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…
Yes. Since September, the Binghamton weekend bus has dropped riders directly in Middletown, Nanuet, Fresh Meadows in Queens and Melville on Long Island, so a trip home no longer has to pass through Manhattan first. OurBus built the stops around where students’ families actually live. The catch is timing: the earliest of these buses leaves at 10:10 AM, hours after the first run to Manhattan. What changed on the Binghamton weekend run? On Thursday, September 3, 2026, OurBus began selling…
You’re not expected to, and most riders don’t. No OurBus policy asks for, collects, or even mentions tips — we checked every published page. The one situation where etiquette authorities suggest it: when a driver personally handles your luggage, the Emily Post Institute’s guidance is $1 to $2 per bag, and even that is framed as discretionary. Everything else is a thank-you at the door. An intercity bus is a scheduled coach running a fixed route between cities — one driver,…
For a New York and DC pair, meet in Philadelphia: round-trip bus fares start at $18 for the New Yorker and $30 for the DC friend — $48 total — and both buses land at the exact same stop. For a New York and Boston pair, Hartford splits the cost almost evenly, with one catch: somebody stays overnight. We measured every leg on September 7, 2026, and the numbers are below. The reunion nobody plans is the reunion that doesn’t…
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,…
Four major fall festivals sit on direct OurBus routes from NYC this season, no car required: Ithaca’s Apple Harvest Festival (September 25–27), Baltimore’s Fell’s Point Fun Festival (October 2–4), Boston’s Head of the Charles Regatta (October 16–18), and WaterFire Providence’s fall lightings (September 6 and 26, October 17, and November 7). Fares start between $17 and $27.55. We verified every festival date on the organizers’ own pages, and we checked every fare and departure time on the OurBus route pages…
One question settles it: are you going to Philadelphia, or to your car? The NYC to Philadelphia bus serves two stops that could hardly be more different. Spring Garden sits beside a SEPTA station at the edge of the city’s core, built for people whose day happens in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Mills is a mall stop in the far Northeast with free day parking, built for people who drive to meet the bus. Pick by that logic and you will never…
Leave the car at home; New York is the one American city that rewards you for it. OurBus runs into Manhattan from across the Northeast — Philadelphia from $9, Washington DC from $13, Boston from $19 — and lands you at a Midtown curb instead of a parking garage. We checked the corridor pages on August 12, 2026, and the numbers below are that day’s fares and windows. Add the subway and your own feet, and a car in this…