Getting to the Projektfest Thinking of coming to Projektfest, but concerned about costs? Here are helpful links for inexpensive ways to get to Philadelphia. These may require advance purchase, so book now! The Cheapest trip from New York City to Philadelphia Wow! NJ Transit has one way tickets for $17.40 from Manhattan. The trip takes longer than Amtrak, but it saves you money. Visit the site by clicking here, and then enter the following... 1. Starting Point: NEW YORK PENN STATION 2. Destination: 30TH STREET STATION 3. Enter the time and date of your travel 4. Chose ALL The next page will ask you to chose which city (Philadelphia!) and then - shazam! - it gives you an intinerary from PENN STATION on New Jersey Transit to Trenton, NJ, where you switch to SEPTA (Trenton R7 Line) into downtown Philadelphia. According to our friend Chuck in Philadelphia, if you remain on the SEPTA R7op for two more stops past 30TH STREET STATION, you can get off at the MARKET EAST STATION, only a few blocks from the Trocadero. Check the map when you are on the SEPTA. This link shows you the itinerary on the SEPTA website. If there is a problem, get off at the 30TH STREET STATION and take a 19 block cab ride to the Trocadero. Of course, you can also use their service from New Jersey cities. Lots more info on their website. Call The Transit Information Center between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and midnight at (800) 772-2222 within N.J. or (973) 762-5100 out of state. Travel by Bus Peter Pan Bus website or 1-800-343-999 Greyhound website or 1-800-231-2222 The Peter Pan website is faster to use for East Cost cities. Type in your itinerary on the right hand side and rates and available times come up for both Greyhound and Peter Pan. Click Here to see if your city is on the Peter Pan travel route. Grehound offers many more cities to chose from. Sample rates: New York City to Philadelphia Round Trip: $40 Washington, DC to Philadelphia Round Trip: $35 Boston to Philadelphia Round Trip: $123 Travel by Train Amtrak website or 1-800-USA-RAIL New York City to Philadelphia Round Trip: $102.00 Travel by Car Directions to the Trocadero Mapquest Map to The Trocadero Things we learned when touring. black tape for a blue girl's rules of the road: 1. Never stop at Dennys, unless you have a lot of time to kill 2. Stop whenever you see a Waffle House 3. Never get off the freeway for gas, unless you can *see* the Gas station. (you don't wanna drive 10 miles into the woods to find that the station is closed at night). 4. Book your hotel rooms ahead of time. Driving from hotel to hotel at 2 am to find one with a vacancy is a drag. 5. Never park your car where you can't see it. If you can watch it, bad guys won't touch it. 6. DUMMY CHECK before your leave your hotel room. Don't leave without triple checking for your stuff. Don't put stuff in the drawers. 7. Western Pennsylvania gets REALLY foggy in the early mornings, so plan extra driving time if you are coming in from the West. 8. If you are driving a long haul, go past a major city before getting a room for the night. Last thing you wanna have to do is go around the Washington beltway during morning rush hour. 9. If the motel lobby smells like freshly cooked Indian food (or you can see a family living in the office, cooking up masala), it's gonna be a good stay. 10. New Jersey is confusing. Off ramps that seem to lead to gas stations lead to other freeways, you have to make those left turns from the right hand side thingies, and they don't let you pump your own gas. On the other hand....... Have fun