Yes — OurBus runs from NYC to all four upstate homecomings this fall. The dates: Binghamton October 2–4, Cornell October 16–18, Colgate October 16–17, and Syracuse’s Orange Central November 6–8. Fares start at $18. Binghamton is the one you can genuinely do as a Saturday day trip. The others reward an overnight, and the schedules below explain why. Alumni travel is its own animal. You’re not hauling a semester’s laundry — you’re carrying a garment bag for the reunion dinner,…
No — you can’t pick your seat on OurBus in advance. Seating is open: your ticket buys you a seat on a specific departure, and which seat becomes yours when you board. There is no seat map, no premium seat upgrade, and no priority boarding product anywhere on the site. What you can control is when you arrive at the stop, and that turns out to control almost everything else. We went looking for the fine print on September 7,…
Yes, from the right cities. The last OurBus departures to Philadelphia, Ithaca, and Binghamton all leave NYC at 11:59 PM — nearly four hours after the standard 8:00 PM Broadway show curtain — so riders from those cities can watch the finale, walk to the bus, and sleep in their own beds. DC is tighter, and Allentown and Reading are matinee towns. The full math is below. The hotel is what makes a Broadway show expensive for out-of-towners; the ticket…
OurBus fares change because every departure is priced by demand: how full that particular bus is, what day of the week it runs, and how close you are to leaving. Book as early as you can — trips are posted about a month ahead, and the lowest fares on each bus sell first. The starting fares are real, but they belong to the riders who book soonest. That is the short answer, and unusually, you don’t have to take our…
Yes — a Baltimore day trip works, if you treat it as a six-hour city and plan like it. The NYC to Baltimore bus starts at $17, leaves at 9:10 AM, and puts you at Penn Station around 12:50 PM; the last bus home departs at 7:00 PM. That window fits one anchor attraction done well, not a greatest-hits sprint, and Baltimore’s free Circulator bus makes the in-city part cost nothing. Baltimore is the only major corridor on the OurBus map with…
No. OurBus does not allow animals or pets of any kind, with one exception: trained service animals assisting a traveler, kept in a harness and under the passenger’s control at all times. An emotional support animal does not qualify, a carrier does not change the answer, and no size of dog is small enough. That is the whole policy, and we verified it on the OurBus FAQ on September 3, 2026. OurBus is a tech-enabled intercity bus service running scheduled routes…
Closer than any parking garage. OurBus riders from Philadelphia, Allentown, and several other cities step off at Hudson Yards, on 11th Avenue between W. 35th and W. 36th Streets — directly across from the Javits Center, where New York Comic Con runs October 8–11, 2026. Fares into the city start at $9, and the ride home runs as late as 11:59 PM on some corridors. New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest pop-culture convention, and getting to it is…
Book the return leg first, and book it early. Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 26 this year, and for holiday bus travel on OurBus — where fares are demand-priced and start as low as $9 — the outbound bus is rarely the problem. The constraint is the trip back: across the network, the last bus home to NYC ranges from 11:30 PM down to 7:00 PM depending on the corridor. That gap is the single most useful thing to know…
Pick the bus that ends where your day does, because OurBus does not run one Atlantic City service — it runs four. The general NYC to Atlantic City bus arrives at the Atlantic City Bus Terminal from $24, while three dedicated casino runs deliver you inside a specific property: Resorts, Tropicana, or, from Staten Island, Caesars. Board the right one and your “walk to the casino floor” is an escalator ride. Board the wrong one and you start your day…
Easier than any Christmas market trip has a right to be: a $20 bus from Manhattan, about two hours each way, and a 9:30 PM ride home that has you back in the city before midnight. Christkindlmarkt is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania’s long-running German-style holiday market, and ArtsQuest’s own site lists the 2026 season opening November 13 and running select days through December 20. The bus from NYC to Bethlehem turns it into a day trip with no car, no I-78 holiday…