripped! I've never paid more than $60 from Newark, but then again I haven't lived there in almost six years so who knows. You will be stressed, but you will have fun. Have been back a few times with the bub, it is tough, but try and stay upbeat and you'll see a lot and love it.
I can't wait to hear what you have to say. That outta be good.
oh wait, round trip? you're good then. It will be the best $150 bucks you ever spent.
If it's going to be the best $150 I ever spent, it had better come with a happy ending
There are two types of people in the world: There are those that have lived in NY, realize that it is the center of the universe, and when they leave, feel like part of their heart was ripped out of them, and they will never fully adjust to life anywhere else, and there are those that leave and could care less. My husband and I are native New Yorkers. Now we live in Florida, and my husband thinks we live in paradise. I think we live in the armpit of America. New York is the center of the universe. You'll see.
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