buses to NY

[manjety.livejournal.com]

Hello Davis sq.!

I heard that Chinese bus companies that go to NY have moved their stops from China town to somewhere. Do you know where?
Do you know where they come to in NY? is it the same place on Canal?


thanks in advance!

Kate

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[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

They're inside South Station now, at the end of the bus terminals (13 & 14, I think). Fung Wah still stops in the same place it always has on Canal; I don't know about Lucky Star since I stopped taking them after they didn't have room for me at my assigned time.

[hvanaels.livejournal.com]

Fung Wah (http://www.fungwahbus.com/ticket/) and Lucky Star (http://www.luckystarbus.com/) both moved into the South Station bus terminal. Wayyyyyy down at the end of the terminal. Buy tickets right there at the gate (though last time I tried that they'd both sold out for the next two hours). And yup, they still let off in the same places in New York (on or around the corner from Canal).

[fanw.livejournal.com]

As an alternative, try Greyhound's Peter Pan bus lines. If you're going Fri-Sun they have a cheap $15 each way fare and don't generally sell out the way the Chinatown one does. It leaves from South Station but ends up at the Port Authority bus terminal in New York.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

I'm vaguely amused that Greyhound is now seen as an alternative to the Chinese busses, rather than the other way around!

[shinxy.livejournal.com]

It sucks that Fung Wah raised their prices. There's no reason not to ride one of the big companies now.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

There are limited times on those for the cheap fares, though.

And the Fung Wah has online ticketing; I've never been sold out on a trip I've wanted to take.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

True, they are $5 more expensive and the cheap fares are only available on weekends (Fri-Sun) rather than during the week.

As for selling out, that's not really the main concern with FungWah. Over-selling is. I stopped taking the Chinatown one after I showed up to the New York location and they had oversold so many tickets that it was two hours before I could get on. Even then it was a madhouse, mobs pushing and screaming about who deserved to get on first.

The worst I had at Greyhound was when I went down for the Gates exhibit in Central Park. There was a line, but Greyhound has a much larger pool of buses than Fung Wah, so if they can't fit everyone on one bus they'll pull up another and load them up every 15 minutes until they get everyone out. With Greyhound it was at least a polite first-come-first-serve line instead of an angry whoever-pushes-hardest-goes-first mob.

[manjety.livejournal.com]

Thank you all!

here is what I found:
lucky star bus (http://www.luckystarbus.com)

boston deluxe (http://www.ivymedia.com/bostondeluxe/newyork_boston/index.html)

fung wah bus (http://www.fungwahbus.com/ticket/map.php?osCsid=ccd2235f4e13d2dd95ee5378133093ac)

[manjety.livejournal.com]

I cannot find where the Greyhound stop is in Boston :(
Is it in downtown or I have to go to Framingham?

thanks for your comments!

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Greyhound in Boston is at South Station, and remember Greyhound and Peter Pan buslines are the same thing. Check a schedule before you buy your ticket. 2/3 of the buses go straight to NY. The others stop once in Framingham. Doesn't make a whole lot of difference, but if you care, find out which is which.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Also Peter Pan (http://www.peterpanbus.com), although I always found it easier to just buy at the station instead of online. Doesn't seem to have much of an advantage either way.

[manjety.livejournal.com]

So for Peter Pan I can buy a tickets right in front of the bus, or there is a ticket booth somewhere else?

I'm just looking for a simpliest way - come to the South station and take any available bus to NY.

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Go to South Station. There's a ticket booth right before the causeway of doors which go onto the buses.

[emblebug.livejournal.com]

Some of the Greyhound/Peter Pan stop in Newton at the Riverside T instead of in Framingham. If you want to get on there(either Newton or Framingham), though, you have to make a reservation for a specific time so that they know to hold a seat for you when it leaves South Station.

[bratling.livejournal.com]

it's nice to see that Greyhound & Peter Pan's attempt to strong-arm the chinese bus lines out of business has failed. they made a good effort -- even tried to get the city to sue them...

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

The $15 fares, when I went to buy them, had a requirement that the to New York part had to be a weekday.

Fung Wah doesn't oversell; Lucky Star did and that's why I switched to Fung Wah. They make you select the dates and times you want to travel each way, and they seem to keep careful track and make sure everyone who has a ticket for the bus that is departing gets on before finding room for people with earlier or later tickets. Maybe Fung Wah used to oversell, but they haven't done that since I started using them about two years ago.

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

fung-wah is DEFINITELY still over-selling! it's happened to me a bunch of times over the past year. i think it depends on when you're trying to get on the bus, though.

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

my friend took boston deluxe once. it was an unmarked black van that had maybe four passengers and dropped her right off at her corner in nyc (she was returning there from visiting me up here). shady, but convenient...!

[cheerjess.livejournal.com]

Well, Fung Wah is still way quicker, they usually cut an average of half an hour off of Greyhound's time, at least in my quite frequent experiences in the past 5 years. And regarding break downs, Fung Wah has had it's breakdowns but I've always been on another bus within half an hour-while I've waited 4 hours 20 minutes outside of NYC on the side of the road with a broken down bus-and wasn't refunded as much as I complained.