Originally Posted by
sailingfun
The different airports out of NYC are not that bad. JFK and LGA are easy from Kew gardens with cheap cabs and buses available. Going to EWR from there is also not that bad. You don't go often and when you do you can take the long Island RR to Penn Station and then catch the EWR bus. Total cost about 18.00 dollars and takes about 2 hours. You are never under a obligation to get to EWR in 2 hours since you can measure your short call availability from the airport of your choice.
There is a bus for $30 that goes from JFK-EWR and back every hour. Look up airporter.com. Obviously most everyone is coming from Queens though and not JFK. But fwiw I've used it and I've used a cab. I got the cab at the airport, fare was I think $100 even after tolls. I think. I know it was over $100 after tip.
Also, for like $11 you can catch the Amtrak or some train from EWR's airtrain station to Penn Station. Its easier than the bus to EWR Penn although that is the cheapest round trip I've done. But I also had two not so lovely experiences with EWR Penn in the middle of the night.
Sailing you're making me rehash repressed memories of Newark.
Actually I loved EWR but the Penn Bus station felt like a bad place to be a 3am-ish. Anybody heard of Hogs and Heffers? Evidently someone believed that it was a MUST for my first NYC experience.