News from Red Hook --Brooklyn
rieker
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Jean O'Boyle
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> Here's an update on the cruise terminal in Brooklyn...
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> http://www.brooklynpapers.com/html/issues/_vol29/29_44/29_44nets6.html
It would be great if they made it a year around terminal! We enjoyed
sailing from there on the Crown Princess.
Creating more jobs and building a new hotel in the area that cruisers flying
into NYC could use would be ideal for everyone. Not mentioning for the
businesses already in that area.
--Jean
Sue and Kevin Mullen
Jean O'Boyle wrote:
I would not cruise out of the NJ/NY area in the wintertime and take
the chance of finding my car snowed or iced in. I also would not like
cruising when the first day or two could be very cold.
sue
Jean O'Boyle
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> I would not cruise out of the NJ/NY area in the wintertime and take the
> chance of finding my car snowed or iced in. I also would not like cruising
> when the first day or two could be very cold.
That's why they are building a hotel there, Sue, you could stay overnight!
Maybe covered parking would also be available. ;-)
--Jean
Rosalie B.
If we can't leave the car at one of the children's houses, we rent a
car to drive to the cruise ship. It may be a tiny bit more expensive,
but then you don't have to worry about the battery being run down or
ice or snow in the parking lot.
Sue and Kevin Mullen
It wouldn't pay for us to stay in a hotel, we are just about a two
hour drive away. Covered parking at the pier would help, but if the
hotel had the covered parking, it would cost a fortune. In the winter
months I prefer to fly to a cruise and if we fly home into a
blizzard(as we did the last two winters), it is our limo driver who
has to deal with the lousy roads.
sue
Sue and Kevin Mullen
Rosalie B. wrote:
Don't think I could get my kids to drive us to the pier, one is in
Indiana and the other in Oregon(grin).
Just as a point of information, I do not believe there are any car
rental places near the Red Hook pier.
sue
Rosalie B.
SC, and near Miami.
>Just as a point of information, I do not believe there are any car
>rental places near the Red Hook pier.
>
I'm sure there are at the airport though. And there are probably
shuttles from the airport to the ship. That's what we did going out
of Philly - it was a 4 hour drive and we turned the car in at the
airport and took a cab to the pier.
But if you have a limo, that would work too. My sister has taken the
limo from the train (she lives in Princeton)
Sue and Kevin Mullen
Rosalie B. wrote:
In Philly that would work, the airport is not far from the pier. The
airports in the NYC area are further away from the pier and cab fare
isn't cheap. Maybe returning a car in Manhatten would work better.
> But if you have a limo, that would work too. My sister has taken the
> limo from the train (she lives in Princeton)
My DH has a limo service that he uses for business travel and when we
are flying somewhere we also use him. When we go to the NY area piers,
it is much cheaper to drive ourselves and pay the parking. We are
about 45 mins to an hour south of Princeton.
sue
sue
sheree
how did that work for your sister. we've looked at the train but schlepping
the luggage...
i live in mercer county as well. doesn't your sister live in princeton or
the area?
sheree
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Rosalie B.
>rosalie:
>how did that work for your sister. we've looked at the train but schlepping
>the luggage...
>i live in mercer county as well. doesn't your sister live in princeton or
>the area?
>sheree
>
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>> But if you have a limo, that would work too. My sister has taken the
>> limo from the train (she lives in Princeton)
>>
My sister lives and works in Princeton - actually in the city - not
just in the area. She got a coupon at work for a limo at a reduced
rate so she used it and she liked it so well that she used in on the
return trip too even without the discount.
But this was from the train station to her house, and not from the
train to the ship. She's been going back and forth from Princeton to
Baltimore a lot because of the death of our mom in April to clean out
my mom's house so we can sell it and she often gets to the Princeton
(or Princeton Junction) station fairly late. She'd not a particularly
good driver and it is a long drive from Baltimore to Princeton so she
doesn't want to drive it too often, plus she can work while she's on
the train. OTH, I have only about 100 miles to go to my mom's house,
although I don't particularly like to drive up and back in the same
day.
. .
sheree
we're on the other side of mercer county and usually can drive to baltimore
in about 2 hrs. we did many day trips when my aunt was alive. from her
house to the PJ station is quick, plus there's a jitney from PJ to
princeeton.
sheree
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Rosalie B.
>i never heard princeton called a city!!
>we're on the other side of mercer county and usually can drive to baltimore
>in about 2 hrs. we did many day trips when my aunt was alive. from her
>house to the PJ station is quick, plus there's a jitney from PJ to
>princeeton.
>sheree
Well, I don't live there, so I don't know. What is it - a town?
village?
I don't know how far it is from Princeton to Baltimore, but it takes
us 2 hours to get from Baltimore to Philadelphia and I think Princeton
must be farther than that. It is a little over 100 miles from my
house to my mom's house and that takes us 2 hours, and it takes my
sister longer to drive.
sheree
covered buildings of princeton u throughout.
it has a very nice main st downtown area and the homes are sometimes very
grand.
i live right off of 195, we usually take 95 down and over the del memorial
bridge, not through philadelphia though. and usually it's 2 hrs or a bit
over. it also depends what part of baltimore and of course traffic.
for example, princeton is about 8 miles away but usually takes 20 minutes at
least becaue of the way you have to go.
sheree
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