We are already planning next years trip. It will take us to New Orleans on the Crescent. Keeping with our policy of picking up trins along the route for convenience, we are looking for recommendations.
First off we live in Central NJ so we could board the Crescent in Newark or Trenton but both locations are in high crime areas and not very nice. We could also drive an hour to Philadelpha and board at 30th street station but parking around there is hard to find and quite expensive. Its like $25 a day to park in the Amtrak lot. Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington DC have expensive and hard to find parking. Moving further Sounth we have Alexandria VA and Manassas.
We are favoring Manassas at this point as there is lots of parking available in the downtown area but the station is not manned and offers no services. The second choice is Philadelpha and we are also reluctant looking at Trenton.
At this point we are still undecided where we could get on the Crescent to secure the best station services and find affordable and safe parking. Anyone care to make any recommendations
First off we live in Central NJ so we could board the Crescent in Newark or Trenton but both locations are in high crime areas and not very nice. We could also drive an hour to Philadelpha and board at 30th street station but parking around there is hard to find and quite expensive. Its like $25 a day to park in the Amtrak lot. Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington DC have expensive and hard to find parking. Moving further Sounth we have Alexandria VA and Manassas.
We are favoring Manassas at this point as there is lots of parking available in the downtown area but the station is not manned and offers no services. The second choice is Philadelpha and we are also reluctant looking at Trenton.
At this point we are still undecided where we could get on the Crescent to secure the best station services and find affordable and safe parking. Anyone care to make any recommendations