Dublin to Philadelphia - from €258

bittihuduga

As title says -
http://www.kayak.ie/flights/DUB-PHL/2015-11-25-flexible/2015-12-10-flexible

on AirCanada metal but bookable from €258 on many sites including Lufthansa site. But long stopover time for that price.
For little bit more euros, you can reduce the total travel time.

boredatwork82

Booked that flight on air Canada. New York is only an hour and a bit by train. So doing a 2 city holiday in May. Happy days

smurfjed

How much is the train? Last time that i checked, it really wasn't that cheap.

notuslimited

My advice is to take the greyhound bus instead of the train. Much cheaper and only takes about half hour longer. I did NYC-PHL-NYC in a day to sightsee and had a great day out. I recommend the 2 hour Segway tour around the city.

ButtersSuki

notuslimited wrote: »

My advice is to take the greyhound bus instead of the train. Much cheaper and only takes about half hour longer.

+1. Much, much cheaper.

cson

Greyhound attracts a certain type of customer though; and especially so when Philadelphia is part of the route.

frozenfrozen

I've read some really terrible stories about the disgusting goings-on with the passengers of greyhound busses. I've never been on one but I wouldn't take one if it was free

Greg81

smurfjed wrote: »

How much is the train? Last time that i checked, it really wasn't that cheap.

I used Megabus.

http://us.megabus.com/Default.aspx

Paid 5 bucks per ticket. But you can find cheaper. Depends on the time you would like to travel.

JIdontknow

Personally for me I'd avoid the greyhound unless there was a big price saving, I remember before in America pricing travel from one city to another and Greyhound is definitely the cheapest, but the ticket office adviser suggested a few times to pay the extra to not travel on it (and get the amtrak instead)- After thinking it was a sales pitch and getting the greyhound anyway, I realised why she advised paying the extra not to get it, some interesting clientele travelling on it and at the stops, but to be fair everything was okay, we just got some strange looks... I guess it depends if you're travelling alone or with others, we were a few guys. Trains in America are good, nice big wide seats, plenty leg room and storage overhead (At least the train I got had anyway, it was a longer distance train though as opposed to smaller inter city one).

barry181091

Just read this;

http://www.halfwayanywhere.com/north-america/united-states/52-hours-of-im-never-doing-this-again/

I thought Bus Eireann was bad.

booooring!

I was in Philadelphia and played basketball there in the playground. But some nasty guys got in a fight with me. I ended up staying in Bel Air with my Aunt.

Stillnotworking

There is also the option of getting the SEPTA train from Philadelphia to Trenton Transit Centre and changing there for the NJ Transit train to NYC Penn. Its about 25$ each way.

MagicMarker

barry181091 wrote: »

Just read this;

http://www.halfwayanywhere.com/north-america/united-states/52-hours-of-im-never-doing-this-again/

I thought Bus Eireann was bad.

None of that sounds that bad tbh.

PM me nudes

barry181091 wrote: »

Just read this;

http://www.halfwayanywhere.com/north-america/united-states/52-hours-of-im-never-doing-this-again/

I thought Bus Eireann was bad.

You have to be a special kind of person to put the strain of a 52 hour bus journey on yourself. I've done 20 hour journeys and they were ****e. The bus from Philly to NYC is 2 hours, in no way comparable to what you linked. If I got there without getting stabbed/robbed, for the price Greyhounds normally are, I'm happy out :pac:

ButtersSuki

booooring! wrote: »

I was in Philadelphia and played basketball there in the playground. But some nasty guys got in a fight with me. I ended up staying in Bel Air with my Aunt.

On the phone so can't post clickable links but these are funny:

http://youtu.be/Ts_q7SXQVF0

http://youtu.be/rOp8huq1wiY

boredatwork82

I travelled greyhound from San Fran to San Diego overnight, because I drank all my money and could only afford it. Me, my friend and everyone else was Mexican. Was grand though. Had no problems. I might take the train, because I have never been on a US train.