Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 20:09:01 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] AKICIF: megabus?
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at panix.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Cc: "WSFA members" <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>,
 "bsfsgeneral" <bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org>
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mark wrote:
> Anyone used them? Comments, esp. on their meeting schedule?
>
> I'm going to Texas the weekend before Worldcon to see family and friends. I
> *don't* need a car while I'm at worldcon, and keeping it would mean a) 9
> days of rental, b) 4 or 5 days of parking costs, and c) that's more than my
> air fare.
>
> So I'm thinking of having it for the first few days, then Megabus from
> Houston to Austin, the, after the con, Megabus from San Antone to Houston,
> in time to catch my flight.
>
> Am I being reasonable in thinking this is doable?

Yes. I've only taken it Baltimore-NY and back but they're reasonably comfortable and, at
least on the BWI-NY run have free wi-fi.

The one drawback is that because of traffic they don't always run on time so build in
perhaps an extra hour. Also look into exactly *where* the bus stops: I've hung out in a
parking lot, on a crowed street in NY, and a random street near the Baltimore train
station. You'll need to make arrangements accordingly.

Elspeth