Dress for the sidewalk first. We ask you to be at your stop at least 15 minutes before your scheduled departure, and on a good many of our routes that stop is a described position on a public street with nothing whatsoever built over it. That wait, rather than the ride, is the part of the journey genuinely worth planning your clothes around. Then you board, settle into a seat for the remainder of the trip, and whatever you have…
You can shop Woodbury Common and be home the same day without a car. We run the bus from NYC to Woodbury Common out of Hudson Yards in the morning and drop you at Bus Plaza 1 at the outlets, then the Woodbury Common to New York route brings you back in the afternoon from that same plaza. Fares start from $15 each way. Departure times can change, so treat the route pages as the schedule and read both before…
If you need to get somewhere today, the useful thing to know is that the booking window does not close hours ahead of departure. Our FAQ is clear that if you are at the stop, you can purchase a ticket any time before the departure time from our website or app, as long as the trip is not sold out. There is no counter to reach before it shuts and nothing to collect on the way. What it does take…
It is Metro Center, on 11th St NW between F and G Streets. Reading every Washington route page we publish, we found it listed on exactly one of them — the bus from DC to Hamilton Township, New Jersey — and only in the outbound direction. The return leg lists a different stop. Metro Center is the Washington stop that appears on the fewest of our route pages, and knowing which stops your own corridor offers is the practical reason…
It is an after-work bus. We describe the New York to Alexandria bus as a direct evening service, convenient for travelers planning a trip after a full day, and that is exactly the job it does: you finish in New York, board at Hudson Yards, and arrive in Old Town late the same night. One bus a day, from $35, about 244 miles. The part that decides your whole trip is not the 7 PM departure though. It is the…
Yes, once service is back. The route is suspended right now and listed as set to resume in late November. When it runs, OurBus lists one bus a day from Foggy Bottom to Morgantown — 164.2 miles, about 4 hours 15 minutes, fares from $75 — dropping at Mountaineer Station on the WVU campus. Both ends sit near transit, which is what makes the carless version possible. The part worth planning is the last mile: Mountaineer Station is a short…
Because a bus stop only has to be a place a coach can legally pull in and passengers can wait, and a building is one way to do that, not a requirement. Read a run of route pages, though, and the premise falls apart. We found the choice isn’t sidewalk or station at all. It’s terminals in a couple of cities, curbs in most, and a stranger category besides that includes a shopping mall, a gas station lot, an airport…
OurBus runs Philadelphia to Jersey City direct, no transfer and no Port Authority, about 93 miles in roughly two hours. Most people assume every trip north ends up crossing Manhattan, and here it doesn’t have to. The thing worth knowing before you book isn’t the fare, though. It’s that the same four departures give opposite answers depending on which end you start from: going north there’s no way home the same day, and going south there is. We found that…
There’s a written rulebook, it’s shorter than you’d guess, and reading it shows you exactly where the unwritten rules begin. Every prohibition in it is about harm — smoke, spills, weapons, substances. Everything else published is logistics: what you can bring, how heavy it can be, when to be at the stop. Neither category says a word about how to behave toward the person beside you, and that’s where the friction actually lives. Three questions cover almost all of it:…
Pick the Toronto stop nearest where you are sleeping, because the bus is scheduled in somewhere between 11:15 PM and 11:45 PM, and that single fact outranks everything else. OurBus drops at two places that are nothing like each other: 44 York Street downtown, in the bus loading zone just north of Front Street alongside the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, or Toronto Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1 ground level at posts P2 to P4. They sit on opposite sides of…