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| Subject: Re: NYC, DC, Boston, Portland Trip Advice
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Posted on: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:37:15 +0100
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"schander" wrote in message
news:1127305425.596713.105300@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all,
> I was wondering if we could get some advice on our scheduled trip to
> the US mid October. We're going to be there for about 9 day. We have
> friends in both Boston and Portland MA.
> We have the following trip in mind:
> Day 1 - Land JFK from London, mid morning. Do some site seeing rest of
> the day
> Day 2 - More site seeing in NYC
> Day 3 - More NYC pick up hire car drive to DC
> Day 4 - Site seeing in DC
Consider either flying to DC or catching the train.
You dont need a car in DC and its not a particularly
pleasant drive
> Day 5 - Skyline Drive onto Philly
Skyline Drive is south west of DC while Philadelphia
is NW of DC
> Day 6 - Philly to Boston
Unless you are planning to spend at least a day in Philadelphia
cut it out altogether and fly direct to Boston
> Day 7 - Boston site seeing
> Day 8 - onto Portland Maine
Why Portland ?
Its not especially attractive as a destination, you might do better in
the Boston area visiting Plymouth Plantation and/or Salem.
Personally I'd head into Connecticutt , Mystic Seaport is well
worth a visit and is a shorter drive back to JFK
> Day 9 - back to JFK late evening & fly back to London
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> What do you guys think?
> Too much time in NYC not enough??? Is the trip down to DC worth it??
>
> There are a couple questions that we have:
> What are the best places to see in each location, NYC, DC, Philly,
> Boston & Portland?
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> Is Skyline drive worth going to see? As, if we do, do it then it means
> that we'll have to stay over in Philly for a night as trying to do
> Skyline and driving to Boston in the same day is impossible, I think,
> they reckon that Skyline should be done in a day. Plus it'll take us a
> while to get there from DC anyway.
>
Do it as a day trip from DC and then fly up to Boston. Washington DC to
Boston is a full days drive and not an especially attractive one for
most of the way. Even starting from Philadelphia its going to mean
several hours in traffic thats often heavy and quite intimidating.
I wouldnt recommend it for a first time visitor.
> Were thinking about pre-booking a hotel in NYC but not for DC and
> Philly, do these places have good cheapish accomodation available??
You can get decent deals at weekends but they will be expensive midweek
In DC the Hotel Harrington is old fashioned and shabby but is clean,
cheap and centrally located
Boston is notoriously expensive to stay so book ahead there
Keith
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