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Originally Posted by AbeFroman
I am going to be be heading out, the girl has never been to NY, and it's my b-day weekend. I have a friend who works for a hotel in times square. How easy is it to get to citi field from tines square. Not interested in ube expensive cab rides.
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Times Square is around 40th-44th St and Penn Station is 33rd so its a quick & easy walk to Penn Station. From there you can hop on the LIRR and take it right to Citi Field (i believe, i'm not a Mets fan so i never go to Citi Field but i believe thats correct).
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Originally Posted by CaffeineQueen
yeah, that's the thing, hoping for some local insider info... like that one hotel that looks like a dump outside but is super cheap and a castle inside!
Hey, a girl can dream, right?
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Yea i live in NJ so i'll be traveling by trains the whole weekend. Plus i lose my license tomorrow morning for DUI
(most likely 7 months) so i wont be driving there. But just look online at something like hotels.com or orbitz (although be careful booking through them because if something happens and you want to cancel the room you wont get your money back as opposed to if you book straight to the hotel).
I am always going in the city for work (ticket broker) but most of the hotels i have to drop stuff off to are pretty nice hotels and prob not cheap. I'm sure you can find something for a decent price in the city, not sure how nice it will be, or you can always just take the train into NJ and stay at a hotel somewhere. In Newark there is a walkway attached to the train station that has a Hilton (i believe its a Hilton) right there so you never have to walk outside from hotel to train station so thats always an option as well. Newark is a really short train ride from the city and trains run to and from the city through there quite often.
That might be a better option because finding something in the city for under $160 a night is prob going to be really tough. You're prob going to pay around $175-$200 a night (at least) for something in NYC but the Hilton in Newark attached to the train station prob cost around $100 a night. Plus the Hilton is at least a decent hotel chain and not some sleezy, run down, cheap hotel.