<p>We are flying to Baltimore this evening, and are staying at the Sheraton Baltimore North in Towson. I am trying to get directios for the best route to take. Which route would be preferable for a Sat evening (~8pm) drive?</p>
<p>695
895
295</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>You should be fine following your gps to the hotel. Sat evenings not really a travel problem from there.</p>
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<p>You might want to get a suggested route from the associate where you rent a car. It’s most straightforward to take 295 to 695 (Baltimore Beltway); getting on 895 to the Beltway in the opposite direction is shorter, but has tolls and would be trickier.</p>
<p>Have you been to Baltimore? I’m in No Va outside of DC, but love Charm City.</p>
<p>Ask Mapquest for directions from BWI Airport to 903 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204.</p>
<p>Use the directions labeled “I-695 N.” That’s the route you want.</p>
<p>Thanks so much. I’ve never stayed in Baltimore before, but flew into BWI when we went to DC a few years ago.</p>
<p>Thanks, that’s just what I wanted to know. Mapquest gave 3 different routes to choose from. So 695 is the easiest?</p>
<p>Any restaurant suggestions for the Towson area?</p>
<p>None of the routes is hard, really, but the one labeled I-695 N is the shortest and fastest.</p>
<p>Can’t help you with dining suggestions in Towson. Sorry. I still live in the Baltimore area, but I haven’t lived in, or even near, Towson since dinosaurs roamed the earth.</p>
<p>Is that a good thing? Is there something I should know about that area? Do tell…</p>
<p>There’s nothing the matter with Towson–or any of the suburbs on the north side of Baltimore City. Most of Baltimore’s fanciest, safest, most comfortable suburbs are in Baltimore County, north of the City line.</p>
<p>It’s just a bad place to live if you work in the Washington area. At least, relative to the southern suburbs, it is.</p>
<p>Got it…thanks :)</p>
<p>Try the crabcakes at Gibby’s gourmet seafood market on 2322 York Road (north of your hotel). That’s where my relatives buy them carry-out (when they aren’t eating homemade) but I guess you’d have to take them back to your room. I don’t know where the best sit-down restaurant is anymore for crabcakes in Towson. Ask at the hotel.</p>
<p>There are upscale chains in Towson (a Cheesecake Factory, PJ Chang) too.</p>
<p>Bahama BReeze in Towson is good! What kind of food do you want to eat?</p>
<p>re restaurants - if you want to walk, there’s a giant mall right across the street with a PFChangs, a Cheesecake Factory, a steakhouse, and some other places. Diagonally across is a strip mall with some places to eat.</p>
<p>If you walk half a mile south down Dulaney Valley Rd past the mall to where it meets York Road, there’s probably 30 restaurants right in that area. I never go there to eat so I can’t really recommend any place in particular. </p>
<p>There’s parking too if you want to drive.</p>
<p>Are you visiting Goucher? That’s where I stayed when my S attended. Loved that the hotel has a covered accessway to the mall. Towson is okay, a typical suburban area, but if you have any extra time, do venture into Baltimore proper. Lots to do, see and eat. (Crabcakes at Faidleys are worth the trip all by themselves.)</p>
<p>Yes, Goucher it is. You are all making me hungry…</p>
<p>If you have time, you should walk around Inner Harbor. Nice shops, bars, wonderful aquarium, Ft McHenry and science museum.
As I recall from our trip a few years ago, we ate crab cakes at Phillips there.</p>
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<p>Hon, you’re making me sao hongry, I could fall daown on the payment. (Baltimore born and raised)</p>