Campus Ivy Tours

monydad
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:09:40 +0000

To me, it seems the easy part is Philly- Princeton- Providence, one can even do that without a car, by train I bet. The other two are tougher. Dartmouth is 3-1/2 hours from Providence, Ithaca is a little over 4 hours from Philadelphia. Ideally, from a trip standpoint, one would fly into Ithaca (or Syracuse), do Cornell- Penn- Princeton-Brown-Dartmouth, then fly out from Hanover. Or vica versa. It doesn’t look like there are great alternatives for flying in or out from Hanover, but I don’t know anything about that.

Ithaca airport is functional, but there aren’t tons of flights to there and they are possibly pricey. The father of airline deregulation, Alfred Kahn, was a Cornell professor and said he himself often flies out of Syracuse to get more convenient and less expensive flights.

FWIW there are bus lines that run to Ithaca, students often use them. There is a direct bus that runs between the Cornell Club in midtown Manhattan and Cornell’s campus, but I don’t know if it is open to outsiders.