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Re: please help! Travel advice for 1st time visitor to USA Posted on: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:03:18 -0800

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:34:59 +0100 in rec.travel.usa-canada,
"Dave" wrote:

> Where would be best to fly to to get to Ocean City? New York or Baltimore?
> I'd need to get a coach or bus to ocean city; but the greyhound site won't
> let me reserve tickets since i'm not from the US, are these services always
> full or can i just 'turn up'?
>
you need to fly into BWI if possible, or Dulles if you can't.
washington is closer to ocean city than NYC. greyhounds usually
don't require reservations except at peak times. in the summer
that would probably be fridays going to OC and sundays coming
back. we have a 3 day holiday weekend sept 3,4,5 (labor day).

> Will a regular VISA credit card from the UK work in US ATMS (probably a
> silly question but just to be on the safe side!).

i haven't seen one yet that wouldn't take both visa & mastercard.
debit cards for most major debit card nets like cirrus should
also work.


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